Our little Lion goes ROAR!!

Tyler had his Spring Show this past week. As I've mentioned before on here, he's never super excited about these shows and when the doors open to walk in the room he usually sees us and breaks down somewhat. He is super outgoing and friendly so we've always thought it was funny that he reacted the way he did. Once again, I went in to this being really nervous about how he'd do. His teacher told me he was really pumped up this year about playing the Lion. Even so, as he walked in I sort of hid and didn't let him see me and as he walked by he yelled "Hi Grammy" to my Mom and kept walking. Phew! I thought, this could be good. When he got up in front this time...he ROCKED it! Check it out. He's the Lion in the orange shirt and khaki shorts right in front. Hang tight, he's the 4th animal to go :) This Mom can't get enough of the little Lion. I'm in Love.



Next, it was time to sing with their Music teacher, Mr. Pete. They love him! And we had a happy dancer for sure! Funny story though...we were driving to school yesterday and the song "You shook me all night long" was on by AC/DC. Tyler said to me "This sounds like Mr. Pete!". Check it out and you be the judge of that ;)

Back to real life

Today is my last day of maternity leave. I've worn makeup 3 times since February 27th, I wear sneakers every day and yoga pants and my decisions revolve around which t-shirt I'm going to wear with said yoga pants. This is how I've chosen to live my past 3 months and it has been wonderful! I've cuddled the heck out of Zac, kissed those little cheeks until they were red, been thrown up on, peed on, pooped on (actually this one was compliments of baby Julian while watching him one morning. I'm hoping he'll be reading the blog book with my boys one day and get a kick out of that). Being the little brother, Zac has been on the move, we've run around chasing Tyler, sat in the clubhouse for hours fixing things, went on many walks with the baby brigade and soaked up the awesome weather that we've been having. I can only assume he's enjoyed his first few months in this family and house which I've come to describe very nicely as "organized chaos". But tomorrow, I will return to life as I know it. It's easier this time around. I'm not jumping into a new routine, I'm just sliding back to in the old routine. Zac and I have had so much fun this past 3 months and I won't lie that taking another 3 months off would be nice, but it would be delaying the inevitable. Zac will be with Grammy this week and then off to school starting next week. He's already met his teachers, the kids all know him and I'm at ease to know he'll be spoiled, cuddled and loved when he starts school. And before I know it he'll be running around with his friends, like Tyler, and telling me he's not ready to leave yet. So, for today I say Carpe Diem!

This month marks Dave and I being together for 15 years. Whoa! One day I'll write a post about how we met so the boys will always know our story. For now, here's some of our first pictures together as young-ins.

I also can't forget to mention that Dave and Ryan did the Broad Street Run, a ten miler, a few weeks ago and rocked it! They ran it in under an 8 minute mile. Awesome job guys!

Tyler's lastest interest includes worms and he loves going worm hunting. I knew this day would start where my little boy would try to start bringing creatures into the house and I like how we're easing in to this phase with worms. I can deal with that. He found one the other day and was playing with it and then he told Dave he was "making babies". Yes, one worm became five pieces of worm and that's how he was making babies. Guess we need to work on that.

We also had an intersting conversation the other day as we were driving home from school. Here's how it went.

Tyler - "Mommy, I have a boogie"
Me - "Ok, I'll help you get the boogie when we get home"
Tyler - "No, I'll wait for Daddy to get home. You need muscles to get it."

I've been meaning to write a blankie update for a while now, but forgot. Well...the things that made adults gag and kids run from it is now completely gone and out of the big guys mind. Blankie has been gone for about 2 months and Tyler never asks for it, but has formed a new attachment to another blanket, but he does not suck on this one. The new blanket is one that he used at nap time at school, so now we cart this blanket to and from school everyday so he can have it to sleep with at night too. He also likes to pile other blankets in his bed at night to sleep with. So be it. At least this one below is gone...gone meaning put in the keepsake box because I don't have the heart to throw it away :)

Yesterday, Tyler and Zac spent the day with Gram and Pop and Dave, Juli, Ryan and I headed to a Phillies game. The weather was awesome and it was nice to get out for a while, enjoy the warm, sunny weather and watch some baseball. It was a great afternoon off - thank guys!

Mothers Day

We've been MIA because potty training has begun and has taken over our lives. We're still not 100% there yet, but we're making progress. The advice we get from everyone is it takes time (and patience) so I'm running with that and thanking the good Lord that we have hard wood floors that can be easily cleaned ;) Check out those buns though...incredibly cute!

Here's our Mothers Day pics. We didn't take one picture until we got home from Gram and Pops at 9pm. One sleepy boy and one hungry, sleepy boy meant we took whatever picture we could get out of them with Mom.

And I try to keep it real once again. Here's the "Mom, I'm going to pick my nose for the picture because it'll be funny".

We're also ripping up our upstairs carpet. Our stairs, hallway and our bedroom had carpet that we've been talking about ripping up since we bought the house. So, Dave went for it and since we have the original hardwood floors in our house (from around 1960 I think) we had no clue what would be under the carpet, but it looks pretty good. Some spots needed to be scrubbed a bit, but we're happy with how it looks! And Tyler is loving that he gets to help Dad!

Snuggles :)

And lastly, we had an appointment with Dermatology for Zac yesterday about his birthmark. We saw Dr. Treat at CHOP and we are so thankful to be so close to these amazing doctors! He pretty much gave us the option to leave it alone or treat it like we did with Tyler by using the glaucoma medicine Timolol on it to aid it in fading and completely disappearing. He said it looks good though and it's not a bad spot to have one and there's no worries about the location of it on his neck. Given the history of Tyler's ulcerating we chose to treat it since we had really good results with Tyler (the doc agreed with our decision, which was reassuring). Zac also flirted with the PA and nurses just like Tyler used to. It was very cute :) He's up to 11 lbs. 7 oz. and 24 inches long. At his 2 month appt. at the pediatrician they said he was 22 inches long, but that didn't make sense to me so when they measured him yesterday this made much more sense! Someone is happy about all of this (sorry about the sideways picture)!

Photo shoot and a little more

Since Tyler discovered that you can see the picture you took on the back of the camera, he's been really up for taking pictures. The other day I was trying to make him pose and make funny faces and this is what we ended up with :)

Brotherly love ♥

Tyler was playing in his room the other day and was being very quiet. When I went to check on him I thought I was going to find him climbing the furniture or doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing, but instead he was sitting on his rocker reading books. So cute. This kid LOVES to read! :)

I could kiss these chubby cheeks all day long!

Zac and Nash having a little play time together.

And I've reunited with that Blue Moon that I had to leave behind last June. No worries...I don't think I'll ever be leaving you again my dear :)

2 Months!

The little dude is 2 months old! It's hard to believe he's been here for only 2 months and it's hard to picture what life was like with only one kiddo in the house. Zac is such a joy to be around and he's a really mellow baby. He's starting to "play" a little bit and swats at the toys on purpose on his play mat and moves his arms and legs around like crazy. He tries so hard to push himself around on the mat with his legs and sometimes he's sideways in his crib when we check on him. The boy loves his tummy too. Tummy time usually turns in to sleepy time and I think he'll be a belly sleeper once he can turn over. He's also starting to really watch us and I catch him checking out his big brother a lot. We had his 2 month check up and he's doing well. His stats are 10.5 lbs (23%) and 22 in (22%) and head is 15.5 in (40%). He's a little peanut!

His smiles are coming more often now a days and he's found his hands recently and it's possible we might have a thumb sucker on our hands (that's Mama's boy for sure!) He's sleeping well and wakes up once a night to eat. He'll sleep for a solid 6 hours or so and is being very kind to us. Thank you babycakes! He still eats like a champ and eats about 6 oz. every 3-4 hours during the day. He apparently has the fast metabolism that his brother and Dad have because this kid can eat! On the birthmark front, his hemangioma isn't growing too fast, but might be growing underneath his skin also so we're going to visit Dermatology in 2 weeks to get it checked out and talk about treatment. I'm so thankful our doctor got us an appt. with dermatology because they were booked until June. Other than that, we're just enjoying our time together before we go back to reality of work and school.