Wow. I just realized that I written a post since Thanksgiving! As you can see, I am a busy mom. My life right now is seriously my boys (including Sean). It has been tough adjusting from that full time working mom to being a house wife/mom but after 4 months now, I think I have the hang of it. Hunter is still going strong with the "terrible 2" thing and Tyler is teething bad. He will be 4 months old this week which is really hard to believe and when I sit and think about how fast he is growing, I shed tears. He is 16 pounds, wears a size 3 diaper, wears 6-9 month clothes, rolls over each way and scoots a little now when he is on the floor. He also recently has cut his first tooth. I know. Some days, I'm like, what happened to my little baby? It also doesn't help when Hunter was gaining ounces at a time and not pounds at a time like Tyler. Hunter is going to have a brother that is bigger than him at this rate. Hunter weighs 25 pounds (maybe 26). He is going to be lean like his daddy and I guess Tyler is just taking after me..hahaha. Either way, they are both doing great. Hunter is talking a ton and actually speaking 2-3 word sentences like crazy which I think that I am the only one who really knows every word he says, but hey, he says it! We put him in swimming lessons for awhile just to keep him in the water because our pool is chilly right now. He did very well. At one point he was the youngest in his group and received 2 ribbons for excelling. Sean has been working a lot but was able to take some time off around the holiday so that we could all be together and he could take a break. It was well worth it to have him home. I even got a few days that I could sleep in! I wouldn't really call it sleeping in because I did have to feed Tyler when he woke up and plus I just can't sleep in anymore. Either way it was nice because I didn't have to get up right when Hunter starts yelling "Mommmma!" around 7:30 am. BTW, we don't even use the monitor for him anymore because he yells so loud!
We had a wonderful Christmas and was so grateful that my mom (Mimi) could be here. She was such a great help and I was able to actually relax and drink a few glasses of wine (well, more than a few =). Sean and I went out a lot and her and I went out a few times too. Between Santa, all the grandparents (we can't thank them enough) and of course Sean and I, Hunter and Tyler were so spoiled on Christmas day (in a good way). It got to the point that Hunter was just done opening presents so I took all the ones that he didn't unwrap (along with some that were already opened) and put them in a big box in his closet to save for a rainy day. He had a toy overload! His Mimi got him this huge remote control truck that was bigger than he was!:
And he also got a remote control Fire Truck that lights up and the ladder extends out and up on it that he manually just drive around the house:
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| He is all boy! |
Tyler got a cool little bumbo seat from his Maw Maw and Paw that he can play on and can be used for him to feed on. Tyler loves it because he can sit right on the floor with Hunter and watch him play with his cars. Hunter also got a stock pile of new shoes from them until he turns probably 5. Tyler also enjoyed his very 1st Christmas =)
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| My sweet little boy. |
Our big gift that we gave Hunter this year was the train table with his Thomas the Train set. Fortunately, I bought the train table off of Craigslist for $50 and one of my good friends gave me all of her nephews Thomas the Train sets. The train set that she gave me was so enormous that there was no way we couldn't even fit it all on the table. We figured we can set it up bigger somewhere else as he gets older. Right now, the patio is a perfect spot. He really loves it and is so into "choo choo" trains now.
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| "no cheese, mom"! |
I'll spare you all the other toys they both got but that was just to name a few. I hosted Christmas this year at my house (usually it's at Sean's mom's) and without the help of my mom, I couldn't have pulled it off with all the cooking. She helped me out a ton and we all had a great time. Hunter and Tyler literally had a second Christmas present opening at our house between all the gifts that his sister and grandparents gave so Hunter was busy and on a "toy high" with that. Tyler actually managed to take a little nap while there was so much excitement going on with everyone. Phewww, just thinking back to that day exhausts me! LOL. It was all worth it though.
Sean's sister, Marnie got engaged to her fiancée Eric on Christmas Eve so we were celebrating that also.
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| Congrats, Marnie and Eric! |
In between Christmas, we managed to go to the Broward County Fair where Hunter had a blast. I am not a fan of riding on rides at a fair but I loosened up because the rides that Hunter could only go on (obviously) were on the ground and didn't do much so I was ok with it. Tyler, of course, slept the whole time. He is such a great baby to take anywhere =)
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| Hunter just won a turtle playing a water gun game with Mimi and wanted to run around with it so this was the photo we got. |
Also, we can't have a visit where we don't go to the park with Mimi so here we are one afternoon just hanging out and burning some energy off of Hunter:
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| I love my Mimi! |
My mom and I went to lunch down by the beach one afternoon and were able to go to the Hard Rock one night and hang out. It was nice just being with her like old times minus the kids. Sean is such a great babysitter =)
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| Notice the glass of wine.... |
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| At the Hard Rock! |
I do have to take this time out to remember back when I had Hunter how in 3 more days from today I would be going back to work (see blog here). I am very fortunate to be able to not go back to work this time with Tyler and have such a hard working husband. I've realized that even though I have more tougher days than I want, I'm still fortunate to be at home raising both of them. So cheers to the new 2014 year!
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