Saturday mornings

With Brent working most Saturdays (let's be honest...&sundays) 

This is what my mornings on the weekends look like. Skip the chores, sneak some extra crazy cuddles

Beach bums

With our yard being off limits we have lived at the beach at parks this past couple weeks.

Home Depot workshop

So, going on week a bazillion of Brent working 7 days a week till 8:30/9pm. For some reason I have to get a lil more creative on weekends. So I don't feel so sad about single parenting it. Also gives my week some variation.

This weekend I signed us up for the 'kids Home Depot workshop'. Seriously-it's free. I'm going to do it every time it's offered. It was excellent. They get a little 'home depot apron' and a 'special pin' for every project they complete, so they can collect them. 

Today they made a plant box thing. Very discriptive right? Haha. It's blessed me in three ways. Kept us busy until 11am! Now after naptime they get to paint the 'bottom' part and then tomorrow morning I will let them plant the plant we bought for it! That's THREE activities...for virtually FREE! Well, that's a lie. I paid .59 cents for each plant for the kids. They are veggie plants so I'm actually debating throwing in a bulb we have leftover from our Mother's Day craft instead. Then that would make it 'free-ish' since we had already purchased the bulbs for grandmas gift!

Anyways. All in all...GREAT fun!

Audrey did most of it all on her own (including the hammering) I just had to tell her what to do. Beckham on the other hand-he's two still...he gave me a couple anxious moments but all in all did fabulous. If Brent was there and we were working 1 on 1 with the kids it would have been flawless!!

Audrey&Ballet

For Audrey's birthday grandma and I 'bought' her 'ballet school' something Audrey had been wanting for a very long time. Grandma is taking her half the time and I'm taking her half the time.

She was absolutely thrilled and totally in her element. This is the first time she went to a 'real' ballet class and not just one put on by our township. 

Sustaining the toddlers

My kids could eat all day.

Alllllll day.

I've started ( month or so ago ) giving them breakfast and after a smoothy or protein shake to help sustain them to a reasonable snack time. It's actually been fabulous! I get a solid hour after breakfast before the begging for a snack commences (before it was 10 mins!)

Mothers Day Tea 2014

Audrey has been dancing around singing for the past couple weeks. She has had so much excitement for this Mother's Day tea. She tried SO hard keeping it a surprise! Her eyes glowed with excitement and anticipation. She could hardly wait.

This morning when I told her that today was the day. The day that mommy was coming to preschool to have a tea party with her she could hardly contain herself.

The difference between her and I is that at age 3 you don't have the skill of masking your excitement. I mask mine a little better. (Not that much better haha).

Four years ago this lil firecracker made me a mama. It has been the biggest blessing. I never imagined that life would be like this. I never imagined that I would feel this way. I love who she has become. I love being apart of her journey. 

I am so glad I get to wake up and see her face. So glad I get to be her mom. So glad that I get to raise her. So glad that I get to mold her into a young lady. So glad that we get to experience life together. So glad that I get to know her. So glad that I get to kiss her ouchies. So glad that I get to dance with her. So glad that I my name is the first one she thinks of asking for. So glad I get to teach her. So glad I get to teach her about Jesus and how to pray. So glad that I get to help her choose how she wants to live her life. So glad I get to be apart of her journey. So glad I get to cheer her on. So glad I get to be there for all her big moments. 

Being this sweet mischievous firecrackers mama is the best thing that happened to me in 2010. It is one of my top 3 moments in my life. 

I really hope I can the best mom possible to her, I also hope that she can always forgive me in my failings (because they are frequent).

Thumb sucking woes

So we have been slacking. We hadn't been taping the sucks on because Audrey seemed to 'get it'. She litterly couldn't fall asleep this past month without the 'sick gloves' on.

So I took at look at her thumb while cutting here nails......

She has litterly regressed&progressed. She admitted that at night she keeps her sock gloves on but slips her thumb out the bottom and still sucks her thumb. Her thumb nail is basically falling off. It's so wild. I actually have never seen anything like it. She's not a 'traditional' thumb sucker. She doesn't really 'suck' she mostly open and closes her mouth on her thumb. Sounds weird, right. I guess in that process she is essentially wearing down the nail to the point of falling off. 

To be perfectly honest. This past 3 weeks Brent has been working till 8:30/9pm and I'm exhausted with him working 7 days a week. So silly I know. I'm sort of single mom-ing it during this season. I'm trying to stay on top of it but honestly it's so easy to let things slide. 

I picked up 

And have been taping her up and spraying her thumbs with this.

Fingers crossed. Don't want a Princess who lost her thumbnail just because mommy was to tired to be on top of it.