That means there was minimal crying and I was somewhat productive while keeping the kids entertained. And I beat the rain! Go Mommy!
My little bookworms @ Barnes & Noble
What shopping looks like now
No crying during lunch = HUGE SUCCESS!
Making A BIG MESS before nap time
Brown Bear reading
And now all is calm. I'm hoping both those kiddos are snoozing away upstairs while I prepare dinner and do laundry and wash dishes and clean up the living room and play room. #lifeofamother
Hey little lady, why are you growing up so quickly? This month, Char still hasn't managed to crawl yet, but she is doing an army crawl. Surprisingly, her much bigger brother crawled before she did... unbelievable! She has sprouted her two first teeth though! The only symptoms she showed was lots of drooling (no signs of pain!). She has also learned to feed herself, though a big mess, we have to start from somewhere. Hopefully she'll be done with purees by next month. With all the recalls on pouches, pureed foods has become a bit scary! Speaking of food, her belly's starting to get real big! Girlfriend, it's time you start exercising!
The toddler is a few months shy of being 2.5 years old! Time sure flies when you have two monsters to take care of (luckily these monsters are mighty cute!). I would like to think I'm not completely biased when I say this, but I really think Lucas is quite smart for a boy his age. This past month, he's really picked up on a lot of vocab and is able to communicate fairly well. Of course it might take a while to get used to his accent, but once you're past that, you can have a decent two year old conversation with this two year old!
This past week, I learned that he can read his ABCs (all caps) when he started spelling out "Charlotte" in his room. After nap time, I decided to test him and wrote a few words and asked him to spell it out. And guess what? Homeboy was able to spell out pretty much everything I wrote!
One reason why I'm stating this boy is quite the genius is because he is now able to comprehend his friends and who his friends' moms are. For example, Micah's mommy = Auntie Kim, Hailey's mommy = Auntie Becky, Lo Lo's mommy = Auntie Les. The connections are slowly being formed in that little brain of his. He also knows Mommy and Daddy's names.
He is currently obsessed with birthday parties, mainly because he likes to eat cake. At home, he would sing happy birthday to whoever (usually Mommy, Daddy, BeBe, Lucas) and then we would blow out fake candles and eat fake cake! Luckily for him, Mommy's birthday is coming up soon and there will definitely be cake!
He still loves Cars, cars, dinosaurs, balls, and Star Wars (not sure if this is by choice though).
Besides the random tantrums he throws every other day, besides him messing up his room every single day, besides him being non-stop crazy energy every single day, this boy is PERFECT!
Lucas first visited Daddy at Apple when he was around 3 months old. Charlotte first visited Daddy at Apple one week shy of 9 months. Oh, poor neglected second child... During her first visit, she didn't even get to eat at Caffe Macs either. Next time... I think both kids had fun. Lucas did for sure, since he was super hyper after his green smoothie and kept jumping up and down and saying "Apple Daddy! Eat pizza! Apple Daddy!"
Oh Charlotte...
Sitting on Apple Daddy's chair (Mommy wasn't allowed inside, lame!)
When we were walking back to the car, I asked Lucas if he liked Apple Daddy's office. He said "Star Wars! Cars!" So now even the boy knows about Daddy's infatuation with toys...
You know you're a parent with young children when you dread daylight savings. Whoever invented this obviously did not have young children! As I'm typing this out, all I can think about is how Char woke up at 5:50am like clock work once the clock was moved back an hour. And once Char woke up, Lu would see me sneaking out of the room and would start crying. A family of four gathering in a tiny queen size bed = TORTURE for parents who are actually trying to get some sleep!
Saturday dinner, before everything went downhill!
Look at how happy everyone is!
Special movie night in an attempt to keep them up longer
Both kids were up by 7! Killing time at PB before church
Looking innocent but acting not so innocent!
He only crawls into bed when he's not supposed to
Thought skipping his nap and going to a party would help him sleep longer at night... nope!
This smile is fake! This time change turned her into a hot mess in the early morn!
Hello November 1! This year. we celebrated (took advantage of) Halloween by going to our church's Fallapalooza, pumpkin patches, and trick or treating at downtown Willow Glen (morning) and Almaden Hills (night). In the span of a week, I was able to utilize my monkeys' monkey suits four times!
Say hello to my two lil monkeys!
Ballin' monkey
Cutie monkey
Monday crew before downtown trick or treating
Monkey minions collecting candy for Mommy
Look at all these strollers!
Star Wars kids
Okay, story time. I was sick of putting on the monkey outfits on my monkeys, so I decided they could be R2D2's for their night time trick or treating. Daddy vetoed it and said it wasn't cute enough. So, I obliged and changed them back into their monkey outfits. Since there was no trick or treating in our neighborhood, we decided to go to the nice Almaden area. We strategically parked our car in a dark area where there was no traffic so it looked like we were neighbors. At one of the stops, the lady asked us where we lived. Completely caught off guard, I paused for a moment, and said "Thornton... across from Sonoma Chicken Coop. No, Thorntree, somewhere on the other side..." BUSTED! I'm pretty sure she could tell I was straight up lying. But, why did she question us and not other trick or treaters? Another person asked if we were new to the neighborhood. Okay, next year I'm going to memorize a street and stick with my story. Or maybe we might move to a neighborhood where there's families so we can finally go trick or treating in our own neighborhood. Anyway, goodbye October. Hello sweet November!
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