My Sassy Girl

I can't believe it's already been one month since the little lady turned one! Her 13 month birthday almost slipped my mind (sorry second child)... Anyway, Charlotte is as sassy as ever! After a full tummy, she's a total ham...but when she's hungry, BEWARE!!! She's a beast!

Char with food in belly

Char without food

My sassy girl

Many who have been around her quickly notice that she's small, but feisty. When she wants something... she gets it! Although she has "bodyguards" (picture below), sometimes she's the one making her "bodyguards" cry.

 Char's peeps

 Since she's the second child, I have not been noticing how quickly teeth have been popping up. Luckily for me, both kids do not have a major reaction to new teeth coming up. There's the occasional drooling, eating fingers, or maybe one bad night, so I'm not complaining. Ever since daylight savings, Char has been a little more rawr-like! So instead of using daylight savings as my scapegoat, my new scapegoat is teething. I noticed she had one new molar pop up. Maybe more... who knows...

My silly girl

Though small, it looks like Char is a natural born leader. That, or Lucas is just being extremely silly and imitating everything little sis is doing.

Oh Lucas...

Happy 3.14 day! Happy Friday! And happy 13th month birthday, Char Char!

Greens & Bed

After spending $100+ at Costco yesterday (on necessities!), I realized I forgot to buy apple juice and more frozen fruits for our smoothies. The kids have been really good at boycotting their veggies, so I had to get creative since I did not want to waste tons of money buying pouches for them. Since the weather's getting warm, it was time to bust out the good ol' Ninja and make some green smoothies. And what can I say, Mommy's lunch time smoothies are a hit!

 Princess going grocery shopping with Mommy

I guess there's such thing as a smoothie brain freeze. After refill after refill of Mommy's special fruit, kale, and spinach smoothie, Lucas started shaking and saying "cold".

Happy smoothie boy

 Happy smoothie girl

Smoothies make the kids poo. On a good day, they both poo after lunch and right before nap time. On a bad day... well, you don't want to know what happens on a bad day. Smoothies also make the kids a bit more hyper than usual. Starting yesterday, both kids thought it'll be fun to just jump on our bed and pretend to sleep (or not). It may be partly my fault that they're enjoying the big bed so much... I've been launching them on the bed and they're getting a kick out of it!

Happy Shinn kids

Daylight Savings Weekend

Whoever started this daylight savings thing obviously did not have young kids. Why do they have to screw with my kids' sleeping schedule twice a year?! WHY?!?! Anyway, we tried our best to not let it screw with our weekend and the weekend turned out to be pretty a-okay!

Enjoying the spring weather before springing forward

 Introducing Char to fish tacos at Sancho's Taqueria after church

 This is what having three kids look like... (age difference ~18 months apart)

On Monday, we had a slightly more special play date since one of our former play date pals was visiting from SLO. As you can see, it was just chaos at the Shinn house this past Monday.

... at least the kids had fun!

 But when there's food, all his calm and quiet

The kids finding the weirdest things to entertain themselves

After the chaos and nap, it was just me and my two (having fun).

 Giving big bro the evil eye for playing with her new books

 She still loves him!

 Dictating once again

And now it's Tuesday. Looks like I survived another crazy Monday!

Shinn Kids Crazies

This is just a documentation of all the crazy stuff that goes on at home. There's lots of happy screaming, giggling, and just straight up crazy in the Shinn household 24/7.

I told Lucas that Charlotte had 4 shots today so he should be extra nice to her. He should share his toys with her, give her extra high fives and hugs, and feed snacks to her. Instead, this is what he did...

Sibling wrestling/tickling match

Char's been using this car as a walker. Every time Lucas sees her pushing it, he sits in it, hoping his sister will give him a free ride. Little does he know, he weighs at least 10 pounds more than her and he ain't going nowhere.

 Going nowhere...

 These $1 superhero masks have been untouched for ages! One night, Lucas decides to wear one. His copycat sis thinks he's awesome and wants one too. You can tell I didn't force them to do this with their genuine look of happiness.

 Little Shinn superheroes

Mask doubles as a headband for Char

Back in the day, before Charlotte had the finger dexterity to put snacks in her mouth, I had Lucas feed her. Now she's returning the favor. 

"More!"

 Happy little Char

 Silly hipster Lu

Shinn kids synchronized leg lifts

I don't know what it's like in your household, but are your kids as crazy as mine? My kids might be a tad bit wacko because these apples don't fall too far from the tree.

"AHHHHHH"

Happy Friday!

B&N Wednesday

Wednesday is the only day during the week where I don't have a planned agenda/activity with both kids. We probably could've survived just bumming around at home, but what fun is that?! Plus they're both at the age where they enjoy going out and seeing new things (even if "new things" means going from store to store at Almaden Plaza).

 Sibling snack time love

 

This pic was taken to show the height difference between the two

 Bookworm Lu

 Bookworm Char

 Bookworm Lu & Char

Boss lady

We spent over an hour at the book store. That's a pretty sweet deal for me! The only bad part about going to B&N is that Lucas always likes to poo when he's playing at the train table. This has happened every single time we're there! "Mommy, I'm poo-ing. Mommy, I'm done." It's tricky changing his poop with Char around (who still can't stand on her own), but where there's a will, there's a way!

The Good & The Bad

Every parent has experienced good days with their kids. They should all experience bad days as well. As a SAHM, I've seen it all! One minute the kids can be cute as heck and two minutes later, you'll think they got possessed or something!

THE GOOD

It was time for them to take a nap and I couldn't find them anywhere. I go upstairs yelling "Lu! Char! Nap time!". I walk into Char's room and this is what I see...

 Two little Shinn kids quietly reading

I was still in the middle of cooking when both kids woke up. I gave them their snack and asked them if they can just sit at the table and color while I finish cooking...

 ... and they actually sat there quietly and colored!

Sitting. Eating. Quietly.

THE BAD 

 Char looked cute in the previous picture right? Look what she does now...

She's not that innocent! "YAI YAI"

Lucas did not take his afternoon nap. Instead, he was giggling while "reading" his Bible (how do you get mad at that?!). This is what happens when you don't nap...

I don't even know what he's crying about!

Moments later, I get some surround sound crying.

Char's a sympathy crier

Oh the joys of parenthood! (end sarcasm)

Boy & Sleep

Homeboy sleeps in the weirdest, most uncomfortable looking positions!

 Collected ALL his toys in the dark, also has air leg kick

 Different night: same collection of toys collected in the dark

 Another different night: added more to his collection

 No toys (had a talk with Mother) but look at his legs!

Different night: same weird position but with his arms

But hey, as long as he's sleeping through the night, he can sleep however he wants!