Craziness!

This week has been just plain crazy. I came down with a sinus infection that completely wiped me out and then we had Maddy's preschool graduation and a last day of preschool family picnic. Also, had Colby's 15 mo. check-up and shots (which he was not happy about ;-)) Luckily Jeremy was able to go in to work late a few days to help me with the kids in the morning. I never knew a sinus infection could be so bad! I think I've had maybe one before and I don't remember it being like this. I am feeling much better today, but still pretty wiped out.

Needless to say, I am VERY glad it is Friday and hopefully will be back to my old self by next week!!! I am just so thankful Jeremy has some flexibility at work where he can help me out if needed. It really got me through the week!!

Colby Laughing

Maddy loves to tickle Colby and make him laugh -- sometimes I think she doesn't really know how to 'play' with him, so she just tickles him and tries to wrestle around with him -- he loves it, though (well most of the time anyways ;-))!

Mother's Day 2010

Hope all of my fellow Moms out there had a wonderful Mother's Day yesterday!!! I am so lucky to have such an amazing Mother who raised me right and dedicated her life to raising all 9 of her kids. I appreciate this so much more now that I am a mother and can only imagine all of the hard work, time and patience she must have put in to raising our family -- I am also lucky to have an amazing Mother-in-Law, who is such a blessing to me and so much fun to be around!!!!! I realize how lucky I am and am very thankful.

I had a great day with the family --- started out with sleeping in a little and then breakfast at Mimi's cafe. Great food, even though Colby decdied he wanted nothing to do with going out to breakfast, Maddy and I had a great time eating and talking while Jeremy took Colby out and drove him around ;-) What a great husband!! The rest of the day was spent relaxing at home and then church last night, followed by pizza and Ben and Jerry's ice cream --- very fun day and no cooking involved at all!

I love Mother's Day as it is a day to focus soley on your family and really take time to appreciate your kids and remember what a blessing they are! I am so lucky to have 2 of the best kids!!!! They make me laugh and smile everyday!

I think we've turned a corner.........

As some of you may know Colby has had some difficulty being left in a nursery or really with anyone other than Jeremy or I. We've had babysitters, but he is always in bed by the time we leave so it hasn't really been much of an issue. I've tried off on and to put him in the nursery at the Y, church, etc...and I ALWAYS get paiged to come get him! So, I took a break for awhile and just recently decided to try again. Colby has been doing great this past week! He has been in the church nursery 2 times (for church and Mops) and also the Y nursery 4 times this week for my workouts!!! Granted it is an hour max each time (usually about 45 min.) but I will take it!!! His teething has slowed down some lately as well and I can tell he is feeling much better, so I know this is helping things also. I feel like we have sort of turned a corner with him as it may not sound like a big deal, but for Colby this is HUGE --- I am also loving the fact that I've been able to go to the Y and work-out and don't have to try and fit it in during his nap or at night. Hopefully this will continue!! We are very proud of our little guy for braving it out!!!!!

Sleep, sleep and more sleep......

It is now 4:45 pm and Colby has been sleeping since 12:30. I have been walking around the house waiting for him to wake up as it's getting to the point of me thinking..... 'what if he is sick?' 'what if something is wrong?' 'why is he not up yet?' Of course, I do this everytime he takes an extra long nap and then everything is fine. He did sleep in until almost 9:00 am this morning, though, so this is a little odd today.

I decided to cut caffeine out of my diet and today is the first day with NONE at all!! I guess this is a good day for Colby to be sleeping a ton!

Well time to go pace the house a little more waiting for the little guy to wake up.....

Picnic Time!!!

Today is about the nicest day weather wise that you can get! After preschool, I fed Colby lunch and laid him down for a nap and then Maddy and I had a nice picnic out in the front yard. She was so excited when I told her about the picnic. She helped me get all of the food ready and of course we had to bring the picnic basket out as well (even though we really didn't even use it ;-)) It's all about the experience, I guess!
Some days after I get Colby down for a nap, my 1st inclination is to either shut down and just try to relax for a little bit or to check email, do laundry, etc....I am really trying to take some of the time to do some fun things with Maddy as I know in a just a few months, she will be in school and I won't have these afternoons to spend with her like I do now. Seeing how excited she gets about just the littlest things, makes it almost hard to NOT do these things with her!!!
Here are some pictures from our picnic:


The spread! We had meat and cheese kabobs, strawberries on a stick, banana bread bites, heart-shaped banana bread, bagel dogs from Costco (so good!), and of course some gum for the end (put in a bowl by Maddy; just more for looks ;-)) Maddy kept asking, 'So, what are we going to have for our 'real' food?? When I told her this was it, so couldn't believe this was going to be our lunch! She had to ask me several times! It was really funny!


Maddy in her 'fancy' hat:


Me in my 'fancy' hat (ok, not really, but it's the best I had :-)) Grandma K, do you have any of your old fancy hats laying around??? I might need to borrow one!


And some ice cream for dessert! I used to love those little ice cream cups as a kid, so bought some today for our picnic. I remember Grandpa K used to get them for us at the store sometimes and I always loved them!!

Beautiful Days.......

The weather has just been so awesome lately and we have been spending so much time outside! It's like we just can't get enough of going outside after the brutal winter this year!! Even though I have to pretty much stay on top of Colby when we are out playing in the front yard, it is still so awesome to just be out - Everyone is happy and it's so nice giving Maddy and Colby wagon rides down the block and back and talking to all of the neighbors. Colby's newest thing is to run down the sidewalk into the neighbors driveway and try to run out into the street -- Not sure why he doesn't do this in our driveway, but at least it gives me more time to catch up to him and stop him. He thinks it's pretty funny when I have to chase him --

Here are a few pictures of some things we've been doing lately:


Water table fun on the deck:


Colby got so wet from playing in the water table that he was shivering outside, so I had to bring him in after awhile. He gets so wild with the water, that he was competely soaked by the time he was done. Good thing I put his swim suit on!


1st time at the zoo this year. Colby did pretty good riding in the stroller for about half the time, then had to get out and run around everywhere ;-)


Maddy feeding the fish at the zoo: