Technology is cool.

Patrick and Noel, good to see you all the way from China! Love you dirtbags!

I also rearranged Logan’s room today, cleaned both bathrooms, dusted, and rearranged the decorations on our entertainment center. What can I say…Connor was at school all morning, Logan took a great nap, and I was actually productive with my free time!

I think this months project will be Connor’s room. I am going to do something cool a la Shauna on one of Connor’s walls. After I tear down the border he ruined and paint the walls all the way Asparagus instead of just halfway up…the thought of removing more wallpaper makes me throw up a little in my mouth, but I am hoping it will be easy…at least Connor gave me a head start on the project by ripping down a whole wall already…

Conversation with Connor:

“Mom, can you fix my airplane?”
“Connor, you know how to fix it. Why don’t you do it?” (we were having a rather helpless day today…)
“But mom” he says tearfully,”I don’t know how to get the wings to stay, and I certainly don’t know how to put the front wheel on!”
Behind muffled laugher, “You’re certainly right, Connor. The wing and wheel are very tricky”

I love when my 4 year old talks like a 20 year old. Cracks me up.

First of all, check this out. Connor really likes to do art projects with me. He loves to draw, color, cut, glitter things, etc. Today, during our little art time together, he told me he wanted to scrapbook. With pictures just like mommy. I am so proud of his little pages!

While he created that little masterpiece, I did this:

I love that he loves to do crafts and be creative. It’s such a fun thing for us to do together.

I was at the park with the boys one day last week, and I got the idea to write down what we had done that morning. I mean all the little details. Because I have a lot of days where Derek gets home and I try to tell him what we did all day, and I literally can’t think of a single thing. So I wrote it down. I only did it until lunch time, but I am sure the afternoon looked very similar.

7:08-Wake briefly and smile as I realize Connor and Logan are still sleeping.
7:23-Connor jumps into my bed. The day begins.
7:35-I manage to milk 12 more minutes in bed before heading to Connor’s room to play trains.
7:45-Get C some cereal, toast my bagel, and sit down to eat and check email and blogs.
7:58-Logan wakes up. Change his diaper, get him dressed, and get his cereal and milk.
8:05-Start a movie for the boys. This morning’s selection is Rescue Hero’s. Head to the shower and say a prayer that the house remains peaceful while I shower.
8:20-Connor calls me. His goggles are stuck on his head. This is quite distressing.
8:42-I am done getting ready. The movie is over, and I tell Connor it is time to get dressed. This is met with a crying fit. I calmly tell him to knock it off and that I will be ignoring him until he pulls himself together.
8:45-start a load of laundry
8:47-vacuum up spilled cereal from breakfast.
8:49-get Logan his second breakfast, a pop tart. This miraculously stops C’s crying.
8:52-after speaking with Connor about the ridiculousness of his tantrum, I get him a pop-tart too.
8:55-Start firetruck song.
9:00-vacuum up pop-tart crumbs
9:03-start firetruck song again.
9:07-Connor heads to his room to get dressed. I finish cleaning up breakfast.
9:15-get Logan’s shoes on and start packing up the diaper bag.
9:20-switch out laundry
9:23-check on Connor’s progress. He’s wearing shorts and a t-shirt…it’s 50 degrees outside.
9:30-Connor comes out dressed appropriately. He’s wearing white baseball pants, a blue shirt on backwards, and sandals on the wrong feet.
9:35-make adjustments to C’s wardrobe and head to the car.
9:37-Logan is buckled and Connor is in the back “buckling the air hoses” a.k.a. buckling all the seatbelts in the way back.
9:42-C climbs into the trunk to fetch his NASA backpack. He needs it so he can have air when we blast off in our space shuttle.
9:45-finally on our way.
9:49-arrive at the bank.
10:02-arrive at Diedrich’s for some much needed caffeine.
10:20: arrive at Hobby Lobby. While shopping, Logan opens a large tub on foam stickers, spilling them everywhere. But other than that, it was a very smooth shopping trip.
10:58-leave Hobby Lobby and decide to stop at the park. The boys have a great time and I write down all these silly details.
11:40-Head home for lunch

That’s as far as I got. Exciting stuff, huh! I am sure one day this will make me smile when I look back at it. I would say that is a pretty typical morning.

It’s almost Wednesday already…this week is flying by! Happy hump day!

First of all, check this out. Connor really likes to do art projects with me. He loves to draw, color, cut, glitter things, etc. Today, during our little art time together, he told me he wanted to scrapbook. With pictures just like mommy. I am so proud of his little pages!

While he created that little masterpiece, I did this:

I love that he loves to do crafts and be creative. It’s such a fun thing for us to do together.

I was at the park with the boys one day last week, and I got the idea to write down what we had done that morning. I mean all the little details. Because I have a lot of days where Derek gets home and I try to tell him what we did all day, and I literally can’t think of a single thing. So I wrote it down. I only did it until lunch time, but I am sure the afternoon looked very similar.

7:08-Wake briefly and smile as I realize Connor and Logan are still sleeping.
7:23-Connor jumps into my bed. The day begins.
7:35-I manage to milk 12 more minutes in bed before heading to Connor’s room to play trains.
7:45-Get C some cereal, toast my bagel, and sit down to eat and check email and blogs.
7:58-Logan wakes up. Change his diaper, get him dressed, and get his cereal and milk.
8:05-Start a movie for the boys. This morning’s selection is Rescue Hero’s. Head to the shower and say a prayer that the house remains peaceful while I shower.
8:20-Connor calls me. His goggles are stuck on his head. This is quite distressing.
8:42-I am done getting ready. The movie is over, and I tell Connor it is time to get dressed. This is met with a crying fit. I calmly tell him to knock it off and that I will be ignoring him until he pulls himself together.
8:45-start a load of laundry
8:47-vacuum up spilled cereal from breakfast.
8:49-get Logan his second breakfast, a pop tart. This miraculously stops C’s crying.
8:52-after speaking with Connor about the ridiculousness of his tantrum, I get him a pop-tart too.
8:55-Start firetruck song.
9:00-vacuum up pop-tart crumbs
9:03-start firetruck song again.
9:07-Connor heads to his room to get dressed. I finish cleaning up breakfast.
9:15-get Logan’s shoes on and start packing up the diaper bag.
9:20-switch out laundry
9:23-check on Connor’s progress. He’s wearing shorts and a t-shirt…it’s 50 degrees outside.
9:30-Connor comes out dressed appropriately. He’s wearing white baseball pants, a blue shirt on backwards, and sandals on the wrong feet.
9:35-make adjustments to C’s wardrobe and head to the car.
9:37-Logan is buckled and Connor is in the back “buckling the air hoses” a.k.a. buckling all the seatbelts in the way back.
9:42-C climbs into the trunk to fetch his NASA backpack. He needs it so he can have air when we blast off in our space shuttle.
9:45-finally on our way.
9:49-arrive at the bank.
10:02-arrive at Diedrich’s for some much needed caffeine.
10:20: arrive at Hobby Lobby. While shopping, Logan opens a large tub on foam stickers, spilling them everywhere. But other than that, it was a very smooth shopping trip.
10:58-leave Hobby Lobby and decide to stop at the park. The boys have a great time and I write down all these silly details.
11:40-Head home for lunch

That’s as far as I got. Exciting stuff, huh! I am sure one day this will make me smile when I look back at it. I would say that is a pretty typical morning.

It’s almost Wednesday already…this week is flying by! Happy hump day!