May 2017

Lots of boating this month! A visit from nana and granddad, celebrating Mother's Day, and a big boy bed!

Started off the month with a quick visit to meet Baby Easton before we headed up to Virginia for the weekend.

Got to spend some time with Granny

and hang out with my friends from high school and all the kids. So fun!

When we got back, B had his last day of 2s preschool.

Todd and I went to one of my coworker's weddings

Happy Mother's Day to me!

Brooks made this cute little towel at school.

We had a gap between when our old nanny left and our new nanny was able to start so my mom came down to help out, which worked out because she got to be here for mother's day. 

We took a cruise to shem creek for brunch

Mimosas with the moms!

B occupied himself at brunch with stickers. Poor sis!

The whole crew

Beautiful sunset on the boat one night

Grandad came down to go deep sea fishing. While the guys were out all day my neighbor and I took the kids to the beach. We took B to "Tall Ships Charleston". He loved looking at all the big boats.

Izzy got a stomach bug somehow. She threw up a few different times throughout the night, then a few days later I got it. It was horrible! Luckily todd and brooks managed to escape. I took this picture to send to my sister to thank her for her expert tip...when you are dealing with the stomach bug, cover everything in beach towels. That way you don't have to change the sheets 500 times a night. You just throw the towel in the wash and grab a new one. So much easier! Hopefully this is the last time I will need this trick for awhile. We are stomach bugged out around here!

Todds cousin came to visit and we took a sunset cruise.

Last morning in the crib! Such a big boy!

LOVES his big boy bed! And no trouble with the transition at all. I've heard horror stories from friends but he still sleeps great. He still lays there and waits for us to come and get him in the morning too...it's amazing!

April 2017

Whew. April was crazy! Looking back at the pics I took I can't even believe what we managed to cram in to one month!

FINALLY got some new furniture for our playroom...we ordered from Chad and Maria's company Luonto. Beautiful stuff!

I hosted a shower for one of my girlfriends so I was super motivated to get projects done. I finally recovered the dining room chairs!

So one day I rushed home from work so I could get Brooks to swimming lessons. I got him all dressed, grabbed a change of clothes, snacks for everyone, woke Izzy up, got her dressed and ran outside with just enough time to make it to swimming--only to discover that I didn't have a carseat for Izzy 😡 We had accidentally left in the nanny's car. She was already too far gone to come back in time so I grabbed a hose and filled up bucket in the driveway. I was so afraid B would freak out but he was totally content to do this instead! I felt really bad about it but I'm learning this kind of thing just can't be avoided when you are a working mom. Somedays you just can't fit everything in!

Izzy helping me shop for the baby shower.

We escaped to the beach for about an hour after the shower. It was baby olivia's first trip to the beach! 

Out for dinner with the girls!

This girl all dressed up in her peter rabbit bubble

2nd Sunday on King st

We had lunch with chanel and brynlee one day

getting geared up for Easter!

She's starting to like her baby dolls

loves going to the library and getting new books!

Easter egg hunt at church

Pandemonium! B grabbed 2 eggs and he was good to go 😂

Trying out her bikini

Celebrating Dad's birthday!

Easter bunny visited and the kids were both excited to check out their baskets. I was excited to get a picture of them in their matching Easter outfits...

umm

Yeah. Could not get them to hold still!

Luckily gram came to the rescue later with her good camera and was finally able to get some shots! 

Loves using utensils now!

I took the kids on a walk one day and let B ride his big wheel. He refuses to use the pedals so we made it to the stop sign and back before he got tired out.

Our nanny sent me this one day while I was at work. Her and Izzy walked to the park almost every day while B is at preschool.

And then todd went to the phillipines for 2 WEEKS for work. Two. full. weeks. He left wed am and when I got home from work wed afternoon I was talking with the nanny and all of a sudden we heard B screaming and crying on the monitor. I ran upstairs and he had vomited everywhere, all over his bed. It was a nightmare because I was trying to sanitize everything and keep izzy away from all of it but it was impossible because I was by myself. He proceeded to be up for the rest of the night throwing up. I had him sleep with me so neither of us slept more than 2 hours. Luckily no one else ended up getting it or I don't think I would have survived.  As I was going back through my pics I'm actually proud of everything I accomplished while flying solo-we conquered the stomach bug, busted lip, several outings, and I made it! (the olivia pope glass certainly helped as well)

Took B to get a haircut

Went to waterfront park for a picnic lunch and to watch the sailboats

Izzy fell walking down the hall with her sippy cup and it cut the inside of her mouth. It bled so much but she was fine thank goodness!

Our sweet neighbors had us over for dinner one night to break up the monotony!

Took the kids to the pool, then my sister booked a last minute flight and came down for the weekend with Chase to rescue me. It was great!

 

We took the kids to the beach.

Chase was a built in babysitter...brooks LOVES him and they had so much fun playing together.

I took this pic because I was watching him on the monitor stretching out and realized we were not going to make in in the crib for much longer. Big boy bed, coming soon!