My Lil Wildcats!!

Rockin our K-State spirit today.............................Go Wildcats!!

Hopin for a wildcat victory.........................GO STATE!!!!!!!

Brotherly Love

I know this won't last forever and in a few years they will probably fight all the time, but until then I love watching Harper light up whenever her brother is around............

He really can make her smile bigger than anyone else, it melts my heart and I tell myself "enjoy this while you can" :)

(dunno why my red eye remover leaves one of Harper's eyes GLOWING in some of the pics, drives me nuts!!)

What happens.....

When Mom decides to sit down on the couch to read a magazine while her son plays "nicely" in his room.....

"Hey Mom c'mere and see what I made" (A TOTAL MESS!!!)

Empty bins where toys were put away nicely

He is quite proud, in fact he is making me keep it like that until Nana gets here so he can show her too!!

Weekend at home

This weekend the kiddos and I went back home to Manhattan for the St.Patrick's Day parade and to see my bro who came into town as well. We had a lot of fun, except the parade part, it was AWFUL!! It was freezing cold, no parking, super crowded and then the parade started late! I couldn't wait to get out of that place and we left early. We went back to Dad's and took naps instead, and Pax was totally ok with that :) We watched half of the K-State game at Willies (no comment on that game by the way, I am not ready to talk about it) and then headed to Amber's so the boys could run around and play. They are so funny together, their favorite game is chasing each other and screaming, not fun on the ears but hilarious to watch. Sunday I sent Pax out to hang out with Papa so sissy and I could sleep later and it was HEAVEN!! My Dad cooked a huge seafood feast for lunch; crab legs, jumbo shrimp, scallops, etc etc etc. I miss my Dad's cooking and especially our Sunday dinners. I love having my whole family together and just sitting around talking eating and laughing (and believe me we do lots of all of those things)!! We missed Sarah though, she moved to KC this weekend (also not ready to talk about this) so she wasn't able to come home. It just wasn't the same without her and Derek and Zoey. All in all it was a relaxing weekend back home. I was glad to get back to El Dorado though and have the kiddos in their own rooms, I had to share a bed/room with them all weekend and between Pax sleeping sideways in bed with me and Harper moving around so much in the pack and play, I didn't get much sleep :) This time change is nice though, both kids slept in this morning, we actually had to wake Pax up! His allergies are starting to bother him so I know spring must be just around the corner, I LOVE spring I HATE allergies, I just wish we could have one without the other.....time to stock up on the childrens Zyrtec!!

PS-How excited am I that K-State is in the big tourney?......SO EXCITED...GO CATS!

CHEESIN IT UP AT THE PARADE

MY DAD HOLDING HARPER BEFORE THE PARADE STARTED

SERIOUSLY SUCH A CHEESEBALL

AMBER WITH THE KIDDOS

WHEN HE WOKE UP THIS MORNING HE WENT AND LAID ON HARPER'S BOUNCER AND THEY WATCHED MICKEY MOUSE TOGETHER.

Harper 3 months

My baby is 3 months old today, and I know I say this every month but I REALLY can't believe she is already 3 months old and time REALLY is going so fast!!! She is cooing, smiling and pretty sure she giggled for first time at tonight. I don't have any weight or height stats since she won't go to doctor till next month but she FEELS heavier and is definately longer (dunno why but my babies are always so long!!) She is a fabulous sleeper (insert hallelujah chorus here), she goes to sleep about 8 pm every night, I wake her up and feed her at 10pm before I go to bed to ensure she is nice and full for the whole night and she sleeps till about 5 am. I would LIKE to get it to 6am or 6:30 since this is when I get up and I have to wake her AGAIN at that time so I can nurse then pump before getting in the shower. Usually she is not hungry yet (but of course she eats) so ideally it would work better if she would just sleep till 6, I have been dropping hints to her, but she isn't pickin up what I am throwin at her :) But hey I am not complaining, her big brother didn't sleep like that till he was almost a year so this is a dream come true for me!! She also puts herself to sleep already, I will wrap her up real tight, put binky in, turn on her aquarium music thingie and she stares at it for a while then eventually falls asleep.........YIPPEE!!!! Again her big brother had to be TRAINED to do this at about 6 months of age and he fought us hard and usually won, so this is heaven for us. She is in her own room now, I hate having to get out of bed when she wakes in middle of the night, cause usually it's just because her bink fell out and I need to put it back in, but she was getting really restless in her cradle and that was keeping me up at night so it was definately time for her own room. I love having a boy and girl, they are so different but each of them are unique and I love them so much. Pax is my wild man, always talking, running, playing, etc. Harper is just so calm and content, she will just lay there and check everything out, I usually forget she is even there!!! I can't wait to see how different/similar they are as they get older.

Pax is sleeping better at night, I think he is still afraid of the dark, but now if he wakes up in the middle of the night, we just tuck him back in and give him a kiss and he is good. No more fighting and begging to stay in bed (phew)!! Potty training is still going well, we have accidents every now and then, but usually it's cause I forget to ask/take him but he is doing really well about telling us when he needs to go. I truly can't believe how easy it was to potty train him, I thought it would take FOREVER! I love not buying diapers for him, it's great!!

We are heading to Manhattan for the weekend on Friday (as long as it doesn't snow again and cause us to turn around halfway, hey it's Kansas it could happen) and I can't wait to see my brother and get my haircut from my girl Jodi. Hopefully I do better at taking pics, I have been kind of slacking lately! Here are some I snapped the last week, all kind of random but that's our life :)

few pics of her sleeping, she always has her arms up by her head.



I love watching her sleep, she is just so precious.

can ya see the fat rolls on her legs?... I love it!!!



my kiddos



Pax runs into her room when she wakes up and yells at me "Mommy sissy's awake!!" (as if I didn't already hear her).

one of my faves, she is smiling at me after waking up from her nap, she is always so happy.

"shnuggling" after reading books and before we say prayers at bedtime...we have a whole list of people we pray for at night and if we miss one he WILL remind us!!

kisses for sissy

cheeseball!