The Other Reason Not to Kiss Your Sister

And We Are Back... Hopefully

I have really been slacking when it comes to my blog lately.  You would never know by looking at this that we now have a complete family.  Brenna Kate was born June 1^st at 11:59 am (I can’t believe she is 4 ½ months old already!!!).  Our princess was 6lb 9oz and 18 inches long.  She has been an amazing baby.  She is so happy and smart and loving.  She loves to sleep and smile and swing.  Brenna has been turning over both ways for a few weeks now and has recently found her feet.  Her toes are her favorite toys to play with and suck on. She just recently started solid foods! Every day, as with all babies, is a new adventure.  She is learning things so quick and changing from day to day.  I LOVE THIS STAGE (but I loved and still love all the stages Noah went through).  Adjusting to two kids has been both easy and a challenge.  Noah is amazing with her and is so proud to be her big brother.  It took a few weeks to adjust to the new way of life but he has done a great job figuring out his role with her.  The first two weeks of Brenna’s’ life was spent at my parents’ house.  Poor Noah was super sick and instead of having her around his germs B and I went to my parents’ house while Hunter and Noah bunkered down at ours.  You can imagine how I handled it with all my post-partum hormones.  I probably cried for the first 5 days of it.  Then I realized I had a newborn that loved to sleep and a sick preschooler who didn’t.  Poor Hunter.  :-)  After the 2 weeks, it was so great to finally have our family together…for 6 hours.  Hunter got sick the day we got came home and he moved to my parents for a week.  It was a rough first month, but we all survived with just a few battle wounds.  Since then we have really found our grove.  I have been taking pictures and some day when I learn to edit them I will get them up here.  That is actually my goal by the end of the year.  There has been so much going on that I want to document.  Soccer, birthday parties, school, tons of Brenna’s firsts… the list goes on and on.  

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Don't Rip Me Off

On Christmas Eve Noah and I rode with my parents from Christmas Eve services.  My dad was in a rush because he had to get back to church with a set of keys.  When we were close to home he wanted us to get out of the the car quick and said to "rip Noah out of his car seat".  Noah had a huge objection to that remark and it has stayed with him for the past 3 months.  Quite often Noah comes up to me and tells me to not rip him off.

Me: "Noah, do you want some ice cream?"
Noah: "Yes!  Don't rip me off Mommy."

Paw Paw: "Hi Noah!"
Noah: "Don't rip me off Paw Paw"

Me: "I love you Noah"
Noah: "I love you too, but don't rip me off"

I am not sure how it got from ripping him out of his car seat to ripping him off, but I believe he has become just a little bit cynical of my generosity when I fill up his ice cream bowl.  Oh, how quick they grow up!

Let Me Show You Mine

Preschool

Last Friday was a special day.  A very long, but special day.  I signed my first born up for preschool.  Noah is now registered to start attending CrossPoint Christian School in September.  

It was special because it will be the start of a new chapter in Noah's life.  I think he is excited, but mostly because he thinks he is going to ride the cool "lello" school bus. I'm excited because he is going to have so much fun and make tons of new friends, have a little structure in his life and learn oodles of new things.  For example, he will learn that if he doesn't want to finish his art project, he will have to sit there until the activity is done.  Not eat the paper and project to emphasize he is done.

It was a long day because I got to the school at 4:00 AM.  I had heard there were some women out there who get there super early so they can get their kids in school.  Not only was I impressed with myself for getting there early, I even brought a piece of paper to start the sign-in sheet just in case I was the first mom there.  It turns out I had greatly under-estimated "early".  By getting there at 4:00 AM, I was the 35th in line and the first mom on the sign-in sheet had signed in at 4:45 PM the evening before (for those of you slow at math I was almost 12 hours behind the overachiever moms).  Those women are CRAZY.  There is no way I will spend the night in my car (on one of the COLDEST nights of the year) to sign my kid up for a plain-jane, regular old church preschool.  I was really convinced that only happened in the movies.  Or New York.  

As we get closer to September I will probably turn into a basket case.  I'll be so proud and so sad my little baby is growing up and starting school.  Thank goodness I will be on maternity leave so I will be able to be there and drop him off at school for the first month or two.  

Great. Just Great.

SpongeBob SquarePants has become a staple in our house.  At first I was a little worried it was too old for Noah, but it quickly won me over by being witty and by not being The Wonder Pets or Blues Clues.  Noah LOVES the show.  He is smiling and giggling constantly while it is on and knows all the characters.  

The latest show we watched was about a cute little worm (named "Wormy") who SpongeBob became friends with.  SpongeBob lives in the ocean.  He had never seen a worm before and didn't know they go though metamorphosis (stay with me).  One day he and Patrick are playing with Wormy and the next day they come back to find a horrible monster (a butterfly) who had eaten their dear friend.  

Sweet BFF Wormy

Horrible monster that eats people

Closeup of horrible monster

It actually had a lot more buzzing and even grossed me out.  Now, not only is my sweet boy scared of ALL bugs, he now knows that Monsters are scary.  This completely negates all the TV time we put in to watch The Ant Bully and A Bugs Life to learn bugs are not scary and Monsters Inc. to learn monsters are just super cuddly and (again) NOT scary.  

I think we may have to go to the Butterfly Museum soon.  Either it will scar him for life or push him past this little episode.  It's a risk I'm willing to take.  ;o)