Camping - post 2

The kids love piggy back rides, as all kids do. So they employed Rollie as their horsey. Good time was had by all, even when they fell off. (See 2nd picture!!)


My freezy lovin kids!!
Little Buddy and Bean both enjoyed getting to drive the boat. Rollie was a good teacher.

We enjoyed the scenery of the lake and even saw a sail boat. Which Daddy Dear pointed out later that there was a motor on the back of it. Guess they don't trust the wind to much.

Oh the Woes!!

Ever wonder what goes through a 2 year old head. Me too, and if you can explain the habit of our little monster that would be great. Last night being the worst of all nights since the Big Boy bed appeared. I expected a little up and down movement with his new found freedom from the cage (the crib). But honestly last night takes the cake. I can't tell you how many times I led Little Buddy back upstairs to bed, but I know it was more than 5. Finally I gave up and asked him "do you want to be a baby and sleep in a baby bed, because that is were you are headed if you don't go to bed" Much to my surprise and disapproval he said yes. So instead of arguing with him I took up him mattress and put it back in the crib.

You would think after all this and being up for almost an hour past his bed time he would finally feel exhausted and go to sleep. Nope I was upstairs 2 more times before he retired for the night. What an exhausting evening. Not only that I had the fear of falling on the stairs again like on Saturday. Luckily I didn't have any of the kids in my arms and I didn't go down many steps or break anything.

I hope tonight brings better results with the Big Boy bed. We will try again....

Camping - Post 1

We went camping the weekend of August 15-17th at Lake Hendricks, MN. We went last year and had a blast, our freind Rollie joins us with his camper. It's a lot of work with 3 kids, but the end result for the kids is great and lots of good memories for the whole family. Here are some pictures of our weekend.

Little Buddy
Bean
Both older kids had fun winding the boat up and down as it sat at our camp site.

Grandma Sylvia was able to stop and have lunch with us on Saturday. The kids loved having her stop by but of course didn't want her to go.

This will be done in several posts as I can't seem to get any more than 5 pictures to load at a time. So stay tuned.

Our Big Boy in his Big Boy Bed

Here is our Big Boy, Little Buddy in his big boy bed. He was so excited when Daddy got home and we started to unload the parts. Both he and Bean couldn't wait to get everything upstairs and put together. They were almost a hinder to the process, but Daddy got it together and Mommy put the mattress in and the sheets on with the help of Big Sis. And as you can see she had to get in on the pictures!!











Bean was very upset when I wouldn't let her be in the pictures at bed time. I didn't think it was fair, it was Lil Buddy's new bed and his first night in it and we needed to document him in his bed.

We have another 'Big Kid' in the family.

I've finally had it with Lil Buddy. His antics at bed time are rediculus!! I am upstairs somenights more than I am sleeping. Take last night for example.... I think I was up 5 or 6 times and really for nothing.

So without much discussion Daddy brought home a Big Boy bed for the little monster. With Deigo bedding, he was excited!! Stay tuned for pictures.

Comparison Review

Okay I know as a mom you are not suppose to compare your children. But hubby and I got to thinking about the kids. So I pulled out my folder with all of their "Watch Me Grow" papers in it and this is what I found.



At Birth
Bean: 8 lbs 7 ozs
Lil Buddy: 9 lbs 6 ozs
Lil Squirt: 8 lbs (or so we guess, that's another post)


At One Month
Bean: 11 lbs 8 ozs
Lil Buddy: 11 lbs 5 ozs
Lil Squirt: 11 lbs 14 ozs (I think, lost the slip)


At Two Months
Bean: 13 lbs 8 ozs
Lil Buddy: 12 lbs 12 ozs
Lil Squirt: 14 lbs 15 ozs

It floors me that at 2 months Lil Squirt has almost doubled his weight and with my big baby at birth Lil Buddy, the Doctor was concerned about his weight at 1 year. At the rate Lil Squirt is going I am afraid we will reach 20 lbs before 6 months.

Now lets compare pictures! Pictures are as follows: Bean, Lil Buddy, Lil Squirt.

Little Squirt is by far the smallest of the bunch, makes you wonder were the nurse thought 8 lbs 10 ozs was a correct weight. When she said that to us, it ran through my mind that there was no way this child was bigger than his sister at 8.7. Oh well we will definitely have a good story for him when he gets older.

I will have to revisit this comparison as the year goes on.

Rolling over already

So Little squirt teased me yesterday with almost rolling over from back to front. I couldn't believe he was on his way to being moble already! Gosh he's only 3 months, though I've said it already, if he's walking before 1 I won't be suprised. He will have to be to survive the other two. Today he made the roll, takes him a bit and sometimes he gets upset when he ends up back on his back. And when he does make it to his tummy, he's not quite sure what to do from there. But I do have to say atleast he doesn't scream, like big sis and bro did.

This week the kids and I have been headed out of the house by 5pm each evening to go to Vacation Bible School. This year they had a Veggie Tales theme. It's been a challenge, Bean handles most things fine. Little buddy, on the other hand is just a bit to young to be involved, but I didn't think it would be fair to him to have to sit around and not get to do what big sis is doing so I asked if it was okay to involve him in the fun. And here we are at day 5 and I will be so glad when it is over. Though the kids had fun, mom is worn out.