What's going on?

I haven't updated in a while...we've been BUSY.  It's literally been crazy around here and I haven't gotten my camera out in weeks it seems. Luckily, I take a lot of pictures with my phone, so I do have some record of what we've been doing. 

I have been CHASING a certain little monkey around.   This little guy is constantly climbing onto furniture or getting into something mischievous.  I spend 80% of my day removing him from dangerous situations. 

Last Sunday I took both kids to church by myself.  Uncle Justin was playing his guitar in our worship service, so I thought it would be fun to bring Hannah with me to worship.  She really liked it....for a little while.  Then she was pretty much done and being disruptive, so we watched the remainder of the sermon from the foyer of the church.  This made me hold firm to the belief that we have a nursery for a good reason and people should take advantage of that. I loved seeing Hannah clap her hands and dance, though.

This week we emptied the water from our water table and replaced with rice.  Aunt Jenn has a rice table at her house and my kids love it, so we decided to try it for something new.  Apparently playing with the rice from outside the table was not good enough, so both my little monkeys decided to climb into it...and Ethan apparently enjoyed eating a few bites of raw rice.

(Notice Hannah is in her nightgown - I wasn't kidding in my earlier post when I said ANYTIME we are at home she is in her jammies).

We spent some time at my sisters house this week and Ethan loves the playhouse that is at their house...and of course he climbed on the chair and peeked out the window and he looked so  big and so cute.

And lastly, a few weeks ago we went to Chuck E. Cheese with a few friends.  We had a lot of fun, but trying to keep up with 2 kids in that crazy place is hard. You can't turn your back for a second...

We have had a very fun, busy summer. We are looking forward to spending some time at the beach next week, so that probably means you won't hear from me for a while again! But, I'll have some GREAT beach pictures when we return!

Swim lesson success

To be honest (as mentioned in my previous post), I haven't been crazy about the idea of putting Hannah in an intense swim course this year. I just feel like she's too young to REALLY need to know how to swim.  We don't have a pool and she's really only around a pool when we are at my parents house, which is only a few times a year.  But, after seeing my nephew's abilities after a week of private lessons, I decided to give it a shot and take the risk of Hannah never trusting me again - ha! I'm SO GLAD we did it! Below is a video of her today, after just 5 lessons. 

I absolutely loved Hannah's teacher.  She's been doing lessons for 9 years and she was just so nice and so good with Hannah. She didn't take an aggressive approach and just pushed Hannah as far as she would go, but not too far.  

I'm so proud of my little mermaid! 

Adventures

This past weekend we headed to Houston to visit Wesley's grandparents and parents.  We had  a good visit and as always, it was fast paced and I got no pictures!  Wes had to stay in Houston to work all week, so me and the kids headed to Granna's house for the week. I knew it was a long shot, but I decided to try to get Hannah in to a really intense swim instructor here.  She actually had a cancellation and to be honest, my heart kinda sunk when she said she could take Hannah. I've heard stories about these swim "natzi" people and it terrifies me to think that they would throw my child in the water and it would be a game of sink or swim.  Well, it was NOTHING like that and Hannah did sooooo well!  We got her a prize after swim lessons...a purple slush.

Hannah was SOOO proud of herself, and we were too! I peeked through the fence a couple of times and she was swimming under water and kicking her feet so well.  I asked her teacher how she did today and she said that Hannah almost got across the width of the pool under water the whole way! WOW! I was soooo shocked that she accomplished that on day 1!  She even went to the bottom of the pool and got toys from the ground. Totally amazing! I'm so glad Wes pushed me to put her in if this girl had an opening. With just 1 day behind us, it's been worth it so far.

And swimming (and no nap) makes for one really, really tired little girl.

Here's to hoping day 2 is just as successful! 

Hannah Happenings

It seems like we've been really busy lately, but I don't really have a ton of pictures evidencing that. Maybe we've been too busy to take pictures. Some things happening around here lately with Hannah are....

Hannah is obsessed with pajamas, specifically night gowns.  She is ALWAYS in a nightgown and it's a struggle every day to convince her that we have to get dressed to go in public.  The second we get home, she's back in a night gown.  I can't say I blame her. I love pajamas, too!

We've been playing with LOTS of glue around here.  Glue is by far Hannah's favorite thing to do right now. (Notice the massive amounts of glue on her paper - and of course, she's in her night gown)

The past couple of weeks Hannah's afternoon naps have been hit or miss.  We bought a clock that glows green when she's allowed to come out of her room.  I usually set it for 1.5 hours and she does pretty good not coming out until it's glowing.  However, last Sunday we set it and Wes and I went to take naps ourselves.  I  accidentally set the alarm on her clock instead of just the light, so Wes got up to turn the alarm off and Hannah was not in her room.  Wes found her in the kitchen sitting down painting her nails! He said when she saw him she just froze like "I know I'm not supposed to be doing this by myself!" Wes just laughed, and was actually really surprised at how well Hannah painted her own nails!

Our friends gave us this great  kid picnic table that they weren't using.  Wes was putting it together one evening and Hannah was so excited to be able to help. Hannah was so proud to be able to push the button on the drill all by herself.  She loves helping daddy and I'm so glad Wes lets her be so involved in his shop. 

And lastly, I thought this was so funny.  This is how I feel some days...

Some days are tough with two little ones. They keep me on my toes and now with one not napping so well anymore, I'm constantly busy.  Our house has take a turn for the worse and I'm not always on top of the laundry and dishes, but I know this is just a season.

  I'm also hoping the days of obsessing over night gowns and not wanting bows in our hair will pass, too and that Hannah may actually look presentable to the public again soon.  Until then, we will be doing lots of snuggling (and not napping) on the couch in our jammies.