Crazy Week!

We've had one of those C-R-A-Z-Y weeks...the kind of week that even a weekend doesn't help you recover from.  Thankfully, this next week looks calm and quiet.  We ate brunch at Spoons this morning...my two boys enjoying our time :).

The Nap Mat

Smith is sooooooo excited about starting preschool in the fall.  He asks me almost daily if it's "fall-time" yet?  Yesterday, we went and picked up his very own nap mat.  This kid was so excited!!  I told him we were running a few errands and that the nap mat was last on our list.  He must have asked me a dozen times if it was time to go get it.  Sweet boy wanted his nap mat!

We barely got in the door yesterday before he opened his up right in the hallway.  Kensington ran to her room to get hers too.

Napping in the hallway :)

He feels so big!

She was having fun too!

Later, I found him watching Mickey Mouse with his nap mat in the play room.  He also put it in his bed while he napped.  If you know Smith, you know that this kid loooooooooves his naps (he takes a 4 hour nap every day...yes, 4 hours!), so it's no surprise to me that his favorite part of getting ready for school is the nap mat.

My heart is in the same place as Smith's...is it fall time yet?



Cribs Be Gone

Ohhh...remember waaaaay back when...4 years ago when I posted this about our new baby's nursery?  I was 8 months pregnant and didn't know the gender of my sweet little baby but I had a room ready.  When we found out it was a girl, we added some girl touches...then 16 short months later, we had our boy and moved the girl to the room next door, took down all of the girl touches and added some boy touches.  Now...we have a big girl and a big boy.  At one point, we had two cribs but now we have none.  Kensington (the over-achiever that she is) moved into a big girl bed when she was only 19 months old but sweet Smith stayed in his crib a little (ok, a lot) longer.  Well, last weekend, he begged and we finally decided to take down the chandelier and upgrade his room into a big boy room.  Bye-bye crib...hello big boy stuff.

This is where the crib used to be...now we have some great organizers for all of his boy stuff and his dad's Big XII Championship jersey framed. 

We have some boy accessories (come on...you know Lovie wasn't going to let us not have accessories...that's what happens when your grandma is a fabulous interior designer!).

We kept the window treatments but upgraded with a Fenway Park sign I bought in Boston.

We took down some baby stuff on the wall and added some subway art.

Since Mama got the Fenway Park sign, Daddy got the Yankee pillow to go with his new bedding.

But of course, there are Red Sox logos on the MLB sheets :).

Big boy bed!

We have one of Daddy's Detroit Lion footballs and some golf stuff on his shelf.  Remember Smith's First Par-Tee?

Or what about Smith's Ski Lodge?

And since we're discussing rooms today, I thought I'd share Kensington's room too.  This is where my big girl sleeps.

The shelf in her room...remember Kensington's Cider Mill?

And Kensington's Tangled Up Birthday...

Boy...my kids are growing up fast.  I used to be a mom of two babies, now I'm a mom of two big kids.  I wouldn't trade it for the world.  Love them!



Swanky

My sweet friend and fabulous photographer Narci D asked me if she could use Kensington as her model for a contest hosted by the clothing line Swanky Baby Vintage. She said she needed a brown haired, blue eyed, size 3T girl and that so happens to perfectly describe Miss K.  Well, well, well...the pictures were soooooo good!  So good in fact, that I asked sweet Narci to photograph Smith as well. 

 The funny part about the photography contest was that there were 19 models and people were to vote on Face Book for their favorite.  I noticed that K was #6 out of 19 models, so I called Narci and asked her how important it was for her photo to win...I could tell that it was pretty important, so I told her I would make it happen.  What did this savvy mama do to ensure that her daughter's picture won the contest?  Well, I called my little brother of course, and had him tweet it out to all of his "friends".  Thirty-five minutes later, K was in first place....by a mile.  So thanks to Uncle Seanie, we won the contest.  Gotta love an uncle with a lot of friends who will happily help.  Thank you Narci D Photography!

Love!

Smith goes to the ER

On Sunday night, Smith woke up from his nap with a fever and complaining of head and neck pains.  I called our good friends the Smiths (who are both in medicine) and asked them what to do...Sarah told me to bring Smith to her house for a quick temp check and exam.  (We joke that the Smiths should charge a co-pay at their front door because it's a revolving door of our friends and their kids with medical problems!)  Anyway, Sarah called her hubs who was luckily working in the ER that night and he said for me to bring Smith in.

Side note: I am not a "take your kid to the doctor for every little thing parent".  To a fault, I am not!  Kensington walked around with a broken arm for SIX DAYS before I took her to the emergency room.  Sheaffer swears Smith had bronchitis last winter but I never took him in.  I'm just not a medical worrier...if you met my mother, you would understand.  We had to be bleeding from the eyeballs to get medical attention growing up :).

But lucky Smith, got to visit the ER...

...and he had the BEST TIME EVER!   This is him showing me his 4 stickers he received.  He also got a green Popsicle, to meet 3 firemen, 1 police officer, 2 doctors, a nurse, got to watch the Lion King in his own private room and stay up way past his bedtime.  He loved it!  He was fine by the way...they wanted to make sure he didn't have meningitis (because of the head/neck complaining) but he just had a mild ear infection.  By the time Dicky came to check on him, Smith had already received a second round of Tylenol and was practically swinging from the rafters in his little room.  He has already asked to go back to the ER several times.

I took two other really cute pics of his smiling face but Blogger isn't publishing them and I'm tired of messing with it...just imagine his cute face :).

Thank you Sarah and Dicky for first of all, always taking care of our sweet kiddos and second of all, for giving Smith the time of his life.



Baby Loves

 

 

My baby loves.

Smith's First Haircut (what?!)

What?  Smith is almost 3, how is it his first haircut?  Well...it's his first professional haircut.  Here's the deal...Andrew started cutting Smith's hair when he was 3 months old.  We thought it was too much trouble to take a 3 month old to get a haircut, so Andrew just did it himself...and kept doing it himself until this week.  Finally, Andrew was like enough already with the giant mess and instead, took him for a man-date to get a haircut. 

 

Waiting for his turn at the guy salon (barber?  What do I call it?)

 

He's seriously ready for this haircut.

 

 

 

 

Lookin' good!

 

Perfection!  Blue eyes, dimples, killer hair...he looks kind of like someone I know...someone who is on reality TV...who am I thinking of...