Are You Ready for Some Football?

     It's that time again... that's right, football season is back in full swing!
     This is Froggie's first football season since she and I were still in the hospital to watch last seasons Super Bowl. I'm sure that at 3 days old she got a lot out of that one football game anyway...
     With the exception of Hubby, we are a house of Steeler fans so the kids and I geared up in our football finest and waited for the game to start. I raced the kickoff to finish Froggie's tutu and I even messed around with glitter. (If you know me you know that I LOATH all things glitter! I blame working Christmas holidays at craft stores...)

Tutu in progress

     At half time during the Steelers game we took Froggie outside to do a mini photo shoot and then came back in and watched the rest of the game. Big Brother woke up from his nap during the second half of the game and snuggled with Hubby for a bit. After the game I took some more pictures of the kids while Big Brother was antsy to run around.

     After I tortured my kids with my camera we let them play outside. Hubby pushed Froggie in the swing while I let Big Brother ride his bike around. He then decided he wanted to run around in the field up the road so we ditched his bike and walked back up the street so he could run around a little more. We headed in and prepped dinner and ended our weekend with breakfast for dinner! Froggie has spent some time "contained" with her toys in the Pack and Play so that she can't eat everything she finds on the floor (I can't tell you how many times a day we take Big Brother's cars away from her). She's gotten  really good at pulling herself on the side and peeking around the room at what everyone else is doing.

     So here are today's pictures:

Even football's littlest fans need to have game day snacks

Football photo shoot 1

Football photo shoot 2

Football photo shoot 3

Football photo shoot 4

Football photo shoot 5

Football photo shoot 6

Football photo shoot 7

Football photo shoot 8

Football photo shoot 9

Check out those teeth!

checking out the great outdoors

Happy Grandparent's Day!

     Today is National Grandparent's Day. So from my munchkins to all you grandparents out there - Happy Grandparent's Day! Here is a little something from them to you:

Outtakes

     So this evening I decided I wanted to take pictures of the kids together since the weather was pretty nice and at any moment it could snow. Not really, but I feel like months of nasty weather is quickly approaching.
     I got some nice shots and I'll share those at another time; however, I thought I'd share some of the "outtakes" tonight since I laughed a little about them. My kids are pretty goofy.

Not the worst but a funny face

silly Big Brother

Hubby trying to keep the kids from eating sand!     

Adventures in Grocery Shopping

Things I had forgotten about switching from an infant carrier (carseat) to a “regular” car seat:

You seem to lose both hands to one squirmy baby

It’s nearly impossible to transfer a sleeping baby

Baby has to sit in the shopping cart or be carried

     Ok, so these really weren’t things I had forgotten but I had been living in the bliss of being able to cart Froggie around with one hand along with her blankie, binky and toys.

     Like I said, on Monday we removed Froggie’s car seat base from my car and moved her “big girl seat” in. It’s huge and purple and swallows her up but it keeps her safe. I survived going into work on Tuesday with the normal Monday armful of bedding, lunches, milk and the diaper bag. I, unwisely, thought that was the most difficult thing I had to do in the transition.

     Well, tonight we went to the grocery store…

     Big Brother decided he wanted to go in the Ergo so Hubby put him on his back and we figured Froggie would do just fine sitting in the cart. She loved it! She held on and swung her feet while she looked all around.

     This, of course, only lasted half of our shopping trip and then I ended up having to carry her. Every time I tried to put her back in the cart she cried. I don’t mind holding my Froggie though and the shopping got done regardless.

     After Big Brother went to bed Hubby baked cookies. It was an experience to say the least (he normally cooks while I do the baking) but the cookies are pretty tasty! Time for some cookies, milk and Duck Dynasty!

Checking everything out

Check out those swinging feet!

How Froggie slept this morning, just because it's cute

Late Summer Heat Wave

     It's hot... again... I get pretty irritable when it's hot and so do the kids. So todays solution was a mid-afternoon water break. After stopping at a local produce stand we filled up the little pool with water and splashed around for a little while.

Our loot from the produce stand!

     At first Big Brother said he didn't want to get in, but after seeing Froggie splash around he asked me to put his swim trunks on. Since Froggie was already in the water and he was wearing gym shorts I just took his shirt off and sent him in.  Froggie sat up on her own and did a great job even though Big Brother kept dumping cups of water on her head.

     After our pool time we prepped our string beans and made dinner. This was followed by our bath time routine and a movie before bed so that no one was moving around too much. Tomorrow is going to be another hot one so we'll see what's on the agenda.

Splashing Froggie

After he decided to get in

Peaceful bathing for Froggie

One of many cups of water over Froggie's head. 

Hi everybody!

National Dog Day

     Apparently today is National Dog Day. We love our "fur babies" and they have moved around with us several times. When Big Brother was 6 months old we posed him with our dogs and took a picture of our three kids. We decided to try a similar picture with Froggie. So here are some pictures of our kids!

Big Brother with Jasper and Maya (6 months old)

Froggie and the pups

She loves them

Froggie and Jasper

Smiley Froggie!

Bumps, Bruises and Boys!

     Hubby and I are convinced we will be headed to the ER before Big Brother turns 5... I swear he spends more time getting up and brushing himself off than anything (except maybe falling down). He ran halfway home on our walk to and from the ice cream stand and managed to trip and fall into the coffee table 5 minutes before bed!

He LOVES to run!

The bump

Our trusty Spiderman ice pack!

     After some ice, checking his pupils and some observation time (as well as some extra snuggling and kisses) Big Brother was able to go to bed. He'll probably have a lump for a few days but this is definitely not his first bump and I'm 100% positive it will not be his last.

     Froggie has become pretty attached to her froggy wubbanub and she likes to hold its hands while she sucks on the binky, if she's not chewing on its feet! Froggie also sported her hand-me-down UNC shirt today and I had to post it for all to know - well some to know, and they know who they are...

Loving her Frog

UNC!

All Good (and Fun) Things Must Come to an End

     We dragged our feet again this morning... Hopefully tomorrow morning wont be so difficult! Once we were up and moving and got some things done we decided to head up to the mall to check out their superhero meet and greet. We forgot about it yesterday and missed Spiderman but we got to go see Thor today. Big Brother was pretty scared/shy at first and instead of just a picture of he and Thor the whole family got in on it cause he didn't want to go unless I held him.

The family with Thor!

     The picture turned out surprisingly decent and "Thor" was very nice and understanding - he even offered to give Big Brother a high five to make him less scary, though Big Brother didn't want to.
     We were pretty bummed that the play area was overrun by kids who were clearly unattended and older than the intended audience, so we opted to go to the zoo. Big Brother was pretty bummed about it too until we reminded him there was a place to play in the zoo. We ran into some of our friends on the way out of the mall and chatted for a bit while Big Brother continued to be shy.
     Once we got to the zoo Big Brother had a blast! I'm pretty sure he knows the zoo like the back of his hand and he led us around to all the places he wanted to go, including the play area.

Big Brother on his lilypad

Checking out the alligator

Froggie and the frogs

She liked them!

The kids in the play area

Our attempt at a picture of the kids

comfy Froggie

Froggie likes the zoo

Big Brother and a lemur

   

Beach Babe

    Today was a little slow going and it seemed to be the general consensus that everyone was pretty tired. After Big Brother's nap time we took a walk down the road to hang out at the beach. The water was pretty cold but we took our bag of sand toys for some play time before grocery shopping. Big Brother and Hubby made some sand creatures and put their feet in the water while Froggie seemed happy to sit in the sand. She stood at the edge of the water for a few minutes too but the water was pretty cold.

Sandy toes

Happy Froggie

I'm #1!

My little family

Hubby and Big Brother

Sand toys

She eats EVERYTHING!