Brotherly Love

Oh my boys, how I love how close you are already! I can't believe that you make each other laugh. Hayden you look out for Ethan and hate to hear him cry. When he does cry you try to make him laugh. Ethan loves for you to make silly faces at him. He looks for you all the time and likes for you to wake him up in the morning. I just know in the next year y'all will have wild loud chaos throughout the house and I love it. I love to hear the belly laughs and the sounds that little feet make. Boys stay close and keep a kind and gently heart towards one another.

Five

I hate this month...I am so sad about all of the changes this month brings. My two boys both will be turning five..Ethan is 5 months today and Hayden will be 5 years in 11 days. Sadness and wanting to hold on to every little moment is constantly going through my head. Today at dinner, I told David all this and his response was things are changing but always for the good. No, this is not good, this is terrible I don't want them to grow up I want to keep them small and under my "wings". I don't even want to think about the future because things will be different. There will come a time very soon that Hayden won't give me kisses, or tell me about his day, or make me laugh so hard that I cry, or when I look at him I see myself in his smile, or the relationship and closeness we built will be gone. (I can remember David telling (joking with him) that I was going to go to a training for the weekend and he would have to stay with him and Hayden was crying because he didn't want me to go). My boys are my world and have me on my toes at times but I wouldn't change anything for a single moment.

Now on to Ethan.

At five months he weighs 18 pounds. Has big belly that sometimes onesizes can be to tight! He wears size three diapers and is still wearing 6-9 months clothes. I say another month or two then he will need bigger clothes. He loves to play on the floor and likes for you to fan him. He is still sleeping through the night. He got his first tooth last week on the first and about 3 weeks ago he discovered his thumb, one of my favorites right now! He every now and then he realizes I am gone and starts to cry. He is in awe of David. At dinner time we will stare at David the whole time, watching every move that he makes. He loves Hayden and they just laugh back and forth...so cute!

Enjoy the pics...tomorrow brotherly love!

Mini Van Mom

A few weeks ago David and I bought a car. We had been car searching because my car was too small for the four of us. When David would drive Hayden would have to squeeze behind David to get to his car seat. So we started searching online and narrowed down our choices, we were convinced it was going to be a suburban or a yukon XL. Anything smaller then that wouldn't allow me to fit a full size stroller in the back without putting the seat down which would defeat the whole purpose of a bigger car. So after figuring out what we needed space wise then we were set. So we went shopping...jokingly on the way there David had mentioned us getting a van...I was dead set against it. We looked and tried out EVERY SUV you could imagine, we tried moving the seats and putting Ethan in the very back or whatever to get his car seat to fit somewhere leaving room for Hayden to get by, nothing worked. I then told David this is so aggravating not finding anything that will work. I just don't want to settle for something that will be okay... I said okay fine lets go look at the vans. Man, I was so impressed. I loved all the room and like how I could put the stroller in the back and have room for groceries. I like how the middle row had bucket seats so they could move back to make room for Ethan and Hayden. So we ended up picking out a van with all the bells and whistles. I mean fancy...after having it for awhile I am still figuring things out . Hayden loves the DVD player, I think when we go on vacation I will too! There is two screens so you can watch two different movies at the same time. The middle row has heated seats...not sure how often we will use them but pretty nice. It has navigation, backup camera (a must for me), voice activated stuff, (I can use tell it to call people or change radio stations with it, you can even use it for navigation but I haven't figured that out), the pedals move, remote start,  and everything opens when you click it on the remote (I use it all the time when I am carrying Ethan). Needless to say we are totally loving the van... definitely not my first choice but oh so roomy and fancy.