Life

Life...is holding this sweet little baby and dodging his spit up.  We both go through about 3 changes of clothes per day.  Notice the pile on his shoulder.

Life...is a balancing act.  I'm a multitasking machine and have mastered many chores with one hand while holding a wiggly wobbly headed baby in the other.

Life...is this sad little face being told that no, we won't be seeing Josh Brown today because he lives in Dallas, and no we won't be going to the beach until the end of August.  "In a few minutes, Mommy?" No...several weeks, Will.  Sigh.  He just doesn't understand time or the fact that people live in other cities.  He has dissolved into tears on numerous occasions because I have to break the news to him that Josh is not coming to our house just because he wants him to.

Life...is trying to stay cool in this summer heat.  We visited a cool pool out in Pflugerville recently that boasts two big slides, a little lazy river and a nice area for the little guy.  Will went down this slide no less than 50 times in a row.

We picnic lunched it and had a great time.  Little John snoozed in his car seat the entire time.  I actually got to swim!

Life...is frequenting the sno cone stand at the end of the street as often as I can find an occasion.  They really are tasty.

Life...is watching these two boys play, and play, and play together.  They've gotten pretty close this summer and really enjoy being silly together...especially at the dinner table.  So, I have to remind them of this sweetness when they are arguing over possession of prized Hot Wheels cars for the 500th time.  My darling husband loves to bring home Hot Wheels that he sells at his Walgreens, and then I have to deal with the arguments over them when he leaves for work.  Because whatever new cars are given are the ones they both want to play with the most.  And we have a huge bucket full of cars.  It's kind of ridiculous.  If it wasn't for the fact that Steven loves finding cool cars as much as the boys love to receive them and play with them, I would tell him to stop "surprising" them with them.  The backlash is not fun.

Life...is trying to keep these guys entertained.  Everyday I hear, "Mom, what are we doing today?" or "Is this all we're doing today?"  Like I'm some sort of cruise director lining up fun activities for them everyday.  One week, we went to an indoor bouncy house place, a splash park and an indoor trampoline park.  It was pretty awesome.

Life...is spending time with our friends.  These kids are still crazy about each other.
We took them to the trampoline park and followed it up with lunch at none other than Chick-Fil-A.  Everyone was pleased.

Life...is keeping Will from smothering Johnathan.  It's not out of dislike for the baby, in fact, Will is totally in love with him.  He loves to lay on him, snuggle up close to him, get right in his face, and his favorite of all is to smell him.  All day you'll hear me saying, "Will, get off your brother!!"  He retorts with, "but Mommy, I'm just smelling him!"  So weird.  Will loves his baby brother.

Life...is staring at this sweet little face everyday.  It's still hard to believe that he is mine.  And we've had him now for 2 months!  Crazy.

Life...is a house FULL of boys.  And I love it!