Our Morning Routine

In the mornings, it is definitely pretty hectic!  Everyone up and dressed and eating breakfast and practicing sight words and making it to the bus stop before the bus comes.  Whew!  Oh, and me getting ready and eating breakfast and making lunches...forgot that part.  All that after feeding Ryan and pumping.  Sheesh!  No wonder I'm tired before we even leave the house!

 

Lately, after we get Katie on the bus and off to school, we have been walking to the entrance of our neighborhood (not far from our house) to wave at and see the trucks, cars, buses, etc.  Jack is all about transportation and absolutely loves to wave hello to them!  And lately the bus drivers have all waved back to him - and some even honk the horn for him!  It is free entertainment and he absolutely loves it!

 

Once we leave the entrance, we go on a walk so I can get some exercise in.  On days Jack is home, we walk on the trails in the neighborhood.  On days he goes to MDO, we just do the loop of our street.  Regardless, it is great to get fresh air and move around some that early!  We may not do it as often once it gets cold, but for now, it is so fun!  I love seeing the smile on Jack's face as he points out dumptrucks and mixer trucks and yellow school buses and cars and teeny trucks.

 

Here he is waving to the bus!  We also practice colors of the cars and numbers by counting how many of something we see!

Here we are on our walk!  Ryan enjoys the walks too - he always looks around...and eventually falls asleep!

I am loving all the fall colors on the walks lately.  This is one of the paths we walk on...isn't it beautiful!?

And I love the fall colors on the trees up against the blue sky.  Absolutely stunning.

While I can't wait to get back to Tae Bo and running, I love our routine in the mornings!  And it has helped me meet more neighbors (some have stopped to ask why we sit there, while others smile and wave)!

 

 

Mornings, Haircuts, Reflections, + Sippy Cups

I love when both kids are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in the mornings.  That means they have slept well the night before!  Katie loves to play with Jack on our bed in the morning - it is one of those sweet moments of the day!  I know Katie is a blur in this picture, but I love it - it really does sum up how happy and active they are in the mornings :)

I've been saying for quite some time that I needed to get Katie's hair trimmed.  She will be 4 the end of April and had only had one haircut ever!  Her hair was getting stringy looking and blah.  So, after I picked her up from school on Tuesday, we headed to Divas & Dudes to get her second haircut.  She was excited and did great.  And good gracious - doesn't it look SO much better?!  

And doesn't she look so much older?!  I don't think I can handle that.  Between the haircut, her height, and her sassiness - I have to keep reminding myself that she is only 3!

And on Wednesday, I took Jack to the doctor to make sure he is a-okay!  He had been waking up a lot at night recently, so I wanted to make sure his ears were good to go and see if the doctor had any suggestions. Her recommendation?  Cry it out.  I was prepared for that - but that is why I wanted to make sure there were no other issues.  And actually he has done better the last couple of nights!  We are going to try to get him down earlier so he isn't overly tired at bedtime.  And we will try feeding him cereal - so that will be cereal 3x per day.  As if we needed another meal added - ha! But at night - it is cry it out time.  Oh, and there should be some teeth happening soon...I am sure that has something to do with the waking up.  That and maybe a growth spurt.  But he was such a happy little guy at his appointment - he loved the mirror!

We have also started trying to do better about the sippy cup!  I know we introduced it to Katie at a very young age just so she was familiar with it - and I really think that is the main reason we had no issue going from bottle to sippy cup!  And I think Jack is figuring it out...he definitely likes to chew on it, but I think he has figured out that there is something in there that does, indeed, come out.  Here he is this morning with his cup!

And then Katie wanted to help him - such a sweet big sister! 

*please excuse all of these pictures...they were all from my phone! :)