Matthew's Big Boy Bed

So we are the parents that had our two year old still sleeping in his crib. The pediatrician told us to switch Matthew to a regular bed once he turned 1 1/2 which I thought was too early...and up until a few months ago I still wasn't sure. I mean he wasn't trying to climb out of it or anything...he was perfectly content in his crib and so were we...it kept him in one specific spot without him being able to go anywhere. We decided it was time to give all that up and remove the crib bar and make it into his big boy bed this week since I am off and can monitor him more closely plus he was trying to put his leg over the bar and trying to climb out a few weeks ago. Day 1 and Matthew is having to adjust. He says he doesn't like his bed. It took an 1 hour for him to fall asleep during nap time and he kept getting up and crying, he had every book, stuffed animal and even shoes in the bed with him. Tonight it took him an hour and a half to finally fall asleep. He is super crooked at the moment and I'll have to go in there soon and straighten him out so he doesn't fall off but he is finally sleeping. I am hoping and praying this become easier this week! I am sure I'll blog again this week...after all I am off all week for Thanksgiving Break!!! Yay!! I am very excited about this :) it would be even better if David had some days off too but alas someone has to work :(

Pumpkin Festival Photos

This year we finally made it out to Hunsader Pumpkin Festival which is in Sarasota... it was a great day to be outside and we had lots of fun! Hopefully we will be able to do this again next year!

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Fall Photos

Okay so I slacked and I have forgotten to post photos so I will be posting some today and I need to get my mom's camera and download the rest of photos she took when we took Mattie to the Fall Festival at her church... so those may not be uploaded until Monday when I see her again! These are photos we took from our afternoon at Busch Gardens on one of our long weekends together! Enjoy!!

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Conversations with my 2 year old....

Well it has been a very busy weekend! We went to mom's church for their Fall Festival and Mattie was dressed as his favorite TV show Dino Dan! I think he looked adorable...hopefully tomorrow I can post photos of him and Jonathan in their costumes. But that is not the reason am writing... Matthew is talking so much and sometimes he comes up with, he constantly has me smiling! Today after pumping gas we were sitting at the stoplight and witnesses a small accident. He saw the truck just ram into this young woman's car. Of course he asked his favorite question "Mama what's that noise" I proceeded to explain that the truck hit the car where he responded with "is so sad...truck hit car...is okay no worries I fix car no problem!" He kept repeating that a few times. I tried to get it on camera but it was hard since I was driving.

Mattie and JJ are both under the weather with their allergies so I decided not to take them trick or treating. Instead we stayed home. I put JJ to sleep and decided to watch It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Trying to expand my child's knowledge of movies to something else other than Cars and Thomas the Train I proceeded to explain that mommy has watched this movie before and that it's a classic to which he started smiling and then with a look of realization that he had no clue what I was talking about he asks...what's a classic?...David started smirking and of course then we started laughing!

That's our boy always keeping us entertained and on our toes! Hopefully I will post photos tomorrow once David uploads them to my computer!

Until next time....

Last Weekend...

Last weekend David had off which was fantastic since he doesn't get many weekends off! It was even better since I didn't have school on Friday and he took that day off as well, so needless to say we had a great family weekend. The weather was great (for Florida) We went to Busch Gardens on Friday afternoon just for a few hours to see the animals. Matthew really wanted to see the elephants! So he had a great time just walking around with daddy looking at all the animals. On Saturday we finally went to the pumpkin festival at Hunsader Farms. It was the perfect day to go since the weather was just cool enough. It was fun.. Matthew got to ride a pony, which he was super scared to go even though David was standing right next to him... he finally warmed up to it. Some things that happened while we were there... we almost lost our very expensive brand new camera. Yep, we left it right on the ground in its bag where we ate lunch. Thank God it was still there... I mean we didn't realize we didn't have it for a bit of time! There was a circus at this festival which was good but boy was it hot. Of course this was the time that JJ was supposed to eat but I forgot to put the bottle liners in the diaper bag. Good thing he was in a happy mood and held off eating until we got to the car where I had another "normal" bottle. So it was a very eventful day!

I just wanted to catch you up before I posted photos... which will come probably on Friday when I am not so tired. Right now I am heading to bed! So good night!

What?!

I know you are shocked I am blogging again! Twice in a week...I did say I was going to try to blog more often... Not actually writing much though just posting some photos from our mini break this past September at the beach with Heather and the kids! Jonathan is 3 months old in these photos!

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Holy Cow..

Wow I didn't realize it has been this long since I have blogged... so let me catch you up a bit!
Let's start with the youngest...

Jonathan is now 4 months old! Wow time sure does fly! He is now eating cereal and seems to be sleeping a bit longer at night. He loves to laugh and speaks (in his own language of course) very loudly! :) I think he is a very good baby! Depending on JJ's mood David would agree on the good baby part although if JJ is fussy he will completely disagree!

Matthew is a very energetic 2 year old...he LOVES to talk! He will talk about absolutely anything and everything. His favorite shows at the moment are Thomas the Train, Dino Dan, Kipper, and the Cars movie. He knows the dinosaur names from the show Dino Dan which is amazing to me and David and of course we pray for all of those things plus family members every night. He loves to be read to every night and has a pile of books that are his nightly favorites! Mom teaches him tons of stuff while he is with her during the day. He really is like a sponge soaking it all in!

David is still working at Verizon...

Me, work is good. Kindergarten is an everyday adventure! The kids this year are pretty good so this year looks like it will be pretty good!

And Sadie well she is Sadie... still our crazy yet lovable blonde dog!

So I have caught you up a bit... hopefully I can keep up the blogging, even if I just post a picture I will try to post something!

Until later!