Pictures from my phone

I figured that I would finally post some pictures from my phone since that is where so many pictures are snapped, simply because it’s with me all the time. So here are a few from the past few weeks.

Reese went to work with Ryan one day and they sent me this pic. So sweet!

Kickball shoes onBrynn sleeping in Kingwood

one tired girl after a weekend in Kingwood…she’s OUTShe’s a wacky kid…

Swinging  on the monkey bars at the park

little sister wearing Crocs

After Stroller Strides on Wednesday the kids got out of their strollers and Reese started leading them in a workout. She used many of the exercises we did in class that morning and all the kiddos participated with her. It was all on their own doing and was the cutest thing. I guess I should hire her when I need a sub to cover for me when I can’t teach. She’s pretty dang good at it.

bear crawls! (Reese is in the red)

crunches!

The best I could do

Since I spent the entire last week in a fog of sinus pain, coughing and crazy congestion I didn’t take as many pictures as I would have liked. As stated before when you are a stay at home Mom and you get sick, it’s pretty much the worst thing that can happen. I am lucky we survived…I had to call my lifeline for help a few times and request that Ryan come home from work so that I could go to bed. Yes it was that ugly in our house. I even bribed Reese to watch TV in my bed most days Brynn was napping so I could sleep even more. It was so bad I even broke down and went to the doctor (I hadn’t been to my reg doctor since 2010). My sinus cavities are still slightly screwed up and I haven’t had the sense of smell for 2 weeks. It’s the sickest I have been for that long since I was in elementary school.

I have nothing to show from Valentine’s Day as that was one of the days I called Ryan at 4 and asked him to come home. I was in bed by 5.

Sunday Funday…we attempted a picture with our three “children” on the sofa. Thurman is too obsessed with being in the center of the picture to sit down so Ryan had to hold him down.Pile on Brynn

Brynn in her Valentine’s Day pj’s (6 days late) Reese wore the same ones…they are so sweet with their little fuzzy wings on the back. I love them!

She’s not crying as much as she is talking VERY loudly. The volume in our house is crazy. Most night it’s Reese singing and dancing and Brynn attempting to talk over her. When I was younger my Mom used to tell me how she couldn’t handle the volume in the house. Tonight I told Ryan I now know exactly what she was talking about. Between the 3 girls Ryan lives with, he should invest in hearing aides now!Sister pose. Brynn looks terrified. Trust me I would be too, Reese is nuts with her.

As mentioned before Reese LOVES singing and dancing and putting on shows. It’s non stop in our house. She just makes up songs and dances and is constantly playing pretend. Brynn LOVES watching her. She will stand up (her preferred position of choice) and watch Reese and never bat an eye lash. The dog is about the only thing that will break her attention. I can prop her up on the pillow like so and she’ll watch Reese and smile as long as I leave her there (I sit next to her of course). See aforementioned wings…how sweet are those?

Contently watching Big Sister

She spotted me taking her picture and of course shot me a BIG smile.

Reese is all signed up and practicing for kickball so I am sure in the coming weeks we’ll have some pictures of that…

Sooner or later I will get better at this

Sorry it’s been so long since I posted pictures. I know you all wish I was better at it. It’s been business as usual around here. Once the evenings roll around things get pretty busy in a hurry (the daytime isn’t much better). Since my last post of pictures Leslie came in for a weekend visit, Reese has been sick twice, Ryan was sicker once, Brynn is getting much bigger, and Ryan went to Mexico for the week. Not a lot of excitement but enough to throw your regular schedule.

Leslie came in for the weekend back in January and as always we had a great time. We cooked smores outside over the fire pit she got us many years ago for Christmas. It was super fun and we will for sure be doing that again. We also did a quick charity walk in the morning and hung out at the house the rest of the time. Leslie also got Ryan to help clean out the garage and he even threw 2 things away….that is HUGE for Ryan. Every things else that should have been thrown away has been squirreled away in the storage shed, because he can’t part with things. Had Leslie not been here to be rational with him the garage would still be a huge mess. Thanks Leslie.

Reese gave Ryan the 24 hour bug a view weeks ago and in the course of one weekend both she (not as bad as Ryan) and Ryan were infecting the entire house. I have never sprayed so much Lysol in my house as I did that weekend. Ryan was the sickest I have ever seen him, but like any man, didn’t think he was sick so he just laid on the couch in the middle of the house. I kept myself and Brynn as far away from the action as possible, I knew I couldn’t get sick or have her sick, because as all you other stay at home Moms know…we DON’T get sick days. Thank goodness I avoided the bug.

A week later Ryan headed off to Mexico and the girls and I had our first week alone without Ryan since Brynn arrived. We’d been alone a few nights here and there but not a whole week. I have military friends who do it for months, they must have more patience than I do. Ryan left Monday, Reese got sick Tuesday, was sick still Wednesday but was feeling much better Thursday morning. I shipped her off to school hoping for a day to get my work and chores done. WRONG…I picked her up from school at 10 after she puked and we headed back home. It must have been a fluke puke because she ran around like a chicken without a head for the rest of the day. By Friday Brynn and I were not as lucky, since then we have both had a horrifying cough (thanks Reese) and crazy congestion. I can handle it but I feel terrible for Brynn, and as I always say “Moms don’t get sick days”, never mind find time to go to the doctor.

The week without Ryan was pretty easy because I am a firm believer in not over exerting myself to cook dinner when it’s just Reese and I. The first night he was gone we had waffles, the second she was kind of sick so she didn’t eat much and the last two nights she had mac-n-cheese and I had frozen dinners. I thought it worked out great because we were not rushed at night getting everyone fed and in bed. We can do things a lot earlier when Ryan is not home. Reese and I had a great week together but 5 days seems to be the limit, because by Friday Reese was over being home with just me and was a crazed beast…Friday I considered putting myself in time out.

 

Brynn at our charity walk

Brynn @ 4 months

She rolled over once but I didn’t have the camera near by. After the one time she hasn’t done it again but is very close. Reese was the same way. She can roll from belly to back but is still stuck from back to belly.

Brynn’s rapper look

Such a happy girl!

Daily Antics

I think am should rename this blog “How I slowly drive my mother nuts: daily chaos by Reese”

Last week she was crying in bed because Maddax  wasn’t coming to marry her in the park (all while she’s wearing her bridesmaid dress)….and that the cake she had Ryan “order” wasn’t being delivered.

Yesterday I was about to hop in the shower, Reese was doing puzzles quietly in the kitchen and I thought to myself “It’s so nice that she can be trusted to quietly play alone while I’m in the shower”…I came out to find her standing on her chair “washing dishes”

Today while I was vacuuming, Reese saw an opportunity. I should start by saying Reese has a slight obsession with hand lotion, she LOVES putting on lotion. For this reason I rarely buy it. It’s just an accident waiting to happen. Most times she puts too much on her hands and I find the rest in my sink slowly going down the drain. I got some for Christmas and its been taunting her since. I keep it high up, she finds a way to get it. She’s too smart for her own good. So today while vacuuming she closed my bedroom door claiming the vacuum was bothering her. I should have known better but she was watching TV so I believed her. I finished and discovered said bedroom door to be locked. When I asked her to unlock the door she tells me “I can’t I have too much lotion on my hands.” Ryan and I were not at all surprised by this. The smell coming from my room would lead me to believe she bathed in it. Good ole Reese, my days would be sooooooo dull without her.

I will post pictures later, Reese is foaming at the mouth for me to let her out the door so she can get the mail.

Sit back and get some popcorn

As I uploaded pictures tonight I realized that I haven’t uploaded since Christmas. I should also point out that I am foregoing my usual routine of watching mindless crap on TV after the girls go to bed in order to get this blog post up. Mindless crap is how I regroup for the next day, that and falling asleep on the couch at 9 pm. Celebrity Wife Swap is a pretty good show.

We’ve been pretty busy around here, using the couch to hold all clean laundry, not mopping the floors, but playing with baby sister, learning letters, playing games, and other important things. You’d know it from the dried play dough under my left kitchen chair. We’re busy with little girls.

So back in December we headed to Kingwood for Christmas with Meme, Grampy, Leslie, Sean, Nana and Grandma. As always the girls got matching pj’s

Brynn riding Kobe the bull. He’s doesn’t make for a very rowdy bullShe lasted the entire 8 seconds

Brynn isn’t big enough to get to match but soon she will be.

obviously a reject…hi Dad

Last summer Reese found out Phineas and Ferb (a show she watches on Disney) was coming to Corpus for a LIVE show. Naturally she begged to go and decided it would be the perfect time for Daddy Daughter Date. Ryan agreed back in August sometime that it was a date. Then they announced that the Aggie’s made a bowl game and that time for the show and bowl game were at the same time. I was stunned that he skipped watching the game on TV to see the show. He taped the game but that’s a whole story itself. Here they are before heading off for their date.

The showAt intermission they had a dancer from the show come down and meet kids. Ryan said they got in line, and each kid smiled, snapped a pic and moved on. Until they got to Reese. He said that the dancer just talked and talked to her, to the point he was embarrassed that they spoke so long, because he was getting the stink eye from other people. After they chatted the line went back to snap and pic and go.

Brynn’s gansta leanSisterly loveNotice Brynn already knows how to lean away from Reese. I think the phrase “Reese stop laying on your sister” is used 200 times a day.Playing in the jumperoo for the first time

big smile!We have the exact same picture of Reese, it’s scary how much they look alike (these are both Brynn)

She prefers to chew her hands. We live in Drool City right now.

Reese had cowboy/cowgirl day at school. She wore the vest that Grandpa got me when I was about her age. I swear when you ask her to take her picture she goes right into model pose. I have to ask her to pose “regular” if we want a real picture. She’s entirely too much sometimes

Figured he needed to feel the love too

Brynn started getting rice cereal this week…

Like most kids when they first start out more ends up on her bib than in her mouth.and of course BIG sister had to help.

Reese was jumping around for Brynn yesterday and Brynn was cracking up. Just laughing at Reese, then Reese would run away and Brynn would look for her. When Reese would pop her head back around the corner Brynn would squeal. It was so cute, you obviously don’t get any pictures because I only have some many hands but like I said we’re super busy at the house lately doing fun things like that.

So if you happen to pop in, never mind that there is still a cardboard box containing my Christmas decorations in the living room, and baby toys ALL over the floor, just know we’re real busy making memories.