My Madness as a Stay at Home Mom

My Madness as a Stay at Home Mom

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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

001Brynn riding Kobe the bull. He’s doesn’t make for a very rowdy bull003She lasted the entire 8 seconds

012Brynn isn’t big enough to get to match but soon she will be.

014obviously 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.

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037The show039At 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.

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069Brynn’s gansta lean071Sisterly love072077Notice 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.081Playing in the jumperoo for the first time

085big smile!086090095098100101104We have the exact same picture of Reese, it’s scary how much they look alike (these are both Brynn)

106121She prefers to chew her hands. We live in Drool City right now.

126Reese 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

134135137138Figured he needed to feel the love too

140142Brynn started getting rice cereal this week…

146Like most kids when they first start out more ends up on her bib than in her mouth.149and 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.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

A Christmas Morning post…

001On most days Reese will ask me if she can play dress-up. I of course have no issues with that. On this day she was an Olympic Gymnast…and you can see she has a great pose for it as well

00450 degrees but she’s in flip flops, gloves, a beach cover up and her 18 month old winter coat

019Christmas program at school

026029032reading books to Brynn034037039Winter dance recital042more books044My dog loves me…and I am STILL tired

046B…dressed and ready for bed

049Dopey the Elf played Candy Land with Marie, Woody and Sleeping Beauty051Oma Schubert and Brynn056Reese and her bear paws

059Reese and Brynn with a big smile

061067I can’t get enough of the girls in their cute dresses.

073Family pic take one…Thurman pointing our we forgot about him076That’s more like it

078082Christmas…we were subdued this year in gift giving

085086Rocking out on the guitar with her roller-skates on. She has had them on ALL day

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Friday, December 9, 2011

Catch up

007So happy

025silly Reese026032Brynn LOVES watching her big sister

044IMG_8192this is Reese

056This is Brynn. NO neck, just chunk

058our pilgrims060Reese and her Thanksgiving feast

0670069it’s official I am 31

078Beefcake didn’t fit in the Thanksgiving Day shirt Reese wore…as you can see we couldn’t snap the bottom

We headed to College Station for the last game against t.u. Reese had a blast tailgating and seeing where she was born and the first house she lived in. Such great memories from College Station and it’s crazy how much it has changed.

084Brynn’s first tailgate086Our “classy” family pic089Thought this was cute092094Ryan and his friend Jess with their daughters. Tatum and Brynn are 9 days apart so we hope that when they head off to Aggieland together they don’t follow in their father’s foot steps. Otherwise we’re in trouble

097Reese’s favorite new pastime…playing computer games105Brynn is 2 months…I am behind because now she’s 3 months!

110Our Christmas Tree…with Reese and her diva face

111Me and my girls

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