We braved the heat and humidity last week to go out to the park. After sweating it out for 30 minutes at 10 in the morning (there was a heat index of 110 that day!), I decided to call it quits and go home… not because of the heat though. It was because my son was playing like this:

I was putting away the dirty dishes last night, when it hit me… I am the mother of a two year old toddler, who at this very minute is sleeping in a twin bed all by himself! A wave of emotion ran over me at that moment and I had to swallow hard and fight back the tears, because as much as I would like to deny it, my son is growing up.

Did you know that the average student will spend over $500 per term buying textbooks? Seems like an awful lot of money to buy textbooks that often get opened one time, right… well, others… not me. I open them much more often than that… they help me get to sleep after all!!

We bought Noah his first set of drums for his birthday…
he’s never played the drums before…
he immediately picked up the drumsticks and started banging on the cymbal…
I think we picked out the perfect gift!

(with Linky)

While her brother was busy coloring on the driveway, Abby humored me with a little mini photo shoot. It was just days before her 5 month birthday, the weather was beautiful… not too hot and not at all humid… there was a gentle breeze in the air and a smile on my daughters face… but that is nothing new to her! She’s my happy little baby
…. with Linky!

At 5:34 am yesterday morning my baby little boy turned two!! How can that be? Where has the time gone?

Prior to being married and having children, I had made up my mind that there were things that I would and wouldn’t do in my marriage and with my children. I had thought that I knew what would be best for me and my not yet existent family just by observing others and deciding what they did right and wrong.

It’s not the sharpest of all pictures, but Noah was so excited to “help” daddy with our bathroom remodel, that this was the best photo I got! (Noah’s helping consisted of him playing in the loft with his little people and fish finger puppets!!)

(with Linky)

It’s that time of year when thousands of bloggers get together for what may be THE blogging event BlogHer… this year it’s in New York City and happens to fall just days before Noah’s birthday, so it’s a No Go for me. My good bloggy friend Stefany over at To Be Thode teamed up with Maya from Musings of a Marf Mom to bring a bit of fun and swag to us non BlogHer ’10 attending bloggers.

Soooo… in an effort to try and get Noah to go to bed easier and sleep better at night, we decided it was time to move Abby into Noah’s room… well their room. The first night was interesting with Abby fussing every few minutes, while Noah stayed in his bed. I had told him that they were having a slumber party, not that he knew what that meant.

I woke up the other morning to find that my arm felt sore, like it was bruised. I looked, but didn’t see any marks so I just sort of forgot about it until latter in the day when I saw this:

Toys toys everywhere, but not a one to share… okay that’s not true. Noah is pretty good about sharing… most of the time. He’s also really into his toys… he really likes toys that work his imagination like finger puppets, his Little People toys and most recently, thanks to Team Mom, Pop On Pals.