2 Month Old Pictures!

These monthly stickers are the new cool thing in "babyland".  I don't know where my friend Angie found them, but they worked great for our photo session.  Thanks Angie!

I'm 2 months old!

 

  My big brother has ideas of his own for my picture.

 

The "President Brothers"

I've had a lot of people ask me how "Goose" aka JV, is adjusting to his baby brother, AKA: "Bubbie". 

Well as you can see he loves him,

And sometimes smothers him,

But Bubbie doesn't seem to mind.

                                                        

Or maybe he minds sometimes,

 

But at the end of the day, Goose loves Bubbie...

...and Bubbie loves Goose.

So as you can see, the "President Brothers" as Goose has named them, are doing just fine.

 

As for the elephant in the room, we never intended to name our children after presidents.  We just happened to like those names.  But who else can say that they are parents of two presidents?"    

 

Baby Features

Well, we didn't get professional newborn pictures done, but we did have a good camera to borrow, so I attempted to take a few myself.   I've always liked the way close ups of baby's features turn out so here are a few.  

 

He's got 10 Little Toes,

The longest fingers on the sweetest hands,

The cutest little ears,

 and Oh, the neck rolls!

 

His yawns are the most adorable and

most of all, he is filled with LOVE!

 

 

LightRoom discovery!

My friend Melissa told me about this program called LightRoom.  I downloaded the free version to see what I thought of it before requesting it for Christmas, and I have to say that I LOVE it!  Below are a few pictures that I've edited with the programs from the last month. 

 These are two of my favorite pictures of the boys.

 Me

 

 Daddy and Monkey

 

 Grandma with her boys

 

 This one is from my babyshower.  We had a ton of fun with all the crazy competitive games. 

 

 Monkey at 5 days old.

 

 5 days postpartum I wasn't exactly camera ready, but I'm glad we took the picture anyway.

 

 Daddy and Monkey at 5 days old.

 

This is another one of my favorites.

 

There are way too many pictures to choose from and I can't wait to edit them and start making more picture books!

Bubbie's 1st Bath

Maybe it was that fact that we were new parents and we had no idea what we were doing.  Sure I had bathed a gazillion kids during my nanny years, but those kids were always able to sit up on their own and somewhat follow directions.  This was a new challenge and much harder than I had ever imagined.  After all, how hard could bathing a wet, slippery, crying baby who can't even hold his head up be?

Now that, that's over, we can finally relax!

So with that said, I waited longer to bath Bubbie this time.  (Bubbie is JV's nickname him.)  With Goose, we attempted that first bath on day 3, with Bubbie, I waited until day 13 which had the bonus of me being a little more stable both physically and emotionally.  The one factor I didn't think about was BV's work travel which meant that Bubbie's first bath was up to me....Alone...


Well, with the help of his big brother of course!  Maybe it was the fact that I've since learned to bathe a baby or that I was much calmer this time around, or the fact that he has a best big brother to help entertain him, but Bubbie's first bath was smoother and an overall success!

 

While I don't want to be that mom that compares her kids to one another, I'm constantly finding myself comparing the differences between my two boys.  That's normal right?  While having two kids is no walk in the park I have to say that I'm glad we are all a little more relaxed this time around.

A Day at the Pumpkin Patch

I've been itching to get to the pumpkin patch before our October pumpkin makes his grand entrance, so on a record setting 85 degree day we made our way to the farm.  Don't laugh, that's HOT for October here in MN! 

Whenever I think of Charlie Brown, I think of Grandpa Bob.  It's funny how certain seemingly unimportant things can remind you of someone you love.  So with that, we have to take a picture, just for the fun of it!

In seek of the perfect pumpkin for the front porch. 

 

Getting Dad's approval...

 

Yep, that's the one!

Everyone gets a pumpkin, even the unborn.  

 

That face!  I just love it!

 

 What would a pumpkin patch be without a gigantic blow up slide for the kids?

 

Ok, I can do this...

 

Here we go...

 

This is awesome!!!

 

 

Off to the Corn Maze!

Within walking distance of our house is a corn maze in the fall.  They also sale pumpkins, food, and have activities for kids, at an additional price of course.  Last year when we went, we had hats, gloves, and jackets on.  As you can tell from the pictures it was a bit warmer this year.

 

Time for some "selfies"!

 

 

For the little kids, there is a hay bell maze.  The kids prefer to run and jump on top of the hay bells instead of figuring out the maze however.  

 

After completing the corn maze and running on the hay bells we decided to find some shade and have a snack to cool off.

 

Finally, we finished our trip with a visit to the gigantic corn pit.

 

 

Proud Kindergartener

As I was going through JV's backpack I pulled out this picture.

I didn't think much of it until JV so proudly pointed out to me that he earned a sticker for his nice coloring.  I love how proud he is of all the exciting things that he is experiencing in kindergarten and hope that his love of learning continues to grow.