Missing keys and Undies

This morning I was in the shower around 9 (extremely late for me, I decided to have fun with the kiddos outside first this morning) and as soon as  I got out the doorbell rang, Noah ran.  I was in my towel, I had a slight moment of panic.  I quickly grabbed some clothes, put them on and ran after him.  Noah had already unlocked the door and opened it for the Fed Ex man, awesome!  But not only did he open the door, he told him mommy putting on her undies!  Yea... things were a bit weird as I stood there to sign for my package.  The 10 seconds seemed like 5 minutes of awkward conversation making!

Then tonight I got the boys in the car to run an errand, got in my purse to grab my keys and they weren't anywhere in my purse.  I ran inside looked around and didn't see them.  Went back out to the car to really go through my purse and told the boys I couldn't find my keys and Noah quickly says, "keys downstairs in the  white bucket".  Little turkey had stolen my keys from my purse and put them downstairs in a bucket, in the toy box.  Definitely would have been a while until I found them there without his help.   On the bright side at least he could remember he did that and was able to tell me.

At this rate, I will be lucky to have hair in a few years!  These boys are keeping me on my toes!

Bad haircut

Wednesday I went to Champaign for the morning and when I left my baby looked like this.  His hair was getting pretty long, a little bushy and sometimes just down right crazy but I secretly loved it.  He looked so sweet and innocent and like a baby.  

When I got back, he looked like this!  Dad decided to help out and took him to get a haircut.  It didn't turn out the best needless to say.  It wasn't quite even in the front so Matthew tried to fix it but it only ended up getting shorter and shorter and now for awhile we are stuck with this short silly looking cut until it grows.  I know toddlers move and especially Carson so I wasn't mad, I know no one meant to ruin cut his hair too short.  Hair grows back, right? 

Bedtime

Bedtime has been pretty entertaining around here lately.  We have had Noah and Carson sharing a room so we can have a playroom as well.  We have always put Carson to bed first and spent some alone time with Noah for awhile before putting him to bed.   Well for awhile now Carson has been fighting bedtime a little more and has been crying for a bit instead of talking himself to sleep like he used to. He would usually be asleep by the time we would put Noah to bed.  However Carson now has pretty much stopped letting me rock him and he tries to escape from the chair and runs right back out to the living room to play with big brother.  Because Carson has been wide awake we have been putting them to bed together and have had some good laughs. Carson stands up and will start acting silly, Noah does something in the dark and they both end up laughing at each other.  Then Noah gets mad and starts yelling at Carson to " ssshhh, be quiet Noah sleeping" or my favorite he decides he is done playing games with Carson and yells " Carson not funny, time for bed".   Love these two, we have years of fun ahead.  They can be such buddies!

Smarty Pants

Well, the whole " crap" saga has continued.  The other day Noah decided to say "stupid crap" in the checkout lines at Walmart a few times while I was putting our stuff on the belt.  Yes, it was pretty embarrassing.  I stopped ignoring him saying the word because that wasn't working and he started getting in trouble.  Well then his brain went to work and Noah decided to start saying "crack" or  "quack" instead so it wasn't quite the same but felt close enough.  The first time I heard him, I was like Noah what did you say? Then he really enunciated for me so I would  know he didn't say crap just something really similar.  I tell you toddler brains are amazing!

Oh crap

Call me a failure!  Noah was walking around the house this morning saying "stupid crap" .  Yeah no idea where he got it.  I honestly don't know of us using those words together.  The word crap yes we are guilty of a few times..

Yesterday he was playing and said " oh crap, Noah said crap. Oh crap,  Noah said crap. " I just ignored him because I thought if I made a big deal he would for sure start saying it all the time. Well that didn't work, he knows he isn't supposed to say and continues anyway.  This morning he also even told on himself at one point.  So apparently ignoring is the wrong route to go.  My sweet son of mine just loves to test me for some reason (maybe the fact that he is a boy and an almost 3 year old have something to do with it, haha)

Disciplining is not my favorite aspect of parenting for sure.  There have been many times lately I am just speechless and have no idea what or how to respond to the things Noah does or says. Its a battle I feel like I'm losing more and more ground with everyday!

Even though we have our struggles, being a mom is still the bet job ever!  I love being a mommy to our two little boys.  They keep life interesting to say the least!

Carson at 13 Months

This month we have really seen you grow up in a little toddler instead of a baby.

At 13 months, you

- have finally got more teeth you now have almost 6 teeth.  One on your bottom just popped through less than week ago so it's still barely threre

-are down to just your bedtime bottle with milk

-don't like to eat hardly anything off silverware.  Most of the time if you can't pick it up or hold it you won't try it.

- love playing on steps and we worked with you some and you have gotten much better so we have been letting go up and down them some

-still take two naps but really fight me on them sometimes

-can open our doors throughout the house and the door to the garage.  You scare me with this one because we leave the garage door open a lot throughout the day and I don't always think to lock it after daddy leaves in the morning.

-are starting to like toys more and more thankfully!

-are so cute when you play with cars, you push them around and make a funny car sound

-still don't like tv, but that's fine with me!

-loves outside so much, anytime someone comes, or leaves or we open the door for anything if you don't get to go out, you through a major fit!

-are such an imitator, you try and say and do a lot of things we or your brother does.  The other day it was so cute, you and Noah were in the living room taking turns spinning around and just laughing at each other!

- you don't say too many words yet but you have a few done, you say mama, dada, bye, ball, banana, all done, and have tried to say some others but just because you copy what we say

-you love when mommy plays lion with you, I run around or crawl and chase you and Noah and go roar.  You just run, laugh and roar back!  It's our favorite game we pretty much play every day!  Sometimes you just look at me and start roaring to get me to start!

-make the funniest faces sometimes.  Not sure where you got it, but you scrunch up your face, show your teeth and blow out of your noise, then you usually start laughing.  You think you are pretty funny!

-still let mom rock you.  I like to believe it's your favorite part of the day but I love that I finally can and love to rock my babies.  You usually let me every day that we are together at nap and before bed.

Carson, you are such a fun little boy.  You are so playful and just adorable!  We love you !

Breakthrough

After what has seemed like forever (4 months) Noah has finally done it!  #2 on the potty!  Wahoo!  Now we aren't consistent yet but in the last week he has 3 times, so at least we are making progress!  I will take anything at this point.  I was so shocked the first time he did.  You better believe I made the biggest deal possible.  I cheered so loud, I scared Carson to death and he started screaming and ran behind me.  I gave Noah some candy that I had been bribing him with this whole time and yesterday he asked for a balloon since I had also been using that one over the last month.  I am so excited that we have finally got somewhere and are another step closer to moving on from this potty training business!  It's the pits!  I was worried we would be potty training Carson by the time Noah was done, we may have a little bit of a break after all, haha!