I thought I should update Asher’s progress with the big boy bed… He’s doing GREAT! There were a few days where I was afraid he was never going to ‘get it’ and life as we knew it was over. BUT that was before the great motivator… Chocolate milk!! A friend suggested it as a reward for him staying in his bed and sleeping all nap or all night and it’s worked like a charm. Every time we put Asher in his bed he reminds us, “If I stay in my bed I get the chocolate milk!” and the first words out of his mouth in the morning are usually to request his chocolate milk. Not sure how we will eventually phase out the reward of chocolate milk, but I’m SO glad that he’s staying in bed and sleeping well that I don’t care if he’s still getting chocolate milk when he’s 5! :)
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Fall is officially here! The weather is (mostly) cooler except for a few random days when it goes back in the 80’s… but in honor of it’s arrival we picked apples a few weekends ago! I think you know you have two kids when the thought of bringing the camera is just one more thing that you don’t want to have to carry so all our pictures are courtesy of the iPhone!
Asher was an apple-picking pro!
Enjoying the beautiful weather and time spent together!
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A new favorite activity in our house is play-doh!! We tried it a few months ago without much interest, but right now it’s a big hit! Asher and Daddy love to play play-doh together. :) One of his play-doh toys squeezes the play-doh through little holes so it makes long strings like spaghetti. We both thought Asher would think that was really cool, but he actually doesn’t like it at all! He hates when we do it. I don’t think the Fun Factory is in his future! He’s a play-doh purist, I guess. :)
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Jesse is still the sweetest little addition to our family! He’s laid back and full of smiles. His adorable little coos are a bright spot on even the hardest days. I do love when he and I get some one-on-one time in the afternoons while big brother naps…
But I also LOVE watching the interaction between Jesse and Asher, too!
My favorite part of this clip is Jesse’s big smile when Asher gives him a kiss at the end!
Asher seems to be getting the hang of being gentle with his little brother…
and Jesse was thoroughly enjoying the playtime with big bro!
SO thankful for these two sweeties!
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The teacher in me thought it was time to do some crafts with Asher! I found a few cute ones on pinterest and decided this week we’d do a new craft each day. For Monday’s craft I probably spent an hour+ of ‘prep time’ Sunday night… scouring the internet for leaf templates, then printing them, tracing them, cutting them out, and lining them with tape. (Not to mention going to TWO different stores to get all our supplies… who knew it would be so hard to find orange tissue paper.) All that work and I think we were all done in about 10 minutes! Ha! Asher did a good job and hung in there for two leaves… I finished the last leaf while he played cars in the other room! ;)
At least he obliged in my request to take a picture with our ‘stained-glass’ leaves, because clearly… he would have rather been playing dinosaurs!
Sammy the Stegosaurus and Tommy the T-Rex are our new buddies! :)
Today’s craft was finger paints! Ha! I’m sure there’s a reason the box says they are for children 3 and up! I didn’t really give him free reign of the paints, we just made this cute owl.
Ha! He looks so enthused! ;) He actually really liked the paints, so if I’m brave I think I might let him just finger paint with them tomorrow. That however, might be the end of craft week 2011!
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Well, I think I’m all caught up! Life is busy these days, but so good! I am thankful every day that my life consists of “mommy come play with me!”, diaper changes, and Mac & Cheese lunches. The days definitely are LONG, but I know the years are SHORT!
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