{Life Lately...A Month Of Change}

Life has been pretty busy lately with some big changes. Chat is still in MBA school and has just recently started a new job.  It is with a wonderful opportunity and we are so thankful he has it! But it has changed things around here.  We see a lot less of him and there is a lot more one on one time with me and the boys. Sometimes that is good and sometimes not-so-good!  But we are managing and know this time won't last forever.  Chat has about a year left in school and being done will free up some of his nights so the boys can see him more. I can tell they really miss him...as do I.

 

But we are managing to have lots of fun still even though the days tend to be long!  I realized I have documented ZERO about just normal day-to-day life, so I wanted to get caught up...

 

We visited a fun new park in the Heights that had a wooden train.  You know who loved it...LUKE!!  He had an absolute ball on this thing. Apparently a man built this with his own hands and donated it.  It was amazing!

 

Since the train park was near Chat's brother's restaurant, we had to stop by and say hello and eat a hotdog or two!  Luke looks so much like Chat.  Love these two!

The warm weather has arrived!  Which means my children try to get naked every chance they get.  And play in the hose...(Nope Ben is not potty trained, but he loves underwear.  He peed in this pair at least 4 times outside that day!).

We got working on planting new flowers in the flower bed.  We let Luke pick them out.  Since his favorite color is red, guess what color flowers we got????

Again, more nakedness.  I think about 5 minutes after this picture, they took the underwear off. 

Ben started soccer!  He has loved watching Luke play soccer over the past year and begs to get on the field.  So I decided it was his turn!  Well, it was good for the first 5 minutes or so.  Then he just wants to hang out on the sidelines with Luke.  Then we go to Luke's practice an hour later and he begs to be on the field.  I don't think it is soccer that he loves...it is his brother.  Oh well!

We got to Target a lot....and Ben always finds something to accessorize himself with.  I am thinking he will look good if he ever has to wear glasses.  Love this boy!

We went to the first Kite Festival in Houston. It was fun, but nothing too amazing for the boys.  The weather was gorgeous though and since the boys love being outside it was worth it!  They really liked running down the hills until they got caught up in kite string.  So it was time to head out...

The boys really enjoyed their snow cone treats afterwards much better than the festival!  Luke picked the 'rainbow' flavor.

Ben picked purple.  They were both delicious!

Ben has been doing a bit better with his sleeping, however we do have some nights where he struggles going down.  One night Chat went and laid in his room to get him to lay down (so he would realize that he is in fact tired).  After 30 minutes I realized I hadn't heard or seen anything in forever, I go in to check on them and they are all asleep...including the dog!

The boys and I randomly will go ride the train at the zoo.  It is one of our favorite things to do when the weather is nice!  This day the train was packed.  We have only about a month left before the horrific heat arrives so we are trying to enjoy it while we can.

We randomly take selfies of ourselves and send them to daddy throughout the week too.  Example A...

Fridays is the day where I just have Ben.  Luke goes to school and I take Ben to a Little Gym class.  After class we sometimes run errands or go home and hang out together.  Last week, Ben really wanted to go to the park.  So off we went!

Then he wanted a hotdog, so as a treat I brought him to James Coney Island for the first time.  He ate every single bite of this plate.  He was in hotdog heaven!

And then there are the terrible twos :).  Ben is getting better as he talks more and more, but there are times where he just can't get a handle on his emotions.  And then this happens...

I have no idea why he was upset.  Something set him off and...well...this is the result.  I just have to laugh it off and give him some space when this happens.  Sometimes I deal with it better than others, but overall we are chugging along through the twos.  If he is anything like Luke, three will be a much better year for this squirt.

Well that is us the past month or so.  A month of change but such good things as well!