a shared big boy room

Eventually the boys, Jay and Charlie, will be sharing a room. We have tried a few times to get them to either nap or go to bed in the same room unsuccessfully. We know that it will happen eventually and we have made a big no-turning-back push this week for it to happen. Our fingers are crossed that it will work out and that they can figure things out. That being said, I did take this upcoming “move” as an excuse to change some things up in Jay’s room. Everything was finished before Luc arrived (yes I did all of the painting while 8 plus months pregnant) but I haven’t been able to post anything about it until now. Aside from painting both the room and the dresser, not much else was done and I didn’t spend much money (I only purchased the wall paint, the large J and C and blackout roller shades for the windows, everything else was just moved around from one place to another or repainted). I am pretty happy with how it turned out and LOVE that I can now take photos in there that aren’t a pain to color correct ;)

Cross your fingers for us that this arrangement eventually works…

Here’s a few of the before photos so you can see the awful wall color.
Jay's room before

Jay's rom before

Jay's room before

Here’s the after. When I took these photos I hadn’t changed the photos in the frames yet or painted the wooden frames grey- they are that way now but you will have to either visit or use your imagination to picture it;)
shared room after

Charlie's one day bed

Jay's bed with his quilt

Charlie's bed

decoration ;)

a venture favorite

Yesterday I posted some photos of Jay and Luc that have been taken at Venture. I saved this one to post on it’s own because it is one of my favorites of Charlie to date. There is SO much personality in this little body of his and I think this photo captures just a tiny bit of his spunk.

Mr Cool- Charlie at Venture

friday phone dump

It certainly has been a good long while since I did a Friday phone dump. These days I try to keep our DSLR around at all times to capture the moments of our days; however, with three littles around that sometimes just isn’t possible so I capture a lot of our days on my camera phone. Here’s just a little taste of our ordinary which is pretty extraordinary.

Also, I post very frequently to my Instagram feed if you would like to follow me my username is KRISTENPERREAULT

new specs

sweet Charlie

Jay fell asleep in a box

Mommy and Luc outside

enjoying a few last swims

Luc and Daddy reading

Luc

Charlie and our sweet puppy Piper

Charlie and his apple

Luc napping in the crib

Charlie

baking helper

crazy hair

two wee-oo's!!!

whale booty and tiny toes

3 boys

an attempt at sharing a room

two of my guys

smiling, happy baby

fl fall

morning snuggles

making Luc laugh

back seat drivers

big smiles from Charlie

PJ's!!

sweet Luc smiles

stroller rides

Happy Birthda Jamie!!

such a big guy

Charlie has made hard and fast work of getting rid of the toddler faze; seemingly over night he has become a little boy. He is determined to do whatever Jay is doing and usually (motor skill and verbal skill allowing) succeeds. I continuously am saying that he is trouble, because he is, and what’s really bad is all he has to do is flash a smile and I am a goner- trouble, pure trouble I tell you!

While Jay was at summer camp I decided to let him sit in Jay’s booster chair for lunch and now we are officially out of the highchair. Considering his age he does pretty well at the table and it is incredibly cute to see his tiny self poking up over the edge of the table while he eats.

I seriously can’t get enough of this kiddo and wish daily that time would just slow down a little.

Charlie at the big table

my big boy

so big

ga-gas

Kiddo, both boys for that matter, loves wearing his ga-gas (goggles) while swimming in the pool. Most of the time they probably make his vision both above and below the water worse but they do make me smile every time that I see him in them.

ga-ga's