Jamie – Page 7 – the perreault family

crazy normal

Published on September 11, 2012 by kristenperreaultLeave a comment

My immediate response when people ask lately how we are/ how I am is “Crazy, good but crazy”. However, the more I think about this the more I realize we are less and less crazy and more and more normal. You see, before we had any kiddos we had plenty of time to do whatever we wanted whenever we wanted and honestly I am not all that sure what we did with our boat loads of free time. After we had Jay we thought we were seriously crazy and had no free time and then we had Charlie (bringing the parent child ratio up to one-to-one) and actually had less free time. If you would have asked me about our free time when we just had Jay I would have found it rather laughable; now I am not sure what we did with it all. Perspective is funny that way… All this to say that we are crazy or normal; however you want to think of it and here is a taste of our crazy brought to you by the ever present iPhone.

monkey toes

yes that is a towel and yes it is soaking wet :(

the perfect little boy entertainment

duplo towers- Jay is REALLY into building these days

squishy returns ;)

what- doesn’t everyone have a whale and a cow in their pantry?

photographer in the making

his photo

reading the Monster at the End of this Book on the ipad… he really didn’t like it at first but enjoyed it after he realized “the blue guy” (Grover) was the monster

watermelon- Jay eats EVERY last bite

I apparently haven’t dumped my phone photos in forever so instead of overloading you all in one day I will post the rest tomorrow- stay tuned for part two ;)

my predicament

Published on September 8, 2012 by kristenperreault2 Comments

So it’s no secret that I am a little (or a lot depending on the day) OCD. I like things to be in their place, I like the counters to be wiped down, I like things to be clean and I really, really like our floors to be clean. I am sad to admit that how clean our floors are directly affects my anxiety level- SO sad but oh so true. If the floors aren’t clean I start to itch. In my defense, I spend the majority of my days at home AND the majority of that time on the floor. I play with little people and we play on the floor. Cleaning the floors seems a simple enough task right? Not so much in our home… we have two lovable but VERY furry pets- one long haired kitty and a puppy that sheds. They don’t make it more difficult it just means that the upkeep needs to happen more frequently.

Which leads to my current predicament- our vacuum is on the fritz again and is currently on it’s way to Chicago via UPS. It’s on it’s way to be fixed (YAY!) but I have no idea when it will actually get back to us :( AHHHHHHH! I haven’t vacuumed in a week plus (almost two) when I usually vacuum at least twice a week- again, sad but true. I am starting to twitch and itch- BIG time!! Someone might have to send help soon, too bad there isn’t a pill for OCD…

That’s all for now- I am off to enjoy my day with my boys regardless of the twitching and itching…

sghetti head

Published on September 7, 2012 by kristenperreaultLeave a comment

I have been sitting here for probably over an hour and every time I have started to write, my brain turns to mush and I end up erasing all that I have written and starting over. So while I intended on posting some of the most recent happenings I am not going to fight it anymore. I am going to resign to the supremo case of sghetti head (don’t know what that is? ask my hubby) and call it a night. I will try again tomorrow if I am feeling a little less mushy…

However, since I am physically unable to post without a photo here is one of the four of us in all of our duplo surrounded, crazy hair, not looking self portrait glory.

Night all…

my cup runneth over

Published on August 23, 2012 by kristenperreault3 Comments

I sat down a few times today* to write Charlie’s 9 month update but got distracted and while I sit here in the wee hours of the night waiting on my sweet hubby to come home (yes you read that correctly, he is not home from work yet- he has had such a busy week) I find myself overcome with gratitude. Gratitude for my sweet hard-working husband who puts in way more than he is asked to both at work and at home and gratitude for the sweet healthy babies that are soundly sleeping in the next rooms. While our days are far from perfect I couldn’t have dreamt up this kind of life for myself in any of my wildest dreams. I am trying daily to drink it all in and dance in the joy that surrounds me. My cup runneth over…

And just to give you a glimpse, these are from the first few moments of our morning…

a sweet Daddy, who should have rushed out the door to work but stayed to read a story to a little redheaded boy who asked ever so sweetly to read with him

sweet smiles that greeted me when I plucked this little one from his crib

and a moment that took my breath away- while packing things up to head to the doctor I walked into the other room and when I returned I found a big brother sweetly “reading” to one very attentive and admiring little brother. The depth to their relationship constantly astounds and delights me.

*While I meant to publish this yesterday I didn’t actually get to before drifting off to sleep. Jamie worked until after 3AM and finally got home about 3:30 and we are really, really looking forward to his day off tomorrow…

fishing

Published on August 11, 2012 by kristenperreault2 Comments

Over the years we have had many, many visitors to Florida and while we love to do the traditional things with them while they are in town it’s always fun to do something a little out of the ordinary and I am pretty sure Terra Ceia qualifies as out of the ordinary. So while my cousins were in town we packed up and headed down to treat them to a little tractor riding, castnetting, dock sitting and fresh caught fried fish. We enjoyed it and we hope they did too!

This was also Charlie’s first trip down to Terra Ceia; it’s sad to think that we don’t get down there as often as we would like to. There are only showers at Terra Ceia so we had to imporvise with a few sink baths.

Nighttime fishing and a few first catches- it was catfish but at least it was something ;)

a little tractor fun

dock fun

castnetting

throwing like a pro

checking out a crab that was caught

saying hello to the crab (affectionately named Herman the Hermit crab- Jay is really curious about people and things’ names these days so most days I just make it up)

watching Daddy throw the net

future photographer- it must run in the family ;)

Jay loved seeing anything Jamie brought up in the net. He also wanted to touch everything! Don’t worry we washed his hands after this.

Like I said, it was Charlie’s first trip down to Terra Ceia and he loved venturing around the property and checking things out but I think he enjoyed playing under the bar chairs the most.

canada day a lot late

Published on August 7, 2012 by kristenperreault1 Comment

On July first we headed to the beach for a few days but we all had our Canadian Roots shirts so we grabbed a few photos to mark the occasion before we packed up the car;) I just found these photos, they are from the phone so they aren’t great, and couldn’t resist sharing them.

first time driver

Published on August 6, 2012 by kristenperreault4 Comments

We took a quick family trip to publix this afternoon and because it was quick Charlie got to take a spin in the car cart. It was his first time being in an actual cart and I am thinking he may not let me use the carrier again… To say he LOVED driving would be an understatement :)

sometimes

Published on July 16, 2012 by kristenperreault1 Comment

when your day is long, you just need to crash when you get home…

Editor’s note: yes, I actually fell asleep in that position for a few minutes

sick

Published on July 8, 2012 by kristenperreault3 Comments

We’ve been sick… a nice mess of low-grade fevers, congestions, dry coughs, sore throats and cranky-pants-toddlers for the last week or so. So we’ve been resting up trying to kick this funk, trying to tackle some projects around the house when we get a free minute as well as enjoying some time at the beach with my extended family (more photos to come soon). It’s not exactly what I envisioned for Jamie’s time off but we made the most of it and are very close to being back to 100%- YAY!!

Here are a few random photos to enjoy until I can get my act together enough to post more.

Charlie’s face in this one cracks me up…

Even when he is sick and tired he is still such a happy baby!

seaworld

Published on June 14, 2012 by kristenperreault3 Comments

A few weekends ago Jamie and I took Jay to Seaworld for the day. We had been putting off a trip to one of the theme parks for quite some time since Jay is really still on the young side (people who go with itty itty babies to parks are crazy with a capital C!!) but decided to take the plunge and get Sea World passes. We packed a bag with a lunch the night before so we would be ready to go first thing in the morning and honestly, I am not sure who was more excited about our trip- me or Jamie, Jay had no idea what was in store for him. We left Charlie with Mimi- it was way too hot for him to be out all day- and had Jay all to ourselves for the day! It was very hot out and we all were melted and tired when we got home but we had so much fun. Jay loved getting to see the dolphins in the underwater viewing area (I had to pull Jamie away so we could go see other animals), he liked the beluga whales and splashing in the sting ray tank among other things and Jamie and I enjoyed watching Jay take it all in (we liked the animals too).

I didn’t take a ton of photos since I was so busy soaking it all up but I do really like the few that I got…

enjoying the underwater dolphin viewing area-