It’s friday, it’s friday, it’s friday!!!! Ha- take that long craptastic week, you’re over and you didn’t beat us!!
Enjoy your weekend, I KNOW we will ;)
Category: Jay
survival
It’s a tad chilly for playing outside in the water table (74- which isn’t horrible but not exactly warm either) but you gotta do what you gotta do… So aside from Jay being a little on the purple side and just shy of Popsicle temperature I can see nothing wrong with blowing off some steam playing with bubbles… He’s having fun, I promise that we will go in and “warm” up soon and it will increase the likelihood of us of both being here AND sane when Daddy gets home from work…
typical
I love this view… three of my loves hanging out and content to just be with each other. Simple joys, a big brother to shake a rattle for the little brother and a puppy dog who aches to be near anyone that will have her. This is a pretty frequent occurrence around here… the four of us within a four foot radius and it is so, so great. Oh and incase you are concerned Charlie looked like this about 30 seconds before this photo was taken- content as content can be :)
However, he had some “tough” lovin’ from his ubber affectionate brother (we are still working on hugging not squishing) and wasn’t feeling the group shot. That and he was getting tired of tummy time :)
happy friday
I don’t have my photos together for my Friday phone dump…
AND I am hoping to get to bed before 2am, since that bedtime has been more common these days I care to admit… I have in some moment of insanity decided to repaint a good portion of our house. I know, nesting should take place before the baby is born, not after. Oh well, progress is being made and I LOVE the results!! I promise to post photos of it at some point; however, I do not promise that they will be posted soon ;)
All that to say, sorry I haven’t been around much this week. Here’s a few photos of my bird to tide you over for a few days. Honestly, this kiddo had been keeping me on my toes these days- in both good and bad ways. He is full of life, full of trouble and such a pure joy to be around. I found myself staring at him in wonder a few times today- man, oh man am I one lucky ducky!!
The view I found when I rounded the corner into the kitchen after changing Charlie’s diaper. When he finally noticed me he looked at me and said “hey Mommy, what you doing?” I think the better question is what are you doing my friend :)
TGIF!!
friday phone dump…
It’s really hard to believe that the weekend has come and gone and that we are chugging through another week again! Wow!!
Here’s a little bit of our world from last week. Enjoy and happy Tuesday to you !
1. sleeping Charlie
2. found his tongue
3. Jay’s duplo “park”
4. silly faces
5. hanging out in the bed
6. Jay working on his chores… helping Mom to empty the dishwasher
7. booty up and thumb in
8. “washing” dishes in the sink while Mommy makes dinner
9 & 10 Charlie sucking on his fingers
11. pancake Tuesday- also known as Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras
12. tummy time
13, 14, 15 & 16. hanging out in Jay’s bed after nap time- Jay was being super cute and kissing all over his brother, he’ll probably hate these photos when he’s a teenager ;)
thursdays
I have never really been a fan of Thursdays. It is close enough to Friday and the weekend to be a tease and yet just not close enough. When I was teaching Thursdays always seemed to drag on and not go by fast enough. Not much has changed now that I am home, although these two smiling faces do make those LONG days a little bit better ;)
brothers
Most everyone has an opinion on whether or not our boys look like each other- some say yes, some say no… does this help in making a decision?
Both sets of photos were taken when Jay and Charlie are 3 months old to the day. On a whim, I choose to put Charlie in the same outfit that I took Jay’s photos in and boy am I glad that I did- it has been so much fun to see the photos side by side! I only wish that Charlie had been a little more smily on the day of his photos… if he was I think the photos would have been even more similar!
love…
I don’t really do Valentine’s Day.
I am not a huge flower, candy, bear-the-size-of-you kinda girl.
I am not really the make a huge big deal because we’ve landed on certain calendar date kinda girl either.
I’d rather be the tell the people that I love that I love them each and every time I think about it and hug and kiss on my boys until there is no doubt in their minds that they are loved beyond words kinda girl.
So that is exactly what we are going to do today… there will be a whole lot of hugs and kisses, a whole lot of “I love You’s” and a whole lot of love… here’s hoping you all have a lot of the same.
(seriously! aren’t these two just the cutest!?!)
that being said, don’t misunderstand- I did use today as an ‘excuse’ to take some photos of the boys, there will probably be some pink, red and white crafting going on in our house and possibly some heart shaped lunches around here.
on your mark, get set- go!
As I have said before Jay is obsessed with cars right now. He plays with them morning, noon and night and we always have at least a few with us. So what better theme than cars for Jay’s second party, right? Right! While not near as much time went into this party as it did for Jay’s 1st birthday bash, I still had fun coming up with (and finding) ideas for his party. Here’s a few of the details…
I have been playing around with a program called Artboard lately, it’s a design tool that allows me to make graphics etc. I am by no means great at it but I am really having fun and that is the most important part. The weekend that Jamie was in Jacksonville I put together this invite for his party.
I didn’t put up a whole lot of decorations for this party; however, earlier in the week I did let Jay paint some small wooden cars that we had out on the tables. He also painted and put stickers all over some paper cars that we had (and after the party I used the back of those cars as thank you notes- yay for double duty projects!).
Here’s our “Refueling Station”… we served pulled chicken sandwiches both BBQ and buffalo style from crockpots that we set up in the kitchen (this was super easy and I would recommend it to anyone who would like an easy party meal). Along with the sandwiches we had apple and grape cars, stoplight sugar cookies (this is the best sugar cookie recipe btw), chips, carrots and cake. I baked a vanilla bean cake, frosted it with this delicious buttercream icing recipe and then decorated it like a track. I considered putting some cars on the track but Jamie vetoed that idea and it probably wouldn’t have been a great idea since Jay was within arms reach of the cake.
The only other thing that I did for his party was to make a masking tape racetrack on the office floor (although this wasn’t really done for his party but as rainy day entertainment from earlier in the week-we kept it up for the party) and I built him a cardboard box car. I had seen a Lightning McQueen cardboard box car on pintrest and decided to give it a whirl. I loved how it turned out and Jay has had fun playing with it too.
letter to my jay bird
Jay Bird,
Two- two, you are two today!! Holy- Moly guacamole, I am in disbelief. Every day I stumble over the reality that you are mine… you light up my life and make each day better than the last.
You are a constant joy to be around little one and when I say constant I mean it! You talk constantly, you move constantly- you are ALWAYS on the go. Most frequently you are either playing cars or finding more cars to play with. To say that you like cars right now would quite possibly be the understatement of the century, my sweet little boy you are obsessed! Cars are you world; they are literally the first thing that you talk about in the morning and the last thing you think about before closing your eyes. They watch you eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. You ask to get down from the table to play with them, we must have at least one of them with us at all times and they clutter every corner of your bed as you sleep. You play with them nonstop, making them go fast, flip, crash, jump, fly- you name it, they do it. I love watching you while you play; your imagination is immeasurable and man that is so, so wonderful! This is not to say that you don’t enjoy other things aside from cars, you do. You love to color, use stickers, work puzzles, play with your duplos and read stories. Your attention span is honestly quite amazing, you can sit through stories that some third graders would loose patience with- it’s a fact that constantly amazes your Daddy and me. It also makes your Daddy very proud…he LOVES to read with you and will read any story that you put in front of him, he even reads them multiple times in a row (which you do ask him to do).
Hugs and kisses are plentiful in our house, which I love. I am pretty sure that you are the sweetest boy that there is; sure, I know I am biased but it isn’t far from the truth. You greet everyone that walks through our door with a shy smile and usually by the time they leave you are hugging, kissing them and telling them that you will “see them tomorrow”. Frequently, for no reason you will walk up to me and plant a big wet (yup- they are usually wet) one on me and follow it will an “I love you, Mommy”- melt.my.heart kiddo, melt my heart! Just yesterday I was playing with Charlie on the floor while you played with your cars and for no reason at all you stopped what you were doing walked over to Charlie kissed him on the head and told him you loved him. And you do, you love your little brother in such a way it makes me burst at the seams with pride. You are always wanting to know what he is doing, you frequently bring him your blanket to use and not just any blanket your favorite I-can’t-sleep-without-this-blanket and when he is crying you will look at me and say “Charlie isn’t very happy” then look at him and tell him it will be okay. I can’t wait to see your relationship grow as the two of you grow.. how wonderful it will be.
This isn’t to say that our time together is all rainbows and roses kiddo, we have our moments. You drive me up the wall, I threaten to sell you to the highest bidder before your Dad gets home and when he does get home I say- “take him, he’s your son tonight”. But honestly, those moments and those bad days are far out-numbered by the good. I frequently have a hard time believing that two years has already passed since you made me a Mama. My sweet little Jay Bird, it feels as though you were just born yesterday and yet have always been a part of my life- and maybe you have been, you just resided in my heart until two years ago today. And what a wonderful day that was- I fell in love with you the very moment I saw you and that love continues to grow with each passing day. Every night when we put you to bed I stand in awe of you kiddo… amazed that you are mine, grateful for all the time we get together and looking forward to all that is to come.
I love you sweet boy, happy birthday- here’s to many, many more.
Love,
Mommy
and since we aren’t heading out to take your two year photos until Sunday and because every post is better with a photo here is recent one of you and Dad driving that makes me smile
the perreault family 