Monday's Moment: So Lucky

 

I don't know if there's anything to be said, but I've been having a lot of moments lately. Those moments when you just want to squeeze your babies. I generally have that moment each time we drive passed the Children's Hospital, or see a commercial on television. Or when someone posts something on Facebook about a baby with a terminal diagnosis or a parent who isn't a parent at all is on the evening news.

 

And you look at your kids and you think, how did I get so lucky? And normally its quiet moments like this one, when Lock-a-Doodle slept longer then normal during his nap and it was time for dinner. I went in to wake him and he was sleeping so soundly.

 

 

 

Friday Freebie: Chore Chart

So I've been considering giving my three-year-old a bit more responsibility around the house. He's still making me change his diaper, I might as well making him clean up the table! He really needs to pull his own weight around here!

 

Seriously though, I think chores are important and if I start them early enough, maybe he'll never remember a time when he didn't have to do chores. And maybe then he won't complain that he has to do chores.

Yeah, that won't happen.

 

Regardless, I've created some graphics that can be used in a chore chart. I think I might put this on the fridge and cut out the check mark boxes and make them magnets and he can put his magnet on the chores he has completed that day. It is a work in progress. I'd love to see how you use these!

 

 

 

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Monday's Moment - Airbed Fridays

Air Bed Fridays have become quite the tradition in our house.

 

 

On Friday, after dinner, while I'm wrestling two boys in the bathtub armed with a washcloth and a couple of rubber duckies, Daddy is in the living room laying out a cheap airbed. And when the pump turns on and whirs loudly down the hall, two little faces light up with anticipation.

 

It is so simple. We bought the airbed for when we're traveling or camping or when the hubby can't take the snoring anymore. (Yes, I snore.) But one Friday, he decided to get it out with the idea that he and Laithan would curl up and watch a movie and fall asleep. Well, it worked out a bit differently. Laithan wasn't interested in TV and Daddy wasn't interested in being a human trampoline.

 

Instead its become a playground and they love it. Lachlan climbs from the bed to the couch and back again over and over. Or giggles at Laithan's crazy flipping and jumping.

 

No one has done any actually sleeping on the air bed, but it was worth every cent.

Monday's Moment

My second born, my little fat boy, took his first steps this weekend. Unassisted, shakey little shuffling steps.

 

 

 

 What a perfect moment, and captured on film no less! I must say for all the bad aspects of the modern age and constant connection to phones and iPads and the internet, there is a positive. Our children will have an amazing wealth of moments to remember their childhoods by. I love looking at old photos and home videos of my time at home with my sisters and parents. There just isn't that much to look at. Hubby has even fewer photos and no video at all.