Lily Kate's birthday...today?

I've chronicled the drama of the morning on my "belly blog." See link on the right to "Kelly's Belly." Hopefully I'll be able to start posting pics of our new addition on Monday.

Singing

I was working this morning and heard the sweetest little singing voice. Then I heard, "Mommy, I need to go poo poo." Like any mother, I grabbed my iPhone and my camera and made him sing it again.

Love the dimple, love the smile, love the voice. Couldn't be any more in love than I am right now.

Guilty Posting

Using the pregnancy excuse AGAIN!

Here's a hodge podge of our happenings for the past MONTH that I haven't been blogging. It's just been such a crazy house around here lately. I'm hoping to post before and after photos of all the construction and painting that we finished last month and I'll post all of the projects I've been working on for Lily Kate's arrival on the Belly blog as soon as I can.

Here are the boys at Brynley's 2nd birthday party. Ace is such a little fish in his floaties. I still hover over him continuously but so does his daddy so I don't apologize for it. =)

Blue cookie monster cupcake = bright green poop. No need to panic.
Ace had a serious fever week before last (went to the doctor who just said it was a 24hr virus). All he wanted to do while he was battling his little virus was snuggle. Here's the boys snuggling while we were watching WipeOut.

Mommy and Ace waiting for the fireworks to start on the 4th of July.

Ace's sweet voice just melts me every time he speaks - no matter what he's saying.

Here's to more consistent posting in the future!

World Cup Crazy

Our house is all about soccer right now. For the past month, with our contractor-marathon, soccer has been the only time Ace and I have gotten out of the house (Thanks to Jonathan who actually left work early so that we could make it to class twice!).

Here's Ace sporting the Greek soccer uniform that Daddy bought him when we were in Athens last year. It fits him at the perfect time. We watched Greece play Korea and Ace was excited that he was dressed just like the players on tv.

Here is Ace waiting patiently at soccer class for his coach to come throw his hula hoop so he can run after it. This is a big development - following directions.
Then a set back - not following directions. Hey, he's THREE! I wish I could just lay down whenever and wherever I wanted and rest.

This face cracked me up. I laugh throughout the entire class.

I love the last few seconds of this video. You can tell that Jonathan and I are big on praise because Ace has started to praise himself!

Memorial Adventures

Honey and Sashi visited over the weekend and took us all down to Moody Gardens' Aquarium and Rainforest. Ace was in fine form, running from exhibit to exhibit with total enthusiasm and wanting us to see everything.

The penguins:

Loving on his Honey.
I'm ever wanting a family photo. Jonathan can't see, Ace isn't looking and I need to work on my posture! I call this one a success.

All smiles on the way home. We really thought he'd fall asleep in the car on the way home. Nope. He was a chatterbox the ENTIRE way home while Honey tried to sleep.

(I rectified his shaggy hair on Monday. Didn't realize it was THAT bad!)

Jus cus

I've just been feeling guilty for not updating the blog lately so here's random pictures off my camera. We've really been up to nothing. Went to Willies for Mother's Day. I just love his face in this photo...need to crop my yucky face out.

Tried to get Ace interested in his bike but he just wanted me to push him around on it. Doesn't matter, he looks super cute in his gear.
Ace started soccer on Monday - an hour of laughs.

Just loving lazy summer days. Too lazy to get out the camera even.

Bye Bye Pacifier

Been gone from the blogging world WAY too long. Had to make it through busy season at work, plan Ace's birthday party (which I can hopefully blog about later) and went to Cancun for a week to recover. Came home from Mexico and we decided it was finally time to get rid of the pacifier.

I have been DREADING this moment for so long. I was SOOOO tired of random people (and some male family members) telling me that I need to get rid of the paci. Those people and men didn't offer any help, only their judgement of my parenting. Yes, I got bitter about it.

Had to make sure Ace understood exactly what we were doing...

Mommy, Lily Kate and Ace walking to Baby Braxton's house and waving at Daddy. (Yikes, can certainly see those extra 30 pounds on me!)

Knocking on his door.
The hand off. (Braxton is actually Nana's grandson - the lovely woman that takes care of Ace on Tuesdays and Thursdays for me.)

The reward!

The aftermath:

When we put Ace to bed that night, we had a meltdown. He said to give the bike back to the fairy! It was a difficult half hour full of tears but THANKFULLY that has been our only real hiccup so far. He's mentioned the paci a few times but we've ignored his comments and he's moved on to other things. I'm pretty impressed that that was his only meltdown. With the allergies of the past week, even I have wished for my OWN pacifier.

Now, everything ELSE has been going in his mouth. He chews on every toy he owns as if he's teething. Now all I dread is his reaction when Lily Kate comes home with a pacifier.

Sometimes, the anxiety is worse than the real thing.