Morning Routine

Every morning, someone is awake before 6 am, usually at 5:45...We come downstairs, make coffee, get some chocolate milk, and if it's baby J, I nurse him and try to get the sleepy seeds out of my eyes. I attempt to watch the news until Lucy vetoes it by saying. "Mommy, I don't want to watch the weather!" So I get to watch snippets of the Today show while she entertains herself with the iPad. Or finally I relent and let them watch Yo Gabba or Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. They both love TV...in these pics you can see them craning their necks to see the TV around my big head and camera shoved in their faces. Then I look at the clock and say to myself, How is it only 9 am!!??

Pool Party

We went to Lucy's friend Morgan's 3rd birthday party and had a blast. They had a bouncy gym and baby pools all around. She is here in a pull-up but mostly she was naked. She has also learned and likes to pee in the grass!

Oh, the Places He'll Go!

Judson is on the move in a major way! He is into plastic bags, opening boxes, chewing on anything that crosses his path and still spitting up along the way.

WrestleMania

These two love rough housing. We try to tell Lucy to be gentle, soft touches, etc. but he LOVES it when she wrestles him to the ground and he's beginning to fight back. He is a pretty sturdy little guy as a result of her beating him up on a daily basis. It's hard for Lucy to understand she might hurt him when he laughs and smiles the entire time she's pounding on him!

Big Sister

Lucy in the kitchen, not eating. Judson in his high chair, eating. He is always eating!!

Burbon Street Baby

Judson LOVES the beads I brought home from my girls weekend. He's been parading around in just his diapers lately. So cute.

Chores

Judson helping with the dishes. Check out the calves on those two boys!! He is into everything these days....

Steppin' Up!

Lucy graduated from her 2 year old class! Too bad she'll be in another 2 year old class next year bc her birthday is late. It was adorable. They sang 5 Little Ducks and The Wheels on the Bus. I will try to upload the video but think the file is too big. She wore a bow in her hair for the first time, yes, literally the FIRST time ever, for the event! Judson crawled everywhere and made plenty of noises to disrupt the event. In other news, Judson's first tooth is coming in, it's the bottom right one. He doesn't seem to be bothered by it. I still can't keep him from getting up at 4:30 for a feeding. Sometimes Jud can soothe him but as soon as he sees me he thinks it's feedin time and rages and screams. Soon we will get to 7:30 to 6 I pray.

Sweater

Judson has inherited his father's internal HVAC system. He gets SO HOT and sweaty so Jud just puts him in the BOB with just a diaper on. He looks so harnessed in here in this pic like he's ready to bungee jump off a bridge.

Lucy

This is what happens when I try to take a picture of her.

On Foot!

Judson is crawling everywhere, standing on his own and really getting into everything (cords, steps, etc.) Lucy in this pic is talking into her pager from the doctors kit we got her. Who the heck even has or uses a pager anymore? In any event, she's talking into it like a phone and getting the instructions for attending to her ever-present and unwilling patient, Baby Jud. Poor little one gets his blood pressure and heart listened to her in a not so gentle way on a daily basis. It's pretty funny.

Dinnertime

It's really pure comedy at dinnertime here. We don't usually eat until after they've gone to bed because it's like a zoo here. Judson is SO noisy and is in the banging phase of life, Lucy is usually begging to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or listen to Lady Gaga, Jud's checking texts on his phone and I'm usually one glass of wine deep trying to cook something healthy for us and something fattening for Lucy (see wine glass in left corner of photo). I really have sympathy for Kate plus 8 Minus Jon at mealtimes and wonder how in the hell she didn't completely lose her mind (well maybe she did).

Incredible Shrinking Daddy

Jud has been cruising along losing the lb's! Here are some pics of him with the monkeys in the stroller. Best part about a double stroller....when he takes them out for a run. We can attribute part of the success to pushing these 2 up some hills which is no easy task. Go Jud! He's also been training for an upcoming 5 and 10k....he's determined NOT to have Laura beat him ever again :)