time is my enemy

before i had kids i would go through life like, mehhhh i want high school to be over. mehhhhhh i'm so done with school, when will i be done with college?!

but ever since i got married, life just seems to shoot on by and having kids just seemed to make life shoot by even faster.

brett and i are going on 6 years of marriage this year and we have a 3 year old and a 3 month old!

while i never want to repeat high school, i do wish i could go back to everton's baby moments, i barely remember them anymore, and it's from past blog posts and pictures that the memories start coming back to me. 

so now that i have another baby i try so hard to cherish the times i have with my baby girl.

but it's so hard to do that cuz life is so crazy!

anywhos, time goes on whether we want it to or not.

everton and i just celebrated our birthday 2 weekends ago.

and we celebrated at chuck e. cheese!
(much to brett's dismay)

we went to the one in sandy but they didn't have a ball pit!

does anyone know where in utah a chuck e. cheese have one?

but we enjoyed cardboard cheese pizza and their variety of arcade games instead.

forget yearly family photog sessions.  i think we'll just get our portraits done here.

the top pic was from 2007 when we went to chuck e. cheese on a whim.

oh, how we've changed and i'm glad i don't dress like rainbow brite anymore.

i can't believe my baby boy is 3 now and i'm 26!

just some fun birthday facts about mr. E

he's obsessed with the justice league and the avengers (that's my boy)

his fav foods are chicken nuggets and strawberries.

he is currently 37.5 in. and weighs 32 lbs.

he still gives the best kisses and is still a good helper when it comes to charlotte.

we are also attempting to potty train him!  so far it hasn't been too bad, we've had minor accidents and more successes making it to the potty.  thank freaking goodness.  changing his diapers is becoming unnecessary and excessively stinky.

charlotte is the one that's allowed in diapers now.

so as of my last post everton's been to preschool twice now!

here's how his first day went.

i solemnly got him ready that morning and made sure he was nice and fed before he left. 

we saw the bus coming and i tearfully took his hand and we walked out to the bus together.

the bus comes pretty much right to our door so that's really awesome.

he was really apprehensive about getting on.

the bus helper lady allowed me to come on the bus so that everton would know it was ok.

she strapped him in and motioned for me to sit next to him.

that SLAUGHTERED me.  i bawled and bawled which made him bawl as well.  totally my fault for freaking him out.  i gave him a teary kiss and a hug goodbye and left.

i went over to jill's for a second for much needed hugs and comfort then i went home where i ate whatever i wanted, watched whatever i wanted, shnuggled charlotte, worked out, and what?  i even got to take a shower while charlotte napped.

i could totally get used to this.

everton's awesome teacher would text me pics as to how everton is doing and stuff.

i'm so grateful that he has this opportunity to go to school and am glad i'm used to that fact now. as much as he drives me nuts sometimes at home, I totally miss him when he's gone.

and today, once he got home he opened his backpack to show me his baggied aquarium thing they made.

love my schoolboy.

Easter tidbits and the need for hugs

i'll get to the hugs part in a moment but let me first share with you our Easter Sunday.

it was a lovely Easter Sunday and we had kyla and her little fam and erin over.

everton and hazel hunted for eggs.

and took some family pics...

this red headed 10 month old is starting to walk!

having a girl means adorable Easter dresses!!!!!!

i'm in love with the fact the charlotte's eyes are blue, they could change later but right now i'm cherishing the fact that i have a blue eyed baby.  i do hope they stay blue though!  there's a chance they could stay, i mean, look at kyla's baby boy, blue eyed and red haired!

and Easter means it's time to binge on peeps!  and it thrills me that they've come out with new awesome flavors!

and i just had to quickly throw this up on the blog.  my AWESOME friend jill got me jon bernthal's autograph from salt lake's most recent comic con for my early birthday present!!  if you don't know who he is, he was in the walking dead, which is a super gross show but with a really good storyline.  i didn't get to go this time to comic con because charlotte's nursing schedule wouldn't have made it very fun.  but thanks to jill for bringing me back a piece of comic con back!  (a might fine piece i might add ;-) jkjk brett, you know i know you hot!  p.s. i promise i'll take the picture down from the fridge.) 

then we dyed eggs.

note to self-using chunky glitter while decorating eggs will make peeling the eggs very tedious and messy.  clean off before EATING.

now, the reason why i need hugs-virtual and real....

EVERTON IS GOING TO PRESCHOOL!....

next week.

pretty much right after he turns 3, which is this sunday.

ask me about it and i could cry at the drop of a hat.

he'll be going to school at the early learning center for his speech delay.

i know i know, lots of people said to just wait and one day he'll just start talking.  but it was worrying me that kids his age have a vocabulary of over 100 words and everton has like, 10 words.  and even then he doesn't finish out the word.  as much as it KILLS me that he's going to school a lot earlier than i planned, i'm really hoping this will boost his talking so that we're all not frustrated as to what he needs and wants.  and it would be freaking nice if he called me mommy!  they ruled out autism so he's pretty much just taking his sweet time in speaking english.  but action, animal, minion, and random vehicle sounds?  he's got those in the bag.

and what kills me even more, is the fact that he'll be taking the bus.

is everton ready for school?

or is school ready for everton?

Thrush Thursday

thrush.

did any of your kids have this?

it's another common baby illness that i had never heard of before until one of my kids got it.

if you don't know what this is, it's a type of fungal infection usually in the mouth caused by an overgrowth of yeast.

and charlotte has it.

with her, it's just a thick white coating on her tongue and it doesn't affect her eating.  but she's had it twice now.  the first time was the week before her blessing and the second time it came back this week.  i've been treating it with gentian violet hoping she won't pass it to me while nursing.  it went away within a week the first time around and i'm REALLY hoping it goes away for good at the end of this week.

i'm mainly blogging about this because i want to document pictures of charlotte with her mouth full of the purple meds.  she looks hilarious.

the first 2 pics were from her first round of thrush and the last 3 are from this week.

she's been looking like a zombie or like a baby modeling a super purple lipstick.

but she's still so cute!

life with 2 kids

everybody be quiet, both of my kids are sleeping!!

everton stopped taking naps when he was around a year and a half old.

but lately he's been waking up a little earlier than i'd like, then he'll sonk out later on in the day, making him not sleep at night.  note to self: don't feed him ice cream right before bed and after a long and late nap.  today though, he's been a little feverish and cranky so i made him take an early nap.  

and charlotte, her whole life revolves around sleeping and eating, so i didn't have to worry about her not sleeping.

which, she's been sleeping reasonably well at night.  some nights she decides that she doesn't need to eat at 3am and sleeps ALL night.  and then there's some nights where she wants that late night snackaroo.

hopefully we'll get onto a good schedule where she likes to sleep all night.  HOPEFULLY.

so i thought i'd take this rare moment and come back to my darling blog.  i miss blogging.  but holy crap, taking care of two kids doesn't allow me to do much else.  when i need a nap, i let netflix babysit the toddler while i nap with the baby.  otherwise, i'm always changing someone's poopy butt (we're working on getting everton potty trained soon!  i'm scared) or i'm feeding someone's face.

geez, what's 3 kids gonna be like in the future?

anyways i thought i'd catch up on what's been happenin since my last post.

we got newborn photos done of my sweet girl.

taken by charlene!

i made her tutu and did her nails.

having a girl is wonderful.

i think charlotte and everton are going to be best buds.  she smiles like nobody's business when everton gets in her face.  he always kisses her good morning and goodnight.  he gets concerned when she cries and tries to soothe her with the pacifier.  i'm so grateful he loves her and hasn't tried to kill her.

and then we blessed our charlotte on march 2nd.  it was a beautiful day, she didn't poop up her dress and didn't cry and freak out during the blessing.

we had a luncheon after with a ton of food and a ton of loving family and friends.

here's some pics of some of those family and friends.

we also got everton a twin bed and he didn't have any trouble transitioning. he actually looks like he's in heaven when he sleeps in it.

i got to go to charlene's baby shower!  she's due in the beginning of april and we're all anticipating the arrival of sweet baby emery!

the cecil and caldwell kids.

having these four together make for a lot of noise.

charlott's such a sweet jolly baby that brings such a sweet spirit into our home.

oh crap, she's waking up, time to feed!