Wanted: The Sandman

Where are you Sandman? I need your magical dust to put me to sleep...actually that's not true. I don't really need your magical dust for me, I'm sleeping just fine. I need you for my boys. Please come and sprinkle them so I can get a decent night's sleep before the baby comes! Otherwise, I don't think I'm gonna be able to take care of three kids all day long.

It's really not as bad as I'm making it out...my boys sleep. They go to bed at a decent hour, and this tired mommy goes to sleep right along with them, but then David gets up at least twice because he's lost his binky or had a nightmare, and Jacob gets up to have a bottle and diaper change. Some nights he's up more because...who knows why, he just does, but all I have to do is put his binky back in his mouth and he goes back to sleep. But I'm still jostled out of my deep sleep to take care of them.

So you would think with all of this disturbance that they would want to sleep in. Nope. For the past couple of days they have been up at 6 or 6:30. Not terrible, but if you know me you know I am not a morning person AT ALL! I'm trying to be though because I know when this next baby comes I'm going to be thrown into the whirlwind of everything that comes with a newborn while juggling the daily grind of two little toddlers. I've really wanted to get into the habit of getting up before the boys so I can get a shower and maybe have some time to myself. But what pregnant woman wants to get up at 5 every morning knowing she won't have a nap all day long?

Oh did I forget to mention that? My boys are also on opposite napping schedules...Jacob goes down in the morning and by the time he's waking up, David's ready for his nap, and by the time David wakes up from his, Jacob is falling apart and ready for another one. No matter how hard I try I just can't get them to sleep at the same time. So no nap for mommy. And then I go to sleep when the boys do, so no me time either. It begins to wear on you after a while.

So please, Sandman, come and sprinkle that dust that will put my boys to sleep AND keep them asleep for the whole night! Please!

A 1st Birthday!

Happy Birthday Jacob!!

Hard to believe you have gone from this...

to this!!

What you are now doing on your 1st birthday:

- walking...practically running, you've got a very fast walk little man!

- still eating like a pig! I don't think I've ever seen a baby eat as much as you

- can climb onto and off our couches

- can climb up stairs, although you haven't quite figured out that it would be in your best interest if you turned around backwards to come down! haha

- can drink out of a sippy cup...although you are lazy and we have to hold it for you. You are capable of doing it yourself but you just prefer to be babied!

- starting to hold your own against your big brother

- can imitate lots of sounds...you are quite a talker

- can put yourself to sleep (been doing that since you were like 5 months old), but I greatly appreciate it, especially with your little brother on the way!

- love to sing and dance...you know how to shake your body!

- is a BIG momma's boy...I love this sometimes, but other times I just wish you would go to Daddy every once in a while. :)

And so much more!! I can't wait to see what this next year has in store for you little man! We love you sooo much!!

We Love Our Family!

Sorry I've been MIA this last month and so...here's why...

1. Brandon graduated from BYU-Idaho in December...sorry no pictures, he decided walking across the stage was pointless because we had no family coming out, so it would have just been me (no way was I taking the boys if we did go), and we could celebrate just fine by ourselves.

2. Brandon got a job for SRC (Syracuse Research Corporation) in New York, so we were busy packing up.

3. We flew home (Maryland) for Christmas and spent a whole month with family...

Pictures are in reverse order...sorry, there are too many for me to want to fix

Loving the dancing flowers

We celebrated Jacob's birthday a little early up at my Grandparents house...

David loving his cupcake

Trying to get Jacob to blow out the candle (his birthday is tomorrow!!)

My mom with her grandsons

Me and my mom...please ignore my chubby face...

Jacob still not sure if he likes Grampy's beard

Feeding the rabbit with Grammy

Kicking a ball around on a warm day (it was in the 60's!)

Dancing with Grampy and Grammy

Great Uncle Lind and Aunt Donna...David didn't want to be in the picture

Love this picture of my dad and Jacob

My brother, Uncle Kevin, was great with my boys!

Grandma and Jacob

We went to the Washington D.C. temple before Christmas to see the lights and got an updated family picture...last family picture was when Jacob was like 4 months old!

Rough-housing with Grandpa! The first night they got to see him!

I have a TON more pictures I could post but don't really want to deal with blogger...if you want to look at them they are on my facebook page.

4. Why we spent a whole month with family...we originally planned for 3 weeks before Brandon got this job in NY, so when he did we decided that it would be best if just Brandon flew back and packed all our stuff into a U-haul and brought it to our new place in Liverpool (we didn't think our boys could handle a 5 day cross-country drive). Luckily, my dad volunteered to help him...so while they flew back, packed our stuff and drove cross-country to NY, I was staying with my mom and got to visit a few more people! Then my mom and I drove up with the boys and met them at our new town house!

5. Now we are working on unpacking and Brandon starts his new job tomorrow (wish him luck!)

Oh, I would also like to mention that while we were home we celebrated Brandon's 27 birthday! Hard to believe we started dating when he was 21 and I was 20!

So that is why I have been too busy to update my blog...but don't worry, now that we are settling in I will get much better.

2012 is going to be a wonderful, interesting year!