The Boys

Jack - 5 1/2 years old
Jack, when I think of how much you and I have gone through in these past five and a half years I want to cry. Tears of joy of course. You have molded me into the person, the mother, I am today. I can still say hands down you were the best baby ever. You are so your mother's son in every way shape and form. And I'm here to tell you that is not a bad thing. Your punctuality, your anal retentiveness, your stubbornness, your self confidence, your wits, dude, those things are going to carry you far in life. I've been waiting probably since you were 2 or 3 for Kindergarten to start. And now that it is actually starting - I am freaking out! How am I going to let you go? You are going to make your own friends. You are going to do things by yourself - all day long. Without me there! How can that be? It's not that I'm scared of any of this, it's that I am bursting with pride at the seams. I am so freaking proud of the kid you are today and I am filled with excitement to find out about the man that you will become. I know the job of a mother is never done - but seriously, I've been working my big butt off for over five years molding you into this most of the time well behaved young man. You have literally been my life since day 1 of your existence and now I'm just hoping that I've given you the best wings that you need to fly. Because next Tuesday, I know you are just going to soar. I seriously love you with my entire being.

Finn - 3 1/2 years old
Finn, every time I look at you, I smile. You are, swear to God, the cutest boy in the entire universe. I don't know what it is about you. Your petiteness. Your huge smile. Your cheeks. I just want to devour you. You are at a very challenging age right now, thinking that you run the show around here. Soon you will realize that is not the case and you will stop pushing my buttons. But when you are in a good mood, my goodness - your imagination is off the charts. You would play with your toys for 10 hours if I let you, or if your brothers didn't disturb you. When I sneak into a room and listen to your imagination running wild, I just want to kiss you because I love it so much. I've never had much of an imagination and I so admire that about you. Your daddy asked you tonight if you could run upstairs and get something for him and you replied : no sorry daddy, I can't. I have to go to Gotham city. I mean come on, dude! You are amazing. You are so sensitive and you definitely wear your heart on your sleeve. I feel like I'm still getting to know you and understand you. But I just love you to pieces. When you aren't being crazy shy, you are such a chatterbox to people and you have no fear to ask anyone to play or to share with you. You go right up to groups of older kids and show them your awesome batman scooter and you are such an entertainer. I can't wait for you to develop new social skills this year in preschool. Finn, I seriously love you with my entire being.

Leo - 1 year, almost 2 months
Leo, you are the most social baby I have ever laid eyes on. No matter how tired, hungry, or crabby you are - if someone makes eye contact with you, you smile. You eat anything and everything we put on your tray and you are finally napping a solid 2 hours a day. You are talking more and more every day. And you are learning quickly to stand your ground with your brothers. Soon you will be able to take out Finn! Watch out, Finn! Leo you have completed this family in so many amazing ways I can't even begin to describe them. I love having three boys. I absolutely love it! I can't wait to watch you grow up Leo. And I can't wait to get into more of a routine this year. I know you'll miss your oldest brother, but you and Finn will become BFF. I love you with my entire being.

We Moved!!! And random bullet points

It finally happened, we are moved! Moving with three kids is utterly exhausting. I'm not sure how we did everything, but it all got done and everyone survived. It's been a crazy few weeks (or summer) to say the least. Out with the old and in with the new:

We loaded this trailer up a million times, but we didn't a U-Haul!

This isn't trashy at all! haha. We were able to put our entire house into the garage of the new place so we didn't have to store our belongings for a night.  (we closed on both houses the same day)

So far we are loving our new 'hood. (about 3 miles of our old 'hood) ha!

Our favorite things right now besides the extra space are: the culdesac, the back yard, and the amazing kids and parents that we've met so far. We took off Jack's training wheels yesterday and he's now a pro. We felt so bad because the kid probably rode his bike like 5 legit times before we moved here. We lived on such a busy street before that didn't have any sidewalks. Hooray for two wheels. It's a great parent moment when your kid learns how to ride a bike, no doubt!

I've spent a lot of my "free time" (if you can even call it that) organizing, slowly decorating, finding where certain things should go, etc etc. Tom hung our canvases in the perfect place, right about our fireplace. And I was on a mission to find something for the mantel.

I am pleased with how it looks!

My next project was to tackle our disgusting chair covers. This table and chair set is now in our formal dining room which won't get used very often, at least not now. But I still didn't want anything that could easily get stained on. I wanted a pattern, but nothing obnoxious or something that I would get sick of (aka chevron). I found the perfect color and pattern and it was 60% off at JoAnn's! SCORE!

And finally we got new furniture for our three season porch. This room is slowly becoming my favorite room in the house. And once fall time comes, it's going to be amazing! If only I had time to read a book or take a nap in this room life would be perfect. I guess I can't have it all! I'll take sipping a nice big glass of red wine with my husband after the kids are sleeping tho, for sure! And it's a good place to have morning coffee. If I could actually have a chance to drink my morning coffee. Kids sure do get in the way of everything. haha. 

Once again all of these pictures were taken from my cell phone. And it's been like a month since I've updated. Ugh. We were watching the YouTube channel on our AppleTV the other afternoon and I was showing the boys videos when they were younger. The freaking loved it! I need to take more videos of Leo and save them. Or blog about them. Poor kid doesn't even have a first year baby book yet! Come on Mom!!! Until next time...