Happy Holidays!!!

It was a glorious holiday indeed... and I have learned to cope with Acesters new favorite phrase... "don't know"... that is his answer for everything.. Case in point:

Acester: LOOK!! Daddy!!  I did it... I wrote it!!!
Hubster: Look.. You did it!!! What did you write?
Acester:...don't know...
Momster: SMH... <sigh>

That's my Acester...

Then there is my Wadester... who's favorite thing right now is to blow bubbles... and throw up but the throw up thing is just part of his daily routine.  I'm still trying to figure that one out and will return to the doctor again about that one.  He is growing and gaining weight it's just that if could just stop throwing up he'd probably be another 10 pounds.

In the meantime.. there's me... still trying to get used to this whole mother of 2 thing.. I ordered cards, didn't get them in the mail in time, then traveled for the holidays and was going to give them to the rightful owners if not mail them... and still further forget them.

I don't know when I will get my brain back... but I feel like it's coming.... slowly, but coming...

Weekend Recap...

Pop Pop & Unca Unca AJ made it down... just in time to hit a open house at the fire station...

Ace also had some fun at a birthday party for a classmate...

We also got some shopping in and a great dinner out...

For the first time the Acester spoke repeatedly about an event (the birthday party) which clearly means he had a BALL which makes me a happy mommy which makes for a wonderfully successful weekend!

Wordless Wednesday

I'm going back to Atlanta....

Go 'head then.... 

The Acester...

Has been through many changes....

He's so Diddy...

We've ridden carousels...

We've made "treats"...

We've driven shopping carts...

We've got our "ball" on...

We've gotten offended when interrupted during "Man" time...

All in all... the Acester has GROWN up... :-(

When there's 2...

You can't evenly divide your attention...

You can't eat your meal while it's hot...

You can't go to bed early.... or sleep late...

You can't ever NOT worry... EVER AGAIN

Your relation with God quadruples...

You are guaranteed to laugh out loud.... multiple times... DAILY

Your heart is permanently swollen....

See the sun come up...

I now recognize why my parents used to wake up so early on the weekends... I used to think they were so crazy because WHO gets up on at the crack of dawn on the weekend? Well my parents did and this weekend as I enjoyed a morning run while the sun rose, I understood.  The amount of things that I could get done before the rest of the world and my house especially woke up was liberating to me.  I had already nursed the baby, pumped a bottle, enjoyed a bowl of oatmeal with blueberries and pecans and was off.  When I completed the run, I had time to shower, pump another bottle, prepare for the Acester to get up and the day ahead. I had a clear mind and a bundle of energy to get it done.  So while the first week back to work was EXHAUSTING this was so refreshing.  So here's to further becoming more of an adult... I get up early on weekends and actually.... like it.  <sigh>

Adjusting...

There was quite the adjustment period for the Acester with his new school... I really feel sorry for him as his 2 year old brain could not wrap itself around the fact that his whole life was never going to be the same again... He has put us through the RINGER... but I must say that every day I see little glimmers of the old Acester that make my heart smile and now that "regular" school has started versus "summer camp"... He is enjoying his new school... (as am I)...

Now if I can just get him to understand that Wade is here FOREVER and is not a toy and can not be played with right now... life would be all right!!!

Acester and his SMALL backpack...