Monday, May 31, 2010
Holiday Weekend???
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Public Service Announcements from the Eckleys
Just thought I would share some good reminders with everyone...
Make sure you bolt your furniture to the wall! I walked into Ben's room yesterday and found him doing this. So glad his dresser is bolted to the wall!!
And a reminder to all those boys out there from Kate...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Following "the Rules"
So the doctor's visit today brought up and interesting thought for me... following "the rules." I have had this conversation with several friends lately. When it comes to babies do you do what the doctors and the books tell you or do you do your own thing. I have always considered myself a rule follower but I have found as a parent I am not. I sort of do my own thing. Like today the doctor said not to give Kate table foods until she was 9 months old. Well we have already been giving her some really soft table foods and will continue to. Is it bad that I don't follow "the rules"? Are you a rule follower? Do I care that I don't follow all the rules out there? Deep thoughts for a Wednesday night!
Oh - I just have to share. Matt showed me the funniest blog today. http://stuffchristianslike.net/
We have been laughing all night at so many of the posts. You have to check it out!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Summer To Do List
1. The first and foremost thing is POTTY TRAINING. If you have been reading the blog for long you will remember that was also on last summer's list. Yep in July we will hit the 1 year mark at this wonderful potty training adventure. I think I might possibly lose my mind over this. I really don't think there is anything harder in the world than training a strong willed 3 year old boy who has no interest in the potty how to go to the potty. We have literally tried everything "in the book" - rewards (no interest - he says he has everything and needs nothing), punishment (he now has all of his toys put up and is not allowed to watch TV). Nothing is working. We are almost there but still have a little ways to go. The next 2 weeks I have devoted to nothing but this. Today I thought I was going to kill the little guy but we made it through. And I WILL win!!! The above picture is what our bathroom looks like right now. We literally spend hours in there each day!
2. I want to "redo" my bedroom and bathroom. Not change too much but I do want to hang some new pictures and remove my old dresser. This will mean I need to change up some things in the room. I am excited to rearrange and try out some new things.
3. Swimming!! We will be spending most of our days at the pool this summer I am sure! So exciting!! Ben is going to take swimming lessons this summer as well. He really has no fear in the water so we hope that he can easily learn some basics.
5. Work on Kate's baby book. Poor girl not a word has been written in it! I have done so good keeping up with the blog that it won't be too hard to just transfer it but I do need to do it and soon! I also want to work on turning the blog into a book as well!
8. Lastly and most importantly we will be having LOTS OF FUN!!!! We are looking forward to playing outside, VBS, playdates and all sorts of other fun activities this summer. It is going to be awesome! This will actually be what we do most of the time. The rest of the stuff is just extra if I get around to it. Anyone think I can actually get it all done?????
Monday, May 24, 2010
High Temp Weekend
Friday night we hung out with my family at Kelly and Andrew's new house. Kelly fixed an awesome dinner with asparagus chicken! Yummy!!! Matt had to work on Saturday (booo!!). So the kids and I got up early (well we get up early everyday) and joined my mom for some yard sales. It was Kate's first yard saleing adventure. We got some awesome clothes for me and a few fun things for the kids along the way. I love yard sales! Saturday afternoon is when Kate came down with the fever so we had to cancel our plans with the Mobleys (sorry guys we hate we had to miss dinner). Sunday Kate and I stayed home from church since she had the fever the day before (although she was fever free except for 2 hours on Saturday). I got lots done while the boys were at church. Then I went to a wedding shower. When I got home it was 95 degrees outside so we thought it was time to bust out the baby pool! The kids had a blast playing in it for a couple of hours. Kate loved standing in the water. She wasn't too excited about sitting because it was really cold. Ben loved every minute of it. Our neighborhood pool opens on Friday and we are so excited!! We are planning on spending most of the summer swimming! We had a great weekend even with the high temps.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Schools Out for the Summer!!
Kate and I enjoyed our last day alone as well. She has been coming with me to work every couple of weeks when I have needed to catch up on paper work. She is happy to sit and play in her seat while I work which is awesome. It gives me a couple of hours to get caught up at work. So we did that today. She is going to be starting school in the fall. She will be going 1 day a week. I have been slow to start her for some reason. Ben started when he was 5 months old and she will be 10 months old. I guess I am a little overprotective of her.
Here she is helping me at work today.
TGIF!!!!! We are looking forward to a low key weekend. Matt has to work so it will just be life as usual around here.Thursday, May 20, 2010
A Couple of Crazy Kids!!
We were having fun with an alphabet game. I wrote out the alphabet in chalk on the driveway and daddy would call out a letter. Then he and I would race to the letter. It was a great way for him to work on his letters. He loves anything that involves a race. Such a competitive little boy!
Messy Kate!! She loves to eat but also loves to make a mess. She is great at eating but moves around so much while eating that it just gets all over her. She also loves to make mouth noises so the food sprays all over herself!
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Mother's Day Gifts
I thought I would share my wonderful Mother's Day gifts that I got and just finished putting up. I have had a plan for a while of some things that I wanted to get to update my entryway and living room so Mother's Day was a good excuse to get them...
I had also been wanting to put up some more pictures in the family room. With an open floor plan there isn't much wall space and we don't have much table space for setting up photos. So I decided to do some shelves with lots of pictures on them. I think they turned out awesome!!!