Ten on Tuesday

1. My little baby Ro is now becoming a chubby bubby. He eats continually and when he isn't in his high chair eating he is bringing me Go Go Squeeze Apple sauces, fruit squeezable pouches, mandarin oranges, or his new found love, animal crackers. I had never really gotten animal crackers before, but we had some left over from Ro's bday party. Rowan is now an addict, searching them out all the time.

 

Here he is with the bag of animal crackers. "Dat, Dat, Da, Mamma."

  I think he would eat continually if I let him, but usually I cut him off an the hour point. His favorite foods, besides the one's listed above, would have to be broccoli. Absolutely loves it!

2. Zane found Daddy's CAT hat the other day and these adorable photos ensued. So funny! Zane was naked in these pictures, all but the hat, which makes it that much better. 

In this picture Zane looks just like Zach did as a little kid. It's his smile, dimples, and that Blakley head/ears that makes him look like me, well like my Dad.

This one on the other hand, looks just like daddy, all the time.

 Hi Mamma!

3. The boys were back in daycare yesterday after four days off, with mixed results. Zane seemed to have a good day, with no reports of crying for hours. However, I found Rowan laying on a pillow staring off into space, looking quite miserable when I picked him up at four thirty. His teacher told me he was pretty crabby all day and still isn't drinking. We came home and Rowan ate pretty much non stop until he went to sleep. So the struggle and sadness around that continues. 

4. Monday was St. Patrick's Day and my boys did rock all their Irish green at school. They looked very festive, though not really excited about getting their picture taken. Here is the best I could do.Check out Zane's terribly fake smile, so funny.

5. We have started trying to take Rowan's pacifier away while he is awake in hopes of him only using it while he is asleep. This has been a disaster and Rowan somehow manages to find it or his brother gets it for him (how thoughtful of him). His recent illness and starting daycare hasn't helped either. We shall press on soon. 

 Oh and have I mentioned he has a huge gut!

6. Recently Mr. Ro has also started throwing some little baby fits when he can't have what he wants. And by 'what he wants' I mean food of some sort. Usually the baby fits are in the evening when he wants to eat applesauce continually and we try to get him to drink milk. He throws his little head back, cries the most pathetic cry, and sometimes even puts his face in his hand for effect. He is definitely a strong willed little guy who knows EXACTLY what he wants and when he wants it. "Dat, dat, dat mamma" is his new favorite phrase. 

7. I am getting excited about Zach and I's upcoming weekend trip to St. Louis. I can't wait to be back in the STL, which I have missed so dearly. I didn't realize how much I loved that city until I left, isn't that always the case. I really miss the scenic view of the sun rising over the arch on my way to work. The Devon Tower and the Oklahoma State Capital are no where near as beautiful. I also cannot wait to see all my SLCH girls. I am trying to plan out all the places I want to eat, which is going to be hard since we only have so many meals there. Oh and I'm also very excited about Adam getting married too! Should be tons of fun. 

8.Today was the long awaited release date of Disney's Frozen. Zane literally had me mark the day on the calendar that it was coming out and we have had a count down. for the past two weeks. This was partly because during my orientation week a presenter falsely claimed it was coming out that day and we went to get it only to find that it really wasn't available. That is a three year old's nightmare for you. I still find it strange how much he has fallen in love with the movie, purely based on the soundtrack. He was not a big fan when we saw it in the theater, but this evening I arrived home to a Frozen party. We didn't quite make it all the way through, but that just means more Frozen fun for tomorrow.

9.Other fun happenings this past week include a wonderful find at the dollar store, a helmet. He doesn't ride a bike yet so doesn't have a real helmet, so this dollar version has been working great for things like, keeping  dragon fire and swords out of his eyes. You know all the normal hazards of the backyard. We also got out the dinosaur train set he got for his second birthday, almost two years ago, and he loved it! He can actually put it together, load up his dinosaurs, help the train up the hill without pushing it off the track. Much more fun now. I wish he had loved his train table this much when we had a big basement to enjoy it in.

 

10. Also this week I started trying to save money on groceries, our biggest expense (outside of our two house payments of course). I made my grocery list, per usual, after finding recipes I wanted to cook for the week. Then spent about thirty minutes finding coupons online and researching some money saving apps on my phone. So far I've used them on two shopping trips and saved about ten percent each time. However, this does make the shopping trip take a little longer, since I'm trying to stay closely to my list. Here is the end result of our longer shopping trip.... little brother sleeping on big brother's shoulder. So adorable. I was at a smaller grocery store so it was the highlight of all the shoppers. Have I mentioned I love these boys?

 Yes, we had to break into the Minion Cheese Nips midway through the trip.