Monkey is 2months!

I can't believe yet another month has past since I gave birth to the sweetest baby on Earth!

Oliver has changed our family in so many ways and in every way makes our family better, stronger, bigger (obviously), and more loving.

Our little Oliver is getting so big! 

(at least to us... I was told he still looks like a newborn by our pregnant waitress Friday)

As of last night he has out grown his footed newborn nighties... its the 1st thing he's out grown so far.

He is super long with some long arms and he officially (finally) loves bath time!

Ollie is SUCH a happy baby. He smiles and coo's all day.

He loves play time in the floor with Wes and I and he's also a huge fan of his swing (which is nice it gives me time to do things with Wesley-Monster).
He still has to be swaddled as tight as you can get him for him to sleep. 
He's a pretty good sleeper and wakes up smiling.
He thinks he needs to be sitting up at all times! (We'll be investing in a Bumbo very soon.)
He loves his mommy.... He'll definitely be another mama's boy... Just how I like 'em :D
And I do believe his eyes get more blue daily.

His 2 month check up and shots are June 1st and I am so excited to find out how much he really has grown.

In the last 2 months we have gotten to see even more so how loving, caring, thoughtful and protective Wesley is.... he is such an amazing child not to mention big brother (his favorite thing to be called) and we can just tell what a wonderful asset he will be to society, and one day we know he will make for a fantastic husband and father.

We must be are definitely doing something right. :)

Gorilla Dream

Every morning Wesley comes in our room, wakes me up by saying "Good morning!", climbs on the bed and asks for yogurt and cartoons and we all just hang out in bed for a while (I'm usually feeding Oliver about that time), and he starts his daily routine of loving and kissing all over his brother.

Yesterday morning he came in... said nothing and just said he needed "covers" then a pillow and was passed right back out. I was wondering why I was so tired and fell right back to sleep too. Then about an hour later I woke up to Oliver crying and saw that it was still only 8:30am.

Oliver woke Wesley up too and I asked him why he came in our bed that morning and went back to sleep and he said "Because those big black things in my room."

Of course I was like "what in the world is he talking about?!"

So I asked him more about these "black things" and he starts telling me that there were big black gorillas sleeping in his floor and they scared him and he screamed, but that mommy and daddy came in there and got the gorillas out of his room.

All day yesterday we kept having to tell him that there are NO gorillas in his room that they are all at the zoo and can't get out. 

Poor kid. As far as we know this was his 1st nightmare. And Charlie had to lay down with him in his room for him to go to sleep last night. But, today he hasn't mentioned the gorillas so I think he's over it already. I guess I'll see when I put him in bed tonight.

Not over him yet...

Now that Oliver is here I don't know how many times complete strangers have said something relating to Wesley getting over being excited about Oliver...

Seriously people?! I don't even know you! 

Anyways... as of today Oliver is 7 weeks!  Already!!

 I know Crazy right?!

And I think Wesley loves him more everyday!

Every morning Wesley wakes up... gets out of bed... runs in our room and instantly asks

"Where's baby OliBer?"

And as soon as he sees him he gets the biggest smile on his face he can produce...

And the kissing begins.

Wesley kisses poor little Oliver from sun up to sun down. He asks a million times a day

"Can I give him a kiss?"

I'm not sure why he asks every time but he does and of course we always tell him yes. 

Wesley is such a big helper when it comes to his brother and is right by his side most all day. Oliver could not have a better brother and I hope that one day they will be 

best friends.

So suck on that you negative people I don't even know. Just because your kids suck doesn't mean mine do ;)

April Highlights

Baby's 1st Hickey...

Yep you read that right.... Oliver gave himself a hickey today!

He was having his fave tummy time on his boppy and he was sucking on his arm and Charlie went up and picked him up and said "Oliver stop sucking on your arm before you give yourself a hickey."

Well a little while later we went to the park and I took him out of his carrier and looked down and there it was. I just started dying laughing and said "OMGosh! Honey look! He really did give himself a hickey!"

Crazy kid.

Confessions of a mom with boys

Here are some of my confessions about being & becoming a mom to 2 boys

I have NEVER envisioned myself having 2 boys... NEVER. To know me is to know that I love everything girly. 

Sparkly anything

Zebra anything!

Dresses

Bows and headbands

Jewlery

Painted Toe nails

Newly dyed hair

PINK! 

Everything girly is what I love!

Now don't get me wrong I have ALWAYS wanted a little boy. And at that I always wanted to have a little boy first.

Which I did. 

And was SO over the moon excited about when we found out.

More excited then my husband who wanted a girl.

I have always wanted my kids to have  a Big Brother to protect them when I couldn't, so when the US tech told us Wesley was a boy... I couldn't stop smiling... I was SO happy!

Once I finally convinced Charlie that I just had to have another baby and he finally agreed (well some what lol) I just KNEW I would get my little girl...

Not quite.

Finding out Oliver was a boy... Well... not one of my most excited moments lol.

I couldn't really explain how I was feeling..

Disappointed?... No

Upset?... Not really

Confused?... Kinda? lol

Shocked?!... ABSOLUTELY!

I had of course given thought to him being... well a him lol. We even had a boy name picked out and No girl name. But did I really think it would happen?! NO WAY!

Honestly it took until he came out and seeing him and holding him and LOVING him for it to really sink in

I am a mommy to 2 BOYS! 

Dirty, smelly, snot faced BOYS! 

Yeah right. Not in my house. I'm already teaching them young... Mommy refuses to have nasty, dirty, greasy headed boys. 

Boys... Ok.

Dirty ones... Heck to tha no!

Now at the same time would I want all girls?! 

Once again HECK TO THA NO! 

Most definitely NOT! 

Most little girls I know... 

well they are bratty... having multiple brats... No thank you lol. 

And trust me I remember how I was as a teenager lol.

I love how sweet my little boys are (well Oliver so far at least)

One would be plenty.

But I don't want a girl just to dress up...

I want a daughter that I can be close to when she's older.

Because trust me I'm sure when she's a teen... she'd hate me lol

Honestly... I'm already afraid of the boys growing up... getting married... and not hearing from them.

I have an aunt who has 2 boys.

When I was pregnant with Oliver she's the one that put my next confession/fear in me

I was talking about how I want to be in every aspect of my kids lives and then when they have kids I want to be in their lives just as much.

She replies

"That's not how it goes when you have boys... They get married and their wife is close to her parents too... and even though you and your son were so close while he was growing up... all of a sudden its her parents they call first... her parents in the delivery room... and its her parents they spend the bulk of the holidays with."

And that seriously... Terrifies me.

I already know what kind of mom I am... and its not the kind that boys... who grow up to be men... and get married... well their wife... who will probably be close with her own mom... she's not going to appreciate 

the kind of mom I am.

I'm the mom that even though I'm the disciplinarian... Wesley still says "I know you love me mommy" 

I'm that mom that will want phone calls...

ALL THE TIME! 

I'm that mom that will be their BIGGEST fan... of anything that they do.

I'm that mom that wants to be the biggest and best part of my kids lives.

I'm that mom that wants to be included... In Everything!

The PTA mom

The mom that volunteers to chaperon and go on field trips  

The protective mom.

The mom that wants their friends to stay at OUR HOUSE because I don't want them out of my sight.

I'm the mom that stays up way too often... scared... no TERRIFIED that something will happen to me and my boys will grow up without me there...

That someone else will do it instead...

I'm that mom that wants to be the first to know

I'm the mom that desperately wants to be in the delivery room when both boys become fathers.

And I'll be that grandma too....

But!

I also know the kind of mom I'm NOT! 

I'm not the mom that is going to be taken advantage of.

Or disrespected.

I'm not the mom that will stand back and watch someone hurt one of my kids... and not have something to say about it

I refuse to "pretend"... unfortunately for those involved... if I don't like someone... well.. they're going to know..

But I'm also not that mom that doesn't know when to step back and let them handle their own lives.... I know my boundaries... as a mom

When someone asks my kids about their mom... I want them to smile and have a million different wonderful memories and stories of all the things we've done and all the times I was there for them... no matter what!

Now of course this may sound crazy to some... I mean they are only 3 & 1 month... 

But these are things that keep me up at night.

So its not that I never WANTED to be a mom of boys... I guess its just kind of scary....

My husband was talking about a guy who he use to work with that was drafted for WWII... & instantly I thought "O my gosh! if there is another draft we have 2 times the chance that one of our boys will be drafted!"

Seriously... Those are the things that go through my mind.

Seriously

I'm a self proclaimed worry wart. 

In all actuality all I can do is raise them to be great people.

Humble, honest and depended men.

All I can do is be their mom.

And that's what I intend to be.

The best mom they could have.

A mom to 2 boys...

At least for now ;)

A new direction

I've decided to change things up because honestly how much is Charlie ACTUALLY going to have to do with this whole thing? uuugghhh.... None lol if he's on the computer its to look at car stuff... that's it.

So now here's a new welcome...

Welcome to my life of snips and snails and puppy dog tails... That's what little boys are supposed to be made up of right?

I guess we'll have to see.