Leaving The House With a Toddler and a Newborn

• Feed and change pants/outfit Newborn, put him in Boppy.
• Feed and change pants/outfit Toddler, turn on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
• Grab some caffeine for yourself and hurriedly get yourself dressed before either child starts crying.
• Change Newborn's pants again.
• Change Toddler's pants again and find him a different shirt because he somehow got sticky while you were getting dressed.
• Feed Newborn again.
• Make 3 trips to the car to take the Toddler, Newborn and all their crap down to the car.
• Bring the Newborn back into the house to change his pants since he took a giant poop in the car. 
• Change Newborn's outfit once you realize the extent of the poop.
• Load him back into the car-seat and return him to the car.
• Finally leave the house...

Total time: 2 hours 30 minutes

Time spent on errands: 35 minutes

Doesn't seem worth it does it?

Happy Mother's Day to Me!

My Mother's Day present to myself just arrived!  It's from a site called The Vintage Pearl and they have tons of cute stuff!

Transitional Time

I'm sorry I haven't posted much since we've been home. Quite honestly, having a newborn and a busy toddler keeps me pretty busy. I'm always changing someone and they never sleep at the same time. Plus a very little guy has his days and nights mixed up so I've been crazy tired!  I don't mind too much though because this little guy?

He's wicked cute.  I think he might be a little sweeter than Jackson was at this stage. It's hard to remember though since I tend to block those early days out I was SO tired!

Yep, he's pretty sweet and looks a lot like his brother did.  So much so that I sometimes mistakenly call him Jackson.

Everyone in the house seems to like him.  Jack loves to go over to him and say "Bebe" and play with his feet or pat his head.  He also pulls out his pacifier and tries to "share" food with him.  Fruit snacks, chicken nuggets, marshmallows.  I have to watch him like a hawk! At least he's sharing....

What's harder this time around is that both of our kids are needy and we divide and concur.  Spiderman tends to lean towards helping Jack out and then I take Ben.  The problems with this?  Jack can be taken care of much quicker and then Spiderman is back to sleep or whatever else he was doing.  Ben on the other hand?  He takes a little more time so I spend less time sleeping or doing anything else.  I would like to switch on occasion but for some reason Spiderman just doesn't hear Ben in the night.  Conveniently.

We did finally finish Ben's room.  Well mostly finish. I still have some decorative shelves and things to hang, but here's a picture.

It's actually much cuter in person.
That's all the time I have for this post before someone else needs to have a diaper change...

Meet Our Newest Family Member!

Benjamin James Connelly
8 lbs 8 oz 20 inches long

Everyone (including big brother Jack) is happy!

Clutter

The other night I was bouncing around Facebook. Going from one friend's profile to another looking at pictures and status updates. I don't know how but I found myself looking at Jessica Alba's page. I started looking at her pictures. She's got pics of her and a friend at fashion shows and in Paris along with pictures of her kids.

There was one picture in particular that caught my eye though.

It was one of her husband and her newest daughter Haven was in her jumperoo. In the background you could see her beautifully decorated dining room. And her dining room table is what I focused on. It was covered in piles of clothes, toys, mail, and shopping bags.

Like MY dining room table.

Not only did it make me feel better about my piles of crap everywhere, but it made me like Jessica Alba all the more. She's a normal mom whose house is full of clutter.

Even if she spends weekends in Paris.

Two Weeks

That's how long I have left until I have this baby. And I can hardly wait! I am SO done with being pregnant! I want to be able to bend over again. Jack knows exactly how to take advantage of my physical limitations. If he doesn't want me to pick him up he just lays flat on the floor knowing I can't reach him. Little booger. He also loves to take off running anytime we're outside so that I have to run right after him. He's ridiculously fast and I'm VERY pregnant!

I'm sure the time will fly by. We have Easter next weekend and all the prep there. I have a few more things to do to get his room ready, and I have SO much to finish at work before I go.
As far as work goes, I am very ready to be done there. Things have been so busy lately. I don't know if it's that things are annoying and stressful or if it's just that I'm annoyed and stressed to begin with. Either way, I could use the break. It will be nice to only have to worry about 2 children and not 50!

We still haven't decided on a name for sure yet. We have two that we really like. (I like one more than the other and of course Spiderman likes the other) We've decided to wait and see which one he looks like.

Hopefully with some time off work, I'll be able to post more. We also just bought a new laptop to replace the one that died around Thanksgiving. It should make it a little more convenient to post since it's more portable. If I want to post now I have to go downstairs to use the computer we have there. Most of my living space is upstairs (I have a bilevel) and we spend more time up there and most of Jack's toys are in the living room up there. I can keep an eye on busy little boys if I'm upstairs with him instead of downstairs blogging.

So...that's where I'm at.

I Think I May Be Leaving My Husband

For my Cleaning Lady. She came for the first time on Friday while I was at work.

And I Love her!

When I came home, I just walked around the house for 10 minutes looking around and crying like an idiot. My house was clean!! And I didn't have to do it!!!
She scrubbed my bathrooms until they shined. She dusted and vacuumed and even did my furnature. My floors were mopped, my kitchen sink scrubbed out, the top of my fridge was cleaned, and she even scrubbed my stovetop and hood. I have been in this house four years and have NEVER gotten my stovetop and hood as clean as she did in one day. If I weren't so damn relieved to have a clean house, I would be self conscious about my housekeeping skills.

This couldn't have come at a better time since I was bleeding a little bit on Friday. With my newly cleaned house I was able to spend the weekend resting and hanging with my boys instead of unsuccessfully cleaning like a madwoman.

I could totally get used to this!