Read to bed

Things seemed to be taking an interesting turn......

Tonight you read me bedtime stories and I fell asleep...until you looked over and said
"Mom don't fall asleep!! I am reading to you!!" a bit horrified that I had the nerve to fall asleep when something as cool as you reading to me was taking place. Well my love, it is not boring, or unspecial, or unworthy of celebration. It is AMAZING!! So beautiful and very Hallmark-card-ish. I cherished every waking moment of it. It's just that NOTHING can compete with the tiredness of pregnancy. For this I apologize.

At the sound of your chiding voice I pried my eyes open (even though they were catatonically closed....they were willing themselves shut I tell you) and that lasted for about 5 bleary seconds until I started nodding off again and you nudged me "Mo-om! Stay awake!" And again the battle was on with my eyelids. Darn eye lids.

After you finished the first book you ran to the shelf and grabbed this one shouting "Oh I love this one, this is my favorite!"

As you were reading (Dr. Seuss's rhythm is ever so relaxing) I was getting a little sad. Sad because these precious few moments of you reading me Dr. Seuss will probably last another 2 nights before you are asking me to buy you more grown up books. I wanted to shout the lyrics of "Forever Young" at the top of my lungs, as if that would really accomplish my goal. Sigh.

Don't grow up too fast Luke. I love you just the way you are.

Kung Fu fighting

Dear Luke,

You have been officially enrolled in karate now for 2 weeks and you are digging it! Cute things you have done or said since then...

Luke: Mom, I don't want to go to karate today.
Me: Why's that?
Luke: They make us do this thing and my stomach hurts!
Me: Those are stomach crunches honey, they are supposed to hurt.


Upon arriving at the school today you and Jackson were doing push ups outback. As I gathered lunch boxes and sweaters and stuff you were off no where to be found. When you finally came to the car you showed me that you had been making a log of how many push ups you had done. Per this log you had done 136.

When we got home you said:

Luke: MOM!! I think I did a world record!
Me: Really in what??
Luke: In push ups!!

:)

You are to-die-for cute buddy.

Aiden James Reinhart

Six weeks ago Aiden was born.

And I was lucky enough to be there when we was born.

And lucky enough to get to see him the next week.

And the next....

And every week after that. Ok so I stalk Aiden, alright?? Got a problem?

He is just a yummy, sweet, very boyish boy and I love him.

Oh and I love his mom...

She is my bestie since the 5th grade.

xoxo

Hanging with the Ladies

Dear ladies,

You are quite cute and lovely to hang out with. I hope you know how lucky you are to have each other to grow up with. Stay cool.

xo, Mommy/Auntie

PS I love the glasses (compliments of Charlotte's Nana)

Favorites

While cuddling in bed this morning I decided to conduct an informal interview with Lucas, the cutest 6 year old boy on the planet. Here's what he had to say:

What is your favorite color?

Golden

What is your favorite place to go? That's if you could go anywhere.

Hummm....Target!

What is your favorite place to go eat?

In-n-Out

Who is your best friend?

Oden and Violet 

(Oden is his friend Jackson's baby brother and Violet is his 3 year old cousin)

What is your favorite movie?

Star Wars: A new Hope. Number 3 movie gives me nightmares.

What is your favorite thing you do at school?

Music

What is your favorite time of day, a regular day?

Video game day

(This this doesn't exactly answer the question I thought it was cute. Video game day is Saturday mornings.)

What is your favorite toy?

Legos

What is your favorite store in the mall?

The Lego store

Double the luck

It's just not everyday that you see a double rainbow. Nope, definitely not. It was amazing, and so cool. I wanted to jump up and click my heels and shout "Luck 'o the Irish" and go search for a pot of gold or something, but I had helacious morning sickness that day and it was raining, and I was running behind to pick up the kids from school, so along with several other people I pulled out my camera, snapped a few shots and called it a day. One of the coolest things I have seen in a long time.

Check out how virbrant the first rainbow is? I have never been able to see more than three colors, red/yellow/orange but in this one you could see blue AND purple. Now we're talking.

Luke, use the force!

Luke is a lucky dog. He's lucky because he has a Nana who can sew. She won't admit it, but she is a ROCKIN seamstress. Luke was invited to a Star Wars birthday party (what 6 year old could as for more) and he wanted an Obi Wan Kenobi costume. So my mom and Jeniffer put their heads together and this is what they came up with.

I thought it was AMAZING how they not only captured the costume detail but were able to transform Lucas into an older, taller, man with facial hair! Incredible!!! 

Oh...wait. Sorry. That was their inspirational picture. The real ones are below.

Like I said, lucky dog!

Toothless

"Darn it Luke! Take your hand out of your mouth please!"

These words have been uttered several times in the last three months, because frankly, you have been wiggling that sucker nonstop. It's a miracle it didn't come out sooner with all that outside assistance, but we are absolutely overjoyed for you buddy. You are now on to wiggling the one next to it. :)

Baby Petersen

I am soooo happy for baby Petersen to join us. For many reasons:

One: Cuz he's cute

Two: He is my best friend's first baby

Three: He closes the one final gap that Johanna and I had left - motherhood. For a while I was the married one, the one with a house, the one with children, and a big mom car. And slowly (and in her defense - at a much more normal rate) she has been hitting all her life milestones too. Now she is right there with me. It's so lovely.

I love Jack

New fixings for a LeBaron Sandwich

We are so excited to report we have a new LeBaron in the oven. This week is 12 weeks - a very important milestone and we are getting very, very, very excited. Hurry September hurry!

Upon sharing the news with the kids we had some interesting conversation:

Charlotte: Ohhhhhhhh, is that why you have a little bit fat?

Lucas: I really like babies you know.

And we have had some interesting name suggestions from the kids as well.

Charlotte votes: Ashley

Lucas votes: Diego

And our latest conversation is where the baby will fit in the family sandwich. This requires a little backstory:

Very often we find our whole family in John's and my bed. We all love to snuggle and so started joking that we are a sandwich. John is usually the bread, Charlotte the cheese, I am the meat, and Lucas the other slice of bread. This represents how each person is placed on the bed in relation to the fixings of a sandwich. (I never said we weren't odd.)

So the other day it was just Charlotte, Lucas and me and I was the meat and they were each the bread slices. We were talking about the baby and I announced that the baby would be the new cheese and Daddy could be the side of french fries. To this Luke says "And then you need to have another baby mom, because we need sauce on our  burger!" Freaking hysterical.