Mr. Personality! He is so much fun to have around. Although he nearly pulled an all-nighter last night and is super super fussy today for some reason (I think it may have been his shots) he is a good good baby (I hope).

Nolan can be difficult: picking on Lucas more than anyone and throwing some serious attitude (much like Lucas did at this age.....sigh.....it's going to be a long few years if he follows in his footsteps as Lucas just barely got past this stage and I can finally say that I really do love my child) but he is constantly making us laugh. And....he just barely went to nursery for the 1st time ever!

Lucas is the master hoarder. I find his little lego works of art everywhere around the house as he fears that Nolan will get them and destroy them. Nolan would get them and he does destroy them all while looking straight at Lucas. Here Lucas is unloading the silverware with a backpack full of blankets, food and animals to take on his hunting trip. The gun case holds his toy shotgun and Nerf gun all of which he is afraid of Nolan putting his little sweet hands on.

The boys will say something really lame like "You're not my friend anymore" to one another when they don't quite agree with what the other one is doing so Greg told them to say something a little more manly like "Go pound salt". Yesterday Dax had a couple rough minutes at the piano and because he didn't like that I was telling him to sit there until he was done practicing he told me "Go pound salt, mom!" After scrubbing the door inside and out and cleaning his room all by himself, he learned that maybe that's not the thing to do. We've just started initiating wall sits (thank you Geary's) so maybe we'll use that next time.

On the way home from school the other day I asked Dax if he was still sitting by the same two boys in class.
Dax: No, I sit by Alex (girl) and Jayden (boy)
Me: Do you like sitting by them?
Dax: Not the girl
Me: Why?
Dax: I just don't like girls
Me: They can be your friends
Dax: BUT THEY ARE NOT MY FRIENDS!
I can only imagine Greg having this same conversation with his mom 24 years ago as he didn't really take notice to girls until about 8 years ago when he married me!

off to hold a very fussy baby.....

EMMETT: two months old (tomorrow),
happy, content, loved, smiles, eats, sleeps, alert,
burps, bundled, held, adorable, baby

THE GOOD
I'm going to try to teach Dax piano lessons (this could turn ugly as I'm afraid I may do a poor job of teaching).
Lucas can't wait until Dax is done with school (these two are good buddies). Roughly 90 days to go.
I feel like I have two babies.....this is good, but it sure is hard.
Emmett rarely cries when I have him in this sling, where he is for about 50% of the day.
Lucas has been such a good kid.
Emmett constantly smiles for Dax.
Nolan is constantly talking or singing which makes all of us laugh.
Dax came downstairs after being put to bed to say that Lucas had said a really bad word. I asked him what it was and he replied "I can't say it. It's really bad". I said "Just tell me. You won't get in trouble". He paused a moment, looked down said "Dumb". I'm so glad that right now this is as bad as it gets!

THE BAD
Emmett thinks night time lasts from 10pm to 3 or 4am only
Nolan is fascinated with Emmett's eyes
Nolan is awfully picky when it comes to food.
Dax loves to tease.

and THE UGLY
There's nothing worse than puke; that's what Dax brought home from school
The younger three have been sick for the past two weeks so it may continue for another week if they catch what Dax has
Some days I've changed anywhere from 15-20 diapers (I can't wait until Nolan is potty-trained)
I. Am. Exhausted.

But there's not a day goes by that I'm not grateful to be a mom to four amazing little boys.
I do love my little kiddos.

I needed a changing table/dresser for Emmett's room. I really liked this dresser from Pottery Barn, but because I'm on a budget and because I wanted something longer I was determined to find just that. Something longer and a whole lot cheaper. The only downfall to that was that I had to visit the Salvation Army probably 10-15 times to find it and Greg spent some serious hours on this baby. Well worth it in my opinion. I ended up getting this solid wood dresser for $40 and probably put another $40 into hardware, paint, primer and sandpaper and then just tried to copy Pottery Barns idea. I'm so happy with the way it turned out.

This was how the door originally looked. We took out the grain stems by filling it in with some wood filler, some serious sanding and covered it with paint and lacquer.

My first purchase for Emmett's room was this rocker. It was also a Salvation army purchase for $40. I didn't love it at first, but now it's perfect. Perfect color. Perfect size. And I like that I only paid $40, so I don't care what happens to it. We also had only one crib, but I needed another one, so I bought this at a consignment store here in town for $25. Sometimes having to be on a budget and looking for a deal ain't bad!

I la la love Joel Dewberry's new Modern Meadow line.
Here I wrapped them around 18x18 inch stretched canvas for some color in Emmett's room. They sit above his almost finished dresser (that looks fabulous thanks to Greg...pictures to come)

I really liked these camera straps from Electic Whatnot
so I made my own

And Dax's tie idea came from The Belle and the Beau

sure love this kid and so grateful he's mine