Tis the season

*I forgot to publish this last week. I know REAL pressing stuff in here in here.


OMG BOTH KIDS ARE NAPPING AT THE SAME TIME!

Otto turned 6 months the other day and kid is a drooling machine. He's been soaking through clothes so go tooth go! I mean that sucker has to come in. I've been seeing the little white tops for months now. He has his check up the the other day and he is super short still. Only in the 1%. His weight is good but its a bit strange. I know I'm little but not THAT small. Maybe he is just waiting and will just have a huge spurt. I dunno I can't really stress on that as I have zero control over that. Otherwise he is a healthy little man.

So ya nap time. Olive passed out after a raging fit where I told her I needed to sit down for 2 min and rest. We're still having some crazy sleepless nights between the both of them and some days I'm just plain tired. And not like the tired where you can get through it but the tired where if you don't sit you are going to barf. So me asking to sit down for 2 min turned into her screaming, hitting, and freaking out. I put her in her room to take 5 and put Otto down for a nap. When I came out she told me she was going to sleep it off and wake up for dance. Done deal kiddo! She was up a few times last night so she is tired. Her 5am wake ups are still happening here and there but she has started to get back into the habit of waiting for her owl to turn green so I'll take that. She comes in our room in the am,  throws the owl on my head and asks if we can find Kooky Kooky (elf on the shelf) I need to start setting it later as its at 645 right now but still that is amazingness! Otto is up 4-5 times a night. He keeps getting Olive's gross sick from school so his snot has been out of control which is most of the reason he has been having some rough nights. Thank goodness Blake will help out with that as some times I'm just a zombie. I keep reminding myself his waking it totally normal and to stop having crazy expectations. I need to start adding an afternoon coffee in my life.

Christmas is seriously right around the corner. I went into panic mode last night at 3am when I was feeding Otto. I was looking at my calendar (cause what else do I have to do at 3am) and I was like HOLY SHIT BALLS we have one shopping week left. We are celebrating xmas early by a few days too. Yikes! So tonight (yep finishing this post up tonight) I finished up the rest of my shopping online. I have a few more little things to do but I'm pretty stress free now.

I'm behind an entire month with photos so here goes about 100 photos. Yikes!

My friends were in town from NY for a wedding so we crashed their quiet hotel weekend. 

Also it was November and beautiful out. 

And then my other friends from NY came out for a visit. Dammit I miss NY. 

We got a new couch and it's a beauty! 

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Reading her "1 year photobook" I have yet to make years 2 and 3.....

Boba and cookie outing. 

Skates. Still not totally sure about it.

Swing squishing. 

Fashion Island tree. 

The chickens are always in motion around her. She is totally unpredictable. 

Helping me bake for a fundraiser at school. 

Pop tarts and Rainbow cookies. 

I ended up with frosting and sprinkles and they were quite delicious. 

Some mornings we just park his high chair in front of the window and he just watches the chickens. 

trike-a-thon

Rollercoaster. 

His first character meeting. He was laughing so hard and Blake said the guy inside was as well. Little charmer. 

Tea Cups. 

Thrilled to be on a ladies mani/pedi date. 

Pho lunch dates. 

Whoopie Pies. Probably the most butter I've ever used in a recipe. 

Princess Party. 

Ramen Bun burger. Kinda insane. 

Racing. 

So Blake has been doing yoga at work and apparently Olive does it at school. Um when do I get to do Yoga. 

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Penny with the smackdown. I LOVE when babies grab at eachother. Its just so damn cute and curious. 

The babes of biking. 

It was crazy hair day at school so went pink. 

My house is in a constant state of chaos. 

5am wakeup with these crazies but damn fine sunrise. 

Salted Caramel Apple Pie and S'mores Pie. 

Shoulder sleeps are everything. 

Yep she jumped over his head. Poor kid is going to be tough as hell. 

My brother and his pj's. 

Hair puller. 

Pup obsessed. 

Her room at Grandma's house. 

Passed out while Sierra waits to go in and steal her bread on her lap. 

I know, we're gross. 

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Well hello! I haven't had access to a computer much this last month so I've taken a little break. Blake has been shooting some extra projects after work so the computer has been tied up in important business! Santa bring me a laptop!!! So I'm attempting to blog from the phone. I mean my grammar can't get any worse at this point so why not? I'm also waiting for Otto to wake. While he isn't on a super set schedule 99% of the time he has a wake up between 10-11 which means he usually wakes up right as I drift off to sleep. So when I can I just wait up and hang in bed. He is getting over a cold so I'm hoping he will get back into a better routine since that is on it's way out. The last few weeks were a bit rough. Olive has slipped back into her 5am wakeups. I remember how much time I spent trying to figure out why when honestly it's just who she is. It's been crappy and being tired is an understatement but it's who she is. Unfortunately Otto has no choice as to wake up too as she is super loud. Working on a way for her to stay quiet and be up. Some mornings she does great and others not so much. 

Sleepless nights aside things are ok. I feel like were in the crazy holiday life doesn't feel like reality mode. Every week and weekend  there is something going on and it feels busy. I had my birthday yesterday. 34 gross. It was a pretty uneventful as olive had school which she was nice and late for because I left my set of keys in the car and Blake had the other set at work. Stupid mistake. So we waited for aaa while olive had the worlds nastiest bloody nose. Happy birthday to me! Oh did I mention Blake left the house for work without saying happy birthday to me? Ya he won't be living this one down. I realize he didn't forget my birthday as we had a nice day on Sunday celebrating but he didn't acknowledge it which is so unlike him. Pretty much set my emo tone for the day. I'm actually not a huge birthday person, I don't need much but I think now that I get older those moments of someone thinking about you or doing something nice feel more special. I still want a cake....

Today started out awesome. We went to the discovery zone for a few hours. When we came home shit was just hectic. Olive refused to nap which is pretty normal so I allowed her quiet time. Normally this goes well but today she decided that she would slam her door over and over while I was trying to put Otto back to sleep. It was 100% on purpose. So poor Otto got a 20 min nap as he was not sleeping with a slamming door. I asked her to stay in her room which was a total joke. Kid went ape shit.  So I used a child's lock and she busted that off a few times. She got so mad that she ripped the handle off the door. It was hands down the worst temper tantrum ever. She was just raging. After a good 45 min she said she was tired and passed out on cough. Unreal. After her nap she was pretty pissed off too. Every little thing sets her off and as soon as I think she can't possibly be more pissed off she will break into a song or do something cute to Otto. I'm dealing with it as it comes. For now the only punishment that works it taking away her princess dresses. Timeouts, spankings, and yelling doesn't even phase her. I'm not sure what will work next week but with a kid like her it's all about taking it day by day. I've thought about reading books or taking to other parents but as I get more into this mom thing I just find every kid is so different and advice and books are so general or specific to the kids they wrote it about so I'm hoping my common mom sense is enough and I will do whatever is the right thing for her. That or I'm going to go really grey trying! 

I'm hoping next week I will get back to blogging a few times a week. I feel like I have a list of rants and ideas and about a million photos.