To help get you through your afternoon and to the weekend, we thought we'd share some photos from our recent trip to the Fun Farm Pumpkin Patch in Kearney, Missouri! The funny thing is that there are no photos of pumpkins at all because there were so many other fun things to do there 😂.
Happy Friday! xoxo, Britt + Sky
It took like two seconds after Noah was born for mom guilt to set in. It is so silly but like everything's made me feel so bad. Like if I had to go home and leave him in the NICU. Or if I forgot what time he had eaten and he went thirty minutes past his scheduled time. I basically acted as though it was the end of the world.
Then we add baby two. Oh yeah I'd say it's worse but in a different way. I am always feeling guilt about how much attention I give each little one. And the guilt I feel if I nap while they are both napping instead of cleaning our house, which is a disaster by the way, is horrendous.
Then there is the number of times I have to get on Noah during the day. I feel like I say NO about three hundred times a day. I am constantly having to tell him to get out of something. To close the door. To be gentle with Sophie. To stop using, fill in the blank, as a weapon. I am on repeat everyday. I hate that I am constantly having to get on to him.
So I decided that we were going to start going on weekly adventures. Somewhere that Noah could run like a crazy man. Pick whatever up that he wants to. All without me having to say anything. Last week we went to Watkins Mill. Sophie was in the stroller and Noah ran free. As we walked around the trail together he played in the leaves. He picked up rocks and acorns and leaves.
We had so much fun. It was nice to give him some freedom and for me to have a break from saying his name over and over and over. I think it will be a good thing to do once a week for us both to get a break.
Happy Wednesday! xo, Britt
Cue the cute photos 😁
If you are anything like me, you make these really cool plans that you think are freakin' awesome and your kids are going to love, and then they fail. Ha! Either they hate them or things just don't work out as planned. You know what I am talking about. For the first time, my plan started out as a fail, but ended up being a success! Plus it was so much fun for the whole family.
I had this brilliant plan! Noah loves the water and he is always helping me clean off his highchair tray, so I had this awesome idea for us to have a cozy coupe car wash. His coupe and van really needed cleaned and I thought it would be so adorable to see a mini human washing his car! So I get everything all set up, I get Noah outside and I get our little sponges all suddsed up. I spray down the coupe and the van all hosed down and am showing him how to wash it and all he wants to do is sit in the cars.
So for a while it was just me cleaning his cars while he sat in them. :) It was fun, but I was so happy when Jake was able get Noah to help to. And surprisingly I was able to get photos of him while he was cleaning! Ha! It was seriously so much fun for all three of us.
We got his coupe and his van all clean and played in the water for a long time! It was nice to have a fun plan that I came up with for us to actually work out. It doesn't happen often but it sure feels good when it does. :) xo, Britt
Noah is a pretty popular dude on the interwebs. So we thought he should get a little more face-time. This weekend we visited my grandparents house out in the country. Since the weather was b-e-a-utiful, I took Noah's wagon so we could go splorin' of course.
Noah loves being outside which is a little funny because he seems to kind of hate nature. Haha! You will see the disgusted face he has in a few of these pictures. Or how he is holding up his leg so that it won't touch the ground.
But for realz. He loves to be outside and look around and hear all of the sounds and touch everything. And I of course love to watch him take it all in. I get him to look at different things I find and I tell him what everything is called. And we pick "flowers" (aka. weeds, dandelions, etc. ) and smell them. Oh and at the end of our adventure he held on to the edge of the wagon and walked around its sides and collected some fun things. He was pretty impressed with himself.
We seriously had so much fun. I enjoy nothing more than having my little happy man hanging out with me on a perfect spring day. Hope you had an awesome weekend too! xoxo, Britt + Noah
