What I'm Loving

1. Aiden helping me in the kitchen.  If I have to cut up vegetables for dinner, lately he is right by my side to help by putting them in the big bowl. Maybe some day he'll cook for me!
2. Emma randomly telling you, "High Shive (five)" with her hand up in the air and then she'll smack your hand with serious conviction!
3. Maternity jeans...aaaaahhhhh, I can eat and still be comfy!
4. Aiden comforting Emma when she's upset about something.  He'll run and get her blanket and doggy to see if that helps. And it's always super sweet to hear him telling her not to be sad. 
5. Playdates! These are just about the only things that rescue me from the walls in my house every week.
6. That Emma randomly goes up to Aiden and pats on his leg or back and says, "Hi Bubby, Hi Bubby"
7. When Emma puts her little tiara on and announces to the room, "Princess". :-)
8. My iPhone.  Yes, it was worth waiting for...I love it!
9. Emma randomly busting into song.  She is currently obsessed with Elmo and his Elmo Song. So randomly she'll bust out with "La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, _______ Song!  (though it really sounds like Na, na, na, na) This blank could be filled with anything: Baby's Song, Elmo's Song, Puppy's Song.  I love it!

Y3W: What I'm Loving...

• Emma singing along to Britney Spears' "I Wanna Go". She loves this song and that makes me smile since I'm a Britney fan myself. 
• That I've gotten a big chunk of the kids' Christmas shopping done! Now, what I'm going to get for everyone else...I've got no clue, but I'm very excited to have the kids almost done!
• Coffee.  I've never really been a big coffee drinker, but lately I've been wanting it in the morning.  Yummy! Makes me feel all grown up! :-)
• How proud Aiden is of his soccer trophy.  He gets the biggest grin on his face whenever he gets to show it off to someone!
• Cooking in the crockpot! Even though I do not feel like preparing anything for dinner in the morning, I'm so happy when I don't have to do anything in the evening to prepare for it!
• A great bargain! Aiden needed a new coat this year.  I get emails from Old Navy all the time and finally decided I should probably look and see what they had to offer in his size.  His request...it needed to be blue.  As luck would have it, they had a big, puffy blue coat. Perfect!  It was originally $50, but marked down to $20 and then I had an extra coupon.  I ended up paying $14 for this brand new $50 coat.  Woot! Woot! I am still excited about that one! :-D
• Snickers bars.  Enough said.  Maybe this should just say, "Aiden's Halloween Candy Bucket" :-/
• All my extra cuddle time with Aiden this week!  I know that he's big enough to sit by himself to do these breathing treatments he has to do this week, but he doesn't like have the strap to the mask wrapped around his head the right way so I have been taking full advantage of cuddling with him to make sure it's held up there just right!
• Emma repeating "Love you" back to me when I tell her.  Melt. My. Heart.  It's always a BIG moment when your baby tells you they love you back! Sigh. (No one else would probably be able to tell that's what she's saying back to us, but we can and that's all that matters!) <3<3

 Happy Friday!!

What I'm Loving #2

I did one of these posts last week and thought it was a good way to sum up a bunch of different things that I was loving at the time.  I thought, why not do it every so often, so here it goes!

• LMFAO's Party Rock Anthem.  LOVE.  No matter where I am or what I'm doing, when this song    comes on, I wanna dance! I also really like their new one "Sexy and I Know It" too!

• Dance parties in the kitchen with Patrick and the kids. Especially to the song listed above! :-)

• How many new words Emma's saying! I love the "sh" she makes when saying "shoes", "shish" aka fish or "shut". She gets her little lips stuck out like she's giving a big fishy kiss.

• Pumpkin Pie Blizzards! These are like a little piece of heaven.  Patrick surprised me with one the other night when he came home from work. OMG! Delicious!!!!

•  Going through old pictures and seeing how sweet Aiden and Emma were when they were tiny babies.  Sure, they're still sweet, but I'm talking about bitty baby pictures and those...make my uterus start thinking...

•  How Aiden randomly comes out with these perfect manners.  The other day I asked him if he wanted some snack to eat. He responded with, "No thanks, but thank you for asking."  What?!?! I almost fell off my chair!! 

• That Emma blows me kisses when I lay her down for bed at night since that's the last thing I do as I walk out the door. <3

•  Taking pictures of the kids.  I'm sure you could already tell that!!

• That Aiden finally gets how to buckle himself up in the car and wipe his own butt after using the bathroom!!  It's the little things people!

• Making family memories.  This afternoon we are headed to my Aunt and Uncles to camp with the family for a long weekend.  Since hanging with the family is my all time favorite thing to do, I'm sure there will be many memories made.  And lots of yummy food to be eaten!!!

Y3W: Things I'm Loving...

1. Playing hide and seek with the kids.  Emma is the super hide and seek player. She finds Aiden every time (ok, so he hides in a lot of not so hard to find him places, but it's still adorable!).  She'll run right over to where he is and point and laugh, sometimes hitting him to let him know she found him.  Now, hiding with Emma, she'll give you away every time, but she gets so excited it makes me smile every time we play!
2. Playing hopscotch with Aiden.  He loves this game lately and every time we can get outside without Emma, that's what we play. I love his serious face when he's concentrating to jump in the right box!
3. Multigrain tostido's.  Omg! I'm obsessed with these right now! Yum!
4. Being able to wear jeans!! Let's face it's I'm not really a shorts kind of girl! My legs are probably the palest on Earth and I think that no matter what I do, they always will be!  I'm loving that now I can finally wear jeans without sweating to death!
5. When Emma grabs her purse, picnic basket, anything really that can fit onto her arm. She hoists it up there and then goes around the room to give everyone a kiss and says "Baaa" aka "bye" pretending she's going somewhere. :-)
6. How big and tough my boy is. When went to get their flu shots last Thursday and I was told Aiden could get the nasal spray one. Shew! Meltdown avoided! Well, when we got there we were told that he wasn't able to get it after all and he had to get a regular shot.  He was not happy, but he did it and got it in his arm rather than his leg like a big kid.  Only a few silent tears escaped and then he was over it! What a big boy!
7. That all our shows are back on! I love that when we sit down at night now, we actually have things to watch.
8. Aiden is actually able to entertain himself for a little awhile in the morning as long as someone turns the tv on for him, which means Patrick and I are able to get a little extra sleep before Emma wakes up.  (Ok, I guess I mean Patrick gets a little extra sleep. Remember, Aiden only wants him in the morning, not me. But, I'm still happy that he's learning to entertain himself!)
9. How much Emma adores Aiden...well, most of the time anyway.  If she can't find him she'll wander around yelling "A-den" or more like "A -din".  It is so cute! I should really try to catch some of this stuff on video, but everytime I get it out, she wants to run behind it to see what I'm recording. Kind of makes it hard to catch her!
10. How great Aiden is getting at writing! He is also really good at writing his numbers too. And the other day he was playing games on the computer and I looked over and he was playing a game using math and was getting them right! Wow!
11. How much Emma is talking now. We may be the only ones that knows clearly what she is saying, but she is repeating a ton of words.  I was trying to get her to tell me Happy Birthday the other day. Happy came out so clearly, birthday was more of a "ugh", like "don't you know how hard that word is?"  What a smart girl!
12. The crazy things Aiden says.  A couple days ago I asked Aiden if he was ever going to get his ears pierced.  I don't know what I saw on TV that made me think of it, but I wanted to quickly tell him I was never gonna take him.  He got this weird look on his face and was like, "Why, so I can wear urines?"  Hahaha! Urines.  Hilarious.  He proceeded with, "Mommy, urines are for girls." :-) That's right bud, they are, and by the way, it's earrings. :-)  I love that boy!