Life Lately

Hi friends! I’m up and actually getting ready today because I’m going to sub at summer school today–it should be incredibly easy and also a way to have a little extra spending money!

Today I’m sharing a little look at our life lately!

Banks’s favorite thing to do once you lay him down in the living room on his play mat is to immediately crawl to Harrison’s toys. Harrison was working on building a house with his blocks and Banks army crawled his way over there to see what he could get in to. I love this little peek into (what I pray is) a friendship between these two boys!

I think I’ve finally figured out how to help Banks sleep more–and that’s feeding him more solids than I thought he was supposed to have at this age haha!!! Lately I’ve been feeding him a vegetable and a fruit, but last night I was out of fruit for him so he just ate a bunch of carrots. HE LOVED THEM! It’s so funny to see him get so excited when the spoon is coming toward him, and he’ll cry in between bites because he wants more. He also now grabs at the spoon and tries to feed himself–it’s wild.

I love a summer supper!!! Dustin grilled chicken (ignore how much sauce I have–it came out of the bottle too fast), and I roasted asparagus and sautéed squash with some garlic. It was so, so good. Also, if you love BBQ sauce like I do but want something a “little” better for you, you need to use Stubbs sauce! There isn’t any corn syrup or artificial flavors added like in other BBQ sauces that I used to eat.

I wish I had a picture from Tuesday night because I helped host a lingerie shower for my friend Michaela and it was a blast! She teaches with me but is moving away because her soon to be husband lives too far away for her to keep teaching at my school :(. BUT a lot of us got together Tuesday night to celebrate her and we laughed so hard we were crying at some points–it really was a fun night!

I’m off to get ready to go teach at summer school today–see you back here tomorrow for a Friday Favorites post!!

I just checked and my last blog post was at the end of March–oops! I started back to school April 3rd and naively, I was not expecting to be so exhausted and so busy. I guess I must have blocked all of that out from Harrison’s newborn days haha! I was going to blog about our coronation party, but instead, I’m going to do a quick April catch up.

Banks started the little preschool program that Harrison goes to (both boys just go part time) and I have loved getting pictures of him dressed up for different scenes. This was the first themed one I got–isn’t he the cutest?! Getting these pictures and also getting constant updates from the app has made me feel like I am still with him during the day.

We celebrated our first Easter as a family of four, and it was so sweet. We don’t do the Easter bunny at our house, so Momma and Daddy filled Harrison’s and Banks’s baskets with lots of goodies–and a Crumbl cookie for Harrison!

This big boy has been the best big brother. Also, doesn’t he look so big right here? Where did my baby go?

Daddy started taking care of the boys by himself on his off days during the week. He sent me this picture of their first day together and I learned I needed to set out clothes before I leave for school in the morning haha!

Banks also started rolling over constantly and has the best neck control of a 3 month old that I know.

My favorite candy is really hard to find (this and Lemonheads) so I found it at Kroger one day and sent a picture to my friend Hailey to celebrate! It’s the little things 🙂

The stomach bug hit our house HARD in April. Everyone was sick except for me #momtakescareofeveryone. It hit Banks first and the worst–we had to take him to the ER for fluids because we couldn’t get him to stop throwing up or to keep any amount of liquid down. Then a day after discharge, Harrison and Dustin got sick at the same time. I sent Dustin upstairs to be sick and the rest of us were downstairs. It got to where I would be in the middle of feeding Banks and Harrison would tell me he’s about to throw up, so I’d grab the garbage can and hold it for Harrison while Banks is in my other arm. It was the most exhausting day of my life.

Harrison had his end of the year program at his preschool and it was the sweetest! He found us in the crowd and had to wave 🙂

That’s pretty much our April! My mom is retiring at the end of this school year after over 38 years of teaching, so we have a retirement party to go to after school today!!!