ellie:sleep warrior

so this little one decided to have her longest stretch of sleep ever (9 hrs) on a night that i couldn't seem to sleep at all! i actually had to wake her up to feed her because i was starting to hurt. she burped, was changed and put back into her crib all while sleeping, which never happens. i really hope she starts adding this good sleep to her routine. for the past few weeks she's gone back to waking up every two hours, and it was getting tiring for sure. her longest stretch of sleep before this one was only 6 hours and that was when she was just a few weeks old!

*side note: i wish when talking about a baby that doesn't sleep well, people wouldn't share a story of a child they knew that slept through the night at a few weeks old. it doesn't add anything good to the conversation!

St. Patty's Day Playdate

today we had a playdate scheduled for after school with the "crew". i went a little crazy with the green snacks, celery, cucumber and broccoli with green dip, green apples, green grapes, kiwi, and lime jello. the kids had lots of fun making green glasses decorated with shamrocks and of course playing in the boys' room and outside on the jeep. and of course we were all decked out in green...










they couldn't help themselves. after all... she IS part irish!

TOOTH

jaxon had a wiggly tooth for about 2 weeks. we kept trying to get him to wiggle it and bite food with it, so it'd fall out on his own.

he's much to careful of a boy for any of that, and his permanent tooth was already growing in behind the wiggly one, so we had to take measures into our own hands. daddy yanked it out, and it was pretty traumatic for our sweet boy. we're pretty sure it's the last time he'll ever let us touch a loose tooth. we lost our first tooth fairy pillow at the dentist last week, so we had to scramble to make a new one at 8:30 on a school night. luckily i'm a crafty mama and whipped one up in no time...

the tooth fairy remembered she had more work to do as she was getting into bed. phew, close call! this kid was so thrilled when he found his gold dollar coin inside is tooth fairy pillow, he smiled his cute new smile all morning!