Dear Baby,

Ready when you are. Everything is set up and ready, just waiting on you. Three weeks left, although if you want to come sooner, I am perfectly okay with that!
Love, Mom

How to create michief during naptime

Step 1: stand on bed and open curtains to let in the light

Step 2: empty shelves of toys, books, and pjs

Step 3: put toys, books, and pjs into pack n play (and whatever else you can find on the floor and in the closet)

Step 4: be as happy as can be even when mom is yelling at you

Step 5: repeat again the next day

Side note: The pack n play is set up in Calebs room because if he doesn't stay in his bed for naptime (never does) then he has to go into the pack n play. I guess he decided if he filled it up with a ton of crap, then he wouldn't have to go into it, and it worked for the past two days because I have been too lazy to clean it out. But his weekend fun is over, today he will be taking a nice nap in his pack n play!

We're Back

I know for most of you, you didn't even know we were missing but I noticed. Two weeks ago the laptop that I was using finally broke down and I didn't realize how attatched to a computer I was. Even just to hop online to check my e-mail or my bank account or to look at my pictures or check blogs I have felt so lost and out of touch without a computer, so I am glad to have one again (thanks babe)! Anyway here is a little update with our family:The only time my boys can really get along for long periods of time is when they dress up and fight bad guys together. No matter what Caleb puts on he calls himself Dr Jones (I wonder where that came from)? It's been fun to watch them play and dress up together.

Easter was a lot of fun this year because both the boys understood it really well. They loved the easter egg hunts we had at Grandma Baughs and Grandma Bruuns and they loved dying easter eggs and looking for their easter baskets Sunday morning.
I always like to get the boys a new spring shirt for easter and a new church shirt. Here they are being nice enough to pose for mom.

This was the first year we attempted this as a family (you know how I feel about messes). But it ended up being a lot of fun and the boys loved it. Of course now I have 12 hard boiled eggs in my fridge that have yet to be eaten but, oh well.

Also: I have seven weeks left of pregnancy, hooray! I am getting induced on May 28 and can't wait to welcome boy #3 into the family!

My Boy is 5!!

5 years has gone by soooo fast! I can't believe Austin is 5, and off to Kindergarten in the fall! For his birthday he got one present from us and it has been something that he has been asking for since Christmas was over. I about died when I actually looked up the price of this item on-line (hence the reason for one present) but I broke down and got it anyway. He has loved it, so it was well worth it!

Here he is opening it up. Notice Caleb saying, "Cheese" in the background.
A Lego pirate ship, with sails!

He didn't open his present until about 8:00 pm, that was a mistake because he wanted to start building it right away. Here he is about half way, I made him go to bed at 10:30, so he had to wait until morning to finish.

All finished! The next morning he didn't eat breakfast or even come out of his room until about 11:00, when he was all done. Since that day he has already taken the whole thing apart and started building it once again, I guess building it is most of the fun?

This year since Austin was turning 5, I decided it was time for a friend party. He decided on a pirate themed party and he wanted a ship cake. So I bought a ship pan but had no idea how I was going to decorate this cake, because I really can't do that kind of stuff. So, here is my awesome sister, Jill, slaving away to make Austin the perfect ship cake. She worked for about 3 hours while I supervised (ha, ha). It turned out so dang cute, so this is a huge thank you to my sis and her hard work!

It turned out so perfectly, and Austin loved it!

Here's pirate Austin and all of his pirate buddies getting ready to party!

Your classic "pin the ship on the treasure map"

The pirates searched the room and found an old treasure map that had washed ashore in a bottle, they were ready for their treasure hunt.

Scoping out the treasure.

Our first stop was the oven, for some pirate eye patches.

After stopping at the dryer and the bathtub, the pirates finally found their treasure in Austin's room. Here they are making their scariest pirate poses with their loot.

Decorating their treasure boxes.

This picture is dedicated to my mom, who saved the party. So I scheduled the party for an hour and a half, and was still wondering if that was enough time. Well when we were done with every activity and only a half an hour had gone by I started to panic. Luckliy my mom, who is also a preschool teacher, rescued us with some other fun pirate games, like Treasure, Treasure, who stole the treasure, and Pirate, Pirate, Treasure (Duck, Duck, Goose), so Thanks a million mom!

Opening presents. Austin got more legos from his friends which he loved!

Cake time!

Two pirate pals, Austin and Jack.

Happy Birthday bud, we love you so much!

A Time for Change

With the new baby coming soon we knew it was time for Caleb to move out of his crib and move into a bed. We decided to purchase bunk beds and then move Austin's old bed into Caleb's room so Caleb could get used to a "big boy" bed and then hopefully if it works out when the baby comes we will have Caleb move into Austin's room. I've had many doubts about this arrangement and still do because Austin is VERY independent and loves playing in his room by himself for hours at a time. But for now everyone is happy, Caleb is doing great in his bed and Austin loves sleeping on the top bunk of his new bed.

There have been quite a few things that I have wanted to post about but haven't gotten around to it. So this post is a bunch of different things that have been going on at the Baugh household lately. This first picture is of Caleb sleeping on the floor. He has suddenly decided that he doesn't want to take naps anymore, but I still lay him down every day because I am not ready for him to give up naps! This particular day he played and cryed in his bed for 2 hours (I know I'm so mean) but I was not going to get him out! Finally I gave in and got him out and then about 10 min later he was asleep in his floor, what a pill! On my previous post I talked about how much Caleb likes to copy Austin. Well Austin loves to copy his dad and dress up like his dad. So here is a pic of Austin copying dad and then, of course, Caleb had to copy Austin so they both walked around dressed as dad.

These last pictures are from Tumbling. Jill and I signed up Jack and Austin for tumbling through the community education program. They went for four weeks and then they graduated, so here they are on their last day. They had a lot of fun running around and learning tricks.

Copy Cat

Caleb copies everything that Austin does and follows Austin all around the house, including dressing up (much to Austin's dismay). Now we have two "Dr. Jones's" running around the house!