Basketball Anyone?

Tommy convinced Hannah to dress up in one of his old uniforms and play basketball with him.

Hannah still found a way to accessorize with a pink necklace as Tommy sports his unique sense of style.  Nice socks, dude!

Lookin' good.

Enough b-ball.  I'm going for a drive.

Summertime

Well, the summer as we know it is soon to be over.  Not that it's getting cooler by any means, but school will be starting in just two short weeks.  Unfortunately this summer has been fairly lame-o.  There's only so much you can do with a newborn in tow.  However, aside from way too much tv, we were able to get the customary swimming lessons in, visits from cousins, a trip to the art museum, and Tommy even made a quick trip to Seattle.  And on these hot summer nights, the kids even got homemade popsicles in their pj's (okay, frozen kool-aid hardly counts as homemade, but I'll take my props where I can).

I just love these sweet faces!  Thankfully Jake has been a little happier lately and we have been able to enjoy more of his smiles.  The kids want to smother him with their love any chance they get, but luckily they know not to mess with a sleeping baby.  However, that means that the minute he wakes up, he has two faces right up in his grill.

Here are my boys!

Just Experimenting

I'm trying to figure out how to make my pictures bigger on here and wanted to see how it worked.

Clean Sweep

Have you ever seen the show Clean Sweep?  You know, the one where they take a cluttered space, clean it up, and redo it?  Well, Tommy's room was in desperate need of a clean sweep.  

Since Jake has been born, I have been in survival mode.  I am not known for having good, easy babies, so Jake has understandably been taking up a lot of my time and energy.  Because of this, I have had to let some things "go."  Well, one of the things to go was my enforcement of Tommy picking up his room.  After 5 and a half weeks, this was the result:

Closet.

This is the view from the doorway.  When I went to check on him at night, I would see this and often opt not to enter his room to tuck him in and give him his customary kiss on the head.

The Corner:  When I would tell Tommy to pick up his room, his solution was to throw all of his toys up in this corner.

Honestly, I'm a little embarrassed posting these pictures.  The rest of my house doesn't look like that---really!

This weekend my boys went to Seattle to be with Tim's family because his parents just came home from their mission.  Yay!  I took this opportunity to get this room cleaned up.  it took 3 days (remember, I'm working with a 2 year old and a newborn here!), but I got it done!

I got rid of an almost full black garbage bag of trash filled with old broken toys and "collections" of paper, wood, etc.  I also got about half a bag of things to donate to Goodwill.  I raised his bed and put more storage under it.  And finally, I got new shelving to keep his toys organized.  Here is the after:

Closet with new shelving.

Ahhh . . . isn't this so much better?

See the corner in the back?  Is it the same one as before?

Now we just need to make it stay this way and I will be able to tuck him in without worrying about tripping over something!