Back from a little hiatus

I must have sat down a dozen times to update this blog on our life lately, but it just never ended up happening.  To say life with 2 littles is busy is an understatement.  Don't get me wrong, this is such a fun age, (Two toddlers? They say and do hilarious things all the time), but it's hard.  Most of my time is spent refereeing them when fights break out over toys (Declan thinks that he is the owner of ALL toys), keeping Miller from flinging himself off the couch (the boy CLlMBS all. the. time. on. everything.), and doing an insane amount of dishes and laundry (boys eat a lot and are ROUGH on their clothes... Thank goodness for Oxiclean).  This all leaves little time for blogging, but here is the last month in a nutshell...

Halloween.  My sweet little firefighter and dalmatian puppy.  This was before.... before the madness.  About 4 houses in, Miller (my easy, breezy happy baby) lost his marbles.  He started screaming like a banshee, somehow escaped from the stroller and slid onto the sidewalk, and threw an epic tantrum so bad I could hardly carry him due to him flinging himself around so much.  We made it to only 4 houses and of those 4, only 2 opened their door so my hopes for a good candy stash were a bust.

Maybe next year.  Then again, he will be 2 years old then so it could be even worse.

One major success for the month was taking them to the children's museum.  They loved it and we spent hours watching them play.  The grocery store was a huge hit.  Interestingly enough, Declan's cart was full of veggies which he will not touch in real life.  Miller was only interested in fabric softener bottles for his cart.

Nothing sweeter than a little boy in precious smocked outfits.  I'm a sucker for smocking but it is usually way too expensive to justify not just one, but two, outfits.  Zulily has had a ton of smocked outfits for super cheap so I went on a little shopping spree.

Love their sweet turkey outfits and cannot wait to put them in the Christmas outfits I bought them!

Last week Miller had strep throat, an ear infection, and bronchitis so he stayed home from MDO and spent some one-on-one time with me.  I enjoyed the quality time with little man, just wish he had felt better!

Thomas has been getting tutoring every week for a math class (yuck, math) at Barnes and Noble so we usually go along with him.  I treat the boys to a cookie from Starbucks (and coffee for mommy!) and we attend story time.  Miller is still a little young for this, but Declan loves it.  They read a book and then do a craft.

After Miller got sick, I got a little cold too.  One benefit of me being super stingy with Declan using the iPad (as in, he has used it 3 times since we got it) is that when I'm sick needing some rest and he has free reign on it.... Silence.

I snapped this picture of him, mesmerized by the Youtube channel Disney Collector.  Literally, a woman videos herself opening toys and playing with them.  Toddlers apparently are enthralled with this.  Declan especially enjoys the videos about Cars toys.

So that's what we've been up to lately.  Nothing super exciting!  Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!