Favorite times of day...

Now that I am staying home with the kiddos (well, the boys, KK is still at her Montessori school that we love, she loves...and well, a habit we just can't break...the place is amazing!!), I have come up with a "daily" schedule to keep myself from going a tad crazy.

Obviously it doesn't always work out as scheduled...but that is okay...I am flexible. However, there are 3 things that happen everyday that I absolutely adore!

1.) Katelyn getting up for school....this girl is NOT a morning person...at all. I always have to wake her up...and end up tickling her tummy usually to make it happen. Most of the time, she giggles and grabs my next and we head to the potty. There is the occassional day that she looks at me and rolls her eyes, says "NO!" and turns over...this is actually very funny to watch a 2 year old do. I then send her to the couch so she can cuddle with a blanket and enjoy a little Dora and head off to grab her clothes, shoes, bow and hair supplies. I come back to the couch and she gets dressed and then lets me fix her hair. Actually insists upon it...she loves her bows, what can I say? Then...the favorite part (although I enjoy our routine in general) is when we are done and waiting on her sweet daddy to come pick her up to take her to school (thank you Hubs, so I don't have to load up 3 kiddos this early) her and I cuddle on the couch under a fuzzy blanket and she lays her head on my pregnant belly. It is precious....I can then hear her lightly sing the Dora songs and can see her smiling from the back of her head. It is this moment of silence that we geniunely just enjoy each other.

2.) The boys waking up...there is no general rule of who will wake up first. Some days it is Bryce...others it is Carter...and then sometimes they are both ready to go when I walk in. I normally will hear them around 8am-8:30am and they will begin their morning conversation with each other. It is as though they are catching each other up on their nightly dreams. I will peak in to see them standing in their cribs staring at one another and just babbling. Very cute stuff! Then I will walk in and the bouncing begins...they both get smiles on their face and are ready for the day! It is amazing to see 2 sets of eyes and 2 smiles stare at you and literally feel the love they have...sometimes they even clap. It is my very own standing ovation:)

After these two parts of the day....everything else seems like a blur...breakfast...playtime...naptime (clean, clean, clean)lunch...bath...sometimes nap again and the off to get sister, and then make dinner...and this brings us to the last favorite moment.

3.) The boys go down around 7:30-8pm. Kev is home all nights except one during the week and on the night that he is not, my mom is here so we improvise...but on our usual evenings, I pick up one boy, Kev picks up the other...we normally trade off...KK is in her jammies and we all 5 head to the boys room. Each boy gets in their own crib and grabs their blankie, KK sits in between the cribs and Kev and I stand in front of all the kiddos and read Goodnight Moon. The boys know this means...bedtime, and KK, who has listened to this book about a million times, will read along. When we are done we all give the boys kisses and the lamp goes off. This gives us 30 minutes with just KK to finish out the day before her bedtime.

When days get so crazy...it is nice to know that I can count on the 3 wonderful moments that I hope I will remember forever.