First Day of School

      The boys are home from their first day of school.  They go for three hours each time.  Owen will go two days a week and Dylan will go three days a week.  I boohoo'ed my eye balls out leaving Owen there.  We are hoping he will have fun, socialize and learn something.  Owen did great even though it was in the middle of naptime.  His teacher said she laid him down in one of their classroom cribs and he was too busy to sleep.  He is napping now bless his heart.

      Dylan did good.  I was worried that he would not use their classroom toilet.  He is hesitant to use toilets he is unfamiliar with.  His teacher said he did great and had no accidents.  YES!!!!!!  Here are a few pictures from their first day (same ones from Facebook).

      A little late, but here is a picture of the cupcake I made last week.  I am still on my ambitious pursuit to  make the perfect cupcake.  It is fun!!  This cupcake is a Dulce de Leche cupcake with chocolate shavings.  It actually looks better than it tasted.  I found a recipe online for the cupcake and it tasted a lot like sweet cornbread.  The icing was yummy.  Everything made from scratch.



Okay, Who pooped the floor?

Fun night on Planet Doiron tonight.  After the boys ate dinner, I gave each one a cupcake.  Since Dylan's birthday party, I have been obsessed with making beautiful cupcakes.  His birthday cupcakes were an ugly disaster, despite my overly ambitious ideas and expectations.  I digress...  So, Dylan and Owen are munching on their cupcakes and loving life while I clean up dinner.  Owen had created the MESS or all MESSES with his cupcake so into the sink he went for a minibath.  I dried him off and put him down naked.  I figured he would be fine running around naked while I cleaned the cupcake off his high chair.  It could not have been two minutes when Owen fell on the hardwood floor of the kitchen.  He got up and fell again.  I looked around the island to investigate why he was falling and if he was okay.  "Holy, smell and crap".  I could not believe that my beautiful baby boy was slipping and crawling around in his own poop.  How the heck did he poop so fast?  Thomas says it is a guy thing.  Back into the sink he went, as I gagged on the smell and idea of it all.  Thomas threw the dog out as she would have probably eaten the poop.  Owen now fresh and clean, I observed the cleaning process being conducting by my husband.  Poor guy was scrubbing with floor cleaner and using toothpicks to clear out the cracks between the wood boards.  No one ever fully prepares you for parenthood. 

P.S My floors are now clean, and I have learned my lesson.  :)


On a side note, here are my beautiful cupcakes. 

                        Double Chocolate cupcake with pistachio buttercream icing (totally homemade- go me!)

                             Same cupcake, but crumbled pistachios on the top instead of chocolate

Exhausted

The past two weeks have been a blur of rushing around, shopping, cleaning, cooking, planning, and if you ask Thomas nagging.  Our boys are just two weeks shy of two years apart.  That means two birthday parties back to back.  Yikes!  Owen's party was a small family gathering and was pretty low key.  Dylan's party was yesterday.  It was the shingdig of all shindigs.  Dylan loves trains, so we had a trackless train come and drive the children around the neighborhood for two hours.  We also had a bounce house.  Luckily the weather behaved.  The rain ended early enough to set up.  That glorious rain also cooled things down a bit.  Yipee!  Everything went perfectly.  My children are still exhausted though, they had way too much fun.  SO now I am a mother of a one year old and a three year old.  Wow!  Time is flying, it needs to slow down just a bit.  Here are some pictures from the party.  Happy Birthday my Big Boy Dylan James.

Conductor Hat and Train Whistle- all set for his first ride

                                                                           All Aboard!

Handsome boy

Owen liked riding the train too!

Oh Just go ahead and blow out the candles ladies, geez!

pinata

Child and germ heaven

Icing face and his favorite gift- Thanks Aunt Kathy

Owens First Haircut

After being ragged forever about my sweet baby boy's long hair, I caved and went to get his first cut.  We went to Snip-its in Suwanne.  Cute place for kids, but holy break your wallet.  There is a $3 coupon (unlimited printing) on their website if anyone is interested.  Thomas wanted a baby mohawk, not happening.  Here is some before and afters.

                                                                     BEFORE

AFTER



Owen was not exactly amused with the haircutting process.  The very patient stylist gave him a lolli.  She totally spoke Owen-----FOOD!  I miss his puffy hair.  :(

Dylan stopped playing in the toy center to see why Owen was crying. 

 He loves his brother........... well sometimes.