A hard thing to learn

Londynn is at the age where we are pulling teeth trying to get her to eat her dinner every night. There are very few items that she will actually sit down and eat without us nagging her. Tonight I had finally had it and decided that I wasn't going to push the issue. I told her that she wouldn't get anything else the rest of the night until she ate her dinner. She didn't seem to care. Well here it is bed time and we gave Boston his glass of milk and here comes Londynn asking for hers. Total meltdown when I told her she doesn't get any because she didn't eat her dinner. She could only have water. Guess who decided to eat her dinner at 8:15pm just so she could have a glass of milk?

Baby Shower

My oldest sister Heather is due with her first baby next month (baby Bryton) so we had a shower for her on Saturday. I was the lucky one to host the shower, which was okay because it gave me a good reason to clean. 

The diaper cake

Heather and Autumn

Heather had a little helper to help her open all the gifts. Lonynn thought it was the best party ever.

Don't kill me for posting this picture Heather. What I would have done to be this small with only a couple weeks left.  I was gigantic with both of my pregnancies.

We're so excited for Bryton to arrive. Londynn will finally have a cousin on the Ivie side. 

The car wash.....what a scary experience.

I don't know what is wrong with my kids. Please tell me they are not the only ones. So I will admit that I am cheap and rarely spend money on a car wash and honestly I'm too lazy to wash it on my own so it's a rare occasion when my car gets washed. I happened to have a coupon for a free wash when you fill up so I stopped today and got my car washed.  As soon as I pulled into the washer Boston got a worried look on his face. I actually wasn't even worried about him. He's my mellow kid. I thought Londynn would be the one losing it.  As soon as the wash started Boston became hysterical and was reaching for me and of course because Boston was crying Londynn then became worried. We sat there in the car while both of my kids screamed.  It was great times. All because of a car wash. Maybe I should stop threatening with time out when my kids are acting out and start threatening them with the car wash.  I'll have to give it a try. 

happy as can be now that we're home from the car wash

Love/Hate

For Londynn's birthday my sister thought it would be a great idea to get her stuff that requires adult supervision. She got markers, paint and some play-dough. All I could think about was the markers that would appear all over my walls and the play-dough smashed into my carpet.  This sister also doesn't have any children(yet) and thought it was funny. I told her she could expect to receive some of the same gifts when there children have birthdays.  Well Londynn finally noticed the play-dough on top of the fridge a couple weeks ago and so I finally decided to pull it out and let her play for awhile.  I think these gifts have turned out to be some of the best. Londynn has spent the last week playing for hours with her play-dough. Aunt Kelsey was nice and finally added to her collection this week. Who would have thought play-dough would entertain a child for so long. And the best part is she is pretty careful and only plays with one color at a time and when she is done she puts it all away with minimal clean up to follow.  The one gift I thought I would hate, I now love.