Cafe Rio

This wonderful place is now the newest place my husband can call home.  Actually, he's home a whole lot more now, he doesn't have to call work home anymore. 

We decided at the beginning of March that it was time to make some changes if I really wanted to stay home with our kids.  KPMG is a great company to work for to jump-start your career and I'm proud of all the hard time and hours Matt put in to get a job there and in the 6 months that he worked there.  As time as gone on, we were realizing more and more that even though it is a great place to work; if you can put in your time you can get a job anywhere you want; our family needed to come first and that is just not possible when they require you to work 12-18 hour days and pay you pennies.

We put our house up for sale and Matt started looking for jobs in Logan.  Jobs in Logan are hard to come by, but he applied for a few and we were hoping something would work out.  About a week after he started looking, someone from KPMG emailed him about a job opening at Cafe Rio, not even knowing he was looking for a job.  He applied and things just fell into place.  A week later he had an interview and week later he had a job offer.

He is still going to be able to get his CPA, he works 9-5, and it is better pay.  Not to mention free Cafe Rio!  (I might be willing to share when I get sick of it :))  Their accounting department is pretty small right now, but the company is expanding big time and there is going to be a lot of opportunity for growth.  Matt comes home happier at night and I am happier that I don't have to stress about working and can just focus on being a mom.

I am still working, part time, if you can call it that... cleaning house for a lady twice a week and looking for a couple of kids I can watch during the week.  Right now, we are going to leave our house for sale for awhile and if by chance it sells (which we don't think it will because the market is so bad) we will move closer to Matt's job.

It is truly amazing how things work out if we just trust in the Lord and do the best we can! 

Stinker

For those of you who aren't friends with me on facebook, this is what my day was like on Tuesday...

I watch my neighbor boys, ages 2 and 5 once a week.  This week, I was downstairs on the treadmill with Brooke and the 5 year old when water starts pouring through my ceiling.  I ran upstairs, thinking Cole and Jonas had overflowed the tub.  Oh no, they stuffed the toilet full of a whole roll of toilet paper and were in there with my tiny kitchen dish towels, both soaking wet, and trying furiously to clean it up.  Lucikly, our basement is still unfinished so a bunch of towels and laundry and it was all cleaned up.

Later, after the neighbors went home, I was on the computer making invitations for Amber's shower and I told Cole to go get some clothes on so we could meet his dad for dinner.  (He was only wearing skibbies because I am trying to potty train him).  I heard him go in and get clothes out of his room and assumed he was putting them on in the kitchen.  I hurried and finished up and went in the kitchen to leave and was faced with this...

He stripped naked and had dumped a whole can of formula all over my kitchen!  I was trying hard at this point not to lose my temper and sent both kids to their rooms while I cleaned up.  Brooke opted to go in Cole's room with him and a couple minutes later she started screaming... he had peed all over her and his room. 

I asked him yesterday why he was doing all these things and he told me because I hurt his feelings.  Thats all I could get out of him.  I'm guessing maybe it is because Brooke was sitting by me and helping me with the invitations, but I really don't know.  All I know is I have to pay close attention to that boy!

Peas

Since Bailee doesn't love rice cereal I decided to try some baby food with her.  I gave her peas for the first time on April 25th and she loved them.  I thought she was struggling to eat off a spoon, but it turns out she just doesn't like rice cereal.  As soon as I put the spoon up to her mouth she opened right up and took a big bite!  She thinks she has to help with the spoon though.  She's had them twice since then and next on the list is beans. 

Sisters

Brookelyn adores her sister and loves to carry her around and play with her.  Bailee had supposedly gone down for a nap the other day and when I went in to check on her, this is what I found...

5 Months

Bailee is now 5 months old.  Holy Cow!!  She is such a good baby.  She rarely cries unless she is hungry, poopy, or her brother and sister are teasing her.  She came with me to soccer registration a couple weeks ago and layed on a blanket on the floor and played with toys and talked to people for 3 hours without making a fuss.  Thats my girl! 

She loves to sleep and I can just swadle her up, lay her in bed and she will go right to sleep.  She typically naps for 2-3 hours in the morning and 3-4 in the afternoon and then sleeps from 8pm-8am. 

She eats about 5 or 6 7-8oz. bottles each day and occassionally some baby food. 

Her favorite toy is her rings, but she still loves her swing too. 

She is finally rolling over, both ways.  I think she rolled for the first time from her back to her tummy on April 6th.  She is getting so strong on her tummy and I'm so afraid she is going to start crawling.  Cole was 6 months and I'm praying its not that soon, I'm not ready for a mobile baby! 

Starting to wave.  I'm not sure its entirely purposefull yet, but usually it is at Matt when he gets home from work or when she is going to bed.
She has had 2 ear infections in the last month and she's not a happy camper when that happens.  I usually know if she's not sleeping at night and doesn't want a bottle that that is the case.  If she gets one more before she's 6 months old the Dr. wants to put tubes in her ears. 

Also is a big time daddy's girl.  One night I could not get her to go to bed.  I'd fed her, changed her, rocked her, she just would not go to sleep.  Finally, Matt took her and she drank a whole bottle from him and went right to sleep.  Guess she just didn't want mom.

If I could have babies that were this good and I didn't hate pregnancy so bad I'd have a dozen kids.

Soccer

Brooke is playing soccer for the first time this season.  Her team is the Lady Bugs.  She likes to run up and down the field and throw the ball in, but she doesn't like to kick it (like mother like daugther, poor girl).  Last week she wanted to play on the playground with her brother instead of playing her game... we'll see if she plays any more after this season.  I'm just glad she has fun and gets to make friends.

Side Note:  Caryn roped me in to volunteering so I am now the treasurer for the Syracuse AYSO League.  I actually kind of enjoy it though, it gives me some time out of the house to go to meetings, etc.  Never thought I'd be a soccer mom, now I just need the minivan :)

Rice Cereal

Bailee's first attempt at rice cereal was on March 25.  She was not a big fan.  I've tried it with her a few times since and one night she actually ate a whole bowl of it, but the majority of the time she just sticks her tongue out so we can't get it in her mouth.