I wish there was more time in the day

Don't we all right?
I can't do hardly half the 'down time' things I enjoy so much due to taking care of the children and the house.
I find myself MUCH less on the computer and MUCH more doing laundry, dishes, or simply cleaning up after Riordan who dumps everything including food, drink, whatever he can get his hands on.
Teagan has self weened herself last week. It was a hard couple of days missing that bonding time, but she has put on a few pounds now that she is fully on formula. Nice and healthy, plus she eats us out of house and home! I thought Riordan was a garbage disposal but she out does him by a mile! She is crawling around so fast, but still the army crawl. Likes to pull herself up in the crib, but can't seem to get a handle anywhere else. Completely on table foods for a month now, dispises mushy baby food. Still gets up two to three times a night. But I've increased her ounces and it seems to be one or two times a night with Mike gone.
Mike is in NYC right now, so he normally helps and does most the dishes and laundry, sorry Mike for domesticating you! :-)
Riordan is potty training by his own decision. I have had seats and stools ready to go in both bathrooms and last week we were eating lunch and I off handedly asked him if he'd like to go potty and he said 'Yep!' So off we went! Nothing happened on that trip, but for Mike he went "ewww" in the potty that night!! He was so proud! He hadn't visited it since then, but last night getting out of the bath he was doing a dance. Caden said he needs to go potty! I asked him and he said Yep! Ran for the potty and went pee pee in it! I know the little things right? I thought for sure though he'd be more like 2 1/2 before he thought of attempting it. So I reward him with Bob the Builder Pull ups and a treat. He is talking up a storm! But does he have the typical terrible two's! He loves to screech as loud as he can.
He had his first dentist appointment yesterday. No cavities! However, he didn't really want to be in the chair, so we had him sitting towards me, and then he layed back with his head in Dr. Welch's lap. A little prying and crying but we were able to see in there and then after barely two minutes he was done. He wanted to play after the appointment and I knew it was going to be a fight. So for five minutes we played and then I tried to get him to leave on his own. Nope he wanted to stay. So I warned those within earshot, that he was going to scream. He didn't fail me and I still can't hear in my left ear.
He also was throwing tantrum after tantrum at Storytime on Monday at the Library. I can't do that again without Mike until Teagan is much older. Just too much to handle, thankfully my girls we there though to hold her while RIordan had his many moments. But he's into cuddling now. He loves to pat your back when giving a hug and gives out kisses when you least expect it. He steals all my mom friends hearts with his bashful yet playful grin. Can't blame them!
Caden begins soccer soon! A nice break from sports and this time we are parents with a child. Not coaching or team mom. It's only 6 weeks long and begins on the 20th. He is reading Bob Books and really can read a lot of words! It helps now that they are learning to read at school as well. He is so impressive. He brought home a worksheet where he wrote 'turtle'! He just turned 4! We register for Kindersteps in February which is Kindergarten but he won't move onto 1st grade even if the teacher thinks he's ready. I would rather him be an older student, even though Mike and I were 17 when we graduated from High School. Plus keeping him at the age group he's intended to be in will keep him with his friends. Caden is my helper and I consider him a master at the internet, as long as it's Noggin, Nick Jr, or Disney ;-)
Mike and I will be beginning a new study at church called Life 360. It will be every Sunday and Wednesday at the church until the first weekend of March. We are really looking forward to it.
I have been doing a lot of home decorating and Mike has been doing home improvements for us! Yep you read that right! He changed out our light in our breakfast nook, and will soon be hanging new lights in both the foyer and foyer to the master bedroom. We want to get the interior painted next. So next I need to set up appts for estimates. I'm so thankful that we can continue on making our house a home. It just helps with our appreciation that much more and I find that I work harder to keep it clean as possible. I'm also EXTREMELY thankful for my Norma! She comes every other week and really gets the surface clean and I can keep up better. She is just so great and the children adore her!!
We have our friends, the Messners, coming over for dinner this Saturday! That is going to be so great. They have three as well, all boys! We both have Cadens that same age and our babies are same age pretty much too, 3 months apart for both sets. They have an older son who is 8, while we have our little wonderful two's Riordan ;-) They play together so nicely!
So I'm off to look for shot cards so I can get them to Dr. Sudha's office to be updated for school. I'm going to try and get Riordan in a preschool this year as well. Caden will be every day, so that should give Teagie and I two days a week to have girl time.