A Day in the Life Part II

Nap typically goes from 1-4. Sometimes it only lasts until 3:30, and other days it goes until 5:00!! Yesterday Harvey was up by 3:30 (then Sam at 4:30 and Mary Helen at 5. Seems to be the norm for now).


He ALWAYS wakes up crying from nap. Tis never a pretty site. Especially when everyone else is still trying to sleep.





Because he's waking up about an hour before everyone else these days, I bring him downstairs quickly and try to keep him quiet for an hour. So that means.......TV time!!!


A little TV, a little sippy cup and a good blanket for snuggling. Now that's how you keep a toddler quiet for about an hour.


Everyone else gets up, Sam has a bottle, everyone is diapered and dressed and we play until mom comes home at 5:30. Then on Monday nights I have Bible study at church at 6. So Harv and I head straight to church where we meet up with John.


John switches the car seat into his car and they're off!


From there, they do dinner around 6:30, then it's time for some Wheel of Fortune....................




Some baby yoga..............




Santa time...............




A little time with his new favorite sunglasses...............







And one last check of the Christmas tree before bath around 7:30 and bed at 8:00.




So there you have it, a typical Monday for the Clores. That's some exciting stuff right there! And this particular Monday just so happened to be Harvey's 19 month birthday. So crazy that 19 months have already come and gone.

A Day in the Life Part I

I got this idea from my friend Alicia. I wanted to document what a typical weekday is like for us, and then in a couple of weeks we'll document a typical weekend day. I think this is something we'll look back on one day and be so glad to just remember the little things from everyday life.

On a typical day, John gets up around 5:15 to go workout (at least that's what time his alarm goes off----the number of times he snoozes depends on the day :) ).


I get up around 6, get ready, make lunches, and pack up for the day. Around 7 John goes in and wakes Harvey up and gets him ready to go to "work".

We get to work around 7:30 and it's breakfast time for all of us. Then after breakfast is play time. Today Harv started play time
with a bang----literally.

He fell and hit his eye on a shelf. Poor kid. Monday's are tough.






Poor Sam. Wearing a "Cute Little GIrl" bib while Harvey tries to shove a Santa hat on him. It's tough being little.











Around 9 little Sam goes down for his morning nap and I do art with the big kids. I had the cat take these photos, so try not to judge the quality of the setup here. :)





















The final products. Today we worked on our shapes. Obviously.



After art we went up to the playroom to play. And cry. And play dress up. While crying.


The first of many crying fits. I soon realized (uhhh after 30 minutes of crying) that perhaps he had a bit of a headache after his collision earlier in the morning. I gave him some Motrin and voila! Tantrum free.

Harvey vs The Laptop. Stupid thing wouldn't do what he wanted. So he threw it.




Then gave it a few kicks for good measure. Taught that laptop a real lesson.




Post Motrin playtime.





This photo cracks me up. She's dressed in a fairy costume, with and apron around her waist and a firefighter coat on top. Then she used a temper tantrum to really help pull the whole look together. Priceless.





Captain Harv.




Sam wakes up around 11 and we go back downstairs to play until lunch time at noon.

The lunch crew.










Some lunch time shenanigans. They thought I wasn't paying attention because I was taking photos. False.



I made them trade cups back immediately after this photo. Maybe next time kiddos.




After lunch we clean up, do diapers then it's off to nap time. They love to march up the stairs chanting "Go, go, go!! Up, up, up!!"









And he's outta here. Stay tuned for part two tomorrow!

Saturday Night in the Clore House

It's a pretty wild time apparently!

(These photos were taken just before we went out for a ride to look at Christmas lights and ice cream. Harv loved the lights, but threw a random fit when we finally got our ice cream after waiting in line for about 15 minutes. He took two bites and started signing "all done" and screaming and crying to get down. We quickly put our coats on and made a quick exit. He was screaming bloody murder in the car while John and I ate our ice cream in the front seat. I finally got out of the car and stood in the cold and fed his highness his ice cream in the back seat, then John took over just before hypothermia set in. Yeah buddy, we taught him a real lesson about throwing a tantrum! :) ).

A Very 70's Christmas

I recently got a new computer (his name is Mackey the Mac Book Pro. I just call him Mackey, Or Mac. Or Mr. Pro), and I've actually had a lot of time to work on my photoshop actions. I wanted to try some of them out, so I took some of our Lexington Christmas photos and got to work. I really like the vintagey/70's/retro look I got in a lot of these photos. It looks like a Christmas straight out of the 70's. It's John's dream come true. :)


You've gotta have at least one awkwardly posed cousins photo to make your holidays complete. And you have to hurry and get it in before...............






Someone gets silly/grows antlers/gets.........well, drinks too much punch and passes out right in the front row. Family holidays will do it to you.





Harvey, quite pleased with himself and how's he's working the room and making people laugh. Where do kids learn this stuff?!















Slightly unamused.





And very unamused.





I'm not sure who this gift is for. I seem to be pretty darn excited about this 3ft basketball goal.