Boys will be boys

Here we are at 8 months now and Caleb is sitting up fairly well. He will sit in the floor and play with Cayden for 15 min. or so and then either he will fall to one side or get irritated. He has also for some reason started rolling over onto his stomach in his bed but he hates it when he is there. So he proceeds to scream and break a huge sweat until he gets back over. Mind you he is not going back to his stomach on his own I have to do that. I think he is taking advantage of his cuteness to get his way. He is a super sweet baby completely the opposite of what Cayden was like when he was little. He still does not have any teeth but he puts EVERYTHING in his mouth. His naps and night time sleeping are very speratic. It is about to kill me. I am so exhausted and I never get to rest it seems like. When one is up the other is down and vise versa. I hope within this month he can get a little more mobile and figure out his sleeping schedule.

Oh usual Cayden. He is in the sand table when he is supposed to be standing outside of it. We desperately need to take a trip where he can get down and dirty in the sand. He makes such a mess on the patio but it call all be swept off. We go through at least 3 sets of clothes a day with him. I never get caught up with laundary. Aaron is dilligently trying to get his playset put together up here but the hill in our back yard is posing a problem. That is what is in the background beside the fence. Cayden on the other hand is our big sleeper (at naptime) and I thought I would NEVER say that. He used to only get in the max 1.5 hours where now he can take a 3.5 hour nap. Most of the time Caleb wakes him up. Cayden will come out of his room and say "Caleb wake me up." It is so cute but usually he will be whinny after that.

It is has been so much fun being the mom of 2 precious boys. I don't know what I would do if I had it any other way.

Then and Now

Just the other day Cayden climbed into Aaron's lap to finish his nap and I got a flash back of what size he was a little over 2 years ago. My how time has flown. I have been noticing lately how tall Cayden is getting but this just reassured me that he is not our little baby anymore. This rarely happens so when I saw them I knew I had to capture the moment. That was our Cayden when he was a week old and this is our Cayden now at 2.

Steaming Mama

I will start this off by saying that Aaron and I have been fortunate enough to buy our last 2 homes as new construction and not buy from a previous owner. Some will say we are spoiled but it just worked out that way both times. This time when we bought we had a really hard time looking at houses with other peoples' "stuff" in it.

The area we now live in is known as "Madison" if you are around or from Jackson. When people ask that is what we say. The housing market here was far beyond what we had imagined. There was SO much to choose from. Well the house we fell in love with was a house that had been lived in but it was what we wanted. Within the first week of living here I still didn't feel like it was ours. I say that because when I look at the wall or the floor and see things that I didn't put there it makes me wonder what happened for it to be there.

Aaron says I am crazy but I pride myself on wanting things clean and keeping it that way. My house may not be magazine picture ready all the time but I like to be germ free as much as possible. He can say all he wants but he is starting to like that and want things cleaned too. We can go somewhere and he wants to know if I have cleaned it and sprayed for germs (I love you, honey:) Here is where I am going with this...

I bought a steam cleaner and it is the best little thing EVER!

In the main walk area to and from the garage there our grout between the tile was a dark brown color and I knew that was not the color it was supposed to be so I was dying to get it cleaned. The previous owners had dogs and I didn't want to think about what may be in there. For those of you who love to have an inside pet this is a great tool to have. Cleaning products do not get the grout or hard to reach areas. I have a sense of power now that I have got it cleaned. The color is now a tanish color. Hallelujah to steam!

Here are some pictures of my tile floor where this little bad boy has done his job.

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During:

After:

Oh, I feel so much better. I highly recommend a steamer to anyone. I know if I had had it before now I would have been using like crazy. Sometimes cleaners don't always do the trick you just think so because it smells good. I couldn't tell you if this particular one it the best brand. I thought it was from the reviews that I read.