Landon's Big Boy Bed

A few months ago we converted Landon's crib into a toddler bed with the bed rails still on it. Since this time, my son has slept on the floor more than his bed. In this little bed, if his toes happened to fall onto the floor in middle of the night, he simply slid out of bed and onto the floor and stayed there. Barrett and I decided he could not continue sleeping like this. There was no way he could be getting good sleep on the floor every single night. So Saturday we decided to venture out and get him a big boy bed. Our paperwork for the crib assured us that his bed would convert to a full size bed using the headboard and footboard. So we bought rails and a new mattress. Took it home ready to put in and of course it couldn't be that easy. It did convert but you needed to purchase their special equipment to make it happen. Since we hadn't thought to check into that before we tore his bed apart, we simply made do. Barrett drilled some holes in the right spots and used some boards along with the newly purchased rails and voila, new big boy bed. This thing looks huge compared to my little man but he accepts all challenges. He climbs into this thing like a mountain climber. He never hesitates or looks like it is going to be too hard. He just pulls up and climbs right in. Now its only been since Saturday but thats been 2 nights and he hasn't ended up on the floor yet so maybe this was the key to a good night sleep for my little man.

Krewe of Eve

We don't do a lot of Mardi Gras Parades. Maybe one or two a year. We always seem to travel out of town for Mardi Gras every year. So far this year we have managed to go to only one parade, Eve in Mandeville this past Friday night. Krissy and I brought all of the kids to the parade. We got to the parade about 5 o'clock Friday night. We ate chicken and chips on side of the road like a picnic. The kids ran around and colored and played for about 2 hours before the parade finally made it our way. I didn't take any pictures during the parade (sorry but its hard to do with 2 adults and 5 kids) but I did get a couple before the parade started. The parade is always good. We had a great spot and we weren't crowded or anything like that. The kids had a great time. Elena loved getting toys way way more than beads. After the parade was over Landon sweet talked a pretty girl into giving him her shiny light up ring that she caught during the parade. Of course all of the pretty girls fall to him when he charms them. It was a great night and the kids crashed as soon as we got into the car to drive home.

P90X.....Are we ready for this?

One of the New Year's Resolutions that Barrett and I decided to tackle together is getting in good physical shape. We are both down to healthy weights so we decided that a little exercise cannot hurt anything only improve the quality of our lives. As some of you know, moma and daddy gave us all a cruise for Christmas. The cruise falls in April. This was just the motivation we needed to get our gears moving and set up a fitness routine. We checked around and decided that although hard (probably one of the most brutal out there right now) the P90X was the one we would try. We can't do a gym together. We have 2 kids and cannot pawn them off on someone for a couple hours each night and we wanted something we could do together to motivate each other. So our P90X came in just over a week ago. We got it in on a Friday and started it on a Friday. We were motivated and ready to do this. I'm not going to lie to anyone or sugar coat anything...this was hard. But it felt soooo good the next day. The muscles that hadn't been used in so long were finally awoken. We continued for the entire first week exercising at night after the kids went to bed. This seemed to be very time consuming. Most of the routines run between an hour to an hour and a half. This didn't give us any down time in our day. So when our week started over, we changed things up. We started yesterday morning working out in the morning. We get up between 4:30 and 5 now....do our exercise, get ready for work/school, then when we get home in the afternoon we've got down time together once the kids go to bed. It's only been 2 days like this but it seems to be working. I'm loving the extra energy throughout the day. Hopefully we can stick with this. As we progress, I will try to keep everyone posted. AND, if I get brave enough, at the end of our 90 days, I may post before and after pics. Wish us luck....we are definitely going to need it!!!