A Three Month Old and Fun Brother Time

3 months old - Where has the time gone?

He loves tummy time!

Witten has been sleeping 12 hours through the night for a while now, which has been a great gift! We've also gotten to where his long nap of the day falls right during Tytus' nap. I would say those are two big reasons why it's getting easier being a mom of two. It's so much fun to see Witten smiling and talking back to us when we visit with him. He loves to be a part of what's going on, but I can also see that he enjoys having some quiet time without a whole lot of commotion. I'm sure we'll see more and more of his personality as the months keep flying by.

Now that Witten can hold and grab at toys a little, Tytus will pick out a few things and try to hand them to him or prop them up for him to see. As we were playing in the living room one day Tytus was being really sweet playing with Witten, so I asked if he wanted to hold him. I sat them down next to each other and Tytus immediately put his arm around him and just loved it!

Sweet, sweet brothers

Tytus also wanted to look at some books that day. So, he went and got two books that he knew Witten would enjoy and I helped sit him up so he could look at them. Then Tytus got a book for himself. So studious :)

Happy 2nd Birthday Tytus!

The big 2 year old!

We celebrated Tytus' birthday with just the four of us last weekend. Ian and the birthday boy left early in their pj's to get some donuts. We ate them at home and started to open some presents before Witten got up. Over the last month or so I have been talking to Tytus about his birthday and what it meant to be turning two. I didn't really bring up presents at all, but I found that I didn't really need to. Every time we talked about his birthday he would say "Green truck!". Needless to say that it was really simply to pick out his gift this year.....and he loved it! He also got some little men to put in the truck and a tee ball set to play with outside this summer.

Daddy got his these cool Green Lantern and Superman Little People to go in his truck 

It didn't take long for the truck to make it into the sandbox.

The week before his birthday we had some crazy winds blow down both sides of our fence. It was tough to let Mia go out to use the bathroom because she would go right over to the neighbors' yards to explore and try to get out of any holes they may have. So, Ian and one of our neighbors spent almost the entire day on Saturday taking the old fence posts out, buying new supplies, pouring concrete for the new posts, and reinforcing the sections of fence that had fallen. It actually made for a perfect day for Tytus because he got to spend all day outside with daddy and lots of tools. Doesn't get much better than that!

Right after the fence fell....and there were more sections down on the other side of our yard.

The guys working!

We had some pizza out on the deck for lunch and then after naps we sang happy birthday and ate some cake. I found a cool recipe for a truck cake and thought it would be fun to give it a shot. It turned out pretty good, and he loved eating it! Now he thinks every birthday cake is a "truck cake".

To end the birthday celebration we went to check out the kite festival in Austin on Sunday. We met Aunt Lindsay, Oliver, and Aiden there and had so much fun watching all the kites and enjoyed spending some more time outside. It made for a really fun weekend to celebrate our two year old. We can't believe it's already been two years!

Eating some peas for a snack...yum!

The kites filled the sky

Witten was also there, but I think he was napping on his blanket at this point.