Bathroom Renovation

Well, today began our master bathroom renovation! We are slowly working through our house projects list, but one of the bigger ones was completely redoing our master bath.  While being a more expensive and extensive renovation, it jumped to the top of the list since it's a room we constantly use.

Monday Measurements & Milestones

I want to thank you all for your love and support with going public about my journey to a healthier me. The feedback I am receiving is amazing and so encouraging.  You have given me the courage to continue to write about my health and fitness!  I can only hope that my journey might encourage and inspire others as well.

Taking the Plunge

I've debated for 23 days now on whether I was going to let our blog readers in on my new journey, but I think now is the time!  Gulp...here it goes...

Grilled pizza

It's high time we put out another recipe review. This time, daddy is taking the reins and bringing ya'll the good stuff. For the record, momma and BB helped a lot in the creation of this masterpiece but daddy got to play with the fire. Yes, that's right, it's time to review one of our favorite, and most versatile, recipe's: grilled pizzas!

Are you ready to be amazed?

Very rarely do we have a Saturday in the Blakely household that is free and clear of plans and obligations on the calendar.  Amazingly, today was one of those rare days!  We had a friend coming to take a look at our HVAC system at some point today, so we didn't make any formalized plans either.

It's yuckies up in there

"It's yuckies up in there," is what Noah says when he discovers a spot, a mess, a stray leaf, or any other "yucky" item in the house. We find it hilarious that he identifies "yuckies" as being "up in there." We also have no idea where he got that one from.

"Does this mean we don't get to have breakfast?"

This past Sunday, we had a "mission moment" during our worship service. This was an opportunity for a pre-chosen member of the congregation to get up and talk about the mission in the church that has affected them. This month's mission focus is the Farmville Area Community Emergency Services (FACES) backpack program.

It Finally Happened!

Well folks, it finally happened! Noah slept through the entire night in his toddler bed!

Last we updated you, we were still sleep deprived and trying every trick in the book to convince Noah that there was nothing wrong with sleeping in his room.  While we are still sleep deprived, last night Noah slept from about 8:45pm to 6:30am! Hallelujah! 

Last Friday while Noah was still at daycare I went ahead and took apart his crib and stashed it in the basement.  I won't lie, I wanted to both leap for joy and sit down and cry my eyes out at this new development in our little boy's life.   

I decided to make a few new arrangements to his room since there was a gaping hole where the crib use to be.  However, I didn't want to change things too drastically for fear it would add to the sleeping problem.  So I moved his toddler bed where his crib was and created a cute little reading/activity corner on the other side of the room using some of the decorations from his birthday party  that he loved so much.  

He was very excited about the new decor, but still wasn't sleeping well.  There have been nights where one of us has slept on the floor next to him.  We have taken turns going into his room for the many middle of the night wake up calls to get him back to bed and to sleep. We've tried new and old stuffed animals, new sheets, new pillow, and a flashlight.  

But it turns out our persistence and time have proved to be most effective in accomplishing the feat of the big boy bed...either that or he just lulled us into a false sense of accomplishment and we will be in and out of his room all night again for two more weeks.  Pray that's not the case...I'm just starting to feel human again.

Happy little man after snoozing the night away!

No way

Well our little man slept mostly through the night and allowed us to get a little sleep ourselves. Maybe we've turned a corner on the sleep issue? That being said, the rest of the house is becoming frustratingly expensive.

Sleep? What's that?

So as you've read, Josh and I have been struggling to get shut eye the past several nights.  Our dream child when it came to sleeping, napping and going to bed has revolted and we feel like we are in the newborn sleep deprivation haze all over again.  We still have no idea what the problem is.  He is taking his naps on a mat at school just fine like always, but something about his room and his crib is freaking him out.

Hostage situation

Let me just put this disclaimer right up front: Trying to get our son to sleep is not the same as a true life, scary as heck, hostage situation. That being said, I've been able to draw up some interesting parallels. Last night was another doozy which led to another Mickey mug kind of morning.

Is it time to go to sleep yet?

Yesterday we both had off from work so we had a wonderful family day full of playing and eating healthy. We topped it off with a new, to BB, movie: Tangled! Noah loved it and we got to relax going into the evening. Although the terrible twos showed their ugly head a few times, it was overall a great day. Little did we know that this was all a set-up for one heck of a night.