The Booty Butt Dance...and other happenings over the past few weeks

So the boys like to do a little dance...The Booty Butt Dance. It is never the same twice and it is sometimes accompanied with a song. The dance is sometimes done naked, yes naked :-) No matter what the boys decide to do for it, it always turns out funny and last week I was able to finally capture one version on film:

Life has been quite busy over the past month which is why it has taken me so long to post. Chris and Brenden ran the Big House Big Heart race with my brother and Dad. It was Chris' Birthday on October 6th. We had Chris's mom come stay with us while Chris traveled on business. My mom came for a short visit. Jake had his first official school picture day for kindergarten. Rylan had her two month check up and shots. I have gone back to coaching at Legacy on Sundays. We have gone to the Dexter Cider Mill for doughnuts and cider. Chris and Brenden went to a U of M football game. Jake, Rylan, and me went to a clown diving show at EMU. And, of course, there has been lots of football to watch on TV. A very busy month as you can see.

Besides all that has been going on, we have also had to deal with quite a few sleepless nights. I'm proud to say that Rylan has not been the cause and not so proud to say that most nights it has been Brenden, my 3 year old, waking me up. Rylan for the past 2 weeks now has been going to bed around 7:30pm and sleeping until 4am and on more than one occasion until 5 or 6 am. And not only is she sleeping that long, when she does wake up she eats and goes back to bed until 8am. Oh how I love my sweet, sleeping girl! Now Brenden on the other hand has been giving me some grief. Some nights its not his fault, he has HORRIBLE growing pains and we have to get him up out of bed to walk around a bit, eat some food, and have some tylenol/motrin before he's able to go back to bed. However, on other occasions he wakes up for whatever reason and decides he needs to get in bed with me, not cool. He is a total bed hog and always insists on at least staying for "a couple of minutes". He has been getting better at letting me take him back to bed almost immediately, but because he's coming in around 2am and I usually don't get to bed until close to midnight and have to get up around 4 am to feed Rylan, these 2 hour increments of sleep are starting to get to me! He hasn't come in for a few nights now, I'm hoping he's growing out of it, but I guess only time will tell.

We're all looking forward to Halloween, well at least all of the boys are. Halloween is just not that big a deal to me. I enjoy the candy of course, but could do without the costumes. I'll be sure to take some pictures of this year's festivities as the boys get to celebrate at school on Friday and then get to go out for the real thing on Sunday. Hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday!!