The England family!!!: July 2012

It has been hot here. I mean really hot. We just moved into our new house and within days, the AC went out and then temperatures soared into the high 90's and low 100's. What. The. CRAP!

Holy Redheaded-baby- in-the-Shade, Batman.

We tried hard to find ways to keep the boys entertained AND ALSO beat the heat. Our biggest wins were the water table...

and the sprinkler...

I should also mention that the boys have recently decided to take their brotherly-loving relationship to the next level...

With noogies...

Choke holds, wailing...

Eye pokes...

and whining to try and deflect the trouble and make one's self look totally innocent.

Good times.

It's completely not given me a headache in the least bit...

Oh wait, No, it has.

And if one more person tells me that I have my "Hands full" I may actually cry.

(I hear that phrase at least 5 times an hour if I have both the boys together )

I don't think people realize how insulting it is when they say that to a mother brave enough to take her two wild, but very loved and treasured babies out to target (or the grocery store or to just run errands because how else are these things going to get done???).

I really feel good about myself and capable (and maybe even a little bit like I can actually handle it) when I've got Aengus on my hip and Declan by the hand...

but then some well-meaning member of the peanut gallery shatters that with a thoughtless figure of speech and I am crushed.

All I can think is "What a mess I must look like..."

It's never from people who know what it's like to have babies back to back (or even multiples).

Those people are the ones that end up making my day with their comments of

"It will get better, Dear."

and

"Do your best to enjoy it because it goes by much too fast"

"You are doing SUCH a great job."

In order to avoid ending this blog on a grumpy note, I'm going to post pictures from Father's day weekend of some of my favorite, heart-exploding images of AWESOMENESS...