First Days of Kindergarten!

Remember this? It's been a wild and crazy 5.5 years involving many moves (and two more kids!) but this still feels like it was yesterday (Connor at 3 months old, one of my favorite pics of him as a baby):

And now, so grown up! I could not be more proud of him, he's just such a terrific kid (and big brother!)

Monday was Connor's kindergarten visitation day. Andrew and I both took him, just for an hour, to meet his teachers, half his class, and check out his new classroom. He was a little nervous but mostly just excited!

With Leyla and his new Darth Vadar backpack :)

Kindergarten action pose!

Proud parents!

Outside his new elementary school.

He drew a picture of himself and his best bud Tristan (who is also starting kindergarten at East but unfortunately is not in his class).

His teacher Mrs. Orlando reading to the class.

Tuesday was the biggie- the first day riding the bus. I love this next series of pictures. Here we are waiting for the bus. Leyla's clapping for Connor, telling him how excited she is that he gets to go to kindergarten!

So happy! Side note, Leyla starts ballet next week and so I just got her this leotard which she has literally not taken off in days.

 Yay for kindergarten! Is that the look of a proud little sister or what?!

 Bus is almost here, it's getting real! I could see he was starting to get nervous.

When we heard it turn onto our street and start powering up the hill Connor clung to my leg for a minute and squeezed my hand. That's when I thought I might lose it! But he climbed right on in.

 Blurry wave. Bye Mommy :(

 And just like that he was off.

I turned around just in time to see what might be the saddest face I ever saw. I think it just hit her that her BFF was gone. It made me cry too.

 I asked if she was ok and that's when the waterworks really began. My poor little ballerina!

Kindergartners only go half days all this week. Needless to say, no one was more excited than Leyla when he got off that bus yesterday!! And here he was getting off the bus today (Wednesday!)

Kindergarten is off to a GREAT start! Connor- you are our rockstar!

Smile!

Finally had my phone near me to catch this boy's killer smile!

Logan's Birth Announcement

I thought this was such a sweet little picture of him!

Brother Stuff

The kids like to help Logan with his tummy time. Here Connor was giving him a lesson in Transformers (very important stuff!)

All Out for Autism 5K

Andrew's company sponsored a team for New Canaan's "All out for Autism" 5k and kids run last night. Connor and Leyla did the Kids' race and then we all walked the 5k. Great night for a great cause!
Andrew's work team:

And our little team.

Connor crossing the finish line of the kids' race (he won in his group!)

And then he went back to help Leyla finish. Love hearing her say "I did it!" at the end!

Even though he was carried the whole time all the action must have really worn Logan out because I woke up at 5:30 this morning realizing that he hadn't eaten (or even stirred!) since we put him to bed at 8 last night!! It's funny- being awake at 5:30 for the first time previously would have been an unacceptable hour for me but with a newborn I feel like a million bucks today! I put him back to sleep afterwards and he woke again at 8:30 for the day. Not sure if this means we need to walk a 5k every night before bedtime? Regardless, I'm loving my sweet little man even more this morning!!

New Mom of 3 Milestone

Survived back to school clothes and shoe shopping with three! Even though I forgot the baby's pacifer (doh!) everyone was really good!

New shoe "fierce" poses (Connor's is his go-to superhero pose). Leyla picked out the coolest shoes- girlfriend's got such great style! Note the headband ;)

7/8 Weeks!

Little man will be 8 weeks old tomorrow! He is such a sweet baby boy!! These past two weeks he's started rolling over ( at 7 weeks) and reaching for/batting at toys on his playmat. Lots and lots of smiles and coos which I just adore. Evening fussy time is thankfully almost nil again (that was fast!) At night he generally goes from 7:00pm to 1:00-3:30 before waking, (we've dropped the dream feed)-- still not too bad. In the last two weeks we had visits from Jessica (and her two boys Carter and Landon), Stacy, Tracey, Jason, Maeve and Ryan. Logan seems huge to me, he may weigh as much as Leyla did at a year old. We'll find out for sure at his next doc appt at the end of next week. He's already done with a lot of his 0-3 sized stuff and is just about to move up to size 2 diapers. He's still 100% breast milk- giving myself a pat on the back because homeboy eats a ton and it's sometimes a challenge for me to keep up. I'd say that's probably the toughest part of adjusting to 3 kids- living within these 3 to 3.5 hour feeding cycles. There's only so much you can do before it's time for him to eat again!

 Bath time baby Liberace! Or maybe Don King.

 Loves the bath.

Just as Leyla has intense Star Wars battles with Connor, Logan is already having to play with dolls.

Benefit of summertime babies- adorable chunky thighs on display!

I've been feeling nostalgic these past few days as I'm preparing to send my oldest baby boy off on that school bus for the first time next week. As anyone raising little kids knows, the days are long but the years are short. Perhaps someone up there knew it would help to have another big blue eyed sweet baby boy back at home :)