intro

welcome to our corner of the web!  here's a short intro about my little family and a bit of an explanation about the blog title.  for starters, i'm a wife to a wonderful & hardworking husband who loves me more than i deserve and in return, i cook for him and give him babies. but in all seriousness i really do love him a whole lot. we were married in april 2013 (04/20/2013 in colorado to be exact and no, we aren't potheads it was just the most convenient date). in may 2014 we welcomed our first baby into the world, a gorgeous little girl with a head full of dark hair.  she's now a toddler with a sweet personality and the stubbornness of a teenager.  i say she gets it from her father.  in march 2016 we were blessed with our second child, a healthy & strong boy. this baby has been impressing us since day one, by his second day on earth he was already holding his head up for 5-10min!  maybe it's his size that helps, by four months he's already a little over 17lbs and feels more like a toddler than his big sister does. we live in the great state of texas and since we are currently going through one of the hottest summers ever, i am more than ready to move somewhere with colder temps and scenic views. i'm thinking hawaii would do nicely...

our story begins

zoey elizabeth at two months old

peter leon, one day old

so, a little background story about the title of this blog.  everyone knows that babies are messy little spit-up machines, but until we had our second we didn't really deal with much spit-up from his big sis. this one spits-up basically anytime of the day no matter how many times he's burped, sat upright after eating, eaten fewer amounts to try and lessen the chances of it happening, basically nothing helps. so you will find burp cloths all over our house just waiting to be used, but somehow he always manages to miss the cloth and make a mess all over whomever is holding him. well one day i was walking around holding little man up on my shoulder when he proceeds to spit-up a good amount which of course misses the burp cloth on my shoulder and instead runs down my back, arms, legs and creates a pile on the floor.  tmi? sorry.  being frustrated at the fact that that was not the first time it had happened to me that morning i declared, ya know just slightly frustrated, "oh my gosh! why?! every single time!" and since our toddler is currently going through "parrot phase" she likes to repeat everything she hears, the next time peter spit-up i suddenly heard zoey yell "ahh every single time! every single time!" now coming from the mouth of a toddler who can't pronounce many words correctly this sounds just plain adorable which helps to make the situation much more bearable and even (at times) funny.  you will see her walking around with her little stuffed animals pretending to make them burp and then have an "every single time" moment, which she says about 5 times in a row, which means it's said/heard about 20-30 times every day. this is what inspired the name of this blog, a messy little boy and his talkative big sis who can always help make me smile when i least feel like it. my family is my world and i am so thankful for being blessed with all of them. i hope you enjoy following along as i post about our daily lives- be on the lookout for posts about life with two babies (duh), motherhood, home projects, mommy fashion (for those non t-shirt & sweat pants days that come around every so often) and of course, all of our "every single time!" moments.

~~amy