Life At The Mahoney's: May 2015

Friday, May 29, 2015

Silly girl

This girl and her hair. It has been a mess since I can remember. Lol! Most of the time now it is under control. But there are still times...

Hahah. Oh this takes me back to the days when her hair was crazy every day! :)

The Cutest

So I am pretty sure little boys playing Tball is the cutest thing ever!!!

Pierce had his first game yesterday! We were so proud of him. He was such a hard worker and wanted to do his best!!!

He seems to understand the game much better than we were expecting! Can't wait to see how grows through his season (which is about a month long).

The team warming up. He is number 12.

Playing with his string while waiting for the next batter. Lol

Such a sweet little boy!

This about sums up how Saffryn and Colt felt about watching the game

Next time I will need to bring more for the three other kids to do.

Pierce loved it! It is so fun to watch him. Dan and I were so very proud!!!

Thursday, May 28, 2015

One of the most frequent questions I get asked (besides are these all yours? And don't you know what causes this? Lol!!!) is: "What was the hardest jump for you guys? Going from 0-1 kids, 1-2, 2-3 or 3-4?"

Everyone says something different. "Oh zero to one was definitely the hardest for me." "My friend says after 3 you don't even know the difference so 3 must be the hardest." And on and on.

After thinking about this and experiencing the last year of my life I now have a formula to determine the biggest jump. It's super scientific. Lol. I have tested it out on some of my more veteran mom friends and it holds up. This information may already be out there, I really don't know. But it's fun to talk about.

So here is how you determine the biggest and hardest jump of children raising. It really depends on a few factors. I have narrowed it down to three.

Factor 1: the temperament of the child. It will come as no surprise but the easier the baby's temperament is the easier of a transition it will be for the parents.

Factor 2: life changes. Have you had any major life changes: move, job change, death in the family, divorce in the family, medical crisis, etc...?

Factor 3: support system. How much support do you have? Physically is someone there to help? Emotionally? Spiritually?

So with these in mind I will tell you the "easiest" and "biggest" jump for us. I have those in quotations because let's face it being responsible for the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of another human is going to be hard. Always. Lol. But the transition and adjustment to caring for those children can vary!

So our easiest by far was going from 2-3 children. Colt had a very easy personality. He was happy go lucky and didn't put up much of a fuss for me as a general rule. We were in a really stable spot. Dan was in the same job he had been in for a while and we had no major life changes going on (besides the birth of Colt). And we had developed a very strong community. I cannot tell you how many people brought us food after Colt was born. It was such a blessing! I had friends pop over to help when I had nursing issues with him. I felt so taken care of! Dan and I would say without a hesitation going from 2-3 felt like a breeze. But we were ideal in all the categories I had mentioned!

The biggest jump by FAR was going from 3-4 children for us. Max had (let's face it, has) a very stubborn and strong willed personality. He was a very demanding baby and cried and screamed a lot. We had a huge move and Max had some health issues. So some major life changes. Also, with the move we lost our support system. I had very little help.

So when people ask me I say 3 to 4 is the hardest. But now you know why! And maybe it makes sense when someone says 0-1 was the hardest for them. The more struggles in the three areas you have the harder the jump is going to be!

So do you agree with my "science"? :)

Tell me your hardest jump!

Yay for summer

Can it be? Could we finally be having some summer weather????

We are taking advantage of the break in rain to enjoy so summer activities. Splash parks, pools and playgrounds!

He has some crazy awesome hair!

Hahah

Colt running around the grass like a wild animal :)

He fell and bumped his head. Poor guy.

We have been doing a space module and the kids have loved it. So when they saw this rocket they knew just what do.

It is supposed to rain again tomorrow and all weekend so I am happy we took advantage of the sunny days!!!

Friday, May 22, 2015

Witches Brew

One of my friends posted this fun site on facebook and there are so many activities I wanted to try:

Babbledabbledo.com

We decided to start with the witches brew. Baking soda, vinegar, dish soap, glitter and food coloring.

We started adding different colors

When the kids started getting done with this activity we added corn startch and made outside sidewalk paint. This was such a fun project!!! The mess was fairly contained in our sensory bin. Bonus!!! :)

Dragon Birthday

Pierce turned FOUR!!! I really wanted to make him feel special and loved. Last year his birthday fell right during our move so we had a super low key party. It was fun but I wanted to go all out for him this year.

So I asked him what he wanted for his party and without a moments thought he says: "I want a How to Train Your Dragon 2 cake. I want to play twister. I want it at our house. I want ---- to come."

Well okay! So without further ado here is Pierce's How to Train Your Dragon 2 party. Please note some ideas are original and some ideas I got off the internet. What did we EVER do before Google?!?! Seriously!