Wow....

I know it's been a long stretch of no posts but life with two (or what feels like 10) has proved to be a challenge and then some. 

Creeping up on Brody's 15 week mark I sit here and wonder where did that time go.  I can't say that these past few months have been the most enjoyable moments of my life - actually quite the opposite - it has been almost like a living hell at times (just being honest here).  As much as I would love to sit here and say I loved every second of being home with my little man enjoying our bonding time - it would be a total lie.  While bonding did take place there was also a lot of screaming and crying, trips to the dr's, long long days and very little sleep.  Following in his big brothers footsteps Brody has proved himself to be quite the challenging baby.  In his defense he doesn't want to be a hard baby he so badly wants to be happy - but he just got dealt a bad hand dealing with an awful case of reflux, colds, pink eye, the list goes on and on.  The little guy just can't catch a break!

This week Brody will begin transitioning into the life of daycare and next week will be back to work for me.  While I'm excited to return to work and have a life that consists of more than shhhhing and bouncing a baby all day - I am also sad that my time of being a stay at home mom has come to an end and the amazing smiles I get on a daily basis will be limited to mornings and nights. 

Christmas 2012

This was our first Christmas home together as a family - just the 4 of us.  In years past we always traveled to be with our families (parents and brother/sisters)  but with the additon of Brody so close to Christmas, as well as Tyler starting to get an understanding of the whole Santa thing, we decided to begin building our own tradition of having Christmas together at home.  We had a great few days making cookies, watching movies and relaxing - spending quality time together.  The holidays this year really made me excited for years to come (not to rush it!) - seeing the excitement on my boys faces every Christmas morning, introducing old family traditions to them and building new family traditions.

Making cookies for Santa - Tyler was very specific on how the cookies were to be decorated

Warn out from all the morning excitement

Loving his baby brother

Checking things out

One happy boy on Christmas morning

Brody has arrived

The day has come and gone - the arrival of our 2nd beautiful baby boy - Brody Michael Onyon born on 12/11/12 at 8:29am weighing in at 8lbs 13ozs and 20inches.

We have been adjusting to life with two beautiful boys but couldn't be happier to have the addition of a healthy baby boy to our crew!  We can't wait to experience all the good times and build lots of memories in the years to come with our boys.



Our precious boy



Loving my little boy

First Onyon family photo

Apple Picking

Another late post but wanted to include some of the fun times we had with apple picking this year.  Two trips to the orchard this year  - one with Tyler's school and the other part of our annual Onyon/Norman apple picking trip! 

First was our trip to the orchard with Tyler's class.  I was able to take the day  off from work and went on Tyler's first school trip.  So much excitement with this trip -  not only was it Tyler's first school trip, but in order to get to the orchard the kids took a school bus.


Big boy on his first school bus ride - excited doesn't even begin to explain it!



Tyler and his buddies Maddie and Jack

Mmmm delicious apples

Next apple picking trip was on  part of the annual Norman/Onyon outing.  Each year it is more and more fun as the kids get bigger and enjoy running through the orchard an picking apples themselves.  This year was the most successful yet as Tyler was a very good helper and we kept daddy down to only picking two bags of apples rather than his normal 4-5 bags.  We love doing this and hope to continues this for years to come!

Our little family

Tyler taking some pointers from his girlfriend on how to take care of his baby brother

Tyler taking care of some heavy lifting

It wouldn't be an apple picking trip without a tractor drive

  

Late post of Oct/Nov going on's....

Here is a post that I started to write back in early November - as you can see it's far behind but figured I'd post anyway.

Life has been quite hectic the past few weeks. Hurricane Sandy hit us on 10/29- we lived through another hurricane (2nd one in two years) and are lucky enough to report we had zero damage to our house or property and only had a minor inconvenience of no power for 4 days.  We weren't really sure how things were going to go being home with a 2+ year old w/o power for multiple days- but surprisingly it was a lot of fun.  Tyler was such a trooper and had a blast helping daddy build fires and listening and dancing to the radio - our only source of entertainment.  Plus it helped that we had visitors over all the time so Tyler had lots of playmates to cause trouble with and we had an escape to Aunt Cwiss and Uncle Waawwwyyy's house on two of the days!  The morning after we got power back I think Tyler was actually a little upset to have power since the morning did not start off with being daddy's assistant and carrying in fire wood to start a fire. 

Due to the unfortunate events of Hurricane Sandy - there really was not much of a Halloween this year.  Halloween was officially cancelled state wide on 10/31 and moved to the following Monday.  But with all the problems that still existed in the area and daylight savings causing it to be dark outside very early - we decided to skip the trick or treating this year and just hangout and home and tend to any treak or treaters that did venture out (which was not many about 10 compared to 30-40 in previous years).  Daycare did have a little party for all their little girls and boys so Tyler did get to show off his costume for an entire day.  This year we decided on Thomas the Train - he look adorable in his little hat! 

So another crazy October for us - last year around this time was a huge NorEaster - this year a Hurricane....I'm hoping this is not the new normal!

Summer 2012

What a crazy summer it was......as usual no time for posts but lots and lots of pictures to document our fun times.  Tyler has grown up so much over the past few months it's hard to believe that our little baby is now a toddler who is constantly on the go, talks or makes some sort of noise every waking second and has so much life and energy that you can't help but smile when you are around him.  He's a very special little boy and Mike and I are very lucky people to have such an amazing son.  We can't wait for the new addition to our little family this winter and can't wait to see Tyler as a big brother.

Lots of our summer pictures are from Cape May this year - another great trip with the Onyon crew.  Tyler had a blast running crazy with his cousins Sophia and Lucas and loved seeing his baby cousin Jack.  Next year Jack will join the ranks of the crazy kids and Tyler's baby brother Brody will be the baby chillin on the beach watching his crazy cousins!

Chillin on the beach

Loves doing swan dives into his pool



Who doesn't love Skee Ball



Grammy & PopPop love

Family shot!

Trouble Trouble

We love visitors.......

During the month of July we had lots of visitors......Tyler loves having visitors because he can run around like the crazy little man he is and get lots of giggles and laughs
from his audience!

First up was Tyler's beloved cousin Baby Jack.  He loved having baby Jack around and continues to love seeing pictures and watching video's of his baby cousin.  I'm pretty sure in this picture Tyler was going to give Jack a sweet little kiss...not sure how sweet Jack thought it was as he doesn't look too happy!

During the month of July Grandma and Papa were in town staying in MA for a few weeks and then coming back to NJ for some visiting time with T-man before their trip home.  Grandma got some snuggle time in with T while watching one of T's favorites Shrek.

Uncle Larry silly as always - taking a ride on Tyler's Sesame Stree bus.  Lots of giggles on this one!

Could this picture be any sweeter - Tyler loves his big cousin Sophia.  Laying together watching Mickey the night before our trip to Cape May .