Playdough at Grandma's

I mentioned last post that I was recently in a wedding. I was actually the Maid of Honor, so the events kept me busy. I didnt' want to have to be a mom that night, so we shipped Adam off to Grandma Carol's house for some big fun! She took him to Underwater Adventures and let him play with playdough. Nothing like being spoiled at Grandma's! (Playdough does not come out at our house, I don't want to be picking it out of the carpet for years to come!)




Look at how hard he's concentrating on cutting that dough! I want to go to Grandma's house and play with him!

FOOTBALL!

Man, it's been awhile! We have been a very busy family! I was in a wedding a couple of weeks ago, and it took awhile to recover, then a friend's birthday party - not to mention all of the crazy last minute wedding plans. But, stressful days aside, we still find time to have a great time with our nearly three year old little bucket of fun!

The other day, we decided to play some football. (Daddy's the one who encourages him to throw balls in the house, but only certain ones are for inside play!)



We try to not use the AC very often, but we open the sliding door and let the fan blow to circulate the air. Those of you who have been inside our apartment know that we can't get any cross ventilation. Adam thinks it's fun to let the fan make him fat and to talk into it and say "I am a robot!"

I think we have a little construction worker on our hands, he loves to play with his tools. He was fixing mommy's cheeks with the drill. When I was all better - I was stuck with a kiss face!

But it always comes back to sports - tackling daddy and waiting to make the big catch for a touchdown! Always fun and games at our house

A Monumental 4th of July

As parents, we have learned that there is a first time for everything - from the first smile to the first  steps to the first we experienced yesterday: The First Throw Up. I should have known something was wrong, Adam slept in until almost 9 before I went to wake him (he's normally up by 7) and was very cranky and not very interested in eating. 

About 20 minutes later, I heard him gagging so I spun around and watched as my baby's breakfast came up. I won't go into details, but other then the spit up occasions as a baby, he had never done this before. I am not sure why or where it came from, since he behaved fine for the rest of the day and wasn't acting sick. He did have his tired moments though - and we decided not to keep him up for fireworks, in case he really was sick. He was pretty cute cuddling daddy on the couch and relaxing for most of the day though! 

Making a Splash!

We drive past the pool every time we come or go from our apartment and for the last week or so, Adam has been begging us to take him swimming. Yesterday was the big day. We headed down to the pool and wondered if he'd like it or be afraid (it took quite awhile last year for him to like it). He loved it! He climbed right in and clung to daddy for dear life! After a few minutes he wanted to swim (although, he doesn't like the water in his mouth), a little later he wanted to jump in...We'll have to get him a floaty of some sort to play with, because I have a feeling we'll be back! 

Ah, summer!

Last weekend, it was finally nice enough outside, finally there was a wind-less day and finally Mike was feeling up to pulling out the grill! I got some delicious steaks for him to get hot, boiled up some corn on the cob, and cooked some red potatoes with garlic butter - it was a delicious dinner! I think Adam had as much fun "helping"  and watching daddy cook it (and playing outside) as he did eating it! Adam might have eaten more steak then mommy did, he really likes his meat! 

Hat's off to the Graduate!

This past weekend my littlest brother, Ryan, graduated from High School. I was such a proud sister, it's been a long, hard road for Ryan and I am so proud of the hard work and diligence Ryan put in to be able to walk across that stage. He was pretty proud of himself too! The graduation ceremony was looong (over 850 kids) and we also threw him a huge party to celebrate, so it was a tiring weekend - but nothing could bring down the high I felt as my brother received his diploma. Ryan, I am so incredibly proud of you. I am so lucky to be your sister!

Here I am with the almost graduate:

Right before the ceremony I heard rumors that the kids were lined up and ready to walk in, I snuck out to "the bathroom" and managed to get a few pictures of him walking in. Not very many people were out there, so he easily saw me in my hot pink dress and smiled for me. Look how excited he looks!

Finally graduated! As soon as he saw his mom, he grabbed her for a HUGE hug - you can see the excitement and pride in both of their faces!

Ah, clean carpet!

We were quite lucky, and as a bonus for renewing our lease (again) we were given a free "high traffic" carpet cleaning. Well, it seemed ridiculous for us to have them come in and clean the 5 feet of carpet that is usually showing - so we decided to take it upon ourselves to move everything out of the way. See how clean the carpet turned out? And how packed every other room in our apartment was!?!? It's so much softer and nicer now - if only we can keep it this way!






Adam really loved all the space - he just couldn't play too much, since it was still rather damp. He also decided it was too clean, and didn't waste any time before getting crumbs all over the nice clean floor!
Sure was fun hauling those couches at 6:30 in the morning!