Summer's Here!

I know for most people summer started on Memorial Day weekend, but for us it started this past weekend, because everyone was feeling well, we swam (at my brother’s pool), grilled out, we ate popsicles, watermelon, we even went fishing in the bathtub.

 

Z has become pretty afraid of the water. It may be because someone Mom, it was totally Mom, told him, and I quote “You have to hold me because if you don’t I’ll go under and If I go under then I’ll be gone.” That is so something my mom would say. Thanks Mom! Why do (well-intentioned) people think it’s a good idea to scare the living daylight out of your child?

 

Anyway, we are starting swim lesson this Saturday, and I’m going to hit them hard all summer. The only reason I didn’t do them last year is because I was lazy Lu was a newborn, but now we’re doing it, no excuses!

 

So I mentioned fishing in the bathtub. Nick took Z on Sunday out to run errands. They ended up at Academy where he bought him a super cool Star Wars fishing pole. Because they had to get a haircut, eat lunch, and go to the grocery store, then come home and take naps, he didn’t get to use his totally awesome fishing pole on any real fish, so we tried it out in the bath. It came with fake fish to catch and Z loved it!

 

 

Father Son Outing

 

It was a family fun-filled weekend. I am looking forward to many more!

Lu's 1 Year Checkup

I actually had a check up appointment relatively on time for once, and I totally forgot to blog about it! We went last Friday for Lu's 1 year check up (where I suspect Z may have picked up the dreaded stomach bug, won't be taking him to the next one if I can help it!).

She did great! She was 18.1 pounds, which was 10th percentile. She's been staying around the 25th since she was born, but I think she dropped a little because of the Hand Foot and Mouth period where she refused to eat much for about a week. She was 29.5 inches long which was 60th percentile, and right where she's been the whole time.

She really loves table food, and just today was helping herself to what was on my plate at lunch. She really doesn't like to be fed I think, which is why she's not big on baby food or anything she can't pick up herself.

She has started wrinkling her nose when she smiles at someone showing her third little tooth that has just sprouted on the top right. I suspect that has been the culprit of some of her recent fussiness, including her birthday weekend, so maybe she's feeling better now.

Her two favorite foods are green beans and watermelon, hands down, she'll eat those anytime anywhere.

She's doing really well with a sippy and now serves herself. She likes milk a lot!

She pulls up every chance she gets and she's trying to walk. She can even push her little stroller around. I don't think it will be too much longer!

Memorial Weekend

There is no exclamation point at the end of that title for a reason. Our weekend was not the best. In case you haven’t noticed, I really don’t like to talk about negative things on here, mainly because this is a place for me to document the things I want to remember about this time in our lives, not so much the things I don’t want to remember. I am thankful for the good times as well as the bad (because I know they could be so much worse), I just don’t like dwelling on the negative.

That being said, here goes, the weekend was going fine until Sunday afternoon as we were leaving the zoo. In an effort to make the weekend special, we decided to pack up and head to the zoo Sunday morning, even though the kids didn’t wake up until about 9 that morning. It was 11 by the time we got out. We had fun at the zoo, but didn’t realize it was getting late and hot, and it was Sunday and Homewood shuts down on Sundays. So, it took us a while, but we finally settled on eating at Whole Foods. We picked up some Wendy’s chicken nuggets and fries for Z, but he was not too interested (should’ve been our first clue). We forced him to eat some and went on. We could tell he wasn’t feeling well and then to spare the details, we’ll just say he got sick twice when we got home that evening. It was terrible. I HATED seeing my baby like that.

Because I feel there is no sense letting a 3 year old get sick all night long, I cut a phenergan suppository in half and gave it to him. He was so sweet and patient and listened to me and Nick as we kept telling him to “hold it in.” By the time it dissolved he was half asleep and he never got sick again. We are all still recovering (especially Nick who was sick the whole next day after being in the line of fire the day before), but thankfully we are all doing a little better and praying for a better weekend to come.

Z has already forgotten about it, but I’m afraid it may take me awhile to get over it. I am an emetophobe anyway (a term I ironically learned about the night before the incident), so I was definitely traumatized seeing him go through it. As much as I fear it, I would have gladly been the one to be sick if it would have spared him!

Okay, enough about that. I think the weekend leading up to it was pretty nice. We grilled steaks and had corn and baked potatoes on Saturday night. Z watch Star Wars and played some Xbox with Nick, both of which he loved! And we had some great QT with little Lu, who was (thankfully) feeling great all weekend. She couldn’t understand why we are all so pale and sad looking!

We were really excited about the dino exhibit at the zoo, but Z was terrified! I have to admit they were pretty big and real looking. But, I sure didn’t need to pay 16 bucks to terrify my 3 year old!

At least Lu didn’t mind them, until they started roaring

Butterflies, much better!

Soccer Star

This past Sunday, we wrapped up the Spring season of Sunday Soccer (that’s a lot of alliteration!). I had high hopes for Z to be a soccer prodigy really excel in soccer, which unfortunately did not come to fruition (yet). But he did have a lot of fun this time, and he was a lot more interested, that didn’t translate to much as he made contact with the ball exactly 5 very few times the whole season, but it’s something.

A couple of times, when he came out he was asking to go back in, and every time he did kick the ball, you would have thought he scored the game winning goal…

His cheerleading section sure looked cute! Even though Miss Priss is obviously giving someone a look in this picture.

I won’t be opening any baby photography studios anytime soon if this picture is an indication. It’s hard to get three babies to look at you at the same time unless you’re acting like a total crazy person (like mom, she’s got that crazy person thing down, babies love to look at her).

Speaking of Miss Priss, she is becoming more than just a little spoiled. She has been fussing a lot lately just so you will pick her up, and the minute you do, she’s fine. She especially knows her daddy will pick her up, so she lays it on thick when he’s around!

We had a great season, and Z was happy to get his trophy (and cookie) at the end.

No soccer star here, but he sure does look cute.

Lu’s Party!

This weekend was Lu’s party!

We did a strawberry/Strawberry Shortcake theme, and it turned out great!

We did a family only party, and I’m so glad we did, because she was having some major stranger anxiety issues (I think it partly due to the fact she is teething/maybe a little sick this weekend). She had some fussy moments, but all in all I think she had fun.

We ate,

We visited with babies (aren’t they cute?!),

and then we had some good photo ops.

And, got down to business, cake and presents! Miss Lu was less than interested in her cake (probably because Nunna was giving her trifle, watermelon and any other food she could get her hands on!).

She got lots of great presents, including her PB chair and Bitty Baby from us, clothes, books, and beach accessories from Nana and Tata and Aunt Talia and Uncle John and some clothes from T and Ola. She really seemed interested in her books and I think it was love at first sight for her and her dollie!

Z made a few cameo appearances, but spent most of his time playing with cousin J. He had a blast!

I am not strangling or threatening to strangle Z to make him smile in this picture, it’s just a case of awkward hand placement

I am beyond thankful for this sweet baby, and I was so happy to celebrate her first birthday! Love you sweet Lu!