Father's Day 2013

 

We spent today at Nana and Papa's house, celebrating Father's Day!  Amelia brought her squirt guns with and we had a small water fight...

...which turned into an afternoon of playing with water!

We grilled steaks and hot dogs for dinner with roasted potatoes and sesame veggies on the side!  Funny thing happened - Jason thought he seasoned the potatoes with paprika.  In reality he grabbed an (unmarked) jar of cayenne pepper that he liberally covered the potatoes with - can you say spicy?!  It made for a good laugh :)

Crazy, wild child on the way home!

Daddy with his little MN Twins fans.

Being outside all afternoon, watching two kids run around can sure take it out of a person!  (visual - see how tired dad is in the above picture?)  I'm looking forward to falling into bed in just a matter of minutes...

Afternoon on the Lake

We didn't have much going on today so we hopped in the car and went to surprise Jason's grandpa and Ardie with a visit!  It worked - they were very surprised :)

We went on a boat ride right away because it looked like some rain was coming.

Excited kids!

We hadn't gotten very far when we heard thunder so we decided to head in and avoid getting caught out in the rain.

Amelia helping drive home.

It was a good decision to head in - within minutes of walking in the door the rain started!  It rained most of the afternoon and cleared up around dinner so after eating Amelia and I went outside and walked around the yard and looked at the lake.

The weather turned gorgeous as soon as it was time to leave, ha!

Little man passed out before we even got around the lake and on the road - he was wiped out.

(you can really see his scrapes in this picture)

We had a fun afternoon - despite the rain!

Glimpse of Our Week

Another week has flown by!  As usual, we have been keeping busy outside when weather permits it!

On Wednesday Amelia wore her swimsuit all afternoon and evening.  When it was time for a walk to the grocery store she wanted to wear it and I agreed as long as she added the wrap to cover her underwear that was sticking out!  

 

Oh, and she slept in the swimsuit too.  I wonder what daddy thought when he got her up the next morning...

Thursday evening, after speech, we walked to Subway with my family for dinner and then to the park to play!

Tonight we went to the park after dinner and Joey took a digger on the sidewalk:

He gets going running and it's like his feet and body can't move at the same speed and he trips himself.  This was the first time he did it on a hard surface and he has the bumps, bruises and scrapes to prove it!  I figured we'd have to head home but he was ready to go play after a few minutes of cuddling so we stayed about another hour!

 

I'm happy it's the weekend and I can sleep in tomorrow!

Amelia's First Haircut

Today was finally the day - I took Amelia for her first haircut!

They gave her a sucker to help her sit still.  I also had my hair cut and I was in the chair you can see behind Amelia.  They turned and faced us towards each other so I ended up being able to snag a picture of her while she was in the chair!

Shortly after I took the picture she requested to not have to look at mom!

I didn't have much length taken off because she has some wonderful ringlets at the bottom of her hair that I didn't want to lose :)  Jason expected a much shorter hairstyle on her though so next time we may go shorter!  

All in all she did really well and I am glad we finally got her "scraggly" ends trimmed up!

"The Face"

Amelia has always made this angry/irritated/crabby face.  

 

We used to think it was hysterical when she was an infant.  Now that she is older though it really comes out when she is in a "mood" and giving us attitude - not as cute!

Just Joe and I

Amelia slept at my parent's house last night and she came to Target today to ask me if she could sleep there again so tonight it was just Joe and I!  We took a long afternoon nap and then headed to Subway for dinner (with a gift card from Mother's Day!)

He ate his whole sandwich!

When we got back from dinner we started a load of laundry and the plan was to take a quick walk before the rain came.  We made it about six blocks from our house and it started to downpour :(  I must have looked awesome running, with an umbrella stroller, while 24 weeks pregnant in a downpour complete with lightning and thunder.

We mostly played with cars tonight.  They're pretty much all Joe is into these days.  He refers to any vehicle as a do-doo.  When prompted he will say car but for the most part everything is a do-doo.

My beautiful guy :)

This week's favorite bedtime story

It was a very different night with only one kid!  

Off to bed now - I work the weekend for inventory prep!

#3's Ultrasound

Early last week I had my routine ultrasound!  Everything is looking great!

We decided early on that we wouldn't find out the gender of this baby but Amelia led us to reconsider.  She had been very adamant that she already has a brother so now she would be getting a sister.  We couldn't get her to grasp the fact that you do not get to choose what kind of baby you get.  After much consideration we decided to go ahead and find out the gender - to make it easier on all of us!

Well, I am sooooo glad we found out...

...because it's another brother!  I had brought Amelia to the ultrasound with me and told the doctor to make a big deal if it was a girl for her and if it was a boy to just signal to me and I'd deal with it later.  No signal was needed - baby was folded in half and his gender was prominently on display.  I knew what I was looking at before I even had a reference point on what I was looking at, if that makes sense.

On our way out I told Amelia baby was a boy and she told me over and over, "no mom, I already have a brother now I will get a sister."  Finally I just stopped her, looked her in the eye and said, "baby is a boy.  We are getting another brother and we can't change that."  She made an angry face, stomped her foot down (hard) and said, "oh fiiiinnnnneeee, we'll have another brother."  

Overall she is taking it better than we expected but I am still glad we found out before delivery.  We have all summer to pump her up over another brother and I plan to do some "girls only" type stuff with her so she realizes it's okay to be the only girl!