After years of tagging along to many, many birthday parties (a benefit of being the 2nd child, I suppose) Liam is starting to have his own little social life at birthday parties. This was a recent one for one of his besties, Maya...with an appearance by Ariel!!
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| Painting seashells-look how sweaty his head is, he had just come out of the bouncy house! |
As I posted before, Liam has pretty much moved away from weekend naps. It's fine for the most part, and sometimes if we're home, I have both of them take a rest in the afternoon to recharge....sometimes they read or do something quiet, sometimes I put on a movie and pop some popcorn:
And sometimes, after an especially tiring weekend, this is what happens around 5pm:
DONE.
We had a low key Father's Day celebration, which was very welcome after a few busy weekends in a row. My parents came up and the rain held off so we were able to have a family wiffleball tournament, followed by a trip to Bruster's and burgers on the grill later in the evening :) Happy belated Father's Day!
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| Me and my dad, circa 1984 |
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| Brian and his dad, 2006 |
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| Brian and the boys, 2011 |
Nothing like seeing a picture of your newborn to make you realize how quickly the time passes. *sniff, sniff* Is someone chopping onions in here?!?
Anyway--this past weekend was pretty much a total wash. Saturday was storm-tastic. There were maybe 3 breaks in the rain with tiny amounts of sun, but that would be followed by a full blown storm with sideways rain. We did the usual rainy day activities for most of the morning....coloring, board games, etc.
We gave up on the day by lunch time and went to "Inside Out":
I promise Jake was having fun, I'm not sure what is going on in that picture, haha!! It was a good movie...not my favorite Pixar movie, but good. It made me cry, though I'm pretty sure there hasn't been a Pixar movie produced that hasn't resulted in tears for me!
Sunday was a bit better in that there was no rain by late-morning, but temperature wise it felt more like fall. I could nearly taste the pumpkin spice latte!! We made it to church in the morning...I have to tell you a little more about this picture. It's rare these days that Jake wears anything other than "comfy" shorts (aka-athletic shorts) so when he does venture out of them, I like to document it. They were both looking handsome and my impatiens are the BOMB this year (if I do say so myself) so I wanted to snap a picture of them in front of the beautiful flowers. That's not asking so much, is it?
Well, according to my 7 going on 17 year old it was. His exact response when I told him to stand still so I could get his picture was, "Mom, are you seriously going to take my picture? These church clothes are embarrassing" Well, excuuuuuuuuse me.
Also, when did I become "mom"???
The rest of the day ended up being a nice balance of work and play....Brian was able to get some treehouse work done (I promise to post an update soon!), I was able to clean out 2 closets that looked like they were going to explode at any minute, and we were able to play in between that stuff. At one point we were all wizards and sorcerers:
And later in the day, we headed outside to play baseball.
In case you were wondering, my cue for that picture was "smile boys!" NAILED IT.
So that's it for right now; it's hard to believe that it's almost JULY!
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