Our Family in Iowa

Friday, April 24, 2009

Dierks Bentley Concert 4/23

No words necessary for this post! Lindsay and I had an awesome time on our girls night out!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Just another day with my boys!

The last two days have been super busy around here. Yesterday Lindsay and Thomas built a fort and we did some baking during the day. After dinner we headed out to the park since the weather was nice. Brent and Thomas played some ball and Oliver took a little cat nap in the stroller. It is so nice to be able to go to the park these days. Lets just say Thomas has been a better napper lately--all the extra winter energy has finally been released!

Oliver is teething and we can definitely see two little teeth peeking out. It seems like he might be working on the other teeth too. This had made for some pretty fussy days and nights. I hope we are done soon. Poor baby! And poor mommy, she needs a good nights sleep. :-)

Today Thomas had his last soccer class. It was pretty neat, all the kids got to wear jerseys and play a game of 3-on-3. We have officially decided Thomas will make a good goalie someday because he kept using his hands! The whole class was funny though, all the kids lined up at the goal at one point on both sides to "protect" their goals. And the ball was all alone by itself in the middle! I guess that happens with 3-5 year old kids!

Tomorrow Lindsay and I are going to a concert at the IMU. I will have lots of pictures I am sure. I can't wait!

Very Proud of his "certificate"

Kicking the ball

Before "kick off"

Doing warm up sprints

Stretches

Oliver was happy to be at his brother's soccer class

Sticking his tongue out--he does this a lot lately!

Bundled up from the park and wide-eyed after a good nap

Playing on the swings at the park

Taking a cat nap

My boys

Oliver and Mommy

Hiding in his cool fort that Lindsay helped him make

A cool tummy time shot I got of him--look at those cheeks!

A future Detroit Red Wing! Celebrating the Playoff Hockey Season!

Monday, April 20, 2009

Milestones, Popcorn Night, & Earth Week

On Sunday Oliver turned 4 months old! I can't believe how big he has gotten. Today he rolled over from his back to his tummy for the first time and then did it again! He is trying to scoot and crawl these days and can sit on his own for up to 10 seconds unsupported. I think we may have a mobile baby on our hands by July or sooner! Crazy! He sees his pediatrician next on Friday and we will get to see how much he has grown. I expect he has definitely doubled his birth weight by now.

Tonight we had our weekly popcorn TV night while watching 24. It was another good episode of 24. Tony has definitely turned bad and it looks like in the next episode Jack will be well on his way to get his revenge! And we learned that Jack's daughter Kim has a baby girl now--which makes Jack a grandpa. In the clip the baby is named Terri after Jack's former wife who died. And she looks like Jack! Cheesy cheesy cheesy--but oh so cute!

And don't forget earth week is this week, it officially kicked off yesterday. To celebrate all week we are going to minimize our driving and hopefully plant some flowers in our pots if the weather looks like it will stay warm. And we are still recycling (a big step for us--YAY!) and using green cleaning products.

Me with Oliver

Sporting a baseball cap--he will fit it in a few years!

4 month old picture!

Just for fun! He is trying to scoot to his toy here, he wants to eat it and is so focused!

So big!

Saturday, April 18, 2009

First night in the crib!

Tonight was Oliver's first night in his crib! He has been sleeping for 5 hours at night and had outgrown his bassinet so I thought we would try and switch him to his own crib tonight. So far he seems to be sleeping really well actually--I am a bit surprised!

Both boys went to bed really easy after our long day. It started out being pretty icky outside with all the rain but by mid afternoon it has slowed down. Thomas and I ran some weekend errands together and did some grocery shopping. We went to Aldi's and Thomas thought that putting a quarter in to get the cart was really neat. He was so excited I promised him he could have it back when we returned the cart. I think I'm going to have to buy him a piggy bank because he really didn't want to give it back to me. He likes his moolah!

Tonight we grilled out and then had a movie night. We watched 102 Dalmatians. It was really cheesy as Disney movies usually go but Thomas liked it. We all ate some popcorn and had some strawberry smoothies. We have to really utilize our movie nights these days while the nights are still pretty short. Before we know it movie nights will be ditched for playing ball at the park and for evening barbecues! It is also warming up outside so that means it is getting too warm to cuddle up with blankets on the sofa together. Spring is finally here in the Midwest. Can't say I don't mind--I hate snow and ice unless I am in Colorado. In that case I would be skiing though!

Friday, April 17, 2009

Happy Friday!

Last night was mom's night out with the girls so I'm sorry for no post yesterday! Lindsay and I visited Graze to use a new gift certificate we picked up from Restaurants.com. Dinner was amazing--LOVE those chicken lips!!! Plus we got to have some only girls time!

But to update you, we have been very busy enjoying the wonderful spring weather outside. Yesterday we ventured out to the park where Thomas ran all over the place. Really he did, he was doing sprints back and forth across the field. Thomas also played with his new "friend." There is a 5 year old boy that loves to play catch with Thomas and Brent. He lives right next to the park by the local school and is always playing outside there. He kept asking Thomas why he was running everywhere! It was pretty funny!

Today was nice too. The temp hit 70 degrees!!! Brent and I had a nice "date" after Brent got off work. We went to a local bar and had a drink together. Thank you Lindsay for staying an hour later to let us have adult time! We then took the boys to the ped mall downtown after dinner and visited the jungle gym. We must have been in a very good mood too because after that we treated ourselves to some Dairy Queen.

As for the big weekend plans we plan to do some spring cleaning around the house (the cleaning never really ends these days!) and have a movie night. If it doesn't get too rainy we will try to take another trip to the park.

Thank you God for such a beautiful Friday and start to the weekend!

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

My kids a better soccer player than yours!

[Insert nana nana boo boo]

I'm just kidding of course. If it were only true!!! Thomas had soccer class today and showed up in a bad mood. I should have known all was lost when he decided he would rather go play on the jungle gym outside than go to his soccer class but oh well. After 20 minutes of soccer class he was ready to be done so we left early to head home for a nap. Poor guy--he loves soccer! But we both needed him to take that nap.

After nap we had some homemade pizza bagels, one of Thomas' favorite new meals. Then Thomas got to head outside to draw with his new 3D chalk with Lindsay. The chalk is really cool actually! It comes with 3D glasses and you can make your own 3D pictures. Thomas thought it was funny actually! Silly boy.

And in other news Oliver rolled over again today!!! From his tummy to back. He hates tummy time so it actually suprises me that it didn't happen sooner but his reaction both times was cute! He was pretty proud of himself! He also can grab at objects now instead of batting at them. His favorites are his Eric Carle teethers and his blanket lovey. He is growing up too fast.