We had a GREAT weekend! Lots of relaxing, pool time, hanging out with neighbors and friends!
Sunday night we hung out and had dinner in the front yard with our neighbors. We had the driveway and front yard filled with toys, baby pool, slip n slide... it was a lot of fun! Here's Ryan and Emma hanging out (Emma wanted to check out what Ryan was up to in his pack n play)
Megan trying on Daddy's shoes
and Ryan standing naked :-)
And because I had so much fun with the last one here are some more comparisons:
in case the bow didn't make it clear the first one is Megan :-) They are roughly the same age in the photos and I LOVE how they both have their fingers in their mouth!
I was looking through our pictures of Mother's Day and I just had to post this entire sequence! It's just too funny and exactly how pictures seem to go these days!
I had a wonderful Mother's Day :-) Saturday afternoon I got the whole afternoon to myself and I did some much needed shopping :-) Sunday morning Russ and Megan went and got bagels, muffins and cookies from the Bagel place. We went swimming late morning, had lunch at the cafe there and then Russ's parents came over to join us for a cookout. It was Great!
We've been spending lots of time outdoors and loving it! We pull out the water table, kiddie pool, and trike on almost a daily basis :-) Ryan loves to splash at the water table or baby pool and he also just enjoys playing in the pack n play with toys outdoors! Megan rides her bike around the culdesac, and likes to water the plants by taking cups full of water out of the pool / water table.
Ryan is already 7 months!
He's starting pulling up and his scooting has turned into a sorta-crawl :-) He sometimes crawls a bit on all fours before dropping back to scooting, or he'll crawl with one knee and walk with the other!
He's sitting and goes from crawling to sit with no problem
His swing broke a couple weeks ago, at first we thought it was a sign that he needed to nap in the crib but after a week of not napping well we tried to fix the swing. After spending too much time trying fix it (I thought I could just replace the motor... but something else was also broken) we've abandoned it again. Now he just naps in the swing with no swinging... sigh. At least he's napping better :-) And maybe this will help transition him to napping in the crib
He's making sounds like ba ba ba ba
He's been swimming in the pool and seems to like it! He loves splashing in the water and sprinklers too!
Megan is doing great with her leg. She still has a very slight limp (like her one leg is longer than the other) but you almost can't tell. She's runs, jumps, rides her bike, climbs... We had her follow-up appt on Friday and the Dr. said her leg looks great and cleared us for all activity! Yay! Megan was very excited to jump again! We go back in 6 months to make sure the growth plates weren't effected (very unlikely).
Megan is also quite the talker and singer lately, her current fav is the Barney song. But it goes "We love me, We love me, We're a happy family" haha!
She's counting up to 13/14 sometimes but after 10, numbers go very out of order. She kinda grasps the concept of counting objects but often just keeps counting. Like if there are 3 dogs, she'd count, 1-2-3 -4-5-6-7-8-9 -10 dogs :-)
She's also been playing around with sounding out the first letter of a word, like B-B-Balloon. I'm guessing this is from watching Word World :-)
We're still working on Please but she says Thank you all on her own and it's really cute! It sound like "tank ou"
We took some photos with Lyndsay of Life in Motion Photography last weekend! She posted a sneak peek on her blog of Ryan! Can't wait to see the rest!!!
A couple weeks ago we all flew to Boston for my friend Leah and Mike's wedding! My parents picked us up at the airport, and stayed at the same hotel (adjoining rooms) and babysat the kids while enjoyed the wedding weekend festivities! It was a GREAT weekend! Congratulations again to Leah and Mike! And a BIG THANK YOU to my parents for coming out to Boston and making the trip possible!
We got there on Friday afternoon, flights with the two kids went as good as can be expected. I think Russ and I both felt more prepared this time. Also we had bigger planes so we all were able to sit next to each other, which was so much nicer!
Saturday morning Russ and Dad went golfing and Mom, the kids and I went to Davis Farmland. It was AWESOME! They had so many animals, and lots of little baby animals! Megan LOVED it and we loved it. We were there for 3 hrs but easily could have stayed all day!
Megan brushing the baby goat
Ryan hanging out with Grandma at one of the play areas
That afternoon was the wedding. Here's a picture of Russ and I before we left the hotel room, prom pic style ;-)
And here's our table with the bride and groom at the wedding! (ps this photo was taken by their photographer Andrew Kelly)
The wedding was amazing, I cried, laughed, danced and had an amazing time! Afterward we all went to the hotel lounge for karaoke! More fun had. I have pictures of this but seriously no one wants to see pictures of me dancing... or doing spice girls karaoke... it's embarrassing!
Sunday we checked out and headed into Boston. Megan was SOOOO excited to ride on the T. She kept calling it the "really fast train" she loved all the tunnels in Boston too.
on the T
in front of the Children's Museum
This was Megan's second time at the Boston Children's museum; pretty impressive for a Texan!
Ryan loved the baby area!
The exhibit was Curious George, Megan gave George a kiss and hug :-)
It was an awesome but tiring weekend! It was so great seeing everyone!
