Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Fun in MN

We had a lot of fun in Minnesota visiting family and friends.  We got to see both sides of our families, we got to see my Grandma Ruth (going strong again thankfully, and full of determination), Will and I went to the Zoo with Chandra, Brylee and Brittyn, we planted G&G Mc's garden and flowers, and had lots of fun playing with all the "new" toys at the grandparents houses.

William was playing with a farm set in my parents house and learned about cow poop from Grandma.  He then told us a pretty extensive story about poop that went like this...

"I a farmer.  I pick up cow poop and William poop and put in my hopper.  I a garbage man, I take the poop to the corn and grow corn.  I eat corn, its yummy."  I was trying so hard not to laugh during his story about what he does with cow poop.  Too funny.

He is starting to tell us more about the world, today on our drive home from daycare he told me "no ducks in pond, they having breakfast at the table, their Momma cook dinner for them".

And after extruding some play-dough into strings and balling it up, "this is yarn for kitties to play with, kitties like playing with yarn"

I forgot my camera's memory cards at home, so pictures from the IPhones are all we have.

My son the garbage and port-o-potty investigator, yuck!  He is just intrigued with them.



Tons of fun on the flying fox!



Attempt to get some family shots from arms length.





Perry and William scowling at us from the back seat.

Murphy was a good, quiet traveler.

Gotta love naps in the car.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Happy Mother's Day

William and I had lots of fun this weekend, unfortunately Adam had to work this weekend so we didn't see much of him, but he got some good sleep so that is good. 

Will and I went to Max and Maya's 3rd Birthday Party at a fun place called Kids Unleashed.  Imagine a great big room with tons of toys.  There were about 16 or so kids running around having a blast while the parents just tried to keep an eye on them and disarm any struggles over playing with the same toys.  The airplane you see below was there and was pretty neat, it was a teeter-totter and could fit 6 kids on at once.



For Mother's Day Will and I headed to Lakeside Park to play, watch the duckies and have a picnic.  We had a great time and can't wait for the farm animals, trains and carousel to be open in a few weeks.












Happy Mother's Day to all those special ladies I know who are wonderful Mothers.  Thanks Mom for all you did for me, and for teaching me how to be a good Mom myself!  Happy Mother's Day to my Grandma Ruth, I still can't fathom how she managed 7 kids!  Happy Mother's Day to my Mother in Law, thanks for raising a wonderful man, and hope you are having fun on your trip.

And to all my girlfriend-mother's out there, thanks for the advice, talks and fun.  Happy Mother's Day to you too!

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Crazy Week

It has been a crazy week around here, Adam is on light duty due to a sore that got infected by his duty belt area, I could barely get to work on Wednesday due to flooding in the area (all 4 of the ways I know to get to work were closed due to flooding), and William was sent home from day care on Friday after vomiting.  Thankfully it was the only time that he threw up.

I think we all really need a vacation around here, so Memorial Day weekend can't come soon enough.   Let's hope for less rain around here too!

Pictures from the last week...

William helping Momma clean up utensils after making chocolate cake and white frosting.





Playing with diggers and tractors in true boy style.





Taking pictures (tripod, no camera) of Murphy on the couch.