Mother's Day pics (finally)

I forgot to post these. Here are some pics from my Mother's Day weekend. Paul made sure it lasted nice and long for me. First was dinner out on Friday at a cute little burger place called "One Burger" in Coral Gables. It was SO SO yummy. The boys got hats and tried on the burger earmuffs. :) Too fun.

Then off to the park, where I sat and ate, while Paul ran around with the boys. It was wonderful.

Saturday I got beautiful flowers. One sunflower from each little boy and a small bunch of purple daisies from the new baby girl. So sweet. On Sunday, I got a nice breakfast. Paul made pancakes. He even wrote out "MOM" for mine. Hawken took a bite out of mine before I could get a picture though.

It was a lovely weekend. Thank you Paul, Matix, Hawken, and baby girl for everything. :) I love you.

The Years That I Love You (Year 3)

This was the year of purple plus signs, baby belly lovin, 3day mud camping, blurry eyes, contraction fake outs, the earth debut of "the dewds", baby sleeping sneak peakers, and swimmers dewds :) . Man, I just love our life.


Better than just you and me, was adding Matix to make three (this was also the year i kicked my rhyming into high gear, lucky you:) )

big trucks

On my wish list for the boys to have once we live somewhere with our own yard are these big trucks. I also want a big sand box like this too. They have so much fun and are so busy building and working. I love it. And they love it. Hopefully they will still be interested in a million years when we actually have a yard... :)

The Years That I Love You (Years 1 & 2)

More Mexico road tripping, Sedona Rouging, 15 minute forest tent pitching, Polar Bear clubbing, Bonita Palomina(ing), Po-Bass house flopping, condo buying, Osha fixing, Christmas tree planting, and D&M Lopes nerntz chilling.


This is where you and I became our ... our love, our jokes, our adventures, and our life. I keep loving all of those even more, every day.

pool play date

We have been having a great time making new friends. Andrew is one of the kids' favorites, which works out great, because his mom, Megan, is one of my favorites. :) They invited us over the other day to their pool. It was SO fun. Hawken was the most excited. He wore his inner tube like this the whole way from the parking area to the pool.

Here are the 3 little cuties. Hawken was eating (of course) and had his cheeks full of cracker mush, Matix refused to take his car out of his mouth, and Andrew seemed confused about the idea of a posed photo. Sweet things. Andrew is about 21 months old, Hawken is almost 18 months and Matix is just over 2 and 1/2. For some reason this spread of ages is perfect and they love each other. :)

Matix is so brave in his little tube now. He went swimming all by himself, "Mommy, no. You stay here, I big boy. I go by myself!" :) The pool was huge and partly shaded. Lovely.

Hawken got cold after an hour or so and wanted to get dressed and play with his cars. Andrew joined in with him, and then so did Matix.

I love play dates like this, because the kids were mostly entertained by themselves and I was only there to supervise and suggest sharing every once in a while. Perfect. Megan and I talked forever and enjoyed our sweet little boys. It was a great day. We will have to do it again!

Hot

We have been having days in the high 80's and a few times it's been in the low 90's... ALREADY?! I thought it was May. Hmmmm... time for popsicles on the step to cool down after a long morning at the playground.

The Years That I Love You (The Pre-Years)

It began with pink hair, a thousand questions, dipping dots, road trips with Harold, gas station hugs, twin tower smores, cactus spines, and a VW bug. This is where we started, where we started to laugh together, smile together, and walk together.



Later there were Las Vegas pick ups, sleeping in cars, road trips to San Felipe, lost cameras, peeling oranges, twist tie rings, beach talk of forever. This is where we began to jouney, across maps, through emotions, and toward love.

I popped!

Yep! It's official, 22 weeks along and I have popped! :) Check it out! Pregnancy has been so good to me!

Okay, those were fakes. But I have gotten quite a bit bigger in just a few weeks and am loving every little bit of it. A few people at church today asked if I was pregnant, which was great! Finally people are noticing and I am so happy to share our news with anyone who will hear it! Here are the real belly pics for 22 weeks:

National Train Day

We went to the railroad museum on the free day, as usual, but were surprised to find out it was National Train Day...? Never heard of it, but when we arrived we got to do lots of extra special things, like ride the big train for free, get free snacks, free coloring books and little toys for the boys, jump in bounce houses and explore some of the usually closed trains. It was so much fun. This bounce house, by the way, was the perfect size and the kids loved it!

This big train had a medical car on it. I pointed out the big red cross to Matix and told him doctors worked in there. So, then he asked to go in so he could see daddy. :) I think he is now getting it that daddy will be a doctor soon, how exciting!

And of course, if there are quarter rides, my boys will find them. These ones were great because all the buttons worked, even if it wasn't going. So I got to keep all my quarters and let the boys go wild on the stationary rides for 30 minutes. Silly boys.

park

The highlight of our morning at the park was this, discovering that extra sand had been dumped into the volley ball pit. There were mountains, which the boys thought were sand castles, everywhere! So fun.

This was the highlight until the boys remembered the real reason we were there, the playground. Then the playground was the best part.

But then! We spotted a turtle. Matix was too excited for words. He wanted to hold it and bring it home. Even Hawken was excited and tried to feed it rocks... nice thought Hawken.

giving in?

Hawken talks. A lot. When he is awake he is either eating or talking. There is pretty much nothing else he loves to do more. He has recently discovered the power of "please" and now I find myself in a pickle... I can't tell if I am giving in or positively reinforcing him for using it. He will ask for something (usually something to eat, of course), and I am usually doing something else (aren't children good at waiting until you're busy to need something?) so I tell him, "wait just a minute". Then he follows me around saying "tease? tease? tease?" (his own personal version of "please") in the cutest, sweetest, but not so patient voice. So, he will wait the minute (asking please the whole time), and then I will give it to him. I used to say "thank you for saying please, that it so nice!" trying to get him to say that instead of "more! more!" or something else less polite than "please"... but now I don't know what to say. How do you explain to an almost 1 and 1/2 year old to only say something once and then be quiet? And how do I resist such a sweet little thing who is asking with such nice words? Really it wouldn't be a problem if he only said it a few times, but this little guy will really not stop until he gets what he is asking for and hearing "tease?" a million times in a row is head-ache worthy. :)

rainy day

It even rains here, in perfect Miami... This would be a sad thing if my boys didn't love to play in the rain. :) They really need to be outside at least a little while everyday, even if it's pouring. It makes for better naps and happier boys, which in turn means happy mom.

They loved discovering this giant puddle. We were out until I saw all the wrinkly fingertips. Then I decided we had better get back inside to the warm bath. I ran it before we went outside with super hot water, knowing we would be out there a while, and when we returned, it was perfect! I stripped the boys out of their diapers/underpants at the door, and they sprinted to the tub saying "cold cold cold!" How happy they were when they jumped into a warm bath.

What a fun day. Who knew a rainy day could be so fun?

cannon

We found this old cannon on the Miami campus. Maybe Matix is reminiscing about his island time...?