Finally ... HOT weather!! Yay! It has been absolutely gorgeous here the last few days :) But I feel a bit like a farmer for saying this ... we need rain! All I'm asking for is rain while we are sleeping. Not during the day! Is that being a bit too picky?! LOL! We've been spending tons of time outside, soaking up the sun! Blake's in heaven!! We've been bathing him in sunscreen though. He's so fair, like his Dad.
My sister was in town this weekend and the kids and I spent Friday with her. We went swimming in the morning, Em's first time in the pool, went for sushi for lunch (yummy, yummy) and then hung out outside after the kids naps (which were short on Friday for some reason). It was a fun day!! Thank goodness Lindsay was with me at the pool! I definitely wouldn't be taking a 3 month old and a 2 yr old to the pool by myself!! Emerson loved the water and looked very cute in her lil' swimsuit :) Thank goodness she didn't make a mess in the pool ... I couldn't find a little swimmer smaller enough for her! Don't worry, I did put a big one on her! I keep looking for the reusable swim diapers, but can never find them in the sizes I need. I do re-wash the little swimmers if I can!
Saturday morning we played outside and put the kids down for an early nap, because we had a first birthday party to attend in Stony Plain and it started at 2:30. We ended up waking Blake up because we didn't want to be really, really late! The party was a lot of fun!! Blake enjoyed playing outside and with the other kids, opening presents, eating cake and bugging "D-Don" (Dion, Danielle's dad!)!! He has been so excited for this birthday party. We told him a couple of weeks ago that we were going to Danielle's birthday party and he's been talking about it non-stop!
This morning we washed the trailer and the car, which involved Blake getting SOAKED!! He is very helpful :) I do it Mom, I do it Dad, Dad I do it, etc, etc, etc! We were invited to a wedding BBQ this afternoon (friend of Cal's who got married in Mexico in March), but did not go. We figured the kids were pretty tired from a later night last night. And we were right! Blake napped for 3 hours and Emerson for 4 hours!!! And still to bed at their regular times tonight! After Blake woke up from his nap we headed back outside. He loves playing in the yard, especially in his sandbox. Cal is off tomorrow too and if it doesn't rain we are going to the spray park.
Tonight at dinner we asked Blake what he wanted to be for Halloween this year and he replied, "A BIG carrot!!" Can you imagine!!? Good thing I didn't have food or drink in my mouth ... I laughed SO hard!! Cal asked him what Em should be and he said, "A BIG broccoli!" He loves his veggies, but seriously! Cal's Mom is a great seamstress, perhaps we'll ask her to sew them some costumes!! NOT! He CRACKS us up!! He's so funny! And he knows it ... which just fuels the fire! LOL! We are happy that he has finally decided that short sleeves and short pants are okay to wear. For the longest time he always had to have long sleeves and long pants on. But now he has to wear "hort" pants all the time!! He has his last My First Preschool class on Wednesday. We will register him again in September. He's really enjoyed the class, as have I! Thursday is his last swimming lesson too, but we've already registered him for the next session which starts in 2 weeks. He'll be going Mondays and Wednesday for 4 weeks.
We were just looking through some old pictures of Blake when he was 4 months old and boy does Emerson ever look like Blake did at 4 months!! Only Blake was A LOT bigger!!! She looks so tiny compared to him at 4 months! It was funny, because I looked at his 5 month pictures too and there was one of him chewing on a carrot!! He got his first tooth at 5 months, so it probably felt good! We started Blake on rice cereal at just over 4 months, so he was eating quite a bit earlier than Em will be. She's enjoying her Bumbo chair every day now and starting to reach and grab for things. And her hand is in her mouth ALL the time! Not sucking on her thumb, just at that age where the hand is in the mouth more often then not! She's taking a bottle really good, so we'll keep offering one to her every couple of days. I dressed her up for the birthday party on Saturday in a cute little dress, with a barrette in her hair, and her pretty bracelet from Grandma D! She looked so adorable!
In the last blog post I mentioned that I needed to visit the optometrist, the salon and the dentist and in the last few days I've almost done all three!! I took the kids to the optometrist on Tuesday and got a new prescription and new glasses!! I'm not too sure about the glasses, they seem too big on my face. I have 30 days to exchange them, so I'll give them a few more weeks and decide. On Saturday I got my hair cut and tomorrow I'm going to call my dentist and see if I can get in! Phew!!
Hope everyone is enjoying the sun! Have a great week ;)
Love Cal, Tracy, Blake and Emerson
