Swimming, Picnics and Snowcones

Thank Goodness for summer!! We have stayed very busy on our Wednesdays since the warm weather has begun. Thanks to my considerate Stay at home Mommy friends, Wednesdays are officially play days to get together, let the kids play (and sometimes kick the crap out of each other) and catch up on important gossip in the neighborhood and discuss our favorite Bachelorette contestant of the week. Very important business I might add!
For the past few weeks, we have gathered at a park and wadding pool by our house. Will is obsessed with this water spigot! He tries to shove all his balls, grass, rocks ......whatever down there before the lifeguard gives me and him a dirty look to knock it off!

Kate on the other hand is just like me. At times she would rather lay out on her towel and absorb the rays. Although, when she' s up for it she'll get in the water and let her imagination fly feeding her dolphins and chasing diving sticks for which she finds challenging as she still isn't quite ready to put her whole head under water comfortably yet.

Here Will if fighting with his friend Jayla on who gets to have their hand on the spigot and try to shove that big red ball down that little hole.

Picnic lunches are always fun. My girlfriends and I decided that Cheetos are also known as little kid cocaine as once that orange bag comes out..... all other nutritious food is thrown to the wayside for those fabulous little addictive crunchy pieces of heaven.

This week we traveled to Music in the Park and the kiddos got free snow cones, lemonade and popcorn. Will had his first snow cone and loved it! Most of it ended up down the shirt, but it was a really warm night so he actually really liked it!

Kate and her friend Avery had a blast together dancing to the Jazz music and enjoying their treats together. It was a great night and the kids actually were worn out enough that they slept until 7am the next day!!! That's like noon at our house!

Have a great Father's Day Weekend Everyone!!

Potty Chair in, Tonsils out!!

We had a really crazy May this yr, hence my blogging fell a little behind. Will is infatuated with the fact that Kate wears Dora underwear and pees on the potty! He has been telling me when he is going and walks to the potty at times, so I thought.... what the hey, let's get out the potty chair. He sat and sat and sat, the first day, but no results (as I expected), but it did keep him pretty entertained for quite a while.

This is a picture of Kate the night before her tonsils and adenoids came out, and the third set of tubes went in. She was SO excited about eating all the ice cream and popsicles she wanted! I kind of felt guilty not telling her about the rough week ahead, but she's only 3 and I didn't want to get her all worried and upset. And I'm still glad I didn't give her a lot of the info ahead of time.

When we got home from surgery, she had lots of presents waiting for her. She was also very high on narcotics at the time of this photo, so life was still great in her mind!!
The next day the bombshell hit! That's when she realized this surgery thing wasn't so great after all. We just kept the narcotic on schedule and pushed liquids like crazy and she seemed okay. However, I can see why the ENT said to set a week of our lives aside for this. She was definitely 24 hour care for almost a week. Good news, tonsils can't grow back!!!

And of course, we could leave little Will out. My kids think that if one gets presents than the other must too! That's Brett and my fault as we decided to have our kiddos 1 day apart. So for b-days, Christmas and Easter and any other holiday they BOTH get gifts, so Will definitley reaped the benefits from Kate's experience, getting more Dora the Explorer books!!!

Bottom line.... we all got through it, and Kate has a much higher voice now, and has dropped her nap because she now sleeps great through the night without snoring!! Although I have to admit, some days I wish the nap was still around. Oh Well.