Once the glasses had been retrieved, the milk, chocolate syrup and vanilla syrup were next on the boy's list. Andy had requested vanilla milk and Aaron wanted chocolate milk.
Aaron did enjoy the water, but seemed to be more intrigued with walking around and a couple of times he wandered off without telling mom. The first time he walked off, I was able to find him relatively quickly. The second time, I was nursing Jacob and Aaron decided he wanted to walk back up to the other play area.
Once I discovered I could not find Aaron, I nearly hit the panic button. As I mentioned before, the park is near a very busy intersection and I was concerned Aaron would walk up to the street as he doesn't have a fear of vehicles like Andy does. Well, I had the panic look on my face and thankfully, someone noticed that I was looking for someone and came over to help me. He and his wife had seen this little boy walking up the trail by himself and thought it was a little odd. The gal tried to talk to Aaron, but he just kept on walking, little Mr. Stubborn. The gentleman asked me if I was looking for someone and I gave him a description of what Aaron was wearing and he told me he had seen him walk up the path.
I was so very thankful that we had found him as it had been a few minutes that had passed from the last time I had seen him. Of course, Aaron was fine and just wanted to go play somewhere else. I'm not sure going out to a park with three boys by myself is something I want to venture out and do again after today, but I am so truly thankful to God for protecting my boys.
Andy has his own Starbucks mug for his drink, but we seem to have lost it, so in the mean time he is using on of mom's. My boys are just too funny.
On one of grandma's Costco shopping trips, she purchased the Bob books for the boys to begin the wonderful journey of learning how to read. She bought the first two sets and both of my older boys love the books. I'm sure grandma has read each one dozens of times, but this is truly how they will learn to read. Maybe Andy will be just like his mom and turn into a book worm.
The only thing that would have been even better was mom getting a nap.
I just love the expression on his face. He is such a good trooper about all the time he spends in the car seat.
This is my little ghost who appears every once in awhile. He tries to scare people and make himself known. We have a bit of the middle child syndrome appearing.
Why do you put me on my tummy? I do not like this, it's too hard to keep my head up.
Jacob at 2 days old. He and I stayed home on Easter Sunday and missed the family celebration, but it was a good time just the two of us.
If you look closely, Jacob is swimming in his clothes. Neither Andy nor Aaron were in newborn sized clothes, so I don't' have any, but a sweet friend ran to Target for me so Jacob would have a few clothes to wear that fit. He and Andy were napping on the couch and I just couldn't pass up this sweet moment. J is 3 days old.
Grandma also helped out in the newborn clothing situation and he looks so darn cute in his little baseball outfit at 8 days old. Poor kid was fighting the goopy eye syndrome for a few days, but luckily, it started after birth, so we should be in the clear.
Here is another picture day 8 of Jacob's life. I had to pick this shot because of the look on Aaron's face, that kid is just too funny some days.
Of course, mom forgot her camera, so I was able to use my iPhone, but then the battery started going dead. Mom also wasn't feeling her best due to being 38 weeks pregnant, but we all did fine. Here is Andy getting ready to send his glider in the big blue yonder. The children also learned that if you flew the glider with the smaller side in the front, it went further. At least I think it was the smaller hole, I don't really remember since it's been a nap or two since we went.
Aaron also wanted in on the fun. This group time was a trip around the world to mail letters. They started in Seattle, flew to Chicago, then New York and on finally to Paris where they then returned to Seattle. The "cities" were at various points around the learning center area. The kids dawned on scarves and mail bags for the trip too.
The group of parents, students and siblings listening to the closing section of our field trip. It was a fun time exploring the museum and seeing some of the airplanes and items used in making airplanes. I only wished I had felt better because I would have enjoyed spending more time at the museum. This way we will just have to plan for a family outing someday.
More pictures can be seen on our SmugMug page.
After we parked the car and headed to our friend's dad's jewelry store in the International District, the fireworks began and boy were they loud, so we retreated inside. Aaron is the one on the left in the gray hoodie with our friends Caleb and Matthew watching the festivities across the street.
Once the fireworks had ceased, our little group of ten headed to find some dim sum. No one in our family has ever had dim sum before and I wanted to go with someone who knew what they were ordering and fill us in on what we were eating. The boys had a lot of fun together playing with the water, chopsticks and just being boys.
I'm really glad to have such wonderful friends who are willing to share part of their culture and show some of us who grew up in the sticks what is out in the world.
The next theme of the month seems to be in assisting mom with dinner. I love how my boys want to help out in the kitchen even if the amount of room for everyone including the expanding belly of mom's is quite close in quarters.
The next couple of pictures are of the boys actually peeling potatoes. I was quite impressed with how well they were doing with the vegetable peeler. Granted it took a bit of time, but hey after 5 minutes the boys were off playing with their toys and mom could continue making dinner without being squeezed into the corner.
Costco to the rescue. Go figure that you can buy your Christmas tree along with all the trimmings for both the tree and your belly. Mike wanted a real tree this year since we won't be traveling to Oklahoma. We bought the tree on Saturday afternoon, but it was Sunday afternoon before we decorated the tree. The boys had a lot of fun figuring out whose ornaments were whose and it's always fun to remember the years past in these little objects that only come out once a year.
Now to keep those little hands from redecorating the tree. I wonder how many times I will have to tell him to keep his hands off the ornaments or clean up broken ornaments.
This was pretty much how the entire day went. Andy would politely ask to get into the car and climb into the back seat. Aaron, a boy of limited vocabulary, just climbed in the front seat and managed to find the hazard lights of each and every car he was in. Mike and I were amazed and a bit amused by his findings.
We had a great time as a family and of course completely wore ourselves out. I still like my car even though I could upgrade to a different model, mine is paid for and that out weighs any decision.
