Celebration at the Museum

I decided to start Audrey's birthday celebration a day early and take the kids to the Museum of Life and Science. Audrey loves dinosaurs and they have a great section of the park with big dinosaurs and a digging for shark teeth. We also did a train ride, explored the butterfly house, went into the new mist farm, sailed boats, went inside a space pod, looked at a real skeleton, and so much more. Over all it was a great day! 

Baby is Almost 2!

Audrey's 2nd birthday is Friday. The party preparations have begun. She is very excited- she keeps saying "Happy Birthday Audrey!" every time someone mentions birthday or party or cake or anything she associates with birthday parties. Ryan is very excited also- he has been telling us that Audrey's birthday is next since the day after Don's birthday. Hopefully he remains this exciting when Audrey starts opening her gifts....
Year round school started this week in our County which means that one year from now Ryan will be starting Kindergarten- and my baby is turning 2, crazy. It seems like I have been a parent forever, yet I can't believe how big they are getting!

Home Improvement

Ah the joys of home ownership :) We (and by we I obviously mean Don) spent the afternoon installing one of two fans in the kids bedrooms. We live in the south and fans are a must, because we moved into new construction fans didn't come in all the bedrooms so we are adding them ourselves. This is our first major project in changing something in the house and it was a success! Hopefully tomorrows fan installation will go even better! I admit late in the afternoon something fell downstairs and my first question to Don was "was that your fan?"... the good news is it wasn't and my confidence in the fan has grown exponentially with each passing minute that it stays attached to the ceiling (most importantly) and working properly (secondarily important).

Happy 4th of July!

We had a wonderful 4th of July! We went to a friends house for a party with most of Ryan and Audrey's friends. We had a potluck with amazing food, water balloons and sprinklers, fireworks (as big as legally allowed- which isn't that big but the kids seemed to really like them), and great friends, we even were able to  celebrate one of the kids 1st birthdays with cake! 

Future Doctors?

Hot Days

In the next few days it will be really hot (think above 100) so we are spending as much time outside before 10am as we can. I see lots of movies etc in the near future (luckily I unpacked all the movies this week). 

Home

When moving there are lots of things you have to do to get back to a comfortable baseline. You have to unpack quickly or you are forever playing the "Have you seen...?" game. If you move into new construction as we did you play the crawl on the floor while changing to get to your shirt before the blinds you ordered are installed game. You deal with contractors (some better then others) and movers, it is all very disrupting. Then much sooner then even you thought possible you look around your house and realize that this house that has caused you sleepless nights and mountains of stress actually feels like home and maybe, just maybe it was all worth it.

Ninja Class

Ryan started taking Taekwondo, or as he calls it "Ninja" class.  He was very wary at first about it but he seems to be warming up to the idea. Three classes in and he is already building some confidence and starting to learn some of the moves. 

Finding Lost Treasures

One of the few joys of unpacking is that every time we find something that has been in storage for awhile it feels like it's brand new to us. We started getting ready to stage our house at the beginning of February so some of the toys have been put away for a long time. I found the furniture and the dolls for the doll house Audrey got for Christmas today. She was too young to really enjoy it when she got it but now she loves it. Let's see what I can find next....