gno at cfa

Last night Abs and I went to the Girls' Night Out event at Chickfila.  What a wonderful evening!  Grandma and Nana joined us, as well as our friends Ericah & Anna Wynn and Liz & Olivia.  It was great visiting with everyone and enjoying some girl time.  Abby didn't do a full makeover or anything, but she did try on some lipstick.  And she also made herself an ice cream sundae, yumm. 

Ryan and Grandpa had some boy time eating pizza and shopping Lowe's.  And then Daddy surprised Ryan by picking him up!  He was able to get an earlier flight home from a St. Louis business trip and we were all happy to see him at about 7pm instead of midnight :) 

my Olympic diver

Earlier in the week we had a backyard swimming pool playdate with our neighbors Sam & Jack.  We always have a blast playing in the pools and spending the day outside.  Of course, who needs pools when you can just sit in the play sink?  My silly kids sat in here for a good ten minutes!

And then Ryan decided to reenact the Olympics diving trials we had watched on TV the night before.  And yes, since everyone has asked, he was fine!  Completely safe!  Mommy watched him closely and I felt he was in no danger.  And no, I wouldn't let him back the chair up.  He wanted to truly jump, but I draw the line at slipping and landing in grass.  At least the pool had water and squishy, air-filled sides :)  And yep, in the second photo he is jumping backwards.  He had a great time and it was fun to watch him having so much fun, but we will work up to doing these jumps in a real pool! 

Both kids were super cute watching the diving on TV.  Ryan asked a bunch of questions about it and has been talking about it most of the week.  I loved Abby's reactions to the dives: "Wow. Oh. My. Gosh." She was that deliberate and excited about it, so cute.  They both want to be divers when they grow up!  [That or work at a bank, that's what Ryan has mentioned several times recently.]

Where to begin?!

Wow, I really don't know how that happened!!  I was doing so well there for a bit keeping this up-to-date; and not only that, but I was really enjoying posting.  And all of a sudden it's been almost six weeks since my last post.  I don't know that I can really blog successfully and thoroughly about the last six weeks and I think if I try, I'd give up and it'd be another six weeks til I posted again :)  So be sure to check out my picasa pictures, that's one thing I've always managed to keep current and here's a quick catch-up:

So here we are almost done with June already.  Six weeks until Chloe's arrival [but who's counting :)].  Our amazingly awesome week-long beach trip to Destin has come and gone, boo!  Ryan spent a week in SC with cousin Maxim at VBS.  We've had lots of playdates and been swimming several times.  We celebrated Nana's 60th birthday at the Renn Fest with the family.  Abby finished her third and last Music Class, sad!  She'll go to preschool two days a week in the fall.  Coleson and I celebrated our 9th anniversary with an after-bedtime-dinner-for-two and then went to the concert on the lawn a week later.  We had a wonderful playdate with about half of Ryan's preschool class at Burger King, who knew they had such an awesome playplace??  Abby's first pedicure, not a real one, just at home with Mommy.  Our final appt with the specialist, Chloe still has two completely functioning kidneys, yay!!  Backyard swimming pools and watermelon, lots of watermelon.  Watching old man tennis on a beautiful summer evening.  Working on the finishing touches for Abby and Chloe's new room.  Poor Ryan hanging out with four two-year old girls at one of Abby's playdates.  Welcome to Moe's a couple of times with Grandma and Grandpa.  We hosted Ryan' end of the season soccer party in our backyard, what a fun night and a great group of kids!  [he's officially registered for t-ball in the fall, woo-hoo].

Speaking of t-ball in the fall, a conversation worth remembering:
* Ryan and I were talking about his t-ball season starting in the fall.  He was very excited and asking about who was going to come watch [will Grandma and Grandpa come?  will Nana and Pop-Pop come?, etc].  I had a realization and said hey Buddy, do you know who else will be at your games?  Chloe!  His whole face lit up and he clapped once or twice, he was so excited.  She'll come to all my games?  She'll watch me play?  He's already a great big brother, but he's certainly going to be a great big brother to Chloe too.

Does that cover it all?  Who knows?  But that's all this baby-brained, pregnant, full-time momma of a two and four year can remember at this time :)  If I left out something super fun we did together, I apologize!  Here's to keeping current once again!