Here, There and Everywhere!

Last week was pretty busy for us. We spent time with family and friends. Stephen had a couple extra days off so we could go visit family. He was off Wednesday through Sunday. He returned to work today(Monday, still today for me even though its technically Tuesday now.) Just had a fun few days catching up with our friends and family.

This past Thursday the 14th, Lorelai officially turned 15 months. That meant not only is she growing way too fast, but also checkup day. I happen to be a horrible mom because something happened the day of her 12 month checkup, I cancelled and forgot to reschedule. A few weeks ago, I was catching up on baby books and realized what I had done. Next morning I called the dr office to see about getting it taken care of. I do vaccinate my kids and didnt want to miss something important. The nurse in the office said that since I had waited as long as I did waiting until the 15th month and combining would not be hurtful. So while it turned out nice and convenient it meant extra shots that day. I felt so terrible when they said it would be 5 shots when she would have only needed one. Made me feel so bad and guilty. I guess at least she only had to feel the pain once. She weighed in at 24lbs and 9.4oz and is 32in. long. She is following a nice growth curve and even seems to be steadying a little as she has become so active. Doctor deemed her healthy and maybe too big for her britches. All in all clean bill of health.  The nurse made the shots nice and quick and Daddy held her for them. She cried for a couple minutes but by the time we were to the car she was smiling again.

When we left, we met my friend Lucy and her kiddos to eat nearby and then headed over to the Botanic Gardens to spend the rest of the afternoon. It was lovely weather and the gardens have lots of running room. It was a nice late afternoon playtime.

My ever curious boy

He loved his friend's boots

All kiddos minus Finn, kid cant sit still for nothing!

Lorelai and her friend giving kisses

Her "dont let me fool you look"

 

Friday was pretty run of the mill. I did some grocery shopping. We cleaned and took care of laundry, ridded the kitchen cabinets of things that aren't getting any use. We dont have a lot of storage in our kitchen, so it's gotta be kept to things that are being used.

 

Saturday, we woke up and loaded our van up. We took a trip to my sisters about 3 hours away. Her 2 boys have birthdays a day apart. One turning 1 and the other turning 10. They have a sister in between whose birthday is later. We had a party for the little on Saturday and the big on Sunday. Each got to have their own special time and day. Baby had a super cute Minion party. He loves the Despicable Me movie! It was all rather adorable, complete with minion Twinkies(which are now cloud cakes apparently but taste the same to me.) The older had a cookies and ice cream party. He just wanted a normal party, his only request was to have an ice cream bar. Everyone had fun putting all the toppings they wanted on the ice cream. All in all it was a great weekend celebrating and seeing my sister!

If I read or play on my phone in the car, I get carsick. So I entertained myself this time by coloring!

Being cheesy!

Cousins(3months apart) playing!

Our nephew wanting to drive

 

We got home late Sunday evening and all went straight to bed. It was hard to be up for our normal day routine on Monday. By bedtime tonight, the kids were pretty worn out and so was my husband. Im in awe that he survived work today, around here we were all a little sluggish. The parties consisted of a lot of sugar and I feel like my body is really trying to recover from that. I tried to feed the kids lots of healthy things today. Just want to get them back on track and send the message to not expect that normally.

 

Thats how the last half of our last week went. Now we are home again and back to normal life. In 3 weeks we will be loading up again for our even longer drive to Florida!!!

 

Our fact of the day: Phineas and Ferb took 16 years to make it to TV. The director and the creator left Family Guy to work on it full time.

 

Thought this info was pretty cool. Family Guy is something my husband and I watch after our kids are tucked in bed at night. We find it humorous(and dumb at times, yes) and just like the show. I think Seth McFarland is a fun creative guy. I also appreciate knowing that the show has a few tie ins to Gilmore Girls.

 

Anyways, that is all, goodnight!