My Birthday!

I officially have one year left in my 20's! To celebrate the start of this year, we had a great, long weekend! Saturday evening we went out with some friends to a local bar, it was nothing special to most of the group, but we don't spend much time in bars these days and it was great to see everyone!

Sunday we slept in, had a nice brunch with my parents, Joe, and Grandma and spent the evening actually relaxing at home! Tim and I both took Monday off to spend the day with Timmy on my actual birthday. We started the day by touring one of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Homes, the Pope Leighy House.

Next we went into D.C. to the National Building Museum to see the Lego Models that are currently on display of some of the World's Tallest Buildings. It was impressive, especially the new building that holds that title, the Burj Dubai Tower, shown below with me!

After that stop we took advantage of Restaurant Week, going to my current favorite restuarant, Chef Geoff's, and Tim and I each had a 3 course meal for $20.10! Timmy had pizza. On our way home we stopped to look at some Herman Miller desk chairs, hopefully I will be the comfortable owner of a Mirra chair in the near future as further celebration of my licensing!

Trey's 3rd Birthday Party

On Saturday we were invited to a 3 year old's birthday party, Trey is Timmy's cousin Brayden's, cousin! The party was held at an indoor moon bounce playground and it was so much fun! The moon bounces and slides were sturdy enough for the parents to enjoy as well! It was great to be able to catch up with the Hedge's families and I am so glad that we brought our real camera to capture some of the fun.After an hour of bouncing we had some time to visit. We got to see Brayden crawling for our first time! We also enjoyed an amazing cake that Trey (and Brayden's) babysitter made, a 3D Moon Bounce Castle! (Timmy didn't believe I was actually trying to take a picture of a little boy other then him, so he popped his face infront of the camera!)

Timmy's Pool

Tim found another serious deal on the internet and bought Timmy a new pool that arrived in time to enjoy this weekend. Timmy isn't climbing up the ladder on the back yet, but he definitely enjoys going down the slide!

25 Months!

Timmy is now 25 Months old! Yes, I am finally telling people that I have a Two Year Old, but for the sake of getting myself to blog regularly, I'm going to continue with monthly updates as close to the 17th as possible! :)

I think the word that best describes the last month with Timmy is 'progress' especially when it comes to talking and sleeping! He is still inching towards talking, the last few weeks he's been jabbering a lot more, but not in English! He is putting two words together now "Help Mom" while he signs "Please" is my favorite combination! He has added a few more words to his vocabulary too, 'moon' and 'bubbles' come to mind. You can watch him thinking, trying to come up with a way to communicate what he wants or what he's looking at with us. The other big area of improvement is sleep. He wakes up in the middle of the night at least once a week, but he no longer tries to find a reason to leave his room or to come to ours, as soon as I open his door he turns around and puts himself back into bed. He just wants me to lay back down with him again... I need us to make some progress on his bedtime routine, it's great except for his rule that I must stay in his bed until he's asleep! One thing at a time I guess!

Here are some pictures from this weekend getting ready to get into the pool and a video of him jumping in to me!

Another Great Weekend

We have been having a lot of fun, and getting a lot done, during our weekends recently. This weekend we had two shave ice events that both went really well. During our down time with Timmy we went out to eat, played at the mall playground, relaxed, and had fun in the pool! Sunday morning I actually had the chance to leave both of my boys sleeping and spent 3 uninterrupted hours laying on a raft in the pool. It was amazing! Here are some pictures of Timmy with us in the pool! He likes to jump in from the side. We are trying to teach him to count: 1, 2, 3, GO! but so far he just squeals 'Go!' and jumps in. From the angle of these pictures I can also see that it's more of a belly flop then a jump!

He also likes walking down the steps, he can do the first three on his own, but the 4th requires him to be on his very tippy toes, so he holds on to our hands, comes down, spins around as fast as possible, and steps right back up.

Summer Time

Well, there's not much difference in our lives during the summer anymore, but with longer days and hotter weather, we are having extra fun with our cutie! Summer looks good on Timmy!

It took a few try's, and a lot of Grammy's patience, but Timmy is finally fully enjoying the pool again, instead of just wanting to play on the first step. We are spending the weekend there this weekend so I will be sure to get some pictures to share next week!