Time is slipping by me again! Work has been very busy and we're also in the middle of shave ice season, so a Five for Friday will have to do to help keep me current!
1. My company designed a splash park for South Riding that opened this summer. It took four attempts (the first three spoiled by weather or maintenance issues) for me to be able to take the boys, but we finally made it! Afterwards we drove from the pool to our townhouse to give our renters the paperwork to get their own pool passes. It's funny that it's the only time we ever went to a pool in our neighborhood in eight years, after it was no longer our neighborhood! I really loved watching the boys enjoy something that I designed, and Timmy thought it was pretty cool that I built it!
2. We found out why Sophia was a no show to Timmy's birthday party... her family moved to Colorado on short notice for her dad's job. Luckily, I emailed her mom right after the party to try to set up a playdate, and her mom offered to have Timmy meet Sophia at Chuck E Cheese the day before they were moving. They enjoyed each other's company and played some games together and did some stuff on their own as well. I was more upset then Timmy, and that was a relief! Timmy and Sophia had little ID cards made of each other and traded them, so Sophia has a card with Timmy's face that says he's an officer, and Timmy has Sophia's princess card. He has mentioned her a few times since then, talking about how she has moved away.
3. Tyler has reached the stage where he can prove how much his little brain is connecting. On the way to a doctor appointment a week and a half ago, he saw an airplane, "Mommy! Bearplane!" "Yeah... I see that airplane" "It flies!" "It sure does fly" "Bird!" "You're right! It flies like a bird!" The next day, Tyler begged for a banana that he took a nibble of and then said he didn't want. He was seated at the table with just a place mat, but I told him to just put the banana on his plate. He made a funny face while looking at the table, and then told me, "There's no plate here." These full sentences are still shocking me... We were hopeful that he had gotten through his grumpy "stage", which appears to be Tyler's version of the Terrible Two's, but it has resurfaced! He seems to think he can only love so many people at one time! When we first moved in, he was always very grumpy towards Grammy, and Becky was one of his favorite people. That has apparently been reversed for now! At his 2 Year Appointment he was 28 lbs and 2'-10", he didn't cry too much over his shots. I ordered training potty's today... wish us luck... my least favorite part of being a parent so far is potty training! But, Tyler tells us all the time as he's about to go potty, and seconds later, when he's all done, so we're going to give it a shot!
4. Timmy is turning into a frog. Right around when we opened our pool I also got Timmy into a six session swim class. It was good timing, as he usually spends the first several weeks of the summer being afraid of the pool and just wanting to play on the steps. He started out at our house still being weird about getting in, but jumped right in and did everything his instructor asked him to at class, so we put our foot down at home and told him to stop being silly. I didn't want to get him goggles because I didn't want him to feel like he always had to have them, but after seeing his red eyes a few weeks in a row, I finally bought him a pair. You would think I bought him gills. I don't think his face came fully out of the water his first session with them! It really helped his swimming too, and at this point he can jump from one side of the pool and froggy swim under the water to the opposite side on the same breath! He also gets dive sticks and can float on his back for almost 10 seconds. I am planning to put him back in lessons this winter, but hopefully he'll be able to skip a few levels! At his 5 Year Appointment he was 45 lbs and 3'-9"! He did cry over his shots... for a long time. The nurse even tried to help me calm him down by assuring him they were over, but Timmy kept saying, "I told you I wouldn't like the shots!" I just kept telling him I never thought he would like them, but he had to have them if he wanted to go back to school!
5. Tim's Birthday was last Saturday and we had a very nice day celebrating him. As soon as we woke up we baked Tim a cake, and Timmy asked me how old Daddy was turning. When I told him 32 he made a silly face and then said, "So, he has to have 32 candles on his cake?!" And so it did. We finally went to see Monster's University which was a really good movie, thank goodness! Becky babysat for us and Chris DD'd for us that evening and we went to Dogfish Head Alehouse with Billy and Jeff to wrap up the day.
