Pics from the week

We've had a fun week but nothing too eventful. I had to take Will to the doctor on Monday for a rash he kept getting on his chest. Usually it would be gone in the morning, so I hadn't called his doctor, but it was there Monday so we went in. She said it was just a heat rash, so we've really been limiting his time outside. Unfortunately we had to miss out on lunch with my friends Denise and Rebecca and their kids.

Tomorrow Will is supposed to go to my mom's to spend the night while John and I have a fun night away at a resort in Scottsdale. But, it's up in the air right now whether or not we'll be able to do it, so keep your fingers crossed. We figure if nothing else, my aunt can watch Will during the day so we can at least go hang out at the pool and use our free money since it's too late to cancel the reservation. But it would be fun to get a real date night out of it because we also wanted to see the new Batman movie.

Tuesday we had a MOMS Club event at our house...a scrapbooking day. I brought down our baby activity center for my friend Laura's daughter to play in while they were here. I hadn't taken it back upstairs yet, and I walked into the living room Wednesday to find Will in it! Goofy kid.



I also got a new lens for my camera. I'm so excited for it. I played around with it a bit on Tuesday taking pics of Will and Cindy Lou. I need to find some stationary subjects to try it out on I think. :)













John wanted to play when he got home from work and took a pic of me:

Weekend recap

Wow, what a fun and eventful weekend we've had! Friday morning was Will's last day of swim lessons. He did great!! Then after swimming we went to the AZ All Stars Gym with MOMS Club. I remembered to take my camera but didn't remember to carry it around with me. Oops! I did get a picture of Will and Connor holding hands on the way there which was pretty funny...Connor hates it unless Will asks if he can hold Connor's hand! :)



Yesterday we had a busy day. In the morning we went to Will's friend Tyson's birthday party. Will had fun playing with his friends and eating pizza and cake!


Will and his friends Nathaniel, Dylan, and Connor


Having pizza with Josh and Emily (at swim lessons on Friday Will said, "I like Emily!")


Watching the fish with Daddy and Tyson


Having some birthday cake with Josh

After naptime yesterday we went over to our friends Greg and Jen's house (Connor's parents) for some swimming and dinner. Jen made quite the feast for us, and the boys had fun swimming and showing off what they learned at swim lessons and then playing with all of Connor's toys. Somehow the mommies and daddies got roped into cleaning up the play room instead of the kids...not sure how that happened!

Now today we've just hung out at home. Will's still adjusting to his big boy bed (or at least that's what I hope it is!!) and was up at 6:00 this morning! Mommy doesn't like getting up that early, so I took a 90 minute nap when we got home from church. After Will's nap (again, shorter than it used to be in the crib!) he and John went out in the backyard to play some golf:



This coming week is pretty busy with a trip to the east valley tomorrow for lunch with some friends we haven't seen in awhile, scrapbooking on Tuesday, and a trip to the mall on Thursday!

Here it is...

Here's Will's big boy bedroom in all its glory. He's been doing great sleeping in it at night, although he gets scared when we first leave him alone in there at bedtime. Today was his first real nap in it (yesterday he had fallen asleep on the way home from a play date, so it was easy to just lay him down in it), and it didn't go so well. He finally fell asleep after screaming for 45 minutes, but only once I sat in the chair in there. Hopefully this stops soon!!

The right side of some of the pictures is cut off, but I'm too lazy to go through and fix them right now.

Big Boy Bed

Big Boy Bed

Tomorrow's the day!! Will's big boy bedroom furniture will be here between 1:00 and 5:00. John and I just cleared out the room and moved the furniture into Baby Lando's room (again, not baby's real name!!). It looks so weird in there. I FINALLY found a picture online of the new furniture, not sure if this will work to link it, but I'll try:



I'll post some more pictures tomorrow or Sunday once everything is straightened up in there! I also went and got him new big boy bedding today:



His nursery bedding was airplanes, and a good friend of mine made some really nice airplane wall hangings for me/him, and I wanted to keep those up. I was glad to find a set that had airplanes in it so we could still use them.

Will's spending the night at Gaga's tonight, so his big boy bedroom will be all ready for him tomorrow night when he gets home. He was so excited! Every night this past week when he'd be going to bed he'd say, "No crib, Mommy. Will's big boy bed?" One night he even said "Will sleep on floor, Mommy?" Hopefully the transition goes well!!

Big shopping day!

Phew...did we spend some money today! We went shopping for a big boy bedroom set for Will! We found one we really liked and ordered it. Unfortunately the store's website doesn't have it pictured, so I'll post pictures once we get it in a couple weeks.

From there we went to Babies R Us and got a bedding set for Baby Lando (no, that's not going to be his name!). I had a hard time deciding between this one and one I liked from Pottery Barn Kids, but I had to make a decision and this was it:



I think it will be really cute. Home Depot has paint on sale this weekend, so I need to hurry up and decide how to paint. I'm thinking vertical stripes in either two of the shades of green or vertical stripes in one shade but alternating flat and glossy paint. I love how that looks! I'm leaning more towards that one.

I was 20 weeks on Thursday, by the way--halfway!! This baby's going to be here before I know it. I had a bit of a panic attack the other day worrying about what all needed to get done and when and how, but after making a few lists I felt a lot better. His bedroom should be mostly done at least here in a couple weeks, so that will be a huge thing to cross off the list!

Hope everyone's enjoying the holiday weekend!

Swimming at Gaga's

Yesterday we went over to my mom's for some swimming and dinner...and to pick up our dog. ;) Will loves to swim in Gaga's pool. She bought him a life jacket to use when we aren't there because she doesn't know how to swim. We tried it on him yesterday while John and I were swimming with him, and he loved it! So weird to see my little man floating in the pool, although even with the jacket on we kept hold of him the whole time. He was quite the sight with his hat, swim shirt, life jacket, and gator pool toy!

Trip to CA

We had a great time on our trip to CA. The drive there ended up being not as bad as I thought it would be. Google Maps had it as nine hours, so I figured with all the stops we'd have to make it would be more like 10 or 11, but it took us just over nine hours. We left here at 3:30 and got to Cayucos about 12:45. Will didn't fall asleep in the car until 9:00 and he woke up a few times when we'd stop so I could get out and walk around. Then when we got there and went to bed it seemed like he was going to stay up all night, but he did eventually fall asleep.

Saturday was our first day there, and we spent it playing on the beach and checking out the town of Cayucos. Sunday the men had a tee time and went off to play golf in Morro Bay. The rest of us went in to San Luis Obispo to explore. We found a great coffee shop and had some treats, spent a lot of time in a way cool toy store (why aren't there more little toy stores around?!) where each of the boys got a present from grandma. We went in a baby store, and grandma got a cute outfit for New Baby, and I couldn't resist buying the softest baby blanket EVER. I feel bad this kid is going to get a lot of hand-me-down stuff from Will, so I splurged. We also found an amazing bread bakery called House of Bread. Lori, Aurelia, and I went a little crazy. They had a ton of yummy looking stuff on the day old shelf, so we got some cinnamon rolls, blueberry muffins, raspberry rolls, and a few loaves of really good bread. (Lordy mama, I just looked at the locations on the website and there's one in Peoria...wonder if they're open on Sunday and I'll go tomorrow when we go to my mom's house!!)

Monday we all did our own thing. John, Will, and I went in to SLO so John could check it out, then we stopped in Morro Bay on our way back for lunch. Everyone else had gone in to Morro Bay for some shopping and brought back a seafood FEAST for our dinner...fish and chips, clam chowder, dungeness crab, clams. YUM! Tuesday was Hearst Castle day. We didn't want to take Will with us because we'd wanted to go there for a really long time. Everyone else went in the morning, then we met for lunch and gave Will to his grandparents, aunt, uncle, and cousins. Before we met up with them we went to check out some elephant seals (fat, lazy, smelly, ugly things) and drove along the PCH for a bit. It was really hazy because of the forest fires in Big Sur. Hearst Castle was AMAZING. There are four tours you can go on, and we liked the first one so much that we signed up for the second tour when we got down to the visitor center and went right back up! The second tour was much more informative and a much smaller group, so we learned a lot about the house...if you can call it a house!

Wednesday the guys were off to golf again, so we hung out at the house for awhile (Lori, my sis-in-law had two flat tires and had to go get those taken care of!) and then went in to Morro Bay for lunch. We tried to see some otters, but they weren't really doing much. It was hard to tell if we were seeing otters or clumps of kelp! THe boys were all pretty tired, so we headed back to the house and everyone took naps. We had hoped to go down to the beach after naps, but it was ridiculously windy. In fact, after the weekend the temperatures dropped and it was windy most days, so none of us wanted to go sit on the cold beach!

Thursday we only had part of the day as we figured we'd leave after lunch. Will played with his cousins while John and I got everything packed. We had lunch together, and the Dugans went off to kayak or fish or something. We said goodbye to grandma and P-Bill and off we went! We made decent time to Long Beach, considering we hit LA traffic. Once we got to the hotel we hit the pool for awhile and had dinner there before calling it a night. There was no internet at the ocean house, so John and I both spent awhile on his laptop checking our email and our regular websites to see what we'd missed out on!

Friday before heading home we went to Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. It was really amazing...and huge!! We watched a couple different shows--scuba divers in huge aquarium tanks with the fish, an otter show to learn more about them, and a shark feeding show! Will got to play in a little tide pool and touch anemones and star fish. They also had shark petting tanks (like the ray tank at the Phoenix Zoo)! We saw tons of tropical fish (Nemo's relatives) and jelly fish...it was way cool. Will started to melt down towards the end (no big surprise after a week of staying up late, getting up early, and not taking good naps), but we'd been there for more than two hours at that point. He fell asleep once we were on the freeway. The aquarium was right next to the Queen Mary, which is where John proposed to me, so we drove over there to take some pictures. It was fun to see and reminisce about that night.

Thankfully the drive home was uneventful. We were pretty shocked to see the big plume of smoke southwest of Laveen from the forest fire, or whatever it was. We were glad to get home, but Will misses the ocean house and his family. He loves his cousins so much! I managed to sort through our pictures (600+ of them!) and get some online this afternoon while he napped, so here they are:

Cayucos

Almost home!!

We're in Long Beach, CA tonight after having spent the past five full days in Cayucos, CA with John's family. The drive there took us just over nine hours (not bad with a two year old, pregnant mommy, and when Google Maps said it would be nine hours!), so we decided to break it up into two parts on the way home. We left Cayucos a day early and drove to Long Beach. Tomorrow we're going to the Aquarium of the Pacific in the morning, having lunch somewhere, then heading home. My mom told me it's supposed to be 112 this weekend in PHX. Not looking forward to that part of getting home, but it will be nice to be back in my bed, get Will back in his bed, and get back into a normal routine.

We had a really great time on our trip. John's parents rented an awesome house right on the beach for us (it was our family, his folks, his sister, her husband, and their two kids). Unfortunately it got really, really cold after the weekend, so we didn't get to play on the beach all that much. But we did go explore San Luis Obispo (if I ever had to live in CA it would be there, Santa Cruz, or San Diego) and found a way cool toy store and an amazing all-natural bakery. Will had a great time playing with his cousins, and we ate a ton of seafood. I'll post pictures and more info once we're home and settled, probably over the weekend at some point!

It's a boy

We had our ultrasound today and found out we're having another boy. My friend Benah was right...looks like we only produce male children. Here are some pictures from the u/s (unfortunately baby wasn't very cooperative so we didn't get many good pictures):


Side view of baby


Another side view


Creepy alien face


Baby's foot

They also gave us some video of the baby moving around which is kind of cool. Mostly he's kicking his legs. Let's see if this works:

Father's Day Weekend

We had a great time celebrating John this past weekend for Father's Day! Originally he was going to have to work for several hours on Saturday, but it ended up only being an hour or so. While he was gone, Will and I headed to our community pool for a swim. It will have to do until we get our own pool...maybe next year.

Saturday night we went to the Dbacks game, and even though they lost BIG, we still had a good time. Will got hooked on the Peter Piper Pizza play area, but at least he was entertained. And, FYI for anyone going to a game soon, you can get booster seats at Guest Relations so the little guys can actually see what's going on!









Then on actual Father's Day, we went to church and then went to our favorite Mexican restaurant for lunch, Oaxaca. We hadn't been there in so long, and it was so good!!



After lunch we came home for naps then went to my mom's for some swimming and dinner with my family. It was a great day!!

This week is pretty busy as we get ready to leave for CA on Friday, but tomorrow is the BIG DAY...our ultrasound appointment!!!!! I can't wait to find out if this baby is a girl or boy. I'm hoping girl but thinking boy. I'll know for sure by this time tomorrow!