In the mom’s group, one of the new things we are doing is Sports Thursday’s. We are going between Disc Golf and Soccer right now. We might add in swimming or something else later. This was our first soccer one and Edward was shy at first, but got into it and loved it by the end. Except he just wanted to sit in the goals.
Edward and I headed down to San Diego to visit with Sharyn’s family for 10 days. We were originally going down for my folks’ 30th wedding anniversary party they were going to have. Things didn’t come together, so they ended up canceling it and we all went out to dinner (all of us girls were there). We spent a glorious week just hanging out and having fun with the entire family. Edward loved spending the time playing with his cousin Hazel. We went out to Balboa Park and then did little things here and there.
Getting on the plane in Seattle:
We made it!
Grandma with her Grandbabies:
Hanging out at Grandma & Grandpa’s!
Balboa Park:
Spanish Landing Park:
And of course, the day before we were leaving, Edward found a dumbbell and then was playing with it in the living room. He decided that the fish, Hella, needed to play too, so he threw the dumbbell at the fishtank. Mom and I were in the kitchen and heard the crash and then the splash as almost 8 gallons of water hit the carpeted floor. Edward went running from the room and was scared and kept telling me “Hella gonna get me.” I felt bad for him, but I can’t stop laughing about it. At least, I am ok with laughing about it now that we are not trying to clean water up out of the carpet. So, needless to say, Hella got a brand new pad before we left. 🙂
On the way home to see Daddy!
I am working on getting one of those cool 5 generations photo that is all over pinterest right now. We are doing the photo within photo because my great-grandmother lives in Wisconsin and is almost 98 years old, so I can’t see us being able to get everyone out there for the photo, so we have to make do. Edward has been in love with taking pictures and wanted to take all the pictures, so I set it up and let him take some. Of course, I used him as the model while I was getting the positioning down:
And then after we took our generations photo, Edward wanted to get into the photo with us, so we took one with him:
Surprisingly, I haven’t really done much painting with Edward. When he was little, he hated getting his hands dirty, so I figured fingerprinting was not going to happen and it got put on a back burner.
I decided to finally give it a shot since he wanted us to get his face painted at the Birth Center Picnic. It took a little while for me to pull them out, but when I did, he loved it! Of course, it ended up almost everywhere but where he was suppose to keep it, but he loved it!
And the finished paintings:
We are still struggling with figuring out this potty training thing. He gets the idea and wants to be in underwear, but he doesn’t want to stop and go to the bathroom. We want to put him back into diapers, but he refuses to get out of his big boy underwear. We have given up and just leave him in underwear and clean up messes. Oh well. We didn’t expect it to happen overnight yet. It will click sometime.
Other than that, he is loving being a toddler with thoughts and opinions. He sure throws them around at us a lot. He is in love with the movie “Cars” and would watch it multiple times a day if we let him.
He had a little accident on our driveway. He held onto a hula hoop the neighbors daughter was pulling around and then hit the pavement.
He is also really big on helping mommy in the kitchen. He loves licking spoons and bowls when I am done, testing the doughs as I am making them (each step is quality checked :P) and turning the mixer on and off. I think his favorite though is helping to roll out the doughs. I let him roll out the pizza doughs a lot.
