Bumble and elf

Friday, August 7, 2015

Airplane Date!

Today is Friday, our weekly date-days. Bobby and Gia went fishing again, and I took Trey to the Air Force Museum because he LOVES airplanes. I mean, even when there isn't a plane in the sky, he points and says, "airplane?" Take this picture, for example. All we had to say to get him to point was, "Trey, where's the airplane?"

Bobby made him laugh a moment later, and he covered his mouth because he thought it was so funny. Love this kid!

First, we went to Einstein's Bagels for breakfast (I had a coupon), and he ate more of my muffin than the bagel bites.

Trey makes a great fish face, so we did that for a while :) Makes me think of my friend, Kristi.

Once we were at the museum, Trey just wanted to ride in the stroller for a while and look at the planes. He would call out the different colors that he saw, but mostly he just quietly took it all it. This was a different response than what I expected... I thought he would be hyper and run all around, but instead he was contemplative.

Trey was fascinated with the guy doing repairs on one of the planes. He just wanted to sit and watch him for a good 5 minutes.

There is also an inside museum, and Trey liked it pretty well. His favorite part were the colored planes... the red "Mustang" was a big hit.

We went back outside, and this time he wanted to get down and walk around.

Although he loved the planes, his most favorite part of our date was playing in the rocks. He just sat down and played in the rocks for a long time! He also had to get back in the stroller because he wouldn't stop throwing them.

We had a great time at the aviation museum! It's close by and free, so I have a feeling that we'll be going back a lot over the next few years!

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Summer Bubbles

My kids love bubbles. Gia is a pro at blowing them and Trey has gotten good at it as well. It's been one of their favorite things to do this summer.

The kids like to blow bubbles and have me pop them, or they try to catch them back on their bubble wands.

Trey always wants to hold his own container of them, but after about 15 minutes, he ends up dumping out the rest of them onto the ground and playing in the puddle (so, of course, we buy the cheap bubbles!). After he dumps them out, he has to dunk his wand into a container that someone else is holding. Thankfully, he has the best big sister in the world and she doesn't mind sharing with him at all :)

The bubbles often make Trey laugh :)

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Trey - 20 months & our date

Trey turned 20 months on the 13th... wow! That means only 2 more months until the baby arrives and only 4 months until he's 2! This boy is definitely a water bug. He loves to splash, put his face in the water, and fill & unfill cups. He also laid on his back a week ago in the bathtub, which scared Gia to the point of tears but was really cool because he started to float (I had my hand under his head all the time, by the way). Thankfully, Nana and Papa got the kids an outside pool, so they've been able to enjoy swimming more!

He probably still weighs around 29 lbs, but I can tell he has slimmed down in the past month. He's gotten a little taller, but I don't know how much, and he's in size 6 shoes (still in size 4 diapers, but I think 5s are right around the corner). Trey knows when he goes "pee-pee or poo-poo," but I'm not fighting to potty train him yet. I'm okay changing 5 diapers a day and don't want to hold him up to the potty yet. We're not in a hurry :)

Trey can now jump. He can go straight up, or he can jump forward (sometimes he lands on his bottom, ha ha). His favorite color is yellow and he points out yellow things everywhere, and he's definitely perfected all of his other colors as well. He can count to 10 if we help him remember the number 7, and he's beginning to recognize his alphabet. He repeats everything, and he uses a lot of 2-word sentences and some 3-word sentences. He still loves his milk in the morning, and gets really grumpy if it's not ready right away (I've spoiled him).

Trey loves to help us throw things in the trash and is pretty compliment when asked to pick things up. His attitude has gotten SO MUCH better over the past few months to the point where he no longer has "bad days." He has his moments (usually when he's hungry), but I think our discipline and his growth of understanding have really matured him. He has come into the "tackling" stage, which Gia is learning to tolerate. God knew what He was doing by giving us another boy because Trey's going to need a wrestling buddy!

We're a little over 2 months away from adding a baby to the family, but Trey still has no idea what's coming. He does still love babies, though, so hopefully he'll like his little baby brother.

He has a bad habit of dropping food off his tray. It drives me crazy, and he knows he shouldn't do it, but does it when he gets full. At least we have Nola to clean up after him (although I sometimes make him get down and pick up the food).

He loves pancakes, mac and cheese, popsicles, broccoli, cooked carrots and humus, milk, and SMOOTHIES! He loves his smoothies! We've been making them almost everyday, and he drinks them down and asks for more. He calls them "noomies." So cute!

I tried to get a mini photo shoot with the kids last Sunday, but it only semi-worked. Here's the best ones I got.

This is how they really felt about taking pictures that day, even though I was bribing them with M&Ms.

This is the face I got when I asked Trey to say, "cheese." He's said it, but with this face.

Trey and I also had our date last Friday (the 10th) where we went to our local splash pad and then out for ice cream. He had a lot of fun and did really well with the other kids (he also did really well with his first ice cream cone!)