Feeding the fish & turtles

The cake & the stab - I'll admit my 33 does look like 39 - sorry Sean

The stabber (his brother just used his finger 1,000 times before cake was served)

My little shaver - this keeps him busy for a LONG time

We are putting lots of miles on the Bears car lately

Yes even driving in the buff

Our recent splashpad adventure

Seems we've been busy - although we've had relatively few plans! I guess not having plans works just fine for us. We celebrated Sean's birthday yesterday - the boys could not keep their little fingers out of the cake & icing - it was miserable, Carter got his fingers in multiple times and then Lincoln moved the kitchen chair, got a fork and actually stabbed the cake. It didn't look as I'd imagined it but making pretty cakes takes so much stinking time! We now have cake for about 100 at our house, but I wanted to make a big cake & did. Sean and I also went out for dinner on Saturday night for his birthday and Carter was very concerned about why we'd want to go out for dinner with our he and Lincoln - sorry C, dining is less stressful without you in tow! We went to Lake Hefner to Lakeside and had a relaxing dinner watching lots of boats and sipping some cocktails (and I had one too many that gave me a wonderful splitting headache in the middle of the night when Lincoln woke me up!).

Linc has been a little crab butt - I took him to the Dr. on Tuesday just to make sure there wasn't anything going on other than his teeth - sure enough, there isn't! But not only is he getting 3 incisors, he's also getting molars so I guess he has a reason to be cranky - now if only he'd take the Motrin I've offered him to make them feel better (he's on an anti-medicine kick). She did say his allergies look to be under control and we can stop using those meds until fall which is a good thing. His sucking thumb was also infected - it was just nasty but looks better now. He's suddenly interested in reading and drags me to the books a few times a day but often insists on reading a different book than the one that I'm reading to him as well. He is working on his words which is good because we are both frustrated with his lack of talking when he wants something - he prefers to scream until I guess and I think that system sucks! Yesterday he said firetruck, dump truck & boat when we were looking at a book - so now we can work on some more everyday important words, maybe? We made steaks last night and he couldn't get enough - I honestly couldn't cut fast enough for him, since Sean makes them a bit rare he had all sorts of juice we will call it on his face, it was a bit scary to me but he enjoyed his steak and Carter even tried it - now that is good Iowa boy behavior!

We had a nice adventure to the pond yesterday morning. Carter insisted that they'd need a snack to get around the pond and got some Sun Chips & his backpack for the ride. Linc decided to dump his chips in the pond which ended up being a fun time since 5 turtles were hungry and then some big ol' fish joined in to eat them - it was so much fun to watch that we went back and tried again last night but apparently they weren't as hungry last night.

Carter is going through a very loving phase (maybe it will last but I bet it doesn't last long enough) he asks for hugs like a million times a day - it is super cute, "can I have a hug mom?" his mood has improved substantially since I started making him nap again, which means I have to lay down every day too to get him to sleep, but I think him napping might be worth it just in the attitude department although it often means he is up until too late for our taste! He is still into the boys vs. girls stuff and always asks for the "boy" colored popcicles - like no pink or purple ones for him! When we were at the pond yesterday there were a few plastic bottles laying on the ground and Carter told me "those people weren't being nice to the earth". Go Dora, Go Super Why and all the other shows that preach "green" to my little guy - it was cute and such a good message that he's obviously getting.

That is about all from our house this week, I hear a "Mama, Mama" coming from the baby crab!