Holiday Daze

Happy (belated) Father's Day to Brian, and Happy Anniversary to us!  7 years of marriage....  I can't believe I have put up with him for this long (okay, okay... and vice versa)!

For Father's Day yesterday, Brian worked on the lawn (I told him he didn't have to, but he insisted!), then we all went swimming and out to dinner.

For our Anniversary we went to our weekly doctor's appointment (tomorrow I'll be 2 weeks from my due date, people!), then Brian went to work all day (he'll be home around 9:30 tonight) and I scrubbed the bathrooms.  What a celebration, huh?!?  Ha ha!  We have plans to go out to celebrate Sunday night, provided Baby Two doesn't decide to make her appearance before then!  We'll keep you posted.  :)

P.S. This is my second post of the day.  Check out the previous post if you haven't already!

Let the Homework Begin!

Chase moved up to the 3-Year-Old classroom at daycare earlier this month and he now has homework! We did our first homework assignment together tonight, so I thought I would share!

My baby is growing up!

Conversations With a 3-Year-Old: Potty Mouth

Chase and I read a book today that we don't normally read. In the book he has to identify various shapes, and in the very front of the book it has a picture of all the shapes and what they are called. When we got to the "moon" shape Chase called it a moon and I said, "Yes, but it's also a crescent." We practiced saying "crescent" a few times and we were good to go.

On the last page of the story we encountered our first moon.

Me: What is the shape of the moon?

Chase: Ummmmm....

Me: Remember what we called it? (Sounding it out slowly to prompt him) C... Cr....

Chase: CRAP!

I lost it. I honestly didn't have time to even think about holding it in. I laughed so hard I thought I would pee my pants. Of course then Chase saw how hilarious it was and every other word he said was, "crap." I pulled myself together a bit and said, "Chase, we don't say that word. It's not nice." We continued reading and things calmed down, but then as we read I would just think about it and start laughing again (trying to hold it in, of course). Chase always knew what I was laughing about because as soon as I started giggling he would look at me and say, "Crap, crap, crap!" Then we read a book with music in it and he started singing with me, throwing in the word "crap" randomly throughout the songs.

He was so proud of himself.

P.S. See my previous post if you haven't already!

Blog Updates

I just made some updates to our blog. They are placed a bit randomly throughout my previous posts because I pre-dated them to go where they were supposed to go chronologically. Here are links to make your life easier:

Corpus Christi Getaway
Nature Attacks
Green Thumb

We should be all caught up now!

Corpus Christi Getaway

We went to Corpus Christi over Memorial Day weekend. We needed one last "mini vacation" before the baby came! I wanted to go to the beach and we hadn't been there before, so we thought it would be a good opportunity to check it out! We had a really great time. Lots of pictures coming your way here! Ready? Here we go....

We first went to the aquarium, which was very cool. Chase fell in love with the turtle who roamed the aquarium and had to have his picture taken with him:

He also liked the real turtles...

...and the otters:

He tried to touch a stingray but could never quite catch one:

This picture was taken just for Aunt Jen:

We discovered an area where you could pick up shells, crabs and sea urchins and Chase LOVED that. It was definitely his favorite part of the aquarium. I credit Aunt Jen for his lack of fear in touching weird sea creatures!

And, of course, on the way out of the aquarium he had to play in the whale fountain:

We also went to the beach twice while we were there. Chase LOVED playing in the waves!

He also had a great time playing in the sand:

To make better packing sand for our sand castles we added some water, and Chase loved making trips into the waves to fetch some with his watering can:

Then Chase had the brilliant idea of making a snowman! So here is our "sand" man:

We found a cool water fountain downtown but Chase wouldn't get in because he didn't want his shorts to get wet!

Chase LOVED all the palm trees, which he called "coconut trees," thanks to one of his favorite books, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" (Great gift, Holly)!

First he asked Daddy to climb up the coconut tree...

...and then he tried to climb one himself, but decided to challenge himself with a much taller tree!

We went on a little cruise, which Chase thought was cool for the first 20 minutes and then was ready to go home. He did pretty well for the remaining hour and ten minutes, despite the fact he was bored. We did manage to get some pictures while he was still happy though. Chase was ready for this one, but Dad was not:

Let's try that again. Silly Daddy!

And here is a terrible one of me with Chase. Chase looks cute but I'm a mess. I'm posting it anyway only because it is the only photo taken on the trip with me in it!

On the cruise we got to see the USS Lexington, which was pretty cool. Chase loved the planes:

On the way home we swung through San Antonio to visit the Witte Museum, which was having a cool dinosaur exhibit. Chase got to dig for dinosaur bones:

And then we explored the rest of the children's museum and found a super cool water contraption that Chase fell in love with:

All in all it was a great trip. There are tons more photos in our Photo Album if you're interested!

Baby "Registry"

For those of you who have been asking for baby gift ideas, we now have a "Registry" on our blog (link at the top). Click here to go directly to it if you're interested. Thanks!

Nap Time

This actually happened last weekend, but I'm just now getting around to posting it. We think Chase is starting to grow out of his naps. Here is peek at his nap time activity last Sunday (Facebook users, click "View Original Post" to see this video):

Shortly after I stopped this video we heard a huge KLUNK, followed by screaming. I ran upstairs to discover that my one little monkey had been jumping on the bed, then fell down (not off, thankfully) and bumped his head (on the guard rail). Through his tears he said to me, "Maybe I shouldn't jump on the bed anymore so it can't hurt me." Smart boy! Anyway, this photo was taken immediately after we got him calmed down (suckers help) and iced the bump for awhile:

(The picture doesn't do the eye justice, but his face makes it worth posting!)

We went to WalMart a little later and Chase fell asleep in the car (of course). Then when we got to WalMart he asked to take his blanket in, which is weird. We allowed it and this is what happened not 5 minutes after we walked into the store:

I kept stopping the cart while we shopped to make sure he was still breathing (can we say concussion paranoia?). My son NEVER does this. Never had, and I thought never would.

His eye turned lovely shades of black and blue throughout the week. It is looking much better today (phew)! Even though we didn't do anything, we felt guilty taking him to daycare the next day! We wanted to wear big signs that said, "We promise we didn't do it!"

At work Monday I got this email from Brian:

Subject: CPS

So I am sitting in my office and I get a call from Child Protective Services. I immediately think daycare has called them because of Chase’s bruise. But it was just CPS wanting to confirm that a parent had completed the Parenting Course with me. Good times, Brian

Talk about a heart attack!