Ok, is it just me or did we completely skip the season called SPRING?! I am not ready for summer. Or at least not the heat part! It has been smoking hot the last few weeks and it isn't even July?! This time last year we were in Florida. . . .sigh. . .
But, I do love that summer time means: Longer days (I don't feel like I get home from work and immediately have to go to bed!), we get to spend more time with family and friends, life seems like it's just a little slower, there are shaved ice stands open for business and best of all . . . POOLS are open!!
Since they don't have school anymore, Isabella and Alexandra got to go with us after church Sunday night to eat with our group at Lazzari! They were quite the entertainment! And Stratton loves the company and attention! The girls wanted to stick their heads out the sunroof while we were driving back home. . . I know they think I''m pretty "cool" about things, but I'm not insane?!! So, when we got back to their house, completely stopped in the driveway, I let them try it. Isabella was standing on the console, head and half her body (she's tall!) sticking out of the sunroof when Christina came out the door and Isabella told her "this is how I rode home, the whole way!" Ha-ha. Very funny. Uncle Brian and Christina may never let them go anywhere with us again! I hope they know we have better sense than that. . . for the most part anyway.
Monday evening, I ran a few errands when I got off work- mainly just to Target. I used to LOVE Target. Now I am beginning to hate it. Every time I go I drop at least $100 if not more?!!! Diapers, baby food, disposable bibs, ect . . . all that small stuff adds up quick! Man, babies are expensive!! Anyway, my Mom was in town running some errands of her own so she went and picked up Stratton at Daycare and took him back to the house and fed him supper and changed his clothes. So when I got home we jumped in the car and took off to Alexandra's T-ball game. It was actually really nice outside! Stratton wanted NO part of his stroller. All the sudden he doesn't like it? I don't get it he used to love it? Next time we are taking his wagon, maybe he would ride in it better! (And don't make fun of me if you see me at the mall sometime pulling Stratton in his wagon. He loves it and I can't carry him! I call him my "Chunky Monkey"! He's so big and just crawls and climbs on and over everything!!) Al's game was so cute! Those little girlies running all over the place cracks me up! I got a blue raspberry tropical snow (I LOVE shaved ice!!) while we were there and I let S's have a small bite. Not sure he really knew what to think he made the most awful face! But then of course he wanted more!!
Tuesday evening, I took S's swimming for the first time! Our friend Amy's mom (Mrs. Cindy, who is also S's Sunday School teacher) and dad have an awesome new salt water pool! Amy and I went from about 5-7 pm and it was sooo nice! It wasn't swelteringly hot, and there were no bugs! The water was a little cool at first, but once you were in it for awhile it was fine. Stratton seemed to really like it! I thought he would since he loves his baths so much! Now, I just have to find a baby floatie! He let Amy hold him some but he wasn't a fan of me getting very far away! And it's hard to "swim" holding him the whole time. We are going to Memphis this weekend, so maybe I can find a neat one at Toys-R-Us.
This weekend we are going to Memphis! Friday night we are meeting Meghan (Jonathan is out of town this weekend) for dinner and then she and I are going to finally see SATC2 [Kristen,we will miss you!!]. Then Saturday morning we are having Stratton's 1 year pictures taken with Daisha Sheets (D'Lifeful Photography) at Audubon park at 10:00am. Hopefully, we can do them early enough we won't get beat down by the heat! Then we will probably stick around and do some shopping. I have got to figure out what we are going to get Stratton for his birthday!!
And speaking of his birthday. . .it will be here before we know it!! I am doing a first birthday announcement and a separate party invitation. It's kind of weird, I know but I realized that we cannot possibly invite everyone we want to his party. Just family alone has us at about 30ish people!! We could easily add another 30 or more with all our close friends, so the party will be mainly just the family this year. However, I want to send something out to ALL of our friends (especially since we are having new photos taken) so they can see how much he has grown and how cute he is! : ) And we have several friends that live far away and it wouldn't make sense to send them an invitation to a party we know they can't come to?! The announcement is already designed, just have to get those new pictures drop them in and I'll be set!! And I am currently working on the invitation. Since we are doing an airplane theme, I think I am going to make them look like airline tickets!