We relaxed through most of May. Some days the weather was really nice and others, not so much. The nice days we made sure to get out and about and go places. We had a few playdates at parks, played in the pool and sprinklers, the cats hung out in the sun and Darrell and the boys spent lots of time in the garden. Darrell took the boys to a Minecraft Faire and the boys also started soccer. They are loving playing soccer and look forward to it every weekend.
Our April has been a bit on the busy side. Darrell has been job hunting and doing interviews, so he is really busy at work. The boys are still in swimming on Wednesday nights and we just started them in soccer on Saturday mornings. So far they seem to love soccer although it is at 9am on Saturday. We were going to make a trip out to Eastern Washington over Edward’s spring break, but the day before we were suppose to leave, the friends who we were going to visit had come down with the flu. We talked to a few different people, and the flu happened to be really bad in the area, so we decided to scrap the trip because we didn’t want to chance us getting it. Darrell was really bummed, but since he already had the time off work, he stayed home and spent a lot of time playing video games with the boys. The weather keeps teasing us that it is going to warm up, so we have been able to sneak in a few days at the park or other outdoor location. The boys love going for bike rides.
Edward also got a monthly subscription box from Grammy and he is loving it. He got his first box and was able to build a claw for a claw machine. I am super excited to see what the next one is going to be. It is suppose to be for both boys, but Morgan isn’t quite old enough to build them. But he is enjoying playing with the finished product.
The cats are doing really good. They like to pretend that they are starving and are constantly begging for food. They just want attention though. The ducks are also doing good. Eager and Smalls got infections in their feet. Smalls was ok and got better quick. Eager didn’t fare quite as well. After about a week, she was limping and doing her best not to be on her feet for long. So Darrell ended up taking her to the vet. She got some antibiotics to take which Darrell has had fun trying to shove them down her throat. The only downside is that we are unable to eat her eggs for the 3 weeks of antibiotics and then for another 8 weeks after that. That means we have to quarantine her every night so we can tell which one is hers and just toss it right into the compost. Darrell also built them a small area on the side of the house where the grass has gotten longer and he moves them over there sometimes so they can get some tall grass since they have eaten most of the grass in their area.
Darrell got invited to go to a networking event at the Seattle Mariners Game. He took Edward and his cousin Beau with him. They had sooo much fun and Edward was really excited about it all. He keeps talking about the game and has actually shown some interest in the bat and ball we have at home.
Unfortunately, we weren’t sure how little kid friendly the event was going to be, so Morgan stayed home with me. He was a sad little boy when Daddy and Edward left to go to the game and he cried and cried. Mommy tried to make it better by talking him into going out. We went to the mall where he got to play for a couple hours without his big brother. He loved running around and playing with all the kids his age. After the play area, I let him choose where we got to go for dinner. He picked the “Horsey restaurant” aka PF Changs. So we went to have some dinner. Morgan got some sweet and sour chicken with Snap Peas on the side and I got some honey chicken. Morgan loved the peas and I had to get a second order for him since he wouldn’t touch the chicken. It was cute though that he wanted chopsticks from the time he sat down. He kept asking and asking until they brought some. It was a good night and he passed out in the car before I even left the parking lot to head home.
We had a quiet low-key Easter at home. The day before, we took the boys outside and let them dye the eggs. Morgan loved putting the eggs in the different colors and Edward loved trying to figure out which color combos he could play with. It was a lot of fun and of course, a couple eggs got broken.
On Easter Morning, the boys both woke up around 6:30am which is completely unheard of in this household. hahaha. Edward just came and crawled into bed with Daddy and I. Morgan, however, quietly snuck downstairs to check things out. He came back upstairs with an egg he had found and asked me to open it. I let him eat the pack of peanuts that were in the egg while I finished waking up and then I took the boys downstairs to check out everything. The boys loved their Easter baskets and even more, they loved the egg hunt. Edward had eggs hidden in the living room and Morgan had eggs hidden in the playroom. After they found their dozen eggs, they got to open them all and eat what they wanted.
After Darrel woke up, I made some pancakes for breakfast. I made some bunny tails pancakes. All the boys liked them. Though I made them way too big, so we took the head and ears off of everyones and saved those for a later meal. In the afternoon, Morgan wanted us to hide the eggs for him to find about 4 times. Then later, we hid some outside for them to find. Morgan loved it and asked for a few days for the eggs to be hidden for him. Darrell had a couple friends from his UCSC college years come by to visit, so I made a couple batches of homemade pizza dough and put out a slew of toppings so we could all make personal pizzas. They were a big hit. We finished the day out with a homemade carrot cake and the boys got a glow-stick bath.
November was a busy month for us. The beginning of the month was full of MLJ gigs. There was the MLJ 50 year reunion in Humboldt on the first weekend. Then the second weekend was the very last HSU football game in Vancouver Canada. There was a small group of people going and since we figured we were close enough, we headed up there to support the HSU football team and to have some fun with friends.
After those two big weekends were over, it was crunch time for me. We hung around the house and did small things while I was finishing the prep for my Grandmother’s 80th birthday party. That will be another post though.
We had a busy June. We had visits from Grandma and Grammy, we headed to the zoo a few times, Edward got his own library card, we spent a lot of time reading, lots of time at parks, and we had a lot of just family time. Oh yeah, and Morgan started swim lessons! They are just parent and me, but he has been super excited and was always trying to get in the water when it was brother’s turn. He won’t be able to do on his own lessons until he is about 3.
