Erin's Bday & Family Time.. Oh Yeah & Our Anniversary

Yesterday, May 31st was our 6th Anniversary. It hardly seems like much, considering my parents just celebrated their 40th in January. However, it's cool to me. We didn't do all that much to specifically celebrate, but we were together a lot all weekend, so that was nice for a change! We recently upgraded to a king size bed, so Alex bought me/us the new comforter that we wanted. I think it will look great.

Saturday, we were going to look at cars in KC, as we aren't all too keen on the dealership that has our target car, here in Wichita. However, we decided to surprise Alex's mom with a visit instead. She hasn't seen Solomon since before her knee surgery, so she was due. They are trying to sell her house so Alex's sister, brother, and their spouses were at his mom's house painting. We helped a small amount and basically said "hi".

Then, we skipped off to Lawrence for Erin's big B-day. Erin is perhaps one of the few that fully understands and embraces the art of self-promotion when it comes to one's birthday. She and I not only understand this, but are shameless about it. Therefore, I had to make it to her BBQ/celebration on Saturday. There were tons o' kids there, including our little Solomon. He did get a lot of "his hair is sooo cute" compliments but absolutely ZERO "your child is so well-behaved" comments. That is because he was quite the little nightmare. He has definitely hit the "MINE" and "NO" stage so he's completely possessive of everything and not too fun at times around others. Of course, my child that is usually a good eater, always chooses group occasions to eat almost nothing, which then means he will have a meltdown for sure. So, we just felt like those parents that I always looked down upon for being such bad disciplinarians, prior to having children. He was hitting people/mostly getting them wet with the bubble wand, pulling the beer keg tap (wasting beer) (this got a lot of laughs and jokes about him just wanting a glass of beer), chewing up the Styrofoam rockets, etc... My favorite was when he decided (probably not a conscientious decision) to blow out his pants and put his hand down them. Basically we had to wet wipe and scour his entire body after that.... LOVELY. :) Alex and I were constantly trying to pawn him off on the other! Despite all of that, we had a really good time. Solomon did have his calm moments.. thank God! I even came back later after everyone had left to talk to Erin. I really enjoyed seeing everyone else and their kiddos. It's so crazy that everyone has kids now, but it really makes it fun, albeit exhausting for sure! Erin's little girl, Cleo, has the prettiest eyes I've ever seen I think. She's so sweet.

Sunday, we hung out with Alex's brother and family and drove home. His dad also stopped in for a bit. Solomon was in such a good mood after his nap that he was chatting/babbling up a storm. I got a bit of it on video. It's pretty funny.

Random funny(to me) picture. Solomon likes to put all of the refrigerator magnets in the area between the fridge and the wall next to it. So odd, but better than when he just chucks them across the room! :) Please disregard the layers of dirt surrounding the floor and fridge.