Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Father's Day and Other Stuff

Solomon loves blowing bubbles and gets very mad when I won't let him hold the container, so mad, that at some point I typically just give in and then the bubbles end up spilled on the ground! Below is a typical meal for Solomon... not the most graceful eater on the planet.
Solomon and Coco continue to be BFFs.
I spent half of Saturday at a music festival that our bar sponsored. Thanks to Stephanie and Bevan for coming out to help us out. We had a good time people watching.
We had a great Father's Day. Alex played a couple of softball games in the blazing heat and I did stuff around the house. We also went to my parents' house for dinner. My mom made some amazing lasagna... regular for all of us and diary free for Alex, Jimmy and Solomon. They said it was super good too. I'm loving the leftovers as well. Solomon was super excited for Zoe to chauffeur him around in the Corvette.
Zoe is soooo my niece.. I love the poses. Of course Solomon is just reaching to turn off the car. He loves to do this and it just annoys Zoe.
Riding off..
A short video of Zoe and Solomon driving around.

Okay, so I'm just SURE that Solomon is sooo smart. Look how well he draws an apple in this video.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

It's Been Awhile!

It's important to stick out one's tongue when performing tasks with a golf club and hard hat.
He's getting better at drawing shapes that mean something. This is a "circle" for a face.
Solomon pointing out his drawing (on the side of the house of course) of Uncle Zach. It consists of two pink lines.
The morning ritual

Silly face!Legos are fun...

Before I get too far, the pictures are all in random order b/c I'm having trouble getting them to move around today.
Life has been super duper busy... Let's see I ran a half marathon on April 25th. That was huge for me. I felt like poo poo for two days after it, but I'm so glad I did it. Now, the challenge is to keep up with the running schedule. My friend, Cherie, just ran a full marathon last weekend in SanDiego. Pretty cool!
I went to Orlando for a work conference at the beginning of May and just returned back from Dallas for a meeting with the team I work with/for. Plus, I went up to Lawrence a few weekends ago for my friend, Erin's, b-day and a girls weekend with her and Cherie. We had so many laughs. A few times we actually had those silent laughter moments when you can't even produce sound b/c you're laughing so hard. I love that.
Solomon is of course keeping us super busy. He just started a new daycare. So far, so good. The other one always closed in the summer time, so I just decided it was time to go somewhere, where we would be for a full year and not have to make special arrangements during public school breaks. He's hilarious and of course a bit aggravating at times. He's OBSESSED with elevators currently, so the minute he spots one, no matter where we're at, he must go on it, or it's a total meltdown. The thing is he could go on it all day long and that's not exactly a fun time for the rest of us. Plus, the makers of elevators weren't really thinking when they decided to place the alarm button farther down on the button panel b/c of course, he's always going for that and I'm nervous every time that we're going to be greeted by a fire truck or something, thinking there's an emergency in the elevator...:) He's been saying "that was fun" or "I had fun" a lot lately after school or after we go to the pool or something, so that makes me happy. My dad loves it that he says, "righty tighty" b/c of a Curious George episode where it is explained how to tighten a screw. We've been getting outside a lot and he just loves his chalk and to help me "garden". To use the word "gardening" as a description of what he's doing is a bit of a stretch, but he sure has fun squirting hose all over the place. He gets very mad at me b/c I have to keep explaining that the water musthit the general area where the plant is located or it does no good. I guess I just get too caught up in the details... :)
Hangin' with Coco
Daddy's Shoes
Directing Coco to do something "important"
It's been a rough day...

This was a reenactment of the time Thomas the Train became covered in bubbles during one of his crazy adventures.


My friend, Molly, and her husband, Dan, visited with their kids yesterday. It was fun, but of course Solomon was very territorial about all of his toys. He would take something from Louis and then he and Louis would get into a WWF Smackdown type of brawl. Molly and I were kidding that it was a bit reality TV- esque.
Alex's brother and sister-in-law, Zach and Susan, came Friday with their kids. Solomon just loves Zach and his son Sam, so that made for a good time for him and it ran some energy off which is always a good thing. Even Coco was happy b/c they brought their dog and they ran around endlessly one afternoon.
Alex is doing well. He's as busy as ever with work and has picked up a few new hobbies. He's playing softball with our bar's team over the summer which he really enjoys. The "Bad News Beers" are playing well too.
Welcome to Kelly's world!!!