Haha, couldn't help myself :) So this past Friday night, we went with some friends, Jackson and Addison and their fams, to see Monsters Inc. at the Rough Riders baseball park. The event was so fun! They had hundreds of free beach balls all over the field and glow sticks for the kids. We sat in the outfield, and ate popcorn and ice cream. We stayed up waaaay later than bedtime, but as you can see it was worth it...
We had a nice, low-key weekend with Grandma in town and Linds and JE hanging out. Play date at the pool, family dinners, game nights. And of course playing in the in the back yard...
We had a great brunch on Sunday with JE and Linds at Cindi's.
Love/hate this picture...LOVE JE's expression and Bryn's too-cool 'tude as she inches away from him...HATE that she has a pipe (paci) in her mouth...during the day...in public :( We were doing so good with the pipe just at night time and this past week Bryn started cutting her 7th tooth, a right upper molar. She's up every night crying, getting Tylenol and Motrin around the clock, but just miserable. She literally walks around holding her cheek :( So I pulled the the paci back out. My original "she's never going to take a paci past the age of one" and then "we'll just use it at night for another week or two" has turned into "let's just save up for orthodontia and put her out of her misery" :)
But just when I thought the pipe might make her regress, she goes and does the exact opposite...she peed on the potty yesterday!!! 4 times!!! Since we are about to be traveling and have the busiest 2 weeks coming up, this was so unplanned. Bryn has been sitting on the potty a couple times a day for the past few months or so, but she always just has a 'good try'. Yesterday, when she woke up from her 3 hour nap, she was dry. I asked if she wanted to go potty and she said yes as usual. Only this time after a minute of sitting there, she went! Liam and I jumped and cheered for her and her smile was HUGE! We went over to Mallie's house where she did it again, then another 2 times at our house. She got stickers and ice cream sandwiches for going potty (in retrospect ice cream sandwiches was probably a little much, but she can't have the usual m&ms because we are still about 10 teeth short for that!). Anyway I feel bad for not just completely going for it, but we'll have to just hold off for a few weeks till we've got a good 4-5 days in a row. I was so proud though and so was Bryn as you can see in this video...
And even though it was just an afternoon, I put her in Minnie Mouse underwear :) It was a great trial run, and gives me lots of hope that diaper-free days are near!
Today as we were pulling in, I pointed out to Liam that I noticed a large swarm of bees next to our shrubs. I called Nick to tell him there were probably 50 or so bees in the bushes. When he went outside to check them out, he noticed something in one of our trees...
It's not a nest or hive...it's bees...thousands and thousands of bees upon bees!!!
Thanks to our reseach we learned that they can move in and swarm like this overnight...and that they also usually move out within a day or two. We are praying this happens here, but have also contacted some bee keepers to see if we can 'donate' our new pets :) For now we on lockdown until our yard is clear. Thanks to Nick for bravely going out with my camera to document this!
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