Well, it's been another busy month, with an odd feeling of limbo weighing over the parents (wondering when Matthew's surgery will be, when can we get our to do list started/finished, waiting for test results), but the kids are growing and playing full steam ahead as normal! And after ending last month with the boys being sick, Mommy and Daddy caught it the first week of May and while we weren't quite as puny as the boys, it certainly took it's toll on us. The boys were happy to get back to school with friends and back into some semblance of a routine again.
Drew had his last blastball game this month, and had an end of season party at CiCi's (that ended short for use because Drew worked his mind into thinking his tummy was sick...continues to be a weekly issue! He is so wired for worry...:( ). But we were able to make it to Chick Fil A a few weeks later for another team gathering for their medals, so that was fun.
Drew has been ramping up his climbing skills lately, scaling walls at playgrounds, climbing around the edges of our fort and other places that really aren't meant for climbing or playing, but fun to see him expand in that area of physical play and not be too timid.
Both boys are enjoying and playing more with letters/sounds and numbers/counting. So that's been a fun learning opportunity with both of them. Drew is getting pretty good at putting some sounds together into words, but at times just guesses or tries to memorize rather than actually learn. We are planning to go through a "teach your kid to read in 100 days" book this summer to help with that! Noah is recognizing more and more letters and we are matching some sounds. Noah is getting better at counting, both just for the sake of counting, but also pointing and counting the correct number of items...his favorite number is still 5, but he can make it all the way to 20 now! :)
The boys' preschool hosted Muffins with Mom for the first time this year and I was happy it worked out with my work schedule that I was able to go and be late for work. It was fun to see the boys, have some snacks, and catch up with some of the other Moms. It was very well attended, so crowded and noisy - perfect! Noah ate a ton and surprisingly, Drew was the one that had a hard time saying goodbye when it was time for me to go. But a fun morning for sure.
It has been a busy month of us trying to get as many things accomplished as we can without over straining either one of us and we've been pretty to-do list driven, making for short/busy evenings. But thankfully there have been a few evenings where we have slowed down to really enjoy our time with the boys, and there's nothing better than hearing their squeals and laughs of pure joy and thrills. Whether it be Tickle Monster, playing in the tanning ledge/swimming pool, running around in the front yard, playing in the sprinklers (or sprinkles, as Noah calls it) - it is still one of THE best sounds in this world!
Two of the Saturdays this month were dedicated to some time consuming tasks...a huge yard sale and planting flowers in the 4 large flowerbeds around the pool. The yard sale was a huge success thanks much to the help of several Palmer family members, especially Joyce and Dennis that stayed most of the day. We had people from 7a-4p! It was crazy! We sold a ton, very happy with our return, but promised to never do it again! :) The following weekend we worked in the yard almost all day as well. I bring this up because it was by God's mercy that the boys played so well together with so little supervision or parental interaction 2 weekends in a row! They did quite well together once they got in a groove. For the yard sale, they stayed inside most of the day, but the following weekend they were outside almost the whole time playing on the patio on the OTHER side of the pool fence.
We had a WONDERFUL Mother's Day this year. It was very quiet and calm, which is just what we needed. We were able to go out to dinner with Grandma Saturday evening, leaving Sunday to be just the 4 of us. The boys were especially sweet to Mommy and super excited to share their gifts with me. We spent the afternoon outside with Mommy getting in the pool for the first time - it was still a little chilly, but fun, and then dinner outside. Nothing extravagant, just simple and quality time as a family. I am truly blessed!
The boys have discovered the joys of wrestling even more this month...it is a very common occurrence now and reaching a new level of intensity, and therefore fun! :) Noah is actually the one who starts/asks for it more than half the time and the boys just love it - rolling around, punching each other, grabbing necks - all good healthy boy play! It's funny how different it is when they are play wrestling how they really are just having fun and both seem to realize to not do anything to really hurt the other vs. how they act when they are mad at each other and do really want to hurt the other one...I guess it's a good thing they can tell the difference already! Anyway, we expect to see much more of this for years to come, but it cracks us up to watch them - very amusing!
Some fun things we've done this month include another trip to the zoo, our first snow cones of the season, more water gun fun, playing with water table, playing at the park (where they discovered and played with sticks more than anything!), lots of dinners outside, Nighttime Ninja, and buying toys with their own piggy bank money. But our big event of the month was a family day at Six Flags! It was Noah's first time, and Drew's third! Mommy couldn't ride anything but the train around the park and the Yosemite Sam river adventure (which both of those said to not ride if pregnant, but driving is bumpier than those rides! sheesh!) but they boys had a great time and Noah keeps asking when we are going back! Drew shied away from the bigger rides this time, but that worked in our favor since Mommy couldn't ride anything with Noah...so we had a great time! It was a long day for all of us, at the park from 10-4:30, but great weather and not that crowded, so it was a blast!
We are thinking/hoping Noah is going through/about to go through a growth spurt because he went about 2 or 3 weeks of seemingly eating everything in sight...just couldn't fill his belly enough! He is also more obsessed with cars lately, always wanting to have some specific ones around - usually more 'bad guys' than 'good guys'...hmm!
A funny thing Noah said this month...we had the garage sale stuff in the garage for about 5 days prior as we were trying to get ready and they found all the toys we were going to try and sell - one of which was a huge Hot Wheels set that we'd never actually played with, but was a hand me down and had more pieces than either of us wanted to deal with, but Noah bee-lined for every time we went through the garage. He came out several times that day and asked where it was...thankfully it sold by the end of the day and I was able to honestly tell him it was gone! When it was all over he asked "where our party go?!" and when I said it was all gone you were very sad that all the toys were gone as well...but thankfully relatively easily re-directed by one of hundreds of toys we had inside! :)
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