Baseball, A Wedding Shower and a Wedding Reception

Saturday was pretty busy. Anna had baseball in the morning. She was very shy about playing catch with the other kids.



Then she and I got manicures before we headed to pick up my mom to go to a wedding shower for my cousin Jennifer. It was north of the airport so we had to drive a ways, but it was at a cute cafe where they have tea parties. She got a lot of nice things.



Then we dropped my mom off. My parents and Ben were meeting my other brother Zach and his wife to go to dinner with her parents for her birthday. I suggested they go to Ted's in the Power and Light District since Ben hadn't been down there. They also took Carter.

Kevin, Anna and I went to a wedding reception for one of my coworkers and friend Amanda. It was a luau and turned out very nice.



Anna was the dancing queen again. I can only imagine how she will be at Jennifer's reception next month. She told me yesterday that they are expecting 23 kids between 3 and 12. He is part Italian and apparently have a very large extended family. It's going to be a huge wedding - I think they invited 250 on his side alone.

Summertime

Yesterday I took both of the kids to the movies. I wasn't sure how Carter would do so I had prepped Anna that we might not be there very long. But he watched the first part of the movie and ate popcorn and then fell asleep. We saw Surf's Up which I wouldn't really recommend. Then we headed over to Town Center and did a little shopping to get a wedding shower gift for my cousin. We also walked around a lot after that and had some orange sherbert.




Then we had dinner at my parents house so we could see Ben again.



Then Papa gave them chocolate ice cream not knowing they had already had orange sherbert. Plus skittles at the movies.




Today we were going to go to Oceans of Fun but it was only 73 this morning so we changed plans and went to see the fountains "dance" across from Crown Center.




Then we headed over to Union Station to see the trains. We saw several Amtrak trains where all the Cardinals fans were getting off in time to see the series this weekend. I joked with a few of them in the elevator that they were here to see the Royals sweep them again.

We also saw a very very long coal train. Carter and Anna both loved it. You can stand right over the train tracks on an outside bridge and watch them go under. For some reason I didn't take any pictures of that.

Cozy Cartoon Watching

Hopscotch

When was the last time you played hopscotch? Anna asked me to draw hopscotch tonight and I had to think about it for a minute.



Also, my dad's birthday is coming up and I asked Anna what we should get him.

"A grownup toy."

"What would that be?"

"We could get him soap."

"Soap?"

"Grandma and papa don't have any soap in their kitchen. They just use dish soap."

"Oh, maybe that is a good idea!"

Just what every grandpa wants - soap.

Entertaining the Kids

On Saturday morning Kevin had to work so one of the girls across the street came over to watch Carter while I took Anna to baseball. She did much better this week than last as far as enjoying it and participating.

We headed over to S&C's on Saturday evening to hit their subdivision's pool. Carter was under water for a full two seconds before I realized it and pulled him up. S&C got a new couch from Restoration Hardware delivered that evening so Kevin helped Sam carry the other couch upstairs. Afterwards Carter said his first sentence

"Where'd it go?"

He's been putting two words together a lot but I think this was his first three word sentence. Anna's first three word sentence was "I like cheese."

On Sunday Kevin got up early and went fishing with Sam. I messed around online while the kids entertained themselves.



Then I took the kids for a one hour and fifteen minute walk. Then we ate lunch and tried to play outside but everyone kept crying so I decided they were too tired, even though Carter slept on the walk. So we headed back in and everyone slept from 1 to 3:30.

I woke up feeling like a new person. Anna and I slept together in the guest bed and wow is that cozy.

Then I let them play in the pool on the deck.






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We have a few new members of our household. We finally mailed in for our caterpillars which turn into butterflies. They've been busy eating and getting ready to make their crysalids which must be the technical term for cocoons. They look really disgusting to me but Anna is pretty excited to see them hang from the top of their cups. Once they make their cocoons we move them to the butterfly netting. I think that will be a daddy job. Hopefully some of them live. I think we have one dead caterpillar so far.

Inpsiring

Have you ever been to Etsy.com? It is the cutest site where you can buy and sell homemade items. Adorable, cute, unique items you would find in a hole-in-the-wall-artsy-shop-downtown-that-you-could-walk-around-in-forever.

I found this cute stitched bird art ready to be framed and these adorable monkey letters and this cute doggy window decal and these clever bird vinyl decals and these summery pillow cases and more girly bird art here and here.

I seem to be drawn to bird art lately, not sure why, other than Carter love birds right now. He screeches "BIR-EEEEEEEEEEE" and points when he sees one.

You can get lost on this site, lots of unique stuff that is super affordable. And as an internet addict I have to say that this site is VERY well done.

Couple of Monkeys

We went to the zoo yesterday with my brother Ben who is in town and my mom.