Weekend Wrap-Up

We had a pretty low key weekend without too much we had to do or too many places we had to be... and I like it that way!

On Friday we took the boys to the fair for the second time. I guess Owen is not the only one that does not like roosters. The minute Adam heard the roosters cockadoodledooing he freaked! He would not stop crying for the longest time which is really unlike him. Just a couple minutes before his melt down a nice lady commented on how laid back he seemed because he was so relaxed in his stroller with his one leg propped up on the tray. If only she would have seen him a few minutes later. He was NOT a happy baby.

Friday night Mike took Owen back to the fair for the Tough Truck competition. I stayed home with Adam since he's been going to bed around 6:30pm lately. They had such a good time and Owen has been playing with his trucks ever since. I'm sure he probably got some looks from the other spectators. He is still having trouble with his "tr" blend. He says his "f" sound instead. He's really into trucks, but it does not sound like a good word when he says "truck". We'll continue to work on it.
Saturday morning Mike and I ran 8 miles. We left at 7am and ran on the trail. I absolutely LOVE the rail trail, especially in the morning. I felt really good during my run and I think that's because the weather was so nice. It was almost a little chilly at first with very little humidity. A big difference from last weekend's weather. I thought I might collapse last weekend during our run.

We hung out at home all day Saturday and stayed outside as much as possible since it was so nice. Mike and Owen spent some time lying in the grass looking at the clouds. We rode bike, went for walks, played basketball, drew with sidewalk chalk, and blew bubbles. Then, Saturday night, Mike, Papa, and Owen went back to the fair AGAIN for the demolition derby. At first I did not want Owen to go. I am really careful (probably a bit too much) about what he sees--especially on TV. I rarely even let the news on if he is in the same room. I thought the demolition derby would be too violent and scary. Plus, Owen is really into safety right now. He makes sure we obey all traffic signals and is the first to tell us when we are not being safe. He worries when he sees someone in danger. Mike told me that the derby was almost the same as what he saw the night before during the Tough Truck competition so I caved. I really wanted to go along too, but I stayed back with Adam. Next year, I am definitely going! (This picture was taken because Owen liked the car, not because of what it says. The face he is making cracks me up!)

Owen definitely exercised his fashion freedom this weekend! This morning he came down the steps with two shirts. One was a baseball shirt, the other a Toystory shirt. He told me he was going to give me a choice (since I did that to him the day before). I picked the baseball shirt since it was chilly out and the Toystory shirt was sleeveless. He ended up wearing the Toystory shirt anyway so it really was not a choice.

Sunday was Mel's birthday so we went over to Papa and Finney's house to celebrate. Owen is great at helping other people celebrate their birthday. Mel was kind enough to let Owen blow out his candles. They have such a good time together!
After lunch and cake, the boys played in the yard for a little while.

Puppy Love

Elsie is not quite a puppy anymore, but she was giving Adam a lot of love.
Here is Elsie with Owen when she was just a pup.Elsie with her family :) She's such a good dog.

Creepy Crawler

This little guy has started crawling! While we were at the beach I didn't want to put him on the floor in the hotel. Hotel floors gross me out a little bit. So we'd put him on the king size bed and that's where he really started crawling around. We could not take our eyes off him or he would be off the bed. Then, when we got home and I put him on the floor he took off. He does not have perfect form, but he gets to where he wants to go just fine. It's a mix between an army crawl and an inch worm. Sometimes he does a face plant. I love the face he makes when he is crawling. His mouth is wide open and he is really concentrating and very determined. He leaves a trail of drool wherever he goes so we can see how far he has gone. My dad calls him a St. Bernard because he drools so much!
Owen was an early crawler/walker, but a late talker. He took his first steps at 9 months and by his first birthday he was running all over the house. However, he only really started talking around 2 1/2. I am not sure if Adam will be an early walker which is fine with me! We'll just have to see! For now I am enjoying his cute little wiggle worm crawl.

Yesterday was his first time sitting in his high chair. Up until now we have been using his Bumbo or bouncy seat to feed him. He liked his highchair and ate really well so we'll have to try it again today.
Adam loves his walker too! He walks all over the place and is starting to get into anything he possibly can. He tries to open the kitchen drawers, but has not had much success... yet. This morning I left the room for a few minutes and when I returned, he had pulled Owen's little wooden chair over the try of his walker and was chewing on it. Here he is taking the magnets off the fridge along with Owen's artwork. I have a feeling he is going to keep us on our toes!

The Johnny Jump-Up is another one of Adam's favorites. He loves to bounce! I took a video of him bouncing the other day. I will post it a little later. :)

Way Back Wednesday (a day late!)

Since I just posted about our recent trip to the beach and Adam's first time putting his piggies in the ocean, I thought I would post some pictures of Owen's first beach trip.He was 15 months old when we went to the Outer Banks in North Carolina with the Smith/Danz family in July of 2008. This was the house we stayed in. Owen had so much fun playing with Madelyn and Christopher.Mike went deep sea fishing and caught a shark!

Attempting to take some beach pictures.

Dewey Beach, Delaware

I feel like we have been gone for over a week, but really, we were only away for 3 days. We left Monday morning for Dewey Beach. We planned the trip so we would be there at the same time as some of Mike's friends from college. They go every summer for a week and Mike usually goes down for a day or two. This year we decided to go as a family. Mike's mom went along so she could help with the boys. It was really nice having her along!As I mentioned before, Owen is into picking out his clothes and dressing himself. Lately it is the first thing he does when he wakes up. He gets out of bed and we hear his dresser drawers opening and closing as he picks out his outfit. This was what he wanted to wear on our way down to the beach. I told him he would be very hot in a black shirt and socks (with sandals), but he insisted. Since I was the one that packed his clothes, I had a say in what he wore the rest of the trip...thank goodness.

The boys did great on the way down. Adam slept part of the way, but was content to just sit in his car seat and play with toys. Owen ended up falling asleep right before we arrived. When I looked back this is how he had fallen asleep. I thought he was joking around at first, but he wasn't!We stayed at the Bay Resort. We had a great view of the bay. In the evening there were lots of kids crabbing on the dock. Owen enjoyed watching them.We were so lucky to have wonderful weather the entire trip. The weekend before we arrived it was above 100 degrees. I don't think we would have been able to take the boys out much in that heat so we were thankful it cooled off a little for our trip.

Owen had a great time playing beach soccer with Mike and some of his friends. I love this picture because both of his feet are off the ground!Owen ran around and played for almost 2 hours! He LOVED the beach and sand so much. We practically had to drag him off when it was time to go. For being so finicky, he did not mind the sand one bit! He had it in every square inch of his body and begged me to let him put some in his pockets to bring back to the hotel room. Even though I said he couldn't bring any sand back, our room was covered in sand.

Monday night we ate dinner at Venus. It was a really nice restaurant. We had planned to eat at a different place, but it was not open and both boys were fading fast so we went to the closest place. Adam could not stay awake and since we there were just a few people eating there we let him sleep on a padded seat. He slept the entire time and woke up right before we left.
Monday night we went out while Nana Way watched the boys. We went for a walk on the beach, visited some of Mike's friends, and then we all went out to a place called Que Pasa. After that we went to listen to a Reggae band. At first glance, you would not expect this to be a Reggae band, but they were awesome! While we were out that night, we saw a sign for canoe races. They would be held the following day and each team needed two girls and two boys. We decided to enter the race with our friends, Crab (Mike) and his wife, Tushanna, who were in Dewey for the week with their family.

Each team had to come up with a team name. We were the "Eager Reegers". Let me just say that some of the team names were VERY funny and VERY creative. However, they are not really suitable to mention on my blog. Some teams also had costumes. Every participant also got a T-Shirt and food. The same Reggae band that we had heard the night before was playing too so we got to hear them again.

I think when he signed up we did not quite realize that it was going to last as long as it did. Both of us have two boys so we felt a little guilty being gone for so long, but we had a fun time! There were 8 heats. Four canoes raced in each heat. It was entertaining and very funny to watch some of the teams, especially when their boat would tip or they would end up far far away from where they were supposed to be going. The announcers would joke around with the racers. Our friend, Below ended up racing as well.We are all kind of competitive so we took the race a little more seriously than some of the other groups. Since we were in the last heat we had a lot of time to talk about our strategy. We figured we had an advantage...while we sipped on ice water, other teams were chugging beers and getting pretty tipsy. Not too many people had two little boys waiting for them when the race was over. It was a relay race, so Crab and T went first and then Mike and I followed. I admit that I was grossed out to have to stand in the murky bay water. There were jellyfish and horseshoe crabs around our feet. But, I got over it for the sake of my team. It's kind of pathetic, but right before we raced, I had butterflies in my stomach.We ended up winning the first race! We had to stick around for a while for the semi-finals, but ended up not making it after that. We still had a really good time. Mike was a good teammate. He was really motivating and gave me good directions the entire time as to what side of the canoe to paddle! Maybe another year we will enter again and win!!

This was Adam's second trip to the beach. We took a trip over Easter when he was just 2 months old. It was too cold to put his piggies in the ocean in April, so we made sure to do it this time. He was fascinated by the waves.Tuesday night we were invited over to eat dinner with Crab and Tushanna. They were staying with their family (about 16 people) and it was so kind of them to have us over for dinner!

We went out again Tuesday night. I know... we were quite the party animals and I am paying for it big time! I am so tired!!

My cousin, Paige, lives about 45 minutes away so she got a babysitter to watch her girls so she could come out with us for a little while. It was so nice to see her! We started out at Que Pasa and enjoyed their margaritas before going onto North Beach to listen to a band. I think Mike was even more tired than I was which is a rarity. We ended up coming home around midnight again.

Originally, Mike thought he'd like to stay an extra day, but by this morning we were Dewey'd out and ready to come home to catch up on some sleep! We had such a nice time, but three days away seems enough for our little family right now. We had breakfast at the Starboard and headed home for a much needed Reager Family Nap!!