Mother’s Day

I don’t know if I’ve said it on here before, but I LOVE where we live. Of course I love CA, but Redwood City is awesome! Especially since we live right next to downtown. They always put on great activities from the farmers market to movies on the square to concerts and kids days. This year they had a Mother's day kids day on Saturday and the kids and I hit it up. There was a concert with kids musician Andy Z but the main draw for Lily was the giant bouncy house slide. We were one of the first few people there and Lily was on that thing for about 2 hours straight (with a break for Chipotle somewhere in the middle). She was having a hard time understanding the concept of standing in line but we used that as a learning opportunity :). Towards the end Lily got tired of waiting in line and would just climb back up the slide after going down, but no one seemed to mind too much. Miles just chilled in the stroller and I worked on my tan while watching Lil. She spent a few minutes in the bouncy house but preferred the slide.

On Mother’s day we went to a barbeque after church with a bunch of friends and we all had a great time. Lily has continued to wish me a happy Mother’s day every day since.

Keeping Busy

 

So one morning as I was going to throw out our Coscto sized egg cartons I decided we needed to make a craft. Lily and Clark had been using pool noodles to fight with each other and I thought we could make some sort of Ninja Turtle type getup for Lil. She spent all morning painting it and after it was dry she tested it out. We waited for daddy to come home and she lead a surprise attack on him with her new body armor and after two minutes she decided she was done and hasn’t put the thing on since. I thought it was a brilliant idea…

As Miles keeps growing we are rotating in all of Lil’s old toys for him to use. She had forgotten all about this jumpy toy and she spent days playing with the features and trying to sneak back in it. Once we convinced her it was Miles’ turn to use it now she started to enjoy helping Miles discover it and likes to entertain him while he sits in it.

We had the privilege of “fish sitting” for some friends and Lily was so excited! While “Sergio’s” owners were here dropping him off Lily asked for a drink a milk, which I gave to her, and a little too late I noticed that she was giving some to the fish. Amazingly enough, the fish survived the 8 days with us and we didn’t have to buy a replacement fish for our friends. They came and got him while Lily was asleep and in the morning Lily started to cry because  she thought he had died. I think we’ll pass on getting any pets any time soon…

Miles keeps growing and amazing us every day. He recently has been working on crawling and is almost there. He is very proud of himself! And, yes, I do realize that in this picture he kind of looks like an amputee.

  

This picture is just for fun because I love it :)