May 11

These pictures are from the weekend. Friday it was raining, and that is putting it lightly, so we stayed inside and Emma played with her new favorite toy "ball" (which is the little playschool toy that shoots balls all over the room and makes OCD people like Mommy have to chase them all over the house!) Anyhow, she really wanted to show all her friends her new fav.

Ethan is learning how to fake smile. Don't ya just love this phase.

Emma sure thinks that it is cute.

At least with all the rain, the kids are managing to entertain each other playing downstairs. And they are actually being nice to each other.

This is a hug and not a head lock, I promise.

Saturday morning, Mommy got up with Ethan and let Daddy and Emma sleep in a little. Here is the fake smile again and in the background on the train table you can see Ethan's OCD side coming out. He has some hot wheels cars out to play with and this is how he likes to play with them, he lines them up in perfect rows and says that they are waiting to race. He gets really upset if you turn one around to face the opposite direction of the rest of them.

Emma is our little sleeper still. I took this picture at around 9:00. Don't you just love the "ruffle butt." It sure is fun after 2 boys.

So after everyone woke up Saturday morning, Mommy decided that she wanted the flower beds totally redone for Mother's Day so off to Lowe's we all go. We spent from 10:00 am until bedtime outside. We worked in the yard until dinner and then went on a 13 mile bike ride that night.

Ethan helping plant the "planets."

Emma likes to cut the grass and Ethan was struggling with his patience. He really really wanted to water the plants and Daddy really really wanted him to wait.

He waited literally all day to water the "planets." He really thought that this was fun.

We really didn't give Emma time to take a nap on Saturday so Mommy threw in a Baby Einstein while cooking dinner and after about 3 minutes she was out.

The final product.

Ok, so be prepared, Mommy really really likes Emma summer wardrobe so there will be lots of pics of her just in her cute outfits. These are probably my favorite pj's (although I may say that about another pair in a few days.)

This is the dress that she wore on Mother's Day. Another favorite.

Now for Monday. We always have issues re-adjusting to work on Monday and it is usually pretty ugly, especially around dinner time. Next year I guess it will be the dreaded Tuesday since Mommy won't be working on Monday's. Emma was really struggling with her spaghetti this evening.

She really wants someone to pick her up and get her out of her chair. She can't understand why Mommy won't just grab her and wants to waste time washing her off?!?!

So, who wants to come over for dinner at our place?