Preschool Graduation

Dallin just graduated from preschool! Well, technically he still has another year of preschool and he only went to this particular school for two months (one day a week), but it's graduation I guess :)

Here is the proud boy:

Here he is with his buddy Nathan Eyre:

Here's hoping for a lot more graduations!!

Lovin' the Water

Thad is still 9 months and just had his first swim! He loved the water; laughed every time he splashed his little hands and water flew into his face.

I see this look multiple times a day; it's a combination of "Are you sure you know what you're doing??" and "I'm about to get really excited and flap my arms and spread my fingers!!" Now it's captured:

The latest of the kiddos

A Friday outing to Happy Hollow in San Jose in May. Dallin was stoked to get the dragon!

We were lucky to get Evan home for a couple of days. Our friends the O'Neils were in town; this was taken outside Grandma Bailey's house in Alamo mid-May.

Dallin has been all about "spikey" hair lately.

Giving brother spikey hair

Happy baby

Kitchen Redo

I never knew how much I loved interior design until I had a home of my own! I could spend hours looking at kitchens online. We did a quick upgrade to our kitchen recently.

First, a before: (I never realized how much clutter is on the counter! I thought I had it under control...)

And the after:

The best part is the sink. It's amazingly huge and I am in love with it. Best part, it fits two kids bathing (can these things hold this much weight?? Sorry, couldn't hold Thad and take the picture so Dallin is solo)

I'm not in love with the backsplash (we just extended the quartz; my preference would have been subway tile), but since this is a place we're not living in forever, we went the quick route. The quartz is Caesarstone, color Raven. I still dream of carera marble in my kitchen so I'm hoping by the time I'm building my dream kitchen they'll have an amazing Quartz equivalent. Got that counter engineers? You've got one year...well, maybe a little longer!

Poor Sickie

Thad is sick. The Dr. confirmed it yesterday. Two ears are infected and he has bronchialitis (sp?).

Tuesday I let him stay in his pjs all day, figuring that's what I would want to do if I was sick! Look what popped out by mid-day!

He is a growing boy! He's still only 8 months, but I guess it's time to break out the 12-18 month pajamas. (though I'm so tempted to buy those darling striped Hannah Andersson pjs)

Here he is sleeping just moments ago. I'm hoping for more of this!

Until then we're doing albuterol every 4 hours round the clock, antibiotics and motrin.

I love taking care of my baby.

But if your fedex and you knock on my door at 11am and I'm still in my bathrobe, please don't judge me!

Happy Momma's Day!

I gotta admit. I've been looking forward to this day for a long time.

Today was the first time I had a kid who participates in the musical number on Mothers day at church. I was so proud to have Dallin join Primary at the front of the room! And up until today, I always thought it was the kids who initiated the waving hello to their moms.

I confess. I waved first.

I couldn't help it; he's too darn cute.

Not that he didn't spend the rest of mothers day asking for, whining about watching movies, sneaking candy and not eating his good food, etc., etc...
At the end of the day he said to me "Mom, where's your mothers day present?" I asked, "I don't know, did you get me a present?!"

Dallin: "Oops, I forgot."

Thanks to my hubby for the BLTs, peanut butter cookies, and a nice nap. Happy Mother's Day!

Birthday, Easter, Baby Blessing & Visitors

Well, if that title line doesn't explain my lack of posts!

With all these backup posts to do, all I feel like writing about is Dallin's first t-ball game tonight! He was so excited. Isn't he darling? And though I tried to modify his Cardinals jersey so it fit, when he tucked in the number 9 on his back, all you could see was the top of the 9 looking more like "0." He was the youngest and smallest on the team, but he did great.

He hasn't been to any practices, so he went straight into a game. There's lots to learn! A couple of times during the one hour game, I went to talk to him in the dugout and he was crying--he told me he wanted to go home. During one of these crying spouts, I told him to go ask his coach where he should go in the field; his coach told him, but Dallin had no idea where to go...Dallin stood there until his coach walked him out to where he should go.

He went up to bat three times and two times he got on base. (His first time up they threw him out which I was soo sad about..) The coach gave Dallin the game ball and he got a licorice rope from the snack shack so the night ended in success. BUT, later in the evening I understood why he was crying.

"Mom, they put me in timeout."

"No, you were in the dugout--you weren't in timeout."

"No mom, I was in TIMEout."

"Were other people in timeout?"

"A couple."

Dallin insisted he was in timeout. I explained it many times but who knows if he'll ever believe me. No wonder he was crying a couple of times!

Go cardinals!