Connor's Birthday

Connor turned 4 yesterday and all day was about him! He got to pick out the groceries for his birthday supper, choose a cake from the bakery, skip rest time and help set up for his party. He picked Transformer everything this year. Having no time to create a cake from scratch, and wanting to spend most of the day with him, I opted for buying a cake this go around! Friends and family came to eat, shower him with love and gifts and enjoy cake. He had a most fantastic day!

This past weekend I drove to Omaha for Mary's wedding shower/bachelorette party. It was a great weekend all around but I think I'm getting too old for late nights at the bar!

We are off to Bemidji with Dan for a couple days then I leave for another bachelorette party this weekend. It's been the summer of weddings in this house!!

Novak is ONE!

We hosted our family on the 7th for kabobs and cake. Novak was all about the cake smash and loved opening all the gifts. It doesn't seem possible it's been a year already.

Here are his stats:

Weight: 20 pounds 10 ounces Height : 30 in. Physically completely healthy!

Things he is doing: Barely walking, braver each day(We find it hard to believe he is our last walker...)

Can sign: 'All done' and 'more'

Makes, what we call, words for ball and cheese(when you put a camera in his face!)

LOVES tubby time and climbing(found him on the kitchen counter yesterday)

Can answer when you ask what a puppy says, "fffpp" and bird, "ba,ba"

All around happy, active, intellegent little boy.

Novak you are a joy to be around, you bring a smile to our face and we will never stop loving you! Happy Birthday!!

Happy 4th of July!!

With three kids, I have learned to settle for family pictures like this...atlesat we were all in one spot for .5 seconds!

Liam wanted to be buried like DW in Arthur's Family Vacation book =)

AHHHH!!!!

While Connor is at class Novak, Liam and I take a walk then get coffee.

Liam, Connor and Chi Chi(Isaac) at the new Playfront park.

Liam fell asleep in the dorrway last week.

We were reminiscing today about this weekend last year when I was(secretly!)having contractions out at Dan's parent's cabin. Ahh, how fast time flies when you're having fun(and chasing 3 under 4!).
Connor started "camp" at the Great Lakes Aquarium 2 weeks ago and so far is enjoying all he is learning about, "deep sea creatures(as he tells me)". Liam has shown slight interest in peeing on the toilet but Dan and I aren't getting our hopes up. He still gags at the sight of anything in the toilet-he may take awhile! Novak will have a birthday celebration Wednesday with family and friends before we head out this weekend for a Doyle family vacation.

We had a wonderful, somewhat relaxing weekend out at the cabin. The older 2 spent hours in the water swimming, fishing(Connor caught 4 on his own), and splashing. Novak was in the water as much as he could be but spent most of his time crawling/walking all over the beach. We will enjoy tomorrow with Dan home, preparing for all the festivities in the coming week.

Novak's official 1 year post coming soon...