June 4 = Sleep Hard Day

Bubble Guppies: the only thing that can make both of my children sit still for more than 30 seconds.

Zachary loves grilling on the weekends and Malia loves being out there with him.  Liam and I are more inside people- I love being outside in the fall.  When it's over 80 degrees, I like to head back inside in the air conditioning.  How sweet is this:

Malia got a lot of playtime outside and I risked waking her up by taking these pictures but she was out so we were fine.  I checked on her 20 minutes after she went to sleep:

and then right before we went to sleep:

June 3 = Playground Day

Here's Malia making a mess of her Tex-Mex rice dinner...

And the cats being lazy:

And lots of pictures of us at the playground across the street:

And the aftermath:

June 2 = Walking in Heels Day

First, this:

Then- now that Liam has mastered the door knob covers I can find, he and his partner in crime break into our room all the time and go straight to closet and destroy it.  I've got to figure something out.  Anyway- I'm not too mad about it today because I got these pictures & video from it:

June 1 = Yogurt Day

The kids ate yogurt for breakfast by themselves this morning- they love it so much!

We have had to really think hard about how to arrange Liam's room because this boy will not sleep at night.  While I was in NC a couple weekends ago, Zachary was rearranging the house and the desk broke while he was trying to move it.  So we put part of it in Liam's room to organize some of his toys.  Well we decided to move everything out of his room so his room is only for sleeping and when I went to move the desk part in his room I discovered he's been getting in the drawer...

After I moved some stuff around I took them out in our backyard to try to wear them out- trying everything I can to get him to sleep!

This picture reminds me so much of another picture that I'll put below it:

 

Oh and by the way- Dominos sells a Smores Cookie.  It's delicious.

Night one of no toys and lots of outside time was successful!

May 30 = Bashful Day

First of all I'll share a picture of Liam that Zachary captured when he got home from work today.  Looks like he's not taking his nap like he's supposed to be...

And then I have to share a story that made me smile.  We go to the gym pretty much every day.  The girls in the Kids' Club are so great and love the kids.  Liam first fell in love with Bekah.  She's babysat the kids for us before- she's definitely a favorite.  Liam knew her name and that's saying something.  But she's not been working as much when we're there and Liam now has another favorite.  Her name is Irma and on her first day there, I knew there was going to be a connection.  They're so cute together.  And now when we go to the gym, he'll say "go see Irma."  Well for the past few days she hasn't been there and he's definitely been disappointed.  Today, we were talking on the way in and he said "go see Irma" and I said "maybe, buddy."  We walked around the corner and there she was.  I expected Liam to be so excited but instead he got super bashful!  I've never seen him act the way he did tonight- it was so funny. 

May 29 = Wedding Day!

My parents came in yesterday- they left after my dad got off work so they got in pretty late.  They're watching the kids for us this weekend so we can go to a wedding!  One of Zachary's fellow LEAD Program cohort members got married today in Norfolk, VA.  We were hoping to have some time to ride around and look at where we may be living in two years or so but we barely made it to the wedding in time.  It's Memorial Day weekend so traffic was pretty heavy.  We got this picture of Miss Malia while we were riding- she must not have gotten enough sleep last night!

We got to the hotel with some time to change but the line of people checking in was long and they were doing renovations so there were no public bathrooms downstairs.  So we had to change in the car. When we got there, we sat towards the back and didn't see any of Zachary's other fellow cohort members that were supposed to be there... they were later than we were!  They got there after the bride walked in... but no judgment here- traffic was rough.  Anyway- the wedding was beautiful.  And we were planning on staying at the reception for a little while so we could look around Norfolk and spend some time together without screaming children.  But we had so much fun at the reception that we stayed until almost 9pm!  Zachary talked me into doing karoke... we sang "Lucky" by Jason Mraz and Colby Caillat.  I got five weeks off from cleaning out the litter box for it.  Here's a picture of all the guys singing karoke a little later when everyone was nice and intoxicated...

And here's a better picture of Zachary with this fellow cohort members: Kayron, Kelly, Will, Brandon.

May 28 = Spaghetti Day

We had spaghetti for dinner... can you tell?