playing catch up!

Things have been a bit nuts around here.  In a good way.  Lonnie has had some random days off and the weather has been nice so we've had quite a bit of fun family time.  I keep meaning to blog about certain things but I forget!  So here we go with a miss mash of a post and some pictures thrown in!  

• FIRST OF ALL.  I found out late last week that all three of our embryos are chromosomally normal!  Can I get a hallelujah?  I nearly flipped when I saw the clinic number on my phone.  But she immediately told me it was good news.  I cried.  Like full on silly cry.  I didn't mean to do it but it snuck up on me and I couldn't stop.  We have a phone consult with Dr. S on July 3rd and we are tentatively looking at a frozen transfer at the end of July/early August.  OMG.  

• Blakely is still going to MDO 2 days a week.  They aren't usually open during the summer but they decided to give it a try.  I am super happy about that because Blakely would have missed it so much!  I wanted to take a comparison picture of her from the beginning of the school year to the end.  It amazes me how much she has changed.  I mean, I expected it, but, she just looks so grown up!  And tall.  

• We have been going to the pool pretty much every weekend for the last month.  The first few times Blakely didn't really want to "swim".  She had to have me holding her AT ALL TIMES.  She didn't even want to get down in the water much.  Well fast forward to yesterday and all of the sudden she can swim all over the pool with her puddle jumper on.  Deep end, shallow end, jump off the steps, spin herself around, climb up on the floaties.  It is amazing.  I was so surprised at how much progress she made in just one day.  Something clicked with her and she realized holy crap I can swim around here!  Ha!  We are hopefully starting swim lessons soon.

• I found a co-op in my town!  I can't tell you how excited this makes me.  I have been wanting to find one for a while but I couldn't.  I am not really one to just go to the farmer's market, chat them up and ask if I can buy food from them on the regular.  I was reading one of our local magazines and boom, there it was.  The best part?  Besides farm fresh food obviously, is that you order online!  I just placed my second order and I was so thrilled with my first one.  Everything was so fresh and just beautiful!  This time I ordered some meats as well as veggies and fruit.  Eventually I would like to get all of my meat from them but I am starting slow.  See?  Pretty!

• On Fridays, after gymnastics class we go to my dad's house.  Last Friday we took a little boat ride while we were over there.  Blakely had a blast.  For about 20 minutes.  Then this happened....  I've told you before...boats are magic toddler sleep machines.  

• Last week at MDO they had water week.  They had some little pools and sprinklers set up outside and the kids got to play.  Well since then, Blakely has been begging to "play in the water and play in the little fishie pool and play in the sprinkler and run run run through the sprinkler like we did at school please Mommy please".  Everything is an elaborate run on sentence around here.  So I dug out the little pool I bought when she was a baby and the child was thuh-rilled.  I set up our sprinkler and she was a little timid about it at first but after a few tries she was running around like crazy.  So  much so that I went online right then and bought another ball like sprinkler for her.  I love summer.  

• Lonnie and I have been playing co-ed softball again this year.  Have I mentioned that? It is fun but it is hot.  Last week we had 2 games and it was 95 degrees with like a million percent humidity.  Towards the end I thought I may just lay down in the outfield. I think we have about 3 weeks left.  Good news is that I haven't been injured yet!

• I got Lonnie a Keu.rig for Father's Day.  Why did we not purchase this like 5 years ago? And why did no one tell me that it makes a lot more than just coffee?!?!?  I don't drink coffee so I never paid a bit of attention to the thing.  Hello Kelly (autocorrect tried to change that to Hello K.itty.  WTF).  It it so much more than a coffee maker.  I may have just placed a very large order of tea, cider, hot chocolate and lemonade.  B will flip over the lemonade.  Girl is obsessed.  She helps "make coffee with Daddy in his new coffee maker we got for him for Daddy Day yesterday and I sit on counter with Daddy and help him make super hot coffee".  Love that girl...

• The other night I put Blakely's pajamas on and forgot to pull her hair out of the neck.  A few minutes later I looked over and saw this.  How cute would a little toddler bob be?  Not going to happen but I had to take a pic of the cuteness.  Although I am about to make her an appointment for a trim.  Her very first one.  Just a trim...

Okay.  I think y'all are caught up!  Happy Monday!  

Weekend recap. Don't I do this every Monday?

It seems like I update on our weekends every Monday.  That's ok with y'all right??

We had a fun weekend and Lonnie said he had the best Father's Day yet.  I told him that I hope to make him say that every year!  

Saturday morning started out with Blakely sleeping in until 10!  She and I are still getting over this lingering sickness so I am attributing her sleepiness to that, mixed with a growth spurt.  She has been eating constantly as well.  

Lonnie and I woke up on our own at about 9 and couldn't believe it.  We got to slowly wake up and chat and just hang out.  That hasn't happened in 20 months.  It was really nice.  B finally woke up and we went to breakfast at our local place that we go to often.  We hadn't been in a few weeks so they were happy to see us.  Well, happy to see B anyway.  :)

After that we went to a watersports/boating store to get two new batteries for our boat.  Why? Because ours were stolen!  Ugh.  We didn't even realize because it had been a few days since we were out on the boat.  Our neighbor mentioned that a bunch of boat batteries were stolen in the neighborhood and we went to check.  Sure enough they were both gone.  We reported it and ,apparently, whoever did it took about 100 of them.  I guess they just drove up the lake and went dock to dock.  ASSHOLES.  

Anyway, this store turned out to be a huge hit.  They had all of their tubes and party floats out and Blakely was just in heaven.  She jumped on them, laid on them, pushed them around, and tried to roll off of them.  It was a tad difficult to get her to leave!  

Saturday afternoon we went over to a friends house to meet their new twins.  They also have a daughter that just turned 5 so her and Blakely played together.  This was really the first time B has been around babies.  She did really well.  She kept saying baby and pointing to them. She patted them on the head, held their hand and even kissed their toes.  It was really cute.  She did try to step on the boy at one point but I was right there.  Oops :/

Do I even need to say it?  BABYFEVEROMG

We picked up a pizza on the way home and I made a pallet on the floor so we could have a movie night.  This was B's first time watching a movie and she liked it.  We tried Toy St.ory but our internet was acting funky so it wouldn't work.  Monsters, Inc. was on the Dis channel so I had to settle for that.  It was actually adorable!  B watched about a third of the movie before it was time for bed.  I look forward to many more family movie nights!  

We woke up leisurely again on Sunday morning (thank you, B!).  Blakely and I came upstairs and wrapped Lonnie's presents while he was showering.  I got us everything bagels (his favorite) and pink grapefruits (also a fave).  He opened his gifts from us.  Blakely got him two coffee cups with pictures of them on it.  One he can take to work and the other can stay home so he and B can share coffee on the weekend.  While we were wrapping them she kept saying AH-FEE DAD-DEE..over and over.  She loves to sneak coffee from daddy.  Here she is with daddy...drinking his coffee, reading his newspaper and stealing all of his food.  He wouldn't let anyone but her do that!  

We had a lot more pallet on the floor time.  It was rainy the first half of the day so it was a perfect day to snuggle.  

Now today it is back to the grind.  Lonnie's family is coming to stay with us in less than 2 weeks and I have a ton to do to get ready for that.  Time to start checking stuff off of my list!  

Happy Monday!