Y'all. I am SO sorry. Life has been barreling past at full speed and I can hardly seem to keep up! If you think this little space here has been neglected, you should see my laundry and list of started-but-not-finished home projects! But, I have two happy kiddos and [I hope] a happy husband and we have been making such sweet summertime memories.
However, I've said it once and I'll say it again, this is the only "scrapbook" my kids will be getting so I'm determined to keep it up. Matt and I leave on a much-anticipated adults-only vacation in a little over a week and I'd really like to leave with this blog completely caught up. Off the top of my head I know there's at least 7 posts I need to write, so about one a day until we leave. Please hold me accountable to I'll get them done!
I realize it's already the 22nd of June (how in the world did that happen?!) but I've got to back up and post our May phone pics. I hope I can remember what the pictures are of because some of them seem like they were taken a life time ago! Like these pictures of Thomas. I put him in a collared shirt and instantly he looked like a grown up little boy. But he looks even older now! I knew his hair was thickening up but I didn't realize how much until looking back on these. He has so much more now, and has even had his first tiny trim above his ears. (I saved the clippings in a ziploc bag and then left them at our beach house. D'oh!)
May is the month that we launched the website for Mint Tulip (that could be another post itself...) so I spent lots of time trying to get pictures of the kids in the outfits we were selling. They were my unwilling and not-always-cooperative models.
Have you heard of the biggest Bass Pro Shop ever? It's in a pyramid and if you live anywhere around here, you surely know about it. I swore that I would not go there for several weeks after it opened so that the crazy crowds would die down. We went out to dinner with good friends one night and go figure, we ended up there on Saturday night of their Opening Weekend. The crowds weren't nearly as bad as I expected and it was definitely neat to see. We did not go all the way to the top to see the views of the city, but I'm sure we'll go back to take the kids to see the fish and maybe we'll go up then. (Side note: Our good friends Emily and Andrew are moving away this Wednesday! We are incredibly sad. I know good things await but I don't like that I won't be able to see them all the time anymore!)
We bought this little hot pink chair a couple summers ago and Katie Wynn has always loved sitting in it. When we found out baby number two was a boy, I ran to Walmart to snatch up a blue chair before they stopped selling them so that he'd have one too. Katie Wynn NEVER lets him sit in the blue chair. Bless his heart, he's always stuck with the so bright neon pink one. They are one of the best $5 investments ever though because they (Katie Wynn) drag them out every time we're outside so they can sit in them. On this particular night, she had carried them both around to the front yard from our side garage so that they could have a seat. She's showing him a blade of grass that she picked. :)
Katie Wynn has finally learned to "float" in the bathtub. It takes forever for her to ease herself back all the way, but once she's laying down you can't get her back up!
For Mother's Day I had the kids dressed in the cutest little matching bubbles. We had brunch out after church and all I wanted was a sweet picture of them in front of some pretty blooming flowers. They did not really deliver...
Thomas has a new love...chocolate ice cream. It is so funny to watch him eat it! He gets so mad between bites if you don't give it to him fast enough!
Katie Wynn has a new love...wearing her Daddy's t-shirts. She says she's a Princess when she has them on. :)
Lolli has a new...kennel. I wouldn't say she loves it, but she does like it more than her tiny old one.
Do you ever fall asleep while reading? Happens to me every night. And it looks like it's starting to happen to Katie Wynn too! (Can you see her foot propped up on her bumper with the other one crossed? Too funny. I did move them after taking this picture so they wouldn't fall asleep up there!)
This is one of the reasons Thomas got his own Coupe Car for his birthday (pics coming soon) - they both try to cram into Katie Wynn's at the same time and someone always ends up in tears!
This picture was taken at a birthday party in May and it is probably my favorite picture of all four of us! Look closely...someone has a choke hold on her little brother. :)
Blowing bubbles after school one day. I just couldn't handle how cute she was in her little dress.
Katie Wynn often gets caught pouring the bubbles out and rubbing her hands in them, and Thomas gets busted eating mulch. They keep us on our toes!
I got in some sweet snuggle time with my niece, Lilli Greer, one night. Katie Wynn gave her a full head inspection.
While I painted in the shop one day, we made a makeshift desk for Katie Wynn to color. She loved it!
These are too cute not to share!
I'll wrap up this post with pictures from an afternoon adventure the last weekend of the month. Mom and I borrowed my brother's truck, loaded the kids in it, and drove into the city for one quick errand. We were just gonna buy a church pew from a renovation sale. Well, we didn't get the pew (it was WAY too long!) but we did run more errands and even got to stop and get ice cream! The kids were really good on our outing and gave me a renewed hope that I could take them out shopping with me.
We spent a lot of time at an At Home store and they loved riding in the double cart. This first picture KILLS me. Could they look any more alike?
Sweet hugs in the furniture section.
She thought it was so fun to stand on this cart and ride. Cool mom points.
Since nap time was already busted, we HAD to stop at YOLO and get ice cream.
When Mimi's ice cream ran out, Katie Wynn was sweet enough to share hers with Thomas. (Mama doesn't share when it comes to ice cream.) Have I mentioned that she's the best big sister ever? She really is.
And those are our adventures from May! (Plus our trip to the beach and our curb appeal projects.) One post down, at least six more to go. Be back soon!