Summer 2015 - most of July

My big plans to keep this blog updated during the first month post-baby flopped big time.  Hopefully when I get into more of a routine, I'll be able to update more!

Lucas is almost a month old!  HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?  These past two weeks since I last updated have flown by!  Here's what we've done:

Since Joe is still off of work (thank God!), we've been trying to do lots of fun things with Ryan while we adjust to new schedules and stuff.  We've taken two trips to Frankie's Fun Park, where Ryan's had A BLAST playing in the Fun House and riding the go-karts with Joe:

Joe having fun on his own :)

                                           

Ryan in the Fun House

Ryan in the Spider Web

Overall, Frankie's Fun Park was a huge hit with Ryan - so definitely something we will hit up again this summer!

We also have taken Ryan to the library a couple of times - and he's rekindled his love for reading and for books - his favorite books so far are Curious George, Berenstain Bears, and Arthur books.  We also took him to story time, which was far more interactive than I thought it was going to be - Ryan really liked the puppets at the end, but didn't like the dancing part too much.  Either way, the library is another winner for Ryan!

Joe's reading to Ryan while at dinner at Mellow Mushroom

Ryan's also spent a lot of time at Oma's house, which is definitely a winner in his book.  He got to make pizza with Oma, play with Nadia/Julien/Levi, bounce on the trampoline - really, whatever he wants to do over there (which is one of the reasons why he loves going to Oma and Opa's house so much).

Making pizza with Oma!

Snuggles with Lucas while at Oma and Opa's house

Oma teaching the boys how to play cards - so funny!

Julien and Ryan hiding from the monsters

Still hiding from the monsters!

Ryan also had his first sleepover EVER!  Such a big moment for him!!  Ryan was invited to go over to Levi and Julien's house and all the boys went to the Mordecai for some music, and then Ryan spent the night at Levi and Julien's house!  He had SO MUCH FUN - and he said that his favorite part was sleeping in Levi's bed.  He wasn't very happy when Joe and I came to pick him up the next morning because he wanted to stay there.  He's been asking to go back to sleep at Uncle Paul and Aunt Jan's house ever since, too!

Ryan has been so so sweet with Lucas - he's so gentle and so loving toward him.  He still comes and checks on Lucas and me first thing in the morning.  One morning, I heard a loud commotion and I looked and Ryan was trying to bring the Rock N Play upstairs for Lucas because Lucas likes it.  SO SWEET!  Ryan loves his little brother so so much and that tugs at my heart!

Lucas has been great for his first few weeks at home.  He's beginning to get the hang of nighttime sleep (he gave me 5 straight hours last night!!) and still sleeps a ton in comparison to his older brother.  We had pictures taken of our new family of four last week and they turned out SO WELL - granted, the subjects were great but our photographer is incredible (Thanks, Sara!) :)  I'll post some of those soon!

my sleeping prince

my boys

bedtime snuggles with my boys