Ryder's first!!!

today we headed to cox's farms for ryder's first birthday party!

of course graham fell asleep on the way to the party, but we got him to wake up a little while after getting there.  luckily!  he had an AMAZING time.  

the dinoslide was the main attraction for him!  daddy stood in line with him and took him down the slide.  he wanted to do it again, but the line was even longer than before.  so we took him around to the rest of the park.  

we saw some cows, walked through the stands in front of the milking stage, played in the hay and played in some kid-sized eggs!

happy birthday ryder!!!  i can't believe it's been a whole year already!

16 weeks

first sightings of a bump!

and i know it's not just me 'letting myself go' since i've lost 4 pounds since i found out i was pregnant!  nothing to worry about, i'm positive i'll gain it back soon.  :)

i'm feeling good so far.  

still no morning sickness (YEAH!). although sometimes my stomach feels a little off, but all i have to do is drink some water and it seems to go away.

and not having an appetite really could be a reason i've lost 4 pounds too.  

feeling exhausted still all day long.  but as my doctor said...since i'm chasing a toddler as well there's only so much 'rest' i can get.  just been trying not to overdue it.

still wearing my normal clothes, although some of them are getting a little snug.

blood pressure seems to be good this time around. probably because i've been maintaining it before i got pregnant!  novel concept.  ;)

only slight craving i have so far is for fruit.  guess it could be worse!

miss keigan

aunt star (now known as aunt bacon) and keigan came up for the weekend!!!  and grammie also came on friday night to have one big sleepover!  it was too cute, when graham woke up on saturday morning his first words were "can i go downstairs and play with my best friend?!"  he LOVES keigan!

he showed her how to aqua doodle and gave a gentle kiss.

then we had some cute moments from miss keigan that i had to capture.  i think aunt bacon might need to invest in a doorway jumper as she seemed to really like it!

graham shared his woody doll (like i said...he REALLY likes keigan!  he would have to to share that doll with her!)

oh, and keigan LOVED miss mojo!  mojo let keigan pet her and keigan let mojo kiss her.  best friends for life!

only one thing that will be a challenge when our new one arrives.  graham didn't want keigan to nap at all.  luckily keigan was just hanging out for a couple minutes when i took these pictures, but graham was always excited to get in the pack and play with her. 

we had so much fun visiting with everyone, but we're going to have one sad boy when everyone leaves!

iphone photos

apparently i forgot to send myself a few awesome iphone photos from when grana and grampa were here!

love all of these!

oh rudy

apparently he just wanted to play blocks with graham!

:)

ticonderoga farms

today we headed out to ticonderoga farms for anjali's birthday party.  it was great to see all the kiddos again, and all the adults too.  it had been far too long!

graham LOVED the huge potato sack slide.  we often times found him coming out head first out of the tunnel slide!  if only we had one of these in our backyard, the dude would be worn out all the time. sliding down the slide and then running around and climbing up the huge hill.  i definitely let grady handle that one today!  :)

there were some chickens and ducks to watch.  another super bouncy air pillow.  and hay ride and a COW TRAIN!!!  but this one was unlike one i've ever seen.  the cows went up and down as the ride went along.  too cute to watch.  apparently graham and alex got the one that bucked the most.  they loved it!

oh....and graham used the big boy swing for the first time!  YEAH!!  no more baby swings for us.  now on to teaching him how to swing himself!

adventures in potty training

seeing as it's a three day weekend, and graham has been sitting on the potty at school everyday, we decided this was the weekend we would transition to big boy underwear and really start potty training.  we set off on the every 30 minute routine and rewards for any sort of success.

wow, saturday we only had a two accidents!!!  

hrumph....sunday we only had one success.  i like how grana described this as the 'i have to go back to kindergarten' syndrome.  although this would be the 'oh...you mean i have to KEEP going potty' syndrome!

monday we had another successful day!  only a couple accidents again.  

the dude is definitely on a roll!!!

mickey party

happy second birthday mister adam!!!