Weekend Wrap-Up

1 // Charlie already has his two bottom teeth but is working on more, and we are in the thick of teething all day, everyday. Like Henry, his major symptom is a stuffy, very runny nose so it's been uncomfortable for him to eat too. Poor baby. It's so hard seeing him in pain.

2 // On Friday we had a little (cauliflower crust) pizza party with my friend Jana and her two boys. I'll share the recipe we used later this week, but I will say that it turned out SO well. I was expecting it to be good, but I was surprised with how delicious it actually was.

3 // The end of the weekend always leaves us with leftover produce from the week before. I'm still getting the hang of figuring out exactly what to get each week, and although meal planning does help with that sometimes we just aren't in the mood for something we planned for. So in the past things have gone to waste. Lately though we've been using almost everything, and on Sunday we'll cook up some random things to use up the last of our perishable stash. Delicious and fun, too.

4 // Our weekend started off with ThaiFoon takeout on Friday night. We haven't gone out to eat or ordered out in what feels like forever so it was a nice treat to get dinner from one of our favorite places. Hank and I are such homebodies that the perfect date night for us is curling up with good food and a new movie on the couch while the babies sleep. So fun.

5 // On Sunday I woke up at 9am (!!!) to the sound of everyone playing in the front room. Charlie had woken up at 6am and ate, and I put him back down to sleep. When he woke up again at 7 Hank got him and ended up taking care of the boys until I woke up. It was SO nice to get some extra sleep. It's crazy though- Charlie has been waking up in the night (usually 1 and 4) due to teething so no matter what I always feel like a zombie. Even with the extra sleep I still don't even feel close to caught up.

6 // Yesterday we headed out on a little walk. It was a beautiful day- not a cloud in the sky and the sun was shining. It definitely got me in the mood for spring. I can't wait!

I hope you had a great weekend too. I'm excited for this next week- SPRING BREAK!

xoxo

Weekend Wrap-Up

1 // Around 5pm Henry will start peeking out the window, waiting for Hank to get home from work. As soon as he sees his car you can hear the loudest "Daddy's hoooooome!" from any room in the house! It's really the best time of the day. And even though Hank has worked all day long and is tired, he gets right down there on the floor and is Super Dad until bedtime. This was Hank and Henry on Friday- building for hours!

2 // You win some, you lose some. I made the Coconut Loaf from the Sprouted Kitchen cookbook tonight (this month's cookbook pick) and although it baked well, it was not my cup of tea. Very bland while being very sweet, if that's even possible. Oh well! Tomorrow I plan on making her soba bowl with tea-poached salmon which sounds delicious.
 
3 // The boys are just starting to play together now that Charlie is reaching and grabbing for things, and Henry is ecstatic. I keep telling him it's only going to get better as he gets bigger and bigger but it's pretty cute how he thinks this is already so much fun.

4 // Our friends David and Jeannie got married on Saturday and had a super low-key, super beautiful reception at their home. Afterward Hank and I couldn't stop talking about what a great day it was- I really think that they did it right- good friends, good food, in a comfortable location. We had the best time.

5 // I've been running a lot lately, and I talked a bit on my second IG account about pushing yourself to get out of the door, even when it's hard (like it was for me on Friday!). As hard as it is sometimes I try to remind myself that I never regret when I do...but I always regret when I don't.

6 // Charlie babe. He attended the wedding with us on Saturday (his first!) and looked so cute while doing so, in these fabulous red moccasins. He's getting so big and I can't believe he'll be 6 months old next week.

I hope you had a great weekend too! xoxo

Weekend Wrap-up

1 // This little babe is getting bigger by the day- he's already 5 months (post coming later this week). He's discovered his toes and it's the cutest thing ever to watch him roll around. Although I have to add I'm not quite yet ready for a mobile baby.

2 // After indulging in way too much sugar and sweets over the holiday I've been enjoying getting back to the basics and cutting out most of the crap. Not all of it, because sometimes a girl just needs an ice cream cone- but most of it. It feels good to just eat clean foods and feel good about what I put in my body. Hank, Henry and I enjoyed a few glasses of kale, spinach and apple juice this weekend and loved it.

3 // Bedtime routine- bath, brush teeth, book and bed. I shared on Instagram that we put our kids down early (6pm for Charlie and 7pm for Henry) due to their habit of rising before the sun, and really enjoyed hearing about the different routines and bedtime other families partake in. Some do a much later bedtime, which made me wish ours was a little later too in the hopes that maybe then they'd sleep in past 7am!

4 // One of my favorites parts of every weekend is having Hank home to do all the fun daytime parenting stuff like going into the boys' rooms when they wake up from their naps. Just look at that smile!

5 // Hugo's for lunch on Saturday. I have a fun post coming tomorrow talking more about this but we took Charlie to Hugo's for the first time and he enjoyed it, as much as a person can enjoy going to a Mexican food restaurant and not eating. Although I guess he doesn't yet know what he's missing, right?

6 // DIRT! We had 10 tons of dirt/top soil delivered on Friday morning for our backyard and Henry was in heaven. The huge pile has since been spread over the half of our yard that will have grass planted but he had a ball playing in it while it lasted. Little kid heaven, for sure.

xoxo

1st Birthdays and Big, Scary Dinosaurs

The title says it all- Lucy turned the big ONE, and we took Henry to see Erth's Dinosaur Zoo Live at the Mesa Arts Center on Sunday evening. Then there was a whole lot of hanging out and eating lots of food in between, but those were the main events that kept us busy. It's Wednesday and I'm only just getting around to writing about it, so it's safe to say it was a wild one that kind of just rolled into this week.

I feel like there's so much to say I'm not sure where to begin. Today's been a weird day and I'm feeling slightly brain dead, which is partially to blame for me staring at this little blog box for longer than normal before even starting to write. Normally easy-going Charlie has been having a rough couple of days due to some teething and it breaks my heart to see him so, so sad. It also makes me feel a little wacky to revert back to the early days of newborn sleep and waking up every few hours after getting used to having little mini breaks at naptimes, and getting some nice longer blocks of sleep at night.

However, I could not let another day go by without talking about sweet Lucy and her special day! It's hard to believe my baby niece is already a year old. It's equally hard to believe that Charlie is almost halfway to that milestone. It's neat they're so close in age, but I don't think I realized just how close until this past weekend.  The party was so lovely too- all family and close friends, pink cupcakes and pink decorations; pink everything. Lucy's grin during the birthday song said it all, and I think she had a great day.

On Sunday we took Henry to the Mesa Arts Center (one of my favorite places!), and thanks to our friend Erin we were able to not only see the dinosaur show, but go backstage as well. The whole show is about the evolution of dinosaurs- where they came from, what life was like during their time on Earth, and what ended up happening to them. The cast is made up of puppeteers who maneuver these incredibly huge dinosaur puppets. The whole show was amazing and I found it to be super informative. Henry was so into it for the entire hour and didn't look away from the stage once, which is pretty crazy considering he's a wild 3-year-old boy who doesn't always have the longest attention span. We all really enjoyed it, and will absolutely be checking the MAC calendar for upcoming family-friendly shows.

On a side note, one plus to writing about your weekend on a Wednesday is that the next weekend doesn't seem so far away. Friday, I'm coming for ya...

Here are some photos, courtesy of my ever-useful iPhone.

Our Weekend in Numbers

1: number of museums visited. The Children's Museum of Phoenix to be exact. And Arizona friends, did you know that Bank of America customers go free the first full weekend of each month?

3: number of kiddos we went with- Danny and Janay's little girl Harper and our two boys.

1: number of chocolate milk boxes consumed at snack time in the museum.

6: number of times Erin said "ugh! This makes me want to make stuff!" while looking around the museum.

10: number of seconds (at least) Hank and laughed for, when Henry went into the play shopping area and acted exactly like we act while grocery shopping. It's insane what your kids pick up, when you don't realize they're watching you.

50 (at least): number of times we said something like "this place is awesome!" while walking through the museum. We've been there a few times, but it never gets old and Henry absolutely loves it.

6: number of people in our car on the way to our hotel for the staycation my whole family went on: my Mom, Dad, Hank, me, Henry and Charlie. Although two carseats kind of count for two people each. Thank god for the third row.

3: number of pool toys we brought to the hotel, which on a related note- we loved. It was the perfect place to just get away with our family and feel like we were on vacation. We'll definitely be back.

4: number of dinner spots rejected before we decided on a local pizza spot.

5: number of desserts ordered between all of us to share from room service, once we got back to the hotel. My favorite? The cheesecake chimichangas.

4: number of items at the bagel shop Sunday morning that made me feel like I was home in New Jersey: black and white cookies, Wise potato chips, crumb cake, and their potato salad. So good.

2,539: number of times Henry said "you guys, I LOVE our family."

Weekend made with that last one.

*Hotel rooms courtesy of Radisson.

Weekending

This weekend was a quiet one, full of meals at home and little art projects with Henry. I was gone for four days last week, and when I returned home from my trip I swear, Henry had doubled in size. I always feel like that- that when I am away from him for even a night, he seems so different. It makes me sad but also kind of marvel at how quickly he is changing.

Yesterday was Father's Day, and I know that it's a common thing to say "oh, my guy is the BEST Dad," but really...he is. I could write pages on how neat it is to see the person you love come into this whole parenthood thing. When you've been with someone for close to a decade and for almost all of your twenties, it's really strange/cool/wonderful to be able to look back on everything and then quickly snap back to where you are. When we first met, who would have ever guessed we'd be right here, right now?

Some favorite parts of our weekend: the Farmer's Market on Saturday and Henry buying his own cookies with his "own" money, the juiciest nectarines in the world, making the ugliest yet most delicious pancakes ever (you can kind of see them below), doing a whole lot of glorious nothing at Henry's request on Sunday, and feeling like Henry and I really gave Hank a great Father's Day.

I hope you had a great weekend too!