$1 movies

Every tues and wed during summer, regal cinemas does $1 movies for kids at 10am. We just found out about this awesomeness and decided to try it out. We saw one of ps favs: shaun the sheep. He loved it and is doing so well at the theatre each time we go! Afterwards he had to admire, once again, the secret life of pets poster. Def his 2016 fav movie of he year! Next up- the new Ice Age! 

 

Sunday brunch #2

Ben and i decided to try a weekly tradition of brunch with just is 3 to make memories and build our relatonships. We tried yeast nashville. Id been once efore and loved it. And ben loves kiloches and theirs are home made and amazing. The pastry and cinnamon rolls were to die for Also. This first try with just us 3 was rocky- p was fussy and cranky - but we gave it a try and i enjoyed it a lot. Well give it another go this weekend!

Gardener

Our garden has been slow this first year but weve already scored some tiny carrots and cherry tomatoes as well as some odd shaped cucumbers! P loves to pick the weeds and find the veggies! 

Bedtime love

Right as p fell asleep tonight, hereached quickly  and grabbed my face, holding it in his hand. Daytime hes nonstop and finds little time to snuggle, but at bedtime his love and affection comes out and ill accept every millisecond of it!

Busy reading his paper

Sometimes ya just gotta take a magazine break...

Underwater whistle blower!

This little ham finally did it! He went completely under water!! He closed his eyes and with his nose held laid back and submerged! I had just shown him how i could do it to help him have the courage and he couldnt be topped! So he had to show me up! I am so proud!! Speaking of, p

Mastered whistling this week also!! Hes been practicing ever since ben showed him about a month ago! Been practicing every day since and finally mastered it! Even i cant whistle!

Lowes.

Lowes is built into a boys dna. And p is no exception. He loves lowes. He loves looking down each aisle. He loves the lumbar and the nails. He loves the light fixtures and the doors. He loves it all. Once home him and ben built a kids workshop kit that he picked out: a coin bank.  He loves building those with daddy. Hes also built one with pawpaw and loved it just the same ❤️ to date i believe hes built a bird house,a monster truck, a car, a christmas train and todays bank. 

Lincoln logs

Weve acquired a few used mismatched sets of lincoln logs and p loves building with them. He gets pretty serious about it, too. This week we got a few more pieces and were able to build an even bigger house. We put house furniture in it and p used his army men to sit on benches he made outside the house. He made a picnic on his bindin with fish and a food tray. Then he built what i right away thought looked like an army tanker but i had no idea thats what he meant for it to look like, not until he used his finger as a missle and began making machine gun sound effects and movking the military tanker! I thought it was quite crafty and impressive, myself! Currently, at almost 4,  p is most inthralled in imaginative play and role playing. He could nearly do without actual toys.  We had a blast playing today as always. 

 

Cornerstone Playground

One of the nearby churches has an indoor giant payground- and its free. Weve been before but havent been in a while so today p asked to "do aomething special" so i offered up the playground as a suggestion. He said lets go! He hada lot   of fun, but being so sweet and sensitive, he had a few moments of tears whrn kids were loud or too rowdy, but quickly regained his strength after walking around the quiet church exploring. He told me he went down the big slide, too! And said his heart was fumping so hard and so fast!!!! It was precious!! P plays alone a lot even being as social and kind as he is to oter kids, he still get along very well with himself in these overatimulating situations. Much like his mama and daddy and grandma. And in the end... He still braved the top of the playplace! He made it!! 

 

Brunchin' sunday

Today we did brunch with ashlee and charles and afterwards the boys wanted to swing by a local brewery. P had tons of fun playing board games and looking around. Then we got ice cream before going back to ashlees to see the doggies. We rode around enjoying the day and downtown in charles jeep- which p loved :) once home p wanted to doodle with me and drew pics of the day that he chose. He told me what things he wanted to include and these were the very accurate results!...

 

We alsp drove past my old, and favorite, daycare Progressive Care. I attened until about 1st or 2nd grade when my mom opened her own pastry shop and i was able to be with her once school ended each day. It was so surreal to pass the faycare and to realize all the same toys were there!!

A growing sleeping 3 year old

This month is marking the last for this 3 year old boy. Hell be 4 soon and itsgoing so  fast. I always try to take photos every now and again lf his little details as they change and when hes awake hes yoo busy to comply with such mundane requests :) so at bedtime i find myself looking him over piece by piece and drinking in the new and changing details as well as saying goodbye to details that are aging and fading away. Such a sad and happy thought. But photos help ease the sorrow of days gone by. They definetely dont cure, but they ease it some.