The Sweet Life

I feel like I'm back in the land of the living now..

I have been without my computer for the last 5 days, 4 hours, and just too many minutes, but it's back & fixed and now I can continue to waste away many hours of my day...

Last week we went out to Kings' Orchard with some of our neighbors. It was the perfect day for strawberry picking, although I must be a wus, because it was way too hot...already. I don't know how I'm going to make it through the next few months..

Anyways, here are some pics...

Margeaux ready to go..

Addison just trying to keep up

Random, but we picked this lettuce that was just beautiful...looked like a bouquet.

Graham just chilling taking everything in as always

Addison and Jackson

Looking for the "wed" ones

I think Addison just liked running through the fields more than anything else

Gorgeous!

We got home and made some strawberry shortcake

Graham was excited but had to settle for..

a frozen one and loved it.

A little bit of picture overload but I can't get enough of this guy...

So stinkin' cute!

Quack, Quack

We went to Nana's today so that A could get some good Grandma time and feed the ducks. We had beautiful weather and she had a blast!

There were some new little baby ducks that were only about a week old!

I love how they're all following after her.

Some of the ducks had their little feathers in a wad and were showing the other ducks who was in charge...

Nana showing Addison where the duck eggs are

Thanks for letting us come play Nana, we love you!

5 Months!

Sometimes I wish I could stop time....

Because my baby boy is growing up too fast!! I love how he looks like a little chunky monkey in these pictures.

Graham is such a sweet tempered baby. I know I keep saying it, but I just love him to pieces. As long as he is fed once in a while, he is absolutely all smiles.

Here is what he's been up to...

* has definitely found his feet and hands and wants to put anything he can into his mouth, although the feet aren't quite making it there yet.

*He is nursing about 5 times a day and once or twice at night. Last night he slept from 7pm until 3 am, woke up and ate, and went back down until 8. Thank you Jesus!
*He is starting to grow in some hair and it looks like it's going to be blond like his sisters although maybe a little bit thicker and straighter, which is a good thing considering the Chi is not cool for boys.

*Rolling over machine. He is no longer content to just lay under the playmat. He wants to explore everything and can be in a totally different part of the room than where I left him.

*I have no idea what he weighs right now, but he is definitely getting longer. Because of his length, he no longer fits into 6 month pajamas and is making his way into 6-12 month clothes....although this onesie he's wearing in the picture is a 3 month if you can believe it.

*He was wearing size 3 diapers, but then I found another huge box of 2's stashed away in the closet and because I'm too cheap to let those go to waste, he's back in 2's.

*He loves playing with his toys especially the excersaucers and is warming up to the idea of the jumperoo. He's pretty much over the swing and tries to sit up while he's in it. He loves sleeping with his paci and lambie at night.

*He's not a big eater of solids yet, and I'm not pushing it because let's be honest, it's just one more thing to do...so we will wait another month.

*He is an absolute joy!!!

and has his mommy wrapped around his fingers and toes.

Date Night

One of our best date nights ever happened this weekend.

We decided a few months back that we wanted to do a "progressive" date through The Woodlands for our 5 year anniversary.

You know something besides the Chick Fil A drive through followed by running around the park. We were in desperate need of GROWN UP time.

So we got a babysitter ALL DAY on Saturday.

I was fantasizing about what to do sans kids for such a long time....like maybe go sit at Starbucks and read a magazine, or

go cruise around the mall and go nowhere near stores like Gymboree or Stride Rite

lock myself in my bedroom and catch up on hours of TV on my DVR...

but instead we took full advantage and went to see a movie...like in a real movie theater.

This movie was Hilarious! If you don't get to go see it at least put it in your Netflix queue.

Then we started the rest of the date...

Happy Hour at Jaspers.

Amazing! Who knew that they had all of their specialty drinks and amazing appetizers for $5 every day before 7? Not I....

Ahh....

Just putting our feet up on the patio...9 more weeks of the cast guys...
Then we did a little shopping. It's really fun shopping when you're husband can't keep up with you....
Ok, now he knows I'm clearly mocking him....
After some shopping, we had dinner at Uni.

The hostess was a little full of herself telling us that they were TOTALLY booked for the entire night. The manager overheard her say this and then asked me to give him our number and he would call us if "something" opened up.

We didn't care, I mean we had NOWHERE to be. Great feeling....
So not 10 minutes later, we get a phone call that they might be able to "squeeze" us in.

Really?

I mean only if you're sure. Thanks for the favor because I can see that you guys are slammed with the ten empty tables around us.

Anyways, stuffy or not.....I LOVE that place.

And guess what? I can finally have sushi!! And wine.....no water for me!!! Can I tell you how nice this was after the last two years of watching Andy partake without me?

So after dinner we headed up to the lounge at the new hotel, Avia. Their bar is right by the pool and overlooks Market Street. It was a great place to chill even if they were quite proud of their drinks.

I put this one in there because at this time I started taking pictures upside down....I mean it was the third leg of the trip and I had been well hydrated.

Overlooking Market Street

And the final leg of the progressive dinner was Tommy Bahamas. I didn't include a picture of the ridiculously large brownie we had for dessert because we ate it too fast.
And I know it's ridiculous that I don't have one picture of us together on our date!! I should have asked our cab driver to snap a quick one on the way home, but I was too busy trying to shell out enough cash to pay the babysitter for 10 hours.....but worth EVERY penny!