A Saturday at Home

Let's face it- we are rarely home on the weekends. Tate spent a weekend at Gramma and Paw Paw's, then he and I went there the next weekend for a Friday doctor's appt, then we went to Indiana the following weekend. We were long overdue for a relaxing weekend at home. 

AJ has been having severe anxiety issues so I tried to do lots of fun things to keep his mind off of that. 

We spent Saturday swimming several times, "making" cookies, watching Caillou and Disney Junior, and napping. It was really fun to have all that time as a family. I'm trying to cherish as much time with just one kiddo before Miss Lexi arrives and throws our routine out of whack. :)

Tate helped put the Cars cookies on the cookie sheet and learned how to use sprinkles 

Shake, shake, shake! 

2nd batch 

Way more sprinkles on the tray than the actual cookies, but tasty nonetheless 

And a popsicle while singing for good measure :)

One of many swimming sessions 

I just adore this sweet boy's face! 

I'm sure he will hate me for this pic one day! We ran out of swim diapers and he couldn't even move in the regular diaper so I finally just stripped him down. I made sure to spray sunscreen on that white tushy so it wouldn't burn and about 10 minutes later got his swimsuit. Who knows how much pee pee ended up in that pool that weekend. :)

Fourth of July

Aunt Ashley and Gavin came to visit for the 4th of July. We hung out at home because it was ridiculously HOT! We ate hot dogs and mac and cheese for lunch (classy I know) and Ash brought no bake cookies for dessert. We also spent lots of time in the pool on the deck. Nothing fancy for us, but we had a good time.

Visiting Metcalf

Tate and I went with my mom and brother to visit Tate's Great Great Grandma Metcalf in Indianapolis. Tatey is almost 2 and she is 96 1/2. We visited her last summer and she usually goes to Kansas City for Thanksgiving. She wasn't able to go last year so this was the first time we'd seen her in over a year. She had been pretty sick for several months, but was looking and feeling good while we were there. 

Tate is very fortunate to have lots of Grandmas so he gets a little concerned. Before our trip, I showed him pictures of Grandma Metcalf so he would know who she was. He called her "Metcalf". Hilarious! And once we got there, he continued calling her simply "Metcalf" the whole time. I guess having another Grandma label was too confusing so he shortened it. He would walk around and say "Metcalf's room" and "Metcalf's pretties" and "Hey Metcalf". We all died laughing. In all her 96 years, she's never been called Metcalf. Guess Tate just wanted to make her feel special. :)

Pretending to pinch Metcalf's toes so she would pretend to cry 

Sitting with Metcalf 

More pinching 

Giving goodbye hugs 

A little nervous that Gramma Nobles might leave without him!

We all had a nice visit and even went to a "Happy Birthday Party" for one of the many many cousins up in Indiana. Tate played outside in the water lots to stay cool, we ate WAY too much, and stayed up too late every night talking. The 4 days went by fast (probably because we drove 7 hours the first and 4th days). 

We're not sure when (or if) we'll see her again, but hopefully we'll be able to take a trip with Lexi once the weather clears up in the early spring. Grandma won't be coming for Thanksgiving this year because Miss Lexi is scheduled to arrive 2 days before... although she probably wouldn't be up for that much traveling anyways. I really really hope that she can meet Lexi before she passes- this will be the first great great granddaughter. She already has 4 little boys with another on the way, then Lexi, then one more after that (gender still unknown). How cool to live to see that many generations!

It's a...

Well it only took me a month to post this, but Baby Wahlquist #2 is a GIRL!

We announced to my parents, brother, and best friend via a text picture, called AJ's parents, and then posted the above photos on Facebook. 

We are absolutely thrilled. One boy and one girl. And now we can be done having babies! Who knows, we may decide (many years down the road) that we want another little one running around, but this is for sure my last pregnancy. No one can handle me being preggo again. 

And below is how we announced her name

We're still not positive if we will name her Lexi or Alexa, but I'm pretty sure it will just be Lexi. Still fighting over middle names, but my pick is Lexi Madison Wahlquist.