Nighttime walks

Since the weather is so perfect, we've been taking lots of walks after naps and dinner to fill the time before food / bed. Bug is hilarious and today opted to bring baby doll rather than her typical bike (that she still refuses to ride but pushes instead). 

My favorite was the piggy back ride. 

The Bub also likes our walks and laughs and kicks when he sees his sister. 

Bee saga

The past 24 hours ave been much more eventful than I'd hoped. We had a bee swarm take up temporary residence in the eve above our front door. 

For scale, I took this picture at about 6 pm, by 7 pm it had grown about 5 in on each side. It was huge. And terrifying. 

After a lot of googling, the good news was bee swarms are actually mostly harmless, since they aren't protecting anything. It's kind of like a big bee family reunion. Even so, I wanted them gone. After talking with 5 or so different options from collection to extermination, I got in contact with Mark, the 'Busy Bee' handyman. He is also a beekeeper and he was available to come get the swarm and relocate them to his honey farm in Katy :)

It was amazing really. He got up on the ladder in his bee outfit and then just vacuumed up all te bees. 

It took about 20 minutes to vacuum up all the bees, and when he was done we got to see them up close. He said you could actually pick them up in this state and they wouldn't sting you ( tho I wouldn't try it).

At this point, 24 hrs later, most of the bees are gone, only a sad few that must have been out scouting a new home when everyone else was taken. I'm actually a little sad for them (not sad enough to want the rest back, but a little sad). Mostly I'm just happy this bee saga is *hopefully over. 

Picture attempt

It was SO HOT and SO BRIGHT. Oh well, we tried. Love you Auntie Kasi.

Easter Egg Hunting!

We did a little easter egg hunt for all the kiddos today at the park near the church. We ended up having a ton of eggs which made it even more fun for everyone. Initially Bug didn't understand the reason for collecting the eggs but as soon as she realized there was food in them she was much more enthusiastic. And I don't want to jinx it, but she is starting to get really good at smiling!!

 

 

We went to the Kemah boardwalk, and the Bug was so excited to ride the carousel :)

My little artist at the Children's Museum.

How you doing?

Her first puddle jumping experience, she was timid at first but LOVED it and was not happy about going inside.

Grocery shopping is so much better with Dad

I could not get a clear picture but she was SO happy. When she saw AJ bringing up this cart she was shaking in excitement. She has never had so much fun at the grocery and sang the wheels on the bus the entire time. It pushes like a broken boat tho. 

I love watching them interact, she loves to push him on the swings and he loves it. So cute. 

I'd say it's a safe assumption that's he likes banana pudding. Good thing we live in Texas. 

10 mo old

Baby boy turned. 10 mo last week, he is about 23 lbs of crazy mobile baby. He loves to crawl, climb and cruise the furniture. It's crazy how he went from being completely immobile to so fast overnight. 

Latest likes / triumphs:

Mobile

Waves hello and goodbye

Says mama and dada understands lots if other words like milk, bottle and Lily

Drinking with a sippy cup

Feeding himself finger foods

Current dislikes:

Being out of sight of mom

Being left by mom

Not being held by mom 

... I think I see a trend here. 

I love this little boy, and enjoy my forced nap with him each day. 

He loves the swings, and liked the slide until he fell and bonked his head (mom fail). 

He won't feed himself a bottle but loves drinking out of our cups and any of the bugs sippy's. 

Firetrucks and Birthdays

We got to go to the firehouse today to celebrate O's 2nd birthday. Bug really inked to sit in the fire truck and cried hysterically when they had to leave to fight a fire. Extra excitement at the birthday party for sure :)