Father's Day & Brookie's 1st foods

So we decided that our first official day for Brookie to start solids was on Father's day. John had to work (BOO) at 10:30am but we still wanted to celebrate what a great daddy he is. I even got my butt out of bed early so that we could have breakfast before he went to work. We went to Village Square Cafe and ate yummy food and gave Brookie rice cereal. She sure made some interesting faces. Not to sure of the stuff...she likes it now.

We gave Daddy his gifts and just spent time together. After breakfast we hit up our favorite coffee stand that as John says, "makes the best iced mochas because they use chocolate milk!" We got our coffee's about the time he should have been leaving for work, got home at the time he should have been at work with just enough time to give him hugs, kisses and tell him that we would bring our last surprise to him around 3-4pm. Off he went.

Around 3-4pm we went and got another Mocha for him and dropped it off before we went to my mom's to spend the rest of the day. My sister, brother-in-law, and niece were there too. We hung out and ordered yummy food from our favorite BBQ place. John was able to come over after he was off of work to spend time with everyone (John put in a 9 hour day too) and to finish off the rest of the food from the Texas Smokehouse. He was happy.

As for Brookie and her solids, she has tried rice cereal that she actually likes fairly well considering it is super bland, peaches, pears, nibbled on my grilled cheese (can you tell she is the second baby?) and put her hand in daddy's spaghetti last nigh. She made faces each and every time we offer pears and peaches and doesn't seem to like them. I keep offering though. I am making carrots tonight to try tomorrow and I am going to dig out my peas so that I can try those soon too. I think they are in the back of the freezer somewhere. So hopefully she'll like the veggies more than fruit. Maybe she'll be my veggie kid!! I am planning on making my own baby food with exceptions of the squash. I am not up for the challenge of having tons on hand and such since we don't eat much. Stay tuned for messy baby food pictures. So far we are fairly neat!! Hope you all had a fun Father's Day.

Brookie's baptism and Andrea's visit!

**Sorry for the pictures that are sideways, our new camera doesn't put them the proper way and it is driving me NUTS!! I don't know how to turn them the correct way....Enjoy!!

So I know I should have posted ages ago, but my excuse is that we have been having great weather for June and I have been making the best of it so therefore chores get done at night and blogging doesn't....

So Andrea came into town on Thursday June 4th (also Aid's last day of school, that post will come later). Aidan was sad that he couldn't go to the airport with me so I caved and let him go...I didn't have to work the next morning. So off we went. We saw her, both of us running (maybe not me since I had both kiddo's) and headed off to Nana's!! We didn''t get home to our house after dropping Andrea off at Nana's until after 11pm. Oh my...

Friday we all went to Aidan's end of the year school picnic. We were about an hour late to a two hour picnic but it really didn't matter. We met Teacher Chris (his new teacher) and ate some yummy snacky items since we ate breakfast/brunch right before we left for the picnic. While we were enjoying the picnic we were trying to figure out what to do since Andrea was there for such a short time. We decided to go to Snoqualmie Falls. I hadn't been there since I was little and the kids had NEVER been there so it was fun!! On our way to the car from the picnic area I spotted a Bald eagle!! Andrea was just thrilled since she had never seen one before!! It was pretty cool.

So we drove up to the falls, got out, looked around, did some shopping, ate some ice cream, and went home. It was a fun trip though. We headed back to Nana's house where we decided on pizza for dinner. I ran to Garlic Jim's and got pizza for everyone and we had a fabulous dinner and John was able to come over after he got off work. Yet another night. We weren't home until almost 11pm. On the way home, my car freaked out when the check engine light came on and the engine temperature went all the way up to the red part of the dial. I freaked out and John switched me cars and I went home to put the kids to bed. Oh my.

Saturday....well we had a ton of things to do. We went in this order....Target, Costco, Jack n the Box, back to Nana's, headed to Seattle, went on a detour to Krispy Kreme, Pike Place Market, Ivar's, Joann's Fabric, Dairy Queen, and Target again before heading back to Nana's again....

We had to go to Costco for stuff for the BBQ after the baptism and Andrea had a blast running errands, or at least she said she did. We got stuck in traffic on our way to Pike Place and the detour (M's game had just gotten out) took us past Krispy Kreme. Andrea had mentioned she use to work for them when she was 16 and so I insisted we stop. She hadn't been to one since she worked there last....did I get that right Andrea?? We finally made it to Pike...at closing (they closed within 30 minute of us being there....oops). We took her out to Ivar's but not downtown. It was CRAZY down there because of prom and we weren't even sure we could get seated at the Ivar's downtown so we found another. We ran some errands and headed home.

Sunday was the baptism day. Everyone was up early. We got to church on time and Brookie was baptized. We headed back to Nana's for a BBQ with everyone and just a fun afternoon of sprinklers, cake and good food. We are definitely blessed to have so many people in our family who love our kids so very much and we are SO blessed to have two sweet women as Brookie's God mommies!! Aidan has his auntie Kate and Uncle Dave as his Godparents, and for that we are very blessed too!!

After the BBQ we all went home early and went to bed....everyone was tired. The next day I headed to my mom's again and we did some tours and such. We headed Chateau St. Michelle and tasted some yummy wines and browsed the gift shop. Andrea picked up some fun things. I still have her wine opener that I need to send to her....I forgot to buy the envelope today to send it to you....I'll get it to you soon!!

After Chateau we went to Red Hook Brewery. We took the tour, and they serve you A LOT of beer throughout the tour. Oh well it was fun. We then went downstairs to have dinner. I think I need to take the tour again because I don't remember anything...I was entertaining both kiddo's and Aid drank so much that he needed to go potty every 15 minutes I SWEAR!! He did AWESOME though. He actually had his first can of soda. We haven't given him soda yet or very minimally. We would much rather him drink milk or water than soda and juice. That's another story. So after dinner at Red Hook, we ate dinner headed to Nana's where we hung out until it was time to go to the airport with Andrea.

As we were driving down I kept thinking of reasons to keep her here or ways to kidnap her for longer. I let her go home because I knew that Andy was missing her and was probably anxious to see his wife! It was a good weekend overall. I just wish that she could have stayed longer. I hope that I hit all the main points. If not I will write another post another day. Brookie is fussing and its time to start dinner. Enjoy the pics!!

Aidan's stats!!

So we headed to the doctor this morning for Aidan's 4-year well child check-up. He was awesome and the doctor even agreed that he looked great!! We talked about everything, the behavior issues, his snoring, coughing, asthma (he doesn't have it), etc.

He is going to be on a nasal spray for about 3 weeks that will either help, or not, his snoring and coughing. Our Doctor (we have 2 that we go to whenever I take the kids in), thinks that this is allergies to dust mites perhaps, or just something else. So if he improves on everything that he is looking for, coughing, snoring, and there was one more I can't remember, in three weeks then we know its allergies. If he isn't improved, then we will have to figure out the next step.

Aidan had his blood drawn for an iron count and they had to get blood twice because the first reading was low. The second reading was just fine. He melted down and collapsed when he heard he was going to have to do it again. He wasn't even poked a second time. Once it was over he was fine though. He will randomly fuss and say it hurts but he's brave.

He also had his eyes checked and I don't remember what she said but she was starting to get irritated with people walking in front of us and I think a bit at Aidan because he was not focusing on what he should. Not my favorite nurse there though from other times we have been in too.

I opted out of giving him his kindergarten shots today because he was so worried about it all morning, and the whole way home. I figure when Brookie gets her 1-year shots in January then we will get Aid his kindergarten shots....that should be interesting. Anyhoo, I need to get lunch while Brookie is calm and Aidan is asleep. So here are his updated stats!!

Weight-51.8 pounds 97+%
Height-44 inches 97+%
BMI-can't remember this but it was 97+% also.

He is healthy and sturdy. We are hopefully going to enjoy this beautiful day that its turning out to be!!!