Summer Series : Week 5

 The boys had their last run of 4x a week swimming lessons.Nathan has steadily been moving up levels each session. Aaron has definitely improved (especially since we've had our own pool), but teachers haven't seen enough to let him move up. I've noticed Aaron, for whatever reason, seems to be a bit more lazy about showing his teacher his "real" potential. I can hear the words "No thank you, I'm tired today" escaping from his mouth every now and then. Right buddy...

We had a handyman over to fix some small chores. We had the boys' friend Ben over for a playdate.

One day we went to the mall for lunch, and as per usual when we browse around we like to visit the pet store. What we hadn't known before was that for a $5 donation, you could pick a pet to "snuggle with" for 15 minutes. Sort of perfect for us! Enough to get our fix without bringing one home yet. I wouldn't be surprised if the boys wanted to turn this into a habit any time we're at the mall.

Meet Kelvin - a 3 month old pup

I'm afraid I'm nearing the end of the point in which Nate will visit splash pads. I barely got him to this one, and only probably because it was a good day and we hadn't been to it before.

Right near where we go to the Farmer's Market off/on

The Friday before the holiday, Josh's work gave him the day off - we took the boys out to lunch and then to the Arizona Science Center.

Our original lunch pick was closed for the holiday, so we adventurously went to a Japanese place nearby. You can tell how excited the boys were about it. Though, it was in a cute little old house.

Of course Nathan is curious about a half piece of toilet

...and the "digestive tract" (aka 'farting slide') is their favorite thing

Learning how to use an ATM in the Chase section

We have a summer pass...I will probably try bringing them back for lunch (fingers crossed it's open this time) and another visit here before it expires

Pregnancy Update! - I've noticed now that it has been a bit since I've last written about how little P and I are doing. Well, I have just started the LAST trimester (just about 30 weeks now). Very thankful for a pool, as it feels good to float. I have started with lower back pain, especially if I have been on my feet for a long period of time. I think too just generally because I am busy with two boys and it is 109 degrees out, I'm a bit tired. But truly, if I had to complain about something....the hormones. Holy cow the hormones. I tried reading back in our blog to see how much I talked about this when I was pregnant with Aaron (how nice it is to have that to look back at!)...which was zero. Back pain and fatigue yes, but not hormones. Literally I could be so happy one minute and the next I'm bawling over spilt milk. The stressors in our life probably don't help much but man...

And the other thing - funny how I can be craving something like this -

Then literally the next minute, all I want is this -

Yeah the eating is a bit all over the place :) I'm trying to work out when I have some free moments from the boys. I can tell that I need the endorphins from working out to help with my hormones, too!

Little P himself is doing well. I'm starting to have visits every two weeks now - the last visit we had another US done. He is moving about quite a bit. Growing as he should. Almost three pounds (probably is now). I will probably be told soon that I'll need to switch from seeing my favorite PA to seeing doctors now at my visits, to get familiar with them. It's starting to feel unreal that I only have ten more weeks left before we have another bouncing boy!