We have been having some fabulous weather around here! The days have been clear enough that you can see those beautiful snowy mountains surrounding us, the trees are blooming, and the weather has been in the low seventies. Plus, the days are getting longer. Perfect! It's the kind of weather that actually makes Fresno a pretty enjoyable place to live. Since spring is always a blip on the radar around here though, we try to take advantage of it as much as possible during its short stay!
Last weekend we took Collin along with us for his first bike ride. We finally traded our single tow-behind trailer for a double (anyone out there looking for a single??), so we loaded up both boys and headed out. We have a great biking/running path about a mile or so from our house that connects most of Fresno and Clovis. We left our house, rode a few minutes, and then met up with and followed this path before we cut off to head towards a favorite ice cream place in North Fresno (anyone else seeing a pattern here with us and ice cream?). I would love to say that Collin was thrilled by this little adventure, but the reality is that he fell asleep about 5 minutes into our trip. While Drew spent the ride looking out his window and talking with us about what he saw, Collin was sleeping away on Drew's arm. Oh well, it made for a happy baby once we stopped.
Doesn't that just make your neck hurt? He's really leaning on Drew's arm, but this picture makes him look so uncomfortable!
Nathan's favorite circus trick with Collin (makes me SO nervous!)
The boys have also spent quite a bit of time in the backyard this week. Drew's been really into anything ball related lately (baseball, golfing, soccer, just throwing or kicking, etc.), so while Nathan was home for the weekend, the two of them spent some time hitting golf balls on our (shamefully overgrown) back lawn.
Thanks to many-a-day out in the dirt and grime, the boys have also spent quite a bit of time in the bathtub this week. Drew's one request through all of this? Bubbles! Since the faucet on their tub needs to be replaced, they've been enjoying plenty (plenty!) of bubbles in the big bathtub instead.
Drew thought it was hilarious to blow the bubbles at Collin. He then switched to blowing them on Nathan....
Daddy's bubble blowing retaliation :)
Finally, the reason I never got a chance to blog last night (there's always a reason!), the baseball game! The Fresno State Bulldogs happened to have a game on Saint Patricks day this year, so we met up with Nathan's mom and took the boys to go watch them play. Drew loved every second of it, and Collin (surprise!) slept through most of it!
We couldn't get him to eat a hot dog, but he ate most of this monstrous hamburger!
When the Wild Child wasn't cheering on the players or looking for "Timeout", the Bulldog's mascot, he was busy transforming the handrail into a jungle gym. Thank goodness the row in front of us was empty.
Sleep seems to be Collin's M.O. on our little adventures.
This is the only picture I managed to snag of Drew smiling with Grandma. Grandma was updating Grandpa on how the game was going, so technically it's like Grandpa's in the picture too. ;)
Since it was St. Patrick's Day, the Bulldogs had traded their usual red hats for green ones. So festive, those Bulldogs are!
And finally, three things about those growing-way-too-fast boys of mine:
Drew:
1. Is talking up a storm. I know I mentioned this last month, but the changes in his sentences from month to month have been insane! He's full-on talking like a big kid. No more two or three word sentences in this house! He's also formulating more and more of his own opinions on things, which has been interesting to say the least. These changes have been so much fun (and also so weird) for me!
2. Also like last month, he still has words that are completely off too. The latest? His "knockers" (a..k.a., his binoculars). Try as we might, we cannot get him to call them anything else, so instead we giggle while we listen to him explain about his "knockers" to others, and then rush to explain what exactly it is that he means.
3. He wants to dress himself, both picking out the clothes and actually putting them on (Lord help me and my type A, please-let-me-just-dress-you-myself tendencies!). You'd think I would learn and just clean out his dresser and closet of the clothes I'd rather not have him wearing, but that has yet to happen. In any case, it's sort of fun to see what he comes up with to wear!
Collin:
1. Is three days shy of 8 months old already (where on earth did those eight months go??!)
2. Has been putting his two little chompers to good use eating all sorts of solid foods. I'm finding that I'm so much more lenient about giving him new things to try than I ever was with Drew. I feel like I followed all the rules of introducing each new food separately with Drew, but Collin tends to get bites of most of the things we eat. His favorites right now include sweet potato, chicken, eggs and toast.
3. Thanks to all that eating and those two lovely teeth, his nursing days are now numbered.
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