Lunch Date

Last week I decided to take the little dudes to Steak N Shake for a Mommy date. Doesn't happen often, and was so much fun! Rich and Dex are off to FL this afternoon for a fun boys weekend and Clark and I are heading to Nashville to visit my good girlfriend Heather. I'm going to miss my little snuggle bug, but I know he's going to really enjoy having some great one-on-one grandparent time. And Clark is super pumped for his road trip!

They even got to share a shake :)

Lotso bath = epic fail

Dexter LOVES Lotso. And it's big love. While he doesn't discriminate he does prefer the smaller Lotso he's hugging below. He calls him "real Lotso" and real Lotso is never far from Dex. We dread the day something happens to this poor bear because Dexter really is a mess without him. He won't sleep unless Lotso is with him- we found this out after he got dunked in the bath and spent 30 minutes in the dryer. 30 minutes that Dex called out for him in his crib, and promptly rolled over and passed out the second they were reunited. If Dex eats, Lotso eats. If Dex poops, he informs us that "Lotso pooped his pants". I've never seen anything like it. When he gets hurt, do you think he calls out for Mom or Dad? Nope, it's Lotso. Grandma & Grandpa got Dex the exact same Lotso as a backup. But he knows the difference and still will only want "real Lotso" so we're thinking of trying to break the new one in slowly... We need a back up plan at this point, or we're going to be in trouble!

Anyway, Lotso gets dirty as you can imagine. Real dirty. Lotso needs baths just like the boys do. Usually I try to sneak a REAL quick wash cycle in when I think I can get away with it. But for some strange reason last week I thought Dex might be able to handle Lotso taking a washer bath since he's understanding so much more now. But it was a big fat fail of epic proportions.

The second Dexter realized Lotso was locked in the washer he freaked. He ran into the other room to grab big Lotso (pictured on the floor next to him) to help get real Lotso out of the wash.

He tried SO hard to get that door open...

And when it didn't work he was furious... and started beating the washer yelling "bad Lotso, bad!!!!"

And crying.so.hard. I felt so horrible for him. But of course had to capture his reaction with a few phone pics so Rich could understand just how bad he was freaking out. Poor little dude!

It was ALL smiles, snuggles and kisses once they were reunited. And I've learned a valuable lesson. Next time Lotso needs a bath... Dex can't know it!

Spring

Days like yesterday make me SO excited for Spring to come! It literally hit 80 outside (heaven!) and we got to let the boys run around outside which is their favorite thing to do. It was strange seeing their pasty little legs in shorts! Again, cell phone pictures...

Dex has gotten so big! He climbs all the equipment at the playground now, mainly all by himself and goes down the big slides too. When he woke up from his nap yesterday he just looked bigger to me. He must have grown in his sleep! He's got to stop doing that. He doesn't realize he's still my baby!

The boys had some buddies meet them in the park. Even Adam was there, so they were super excited. We played ball and blew bubbles, and they just ran around in the dirt. Perfect boy afternoon.

Dex has to be right in the action with the big boys

And he's speaking in full sentences already. This time it was "Hey Mommy, tree. I climb tree Mommy!" So cute :)

Clark's got quite the arm on him. And I had to snap this picture of his follow through...

Then the boys had a little stroller picnic. Edmamae is a current fave of theirs.

And what nice day wouldn't be complete without a walk by the fire house to visit the truck?

Cozy dude

So. It's been way too long since I've updated. Between the kiddos, spending every spare second on real estate stuff and marathon training and fundraising, I have had zero spare time. The blog has suffered. And taking cute pics of the kids has suffered too. My phone camera has seen considerably more action than my Nikon. So, right now I'm in the process of getting some of the cuter more recent pics of the kids off my phone to share. One of these days I'll have more time to post better pictures, but these will have to do for now. This is one of Dex in the Cozy Coupe. We had it stored away during the cold cold winter, but now that the weather is warming up a bit we busted it out. He's LOVING it.