On Friday, after the kids went to bed, I went over to Denise and Dave's house for a poker game. Dave (my brother-in-law) was celebrating an early birthday (his actual birthday is in April but they are due with their third child around his birthday so he wanted to get a celebration in while he was still getting some sleep!) and it was a lot of fun to hang out with friends. Good friends of ours weren't able to be there, because they were in the hospital after having given birth to their first daughter, Lana, on Thursday! There are babies everywhere these days it seems!
Saturday was St. Patty's day. Our family was all in green to celebrate and we actually got a group shot. Sam did have on a green adidas jacket that day, but as it was 80 degrees outside, it had to go!
Paul's birthday was on Sunday, so on Saturday we had his family over to celebrate. We made Mongolian Beef for everyone from a food blog I found, and it turned out really well! The whole day up to dinner was a mad dash to clean up the house. With working full time, in a city that is 60 miles away from my home, and trying to get as much time in with Sam and Ally as I can once I get home from work, I have found that the housework is put on the back burner. Our house typically gets a little cluttered as the week goes on, and on the weekends Paul and I will spend a few hours putting it back in order. So our morning was cleaning, and family dinner at 5. After the meal, we spent the next few hours outside letting Sam and Ally enjoy the warm weather. I hope Paul doesn't get use to having a birthday celebration outside, because it isn't typical of our Indiana weather for March! Sam is loving that his slide turns into a huge car ramp. He will gather up a few cars in a bucket, put them down the slide one by one, slide down after them, gather them all up, and start it all again. He would literally do this for hours if we let him.
Sunday was Paul's actual birthday. My mom came over to watch Sam and Ally so we could go out to lunch. We were all excited to try Teddy's Burger Joint which a mailing arrived saying it had opened on the 14th... well they weren't open so we ended up at Hot Box Pizza. It wasn't what we planned on, but you can't go wrong with their pizza! Once we got home, we ended up going for a very long walk that took about 60 minutes. Ally was in the stroller, and Sam ended up walking too much and wanted us to carry him part of the way home. He was so tired after the walk, and Paul and I were still pretty full from our late lunch, that we decided to do a picnic dinner. Paul had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches outside on a blanket for his birthday dinner! Sam loved eating outside, and I think the only reason it worked was because he was so exhausted from his walk. We followed up dinner with some birthday ice cream! Sam wanted to blow out the candle, and I am pretty sure that he thinks that whenever the happy birthday song is sung, that it is for him.
I just can't get over our fast Sam and Ally are growing up. Sam's vocabulary is exploding. He talks non stop, but now it's getting to where you can actually understand most of the words he is saying. His coordination is just becoming more preschooler, and less toddler. He can hop, jump, and run. He kicks his soccer ball and we need to get him a little tennis racket to take out to the courts and start playing.
Ally also decided this weekend that she was a big girl. She turned 8 months old on the 18th and she is doing something new every time I turn around. She is now officially crawling, and can sit up on her own. I just can't get past when I look over at her, and know that a minute ago she wasn't sitting, and see her sitting up going through her toys. Of course, she has decided that her toys aren't what she really wants. She wants Sam's toys, the cats toys,or pieces of fuzz off the carpet.
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