Weekend activities...

We went to NW Trek this past Saturday as we do usually every year and we had a great time! Justin was pointing to the animals as well this time around, though he did end up falling asleep on the tram ride through the park. He was exhausted, let alone, the weather on Saturday was close to 90 degrees out!! After there we drove down to Cabela's so Philip could get a rubber mat (i.e., liner) for his truck...I guess you can never line/protect it to much. The dealership did the spray in bed liner, but this mat he got was more of a hard floor mat to protect the actual bed of the truck; heaven forbid we actually have to haul something in the truck and it gets dirty:-)

Philip did wash both (yes, both) vehicles on Saturday as well...he started with his truck first at something like 0800 in the morning, and do you know it still got really hot out really fast. If you want to get anything done, you've got to start at basically 0500! The vehicles look great, and since my Jeep hasn't been washed since the last time Philip washed it, it actually looks like a brand new vehicle with shiny silver paint and tires!

I took Jordan on Sunday over to our neighbors house so he could play with Samantha & Emily in their little pool they had up in the backyard, while I played a little game of badminton with Steve (Philip at this time was washing my car:-) I just love him!!!) Anywhoo, we weren't keeping score, but who knew you could work up a sweat hitting a little birdie around; I, in fact, walloped the one little birdie over the fence to their neighbors house...Justin, again hadn't slept all day so he was sleeping at this exact same time and missing out on fun again just like on Saturday at NW Trek (I'll post pics as soon as I get them loaded from the camera). All in all, it was a great weekend that obviously went by too fast!

NW Trek - last visit of the summer!

We finally made it out for our final visit before the summer ends! We went Saturday from about 12p to 4p, rode the tram to see the animals free roaming, saw all of the other animals, ate lunch at the cafe, and had some ice cream on the way out. It was a great way to end the summer! We didn't tell Jordan where we were going...we just told him to get ready and we were going to go somewhere fun. As soon as we pulled up to the main entrance he right of way yelled out that he wanted to see the animals. He knew exactly where we were at and wanted to ride the 'train' (albeit it is really a tram - 3 bus type carts hooked together with roofs and windows that are taken out for the summer).

Jordan even took pictures himself with the digital camera...the ones with the animals he took didn't come out, but the ones he took of me and daddy look perfect! He's getting bigger by the day and wants to do everything himself.

I'm attaching a slideshow of quite a few pictures of the day to include pictures of the animals and the scenery...enjoy!

NW Trek - Photo Slideshow

Change of plans!

We decided to go to NW Trek this coming Saturday instead since the weather is supposed to be sunny and close to 80 degrees, if not higher. It ended up not even being 70 degrees yesterday...well below the normal averages. The sun peeked here and there, but this coming weekend should definitely be better to be outside before the rain and fall/winter gets here.

I can't believe it...Justin is 5 months old today! Time sure does fly by...he is getting so big that facing backwards in his car seat now since he's not yet 20 pounds means his legs have to be bent since he's longer then the car seat. I think we are going to have to invest in a convertible car seat now that is bigger and reclines so that he'll have more room to stretch out until he can face forward. I think he'll be taking after Jordan in the really tall and really skinny department. Jordan's in 4T shirts but only 3T pants since he needs the 3T pants for the waist but the length is a little short, not quite high-water, like his 2T pants were! In fact, I just moved Jordan out of 2T pants because the length was just about at his knees...poor little guy looked 'silly'!

It's been 1 week...

Well it's now been one full week since Jordan has been in big boy underpants. He had a couple of accidents here and there, but all in all, he's been doing very good! Well, I should say I'm talking pee pee since poo poo is an entirely different story. For whatever reason, he's not inclined to poop on the potty as much as he is to poop in his underpants, come find me, and tell me to dump his poop into the potty so he can flush the toilet. I don't understand why he can't just sit on the potty and poop directly into it. I don't know why we have to go through this entire process for 'pooping'. This whole potty training thing is so strange to me, I DEFINITELY found it easier to potty train my two pugs when they were weeks old then training my 3 year old!!! Oh well, work in progress and we are definitely mastering the day pee potty training...I can only hope and be thankful for baby steps:)

We are going to Northwest Trek tomorrow for Labor Day since it is supposed to be the nicest of the three days this weekend. I'll have to post some pictures hopefully tomorrow and let you know how it all went. Jordan doesn't know yet, so it will be a great big happy surprise for him.

On a happy note, we are approximately one weekend away from having a completely remodeled 1/2 bath. Philip cut the white baseboard today so now they just have to be painted a white that matches our existing molding and installed. The final item to finish in the bathroom is the install of crown molding. I should have pictures of this real soon to post...