Cohen first real hair cut

I had been telling Stu I was going to cut Cohen's hair for about a month and he always responded with a "you better not"...sooooo...i waited for him to leave for work on day and I put Cohen in his highchair, got stu's clippers and buzzed his head. I wanted to make sure he got a hair cut before we went to the beach where it would collect sand. It looked pretty good, but it made me sad because he looked like such a big boy. It's so sad how fast they grow up.

Baby #2 - 23 weeks 5 days pregnant

Here are some photos of my pregnant belly. I am 23 weeks and 5 days pregnant.

Memorial Day Weekend 2011 - With Nana

Nana came to visit for Memorial Day weekend. I hadn't seen my mom since Christmas so I was beside myself with excitement to pick her up from the airport. There's nothing better than your mom!!  We did all kinds of fun things with Nana while she was visited. Of course we went to City Park...my obsession. I had never been to story land in City Park so i decided to wait for Nana's arrival so we could take cohen together for the first time. Storyland has all the characters from the nursery rhymes i remember as kid such as Little Bo Peep, The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe, Hickory Dickory Dock, etc. Cohen was more obsessed with the wandering ducks than any of the cool stuff in the park.

We also fed bread to the ducks....not all of the ducks were nice. 

We went to the Zoo!  We ate suckers and rock candy and got sticky!

Nana came with gifts so we played dress up and ran around the house. 

We played on the deck in the pool and in the house.

RIO

Have you seen Rio yet?  If not...load up the kiddos and head to the theater. This movie is great. It's so colorful. We have been tossing around the idea of taking Cohen to the movies for about a month now. We couldn't decide if he was old enough to sit through a movie or if he would get scared. Saturday I brought up the thought of taking him to the movies again and we thought about it and decided we'd try it. Matinees are cheap and Cohen is free so if he starts crying or just doesn't like it we can leave and not feel like we wasted a ton of money. My little man did such a good job. We got our tickets and popcorn and slushies too and found our way to our seats. The theater provides booster seats for little ones so we picked one up, plopped it down in the seat, and sat Cohen on top. We gave him his sippy cup and a cup of popcorn. We couldn't have timed it better; the movie started playing as soon as we sat our butts in the seats. He sat and ate his popcorn and watched for about 40 minutes before making a peep. He even laughed a couple times. After about 40 minutes he got a little wiggly but we just took turns sitting him on our laps and letting him stand up on his booster seat...and NO we were not the obnoxious couple letting their children stand and block the view of other people in the theater. We were up at the top against the wall so there was no one behind us to block. Cohen seemed to have a lot of fun and it adds something to our list of "fun things we can do with Cohen" now that we know he likes to go to the movies.

Weenie Wednesday

On Wednesday nights when the Zephyrs baseball team has home games they offer $1 weenies. We love weenies and who can pass up weenies for a buck. This was the first time this year we had been and we took Cohen with us and crossed our fingers he would behave. When we arrived at the field Stu bought our tickets and we helped Cohen climb three flight of stairs up to the top of the stadium. While we were walking in the National Anthem began so we stopped and waited quietly before heading to the weenie stand. My stomach was growling....i was gonna eat 4 weenies. We get up to the weenie stand and i notice the sign that is usually posted for $1 weenies is missing. I ask politely for a $1 wiener and I am told tonight it's $3 "Wine Wednesday" and that weenies are $4. WHAT...what happened to my beloved "WeenieWednesday"? I looked at Stu...with my growling belly. We were going to go broke buying wieners tonight. What a bummer!!  I can't enjoy $3 wine because I'm preggo and I'm starving and I am going to have to spend $16 on 4 wieners. Do you know how many packs of Jennio Turkey Franks I can buy with $16...I do...that would be 16 packs of Jennio Franks. I sucked it up and bought 5 weenies total. Two for me Two for Stu and one for Cohen and a bag of peanuts...oh and some nachos too. We spent $32 bucks!! 
ZEPHYRS - bring back weenie Wednesday so my family came come to games for cheap!!!  BTW - Cohen was really well behaved at the game and seemed to actually pay attention. We had a loud couple of people in front of us cheering the team on and he found them amusing!  Notice the lack of crowd in the picture....hmmm....maybe because THEY TOOK AWAY WEENIE WEDNESDAY.

Have you had Pinkberry?

 

It is addicting and my 17 month old son LOVES it!  It's frozen yogurt, but it tastes nothing like sweet ice cream. It's more tart. You can choose from original, chocolate, green tea, pomegranate, and coconut. After you choose your favorite yogurt you get to pick three yummy toppings and they have TONS AND TONS of toppings to choose from. Oh i could go on and on about this yummy treat!!  If you see a pinkberry try it out...it's so unique.  

Mother's Day Weekend

family, a photo by stuflannery on Flickr.

My Mother's Day weekend was so much fun. We started celebrating on Friday night. Last month we bought tickets from our church for Vineyard in the Church. Our Church rented out the Carousel Gardens in City Park, which is like a carnival for kiddos. We rode the train and the carousel. Cohen was terrified of the carousel at first, but warmed up quickly once it started moving and he got to wave at daddy as we went round and round. They had free food and free ice cream, we took advantage of that. Cohen had his own ice cream cone for the first time. He destroyed it!!

We woke up early Saturday, packed up the MV (mini-van) and headed to Gulf Shores. We had no idea how Cohen would react to the beach...he LOVED it. He would scream and laugh when the waves came crashing in on his feet. I think we spent most of our time chasing Cohen who was chasing seagulls on the beach. They stole his sandwich...which was hilarious. I am not sure if Cohen liked the beach or the pool more.

Sunday morning we headed back down to the beach to enjoy a few more hours of sand, seagulls, and ocean before we drove home. We didn't last too long because Cohen fell face first in the sand and ate a bunch of it, which caused him to throw up...needless to say he wasn't happy after that so we packed up and went back to the hotel to swim.

My Mother's Day weekend ended with my very sweet husband vacuuming out our minivan and cleaning all the sand off the stroller, umbrellas, chairs, etc. He's the best!!