Hunter's 3rd Birthday Celebration

This year for Hunter's birthday we celebrated at Shawnee Park.  It was perfect!  It was one of the warmer days we have had this summer but the wind and shade kept the heat bearable.  I was just glad it wasn't raining:-)  Every year when choosing a theme for Hunter's birthday, it gets narrowed down to sports or something else.  Well, that something else won again this year.  But I really think next year will be the year to have a sports themed party.  So this year we went with Disney Planes.  I like coming up with invitations and decorations.  But this year, the decorations were kept minimal because of the location and most of what I did come up with didn't get to be used because it was windy.  Oh well...Hunter enjoyed having the decorations at home;-)

Having the playground for the kiddos to play on was great.  We also brought other activities incase the kids wanted to do something else (bubbles, sidewalk chalk, balls).  We had pizza and cookie cake.  Something I learned was that at Hy-Vee you can get a cookie cake made just like the regular cake.  I thought it was pretty yummy:-)  And I didn't get a picture of it.  Bummer.

Hunter and his birthday banner.
(after the party, when Hunter was resting in his room I hung the banner up in the family room.
When he walked in he was so excited...it was pretty cute:-)

the birthday boy

swinging with dad

the kiddos playing with a new rocket launching toy

Hunter was so excited to get a "big dump truck"!

Hunter, Cole, Wes

Hunter and his new bike

Nora, Eva and Cally

Hunter and Wyatt

Eva turns 4 months old

I'm a month behind writing this post but am trying my best to get the highlights:-)

Her sleep habits have changed...She no longer sleeps through the night:-(  I blame it on going back to work.  The week I went back, she started waking.  She is just waking once and will go back to sleep after nursing.  I have noticed her diaper being very heavy when she wakes, so maybe that is waking her.  I've seen a Pampers commercial showing how babies in their diapers sleep through the night so I bought some;-)  The first night she was in the Pampers diaper she slept through the night!  I couldn't believe the diaper made her sleep:-)  The next night and all the nights after that she continued to wake so I guess the diaper wasn't the trick.

Her car rides are getting better!  She is able to hold on to a "crinkle book" and that keeps her very entertained.  She still has times when she rather not be in the car but we have turned the corner!

She continues to love bath time.

Her giggle is one of a kind.  It's more of a cackle and if you didn't know she was laughing you would think she is crying:-)

4 month stats:
26" long - 97th percentile
16.8 lbs - 97th percentile

We have ourselves one lil big gal:-)  She is wearing mostly 6 month clothes and I'm trying to part with all the cute 3 month clothing that I can't squeeze her into.

4th of July

We had a packed 4th planned and it all went very well.  Lenexa puts on a great parade so we headed to that in the morning.  Lessons learned from attending the Old Shawnee Day Parade and we were prepared for this one.  But learned a few more things for next years parade.  We will bring our tent to sit under and get there just a little bit earlier.  The location we found was pretty good but all the shade was taken by time we got there.  Eva did great, basically sleeping the whole time while I wore her.  Hunter loved sitting in his wagon and then getting out to dance or wave at the different people going by.

After the parade we headed out to buy some fireworks.  Next year we will be more prepared but still got some good fireworks to shoot off.  Then we headed to Jeremy's grandparents where we spent the rest of the day.  They live in KCK so doing fireworks was legal:-)

We had planned on going to watch a show but we decided not too.  I'm glad we didn't because the view from their house was perfect.  We saw lots of different fireworks around the city.  Hunter liked watching the shows.  He was so worn out by time we went home but stayed awake the whole way home.  He kept looking at the window to find fireworks:-)

the kiddos-human and furry:-)

Hunter at the Lenexa Parade

one tired little girl 

Hunter with Uncle Mark

Lil Miss Eva

This is a great picture to show off all her arm rolls:-)

Just hanging out

I finally get a picture with the kids.  Thanks Jeremy!

Hunter enjoying the fireworks while sitting on Jeremy's shoulders 

June Picture Update

Here is a picture update from June.

Hunter at Old Shawnee Days.  We got rockstar parking and viewing for the parade.  It was rainy that morning and kept a lot of people away.  Hunter had a blast watching the parade and we learned that for the next parade to bring some kind of bag for all the loot:-)

Jeremy and Hunter checking out some of the rides  at OSD.

Eva being sweet

Hunter checking out the pool.  I was brave enough to take Hunter and Eva to a public pool by myself.  It wasn't too bad.  The pool had a great set up for kids and I pretty much just held Eva the whole time.
We have been back a few times:-)

While waiting to buy something from Craigslist.  We arrived early and the seller was late so I ended up taking Eva out of her seat and letting her sprawl out on the seat.

While Eva was laying there I discovered her first freckle.
Hard to see from the picture but it's about an inch away from my thumb:-)

Father and daughter watching tv

kiddos and bow-bow

Visit with Great-Grandma Slack

Eva's first time sitting in the highchair  

Bow's birthday treats.  Hunter loved picking them out at Three Dog Bakery and Bow loved eating them:-)

Visit from Uncle Mark.  Hunter is going through a phase where he closes his eyes when taking a picture.

Another book bites the dust.  Bow ripped and ate this book while we were at Jeremy's parents one night.  Bow gets very upset when he isn't taken somewhere he knows he can go.  When we are leaving we try not to say where we are going.  It's pretty sad.  But I need to be better at picking up the books when we leave.  Later that night Bow didn't eat dinner.  The next day I got a text from my mom saying why he didn't eat.  He had thrown up and it was pretty much all book.  I wont add the picture she sent;-)

Hunter and Wes

Hunter on Wes' bike

Deanna Rose trip.  Hunter just calls it the farm.  Another  outing with just Hunter and Eva.  I felt pretty good about our visit by ourselves until we were in the parking lot walking to the car and Hunter ran right into the side mirror of the car parked right next to us.  Hunter doesn't cry much but he sure let out a big cry with lots of tears:-(

Love the expression on Hunter's face

Just chillin

and Hunter just chillin

Eva's 3 month Pictures

3 months is hard to photograph.  She isn't too happy on her tummy and can't sit up.  But I love having her cute little face captured.  Here are a few pictures from her session.