lots of stuff.

June is busy. It's real busy. Like Christmas busy. Between father's day, end of year shows, concerts, color field days, teacher gifts, bus driver gifts, summer birthday celebrations, last day of soccer, last day of school . . . it's like, PHEW! Throw in getting the house painted, a random queen-sized quilt with a deadline and our best friends moving across the country to Arizona and it's enough to make you . . . not post any pictures for the entire month! So, here's pretty much everything I just said (and more) - in pictures:

First Loose Tooth!!!

First Yoga Class

Trying swim lessons. . . again

So there you have it! Our summer is off to a great start! And if you are particularly interested, here's where you can find more on all things sewing-related that happen in this house. :)

king of the road.

Alphabet dinosaur? Check. Baseball glove? Check. Sparkly crown? Check. 

We can go now, mommy.

A cousin!

We are soooooooooo excited to have a cousin! Congratulations Uncle Timmy and Auntie Seren! 

We can't wait to meet the newest member of the Soper family!

Love You!!! xoxoxo

double dates.

This weekend I had the pleasure of going on TWO dates!

The first date was with Anderson. For mother's day he made me a coupon booklet, and one of the coupons was to take me out to lunch. He talked about this lunch date non-stop, thirty times a day, for two weeks straight. He was so excited! I felt bad because Rowan felt left out, but it was so nice to spend time with just Anderson. It was a rare treat to get to give him my undivided attention. Here's a picture of my handsome little gentleman (before his shirt was covered in chocolate chip pancakes):

The next night we got a babysitter and Tom and I went out for drinks on the water and then tapas. How lucky am I?!?! Here's a picture of another handsome man in my life:

The sunset was amazing that night:

 Seriously, I could get used to this kind of treatment! :)

what we've been up to.

Well, it's been a while. So let me catch you up on what you've missed:

Rowan borrowed Annemarie's coat one afternoon when it got cool, and he "loved" his "new jacket with the blue squiggles" (yes, that would be his description of leopard print)

He loved it so much, he wanted to wear the coat to his school art show, but I refused 

(though he did look Fabulous in it)

Here's Picasso in front of his masterpiece. It's a mountain flower.

Andy scored his first goal at a soccer game (not scrimmage). He was thrilled, and we were thrilled for him. Probably no one more so than Rowan. We celebrated with popsicles.

The boys are obsessed with hockey

 Andy chose me as his "Special Person" for special person day at school

 He sang songs that made me cry and then we ate snacks. It was a perfect day.

Henry is, apparently, speaking too well to receive speech services anymore. He tested out this week. 

 Here he is looking handsome, only hours before coming down with the stomach bug

 Here's the quarantine Rowan set up as he chanted "Don't Touch Hen-ry!"

 Here's Henry wiped out the next day. Little did I know how hard I was about to get hit with the bug myself. . . 

 But I recovered in time to go to Rowan's Mother's Day Tea at preschool. 

And here we are only hours before. . . 

 

. . . you guessed it! Rowan came down with the stomach bug.

Hope you had a great Mother's Day and a great week after. 

We'll be here if you need us. Sitting on the couch eating a BRAT diet til our tummies are back up to speed.

xoxoxo

easter weekend.

Easter weekend came and went in a blur! There was Tim and Seren's baby shower, a visit from the bunny, Easter morning at the beach and Easter dinner with MumMum and Papa. I've come to realize, that even though I bring my camera with me everywhere, I only take pictures when I am not at someone else's house. Because if I'm not at home, I'm too busy making sure they don't wreck that someone else's house to be able to take pictures. So, here's the best of what we got. At home.

Finding the bunny's gifts to be sub-par.

Let the hunt begin. Get ready.

Wait for it. . . 

There it is.

Anderson: perfecting the art of the curled lip at five years old.

Epic meltdown. Head back. In dramatic fashion. 

Henry. Silent but deadly.

Destroying amidst the chaos. Breaking eggs and ripping grass to distribute in every nook and cranny across the room.

Hope you had a happy easter!

hmmmm.

Two weeks have gone by, and I wish that I could say we've used them wisely. But I can't even remember how they passed, or what we were doing. I'll try to remember and get back to you. . .