Mom of Boys

Today was kind of a gloomy day with the weather.  It was overcast all day long and it was kind of cool too.  We had plans today to meet up with my family for my birthday.  We started out at my grandmothers to go swimming and then we were all going to go out to eat at the Olive Garden.  Well, we made it over to ‘gamma elaine’s’ and we did take Caleb over to the pool.  Alec and I sat on pool steps and dipped our feet in.  Caleb loves the water so much!  He had a blast!  He was diving in head first which scared me at first, because I didn’t know he could!  Alec of course loves the water too and tried several times to get in!  He did manage to sit on the top step, WITH his clothes on!  Ha ha!

 

We met the rest of the family at Olive Garden and once we got there it started POURING rain!  We got Caleb a new spiderman umbrella yesterday at Walmart and he was able to use it for the first time.  He was so cute… offering to walk my grandma inside with it!  Like they could both fit under that little thing. 

Caleb was so well behaved at dinner.  He kept everyone laughing and we all just had a great time.  The waitress came over to take out drink order.  Caleb looked up at her and with a totally straight face said, “excuse me ma’am, I think I would like some tea please.”  Everyone kind of just stared at him for a moment.  He went back to his coloring and everyone busted out laughing.    We also order the sampler which had mushrooms, fried cheese and calamari.  Aunt Gayl asked Caleb if he wanted some Calamari.  It was a little loud int his place, so I understand that he couldn’t hear too well and he thought she said, Cala-mario and asked, “Cala-mario?  Like what aunt Carrie has?”  I think I was the only one at the table who understood that he thought she was talking about the Super Mario Brothers.  He followed up by saying, “Of course I want some Cala-mario!”  Well, they gave him some and he LOVED it!  He munched on it till his mac n cheese got there.  He didn’t actually EAT his mac n cheese though…  He ate off of everyone elses plates, which he often ends up doing.  Alec had french fries and chicken fingers, and a little of my mashed potatos too.  We ended dinner with Cake and I got away with not having the staff sing their birthday song!  Woo hoo!!! 

Anyways, it was a good night!  I had fun with my family and my little man made me laugh!  I’m so proud of him. 

Here are some pictures that I took at the pool party yesterday.

My little water Bug! Swimming under the water here…

Caleb with the birthday boy

Caleb and Jayden went swimming in the BIG pool. These pictures were taken in 4-5 ft deep waters. They were swimming around all over the pool all by themselves. Jayden did GREAT and didn’t cry at all when I let go of her. She laughed! Caleb of course was paddleing out and telling Jayden to swim with him, which… once she realized she wasn’t going to go under, was happy to follow!

And… look who is upfront… Helping unwrap the gifts!

So, we went to a birthday part today that was at the community pool.  The kids had a BLAST!  THese guys will be swimming on their own by the end of the summer. 

Caleb was all over as usual and even went under water a few times, which was awesome!  Jayden had a different vest on thsi time around and she did 10 times better with this one!  She was swimming all over the place on her own.  I even had to tell them both that they couldn’t go down the slide, because they were not big enough and then were both upset!  LOL!  Alec was also loving the water… plashing and kicking and just loving every second of it! 

After the pool we went back to their house for cake, ice cream and a piniata.  The kids played and we socialized…  Marcus finally got to meet DJ!  Heidi and I have been trying to get these two men together forever now.  When we were trying to leave, Heidi said, “We’ve been saying for a long time that we need to get them together, we need to get them together…. now we need to get them apart!”  LOL!  They stood there and chatted for a long while before we actually said goodbye! 

Anyways, we had a great time and I got a ton of pictures that I need to make copys of for Heidi and DJ.  I’ll post a few here…  The kids aren’t in bed yet, but I know they are tired.  Maybe it will be another late morning tomorrow! 

We woke up early today!  (compliments of miss Jayden…)  We all got up and ready for the day.  I put the kids bathing suits on under their clothes and we packed up our lunches and then set off to my grandmothers for a swim!  Caleb’s been swimming a few times this summer already and he does pretty well since I got him this new swim floatie thingy.  He sort of doggie paddles around in the water.  I’m working on getting him to use his arms more.  Now, with Jayden… it took her a while  to get used tot he water.  I gave her the life vest thingy that Caleb used last year.  My grandmother pulled her around by her arms in the water, (she wouldn’t let her let go…) and after a little while I got in there and held her while teaching her to kick and move her arms.  She saw Caleb swimming around after a ball and wanted to go to it too, so I told her to kick towards it…  She was so focused on getting to that ball, that whne I let go of her, she didn’t notice.  She was swimming around just fine by herself.  Of course… the minute she looked up and realized that I wasn’t holding her, she panicked and started squirming around…  She did pretty good though!  I got soem video of the two of them swimming that I’ll have to post.  Anyways, we werent out ther elong before the clouds started to come in and we heard Thunder.  Too bad too, because it was so nice out and the water was perfect!  We may try to get out there again next week.  Just watching the weather this time to see what day is best!