A two year old's social calendar

The past couple of weeks have left me tired and drained.  We had about 10 days worth of a "clogged" little boy, that resulted in a cranky and moody toddler....and parents.  Early last week we finally started to see a glimpse of that happy, smiley, and giggly boy.  What a relief.  In the midst of that we attended two birthday parties AND welcomed a new baby girl to the family. Ethan has a new cousin!!  My baby sister delivered Macy Denise on July 16.  She is perfect.

Leaving from a visit to see her last week.  Sweet hugs and kisses for baby.

We left them in the room alone for a minute and we came back to this.  He is very gentle and sweet so far.  And even shares his water bottles and trucks.

The week baby girl was born, we also had a birthday party for Ethan's buddy, Camden.  

This is how we arrive to parties.

And we wear our sunglasses at night indoors

The blur going by with everyone but the birthday boy.

And our little OCD truck driver

We hadn't seen Sarah and Abigail for a week or two since they were on vacation so after the party we went to get something to drink at Chick-fil-a.  Our little love birds had a great time catching up.  They hugged, they kissed, the chased each other in an almost empty restaurant.

We also had a very special visitor this week.  Great Grandma Flynn came in from Arizona to visit us.  We had a couple of family dinners, she came to see what we do in a normal day and tour the new house, and we had a big trip to Grapevine Mills.  We went to the aquarium, had lunch at the Rainforest Cafe, and ended the afternoon by building a bear at the Build-A-Bear Workshop.  

Checking out the rescued turtles

Lunch at Rainforest.  Both kids were scared of the fake tigers that went off every ten minutes, Ethan more than Emma.
He sat in my lap, holding me the entire meal.

Filling "Bluesy"

Filling "Huggsie"

Emma showing Ethan how to bathe our animals

Uncle Mike making his Baylor bear

We started out nicely......

And ended like this.  

Thank you Great Grandma Flynn for our fun day and for coming to visit.  We had a great time visiting with you and hope to see you again soon.

And lastly, we ended our week with a fun birthday party for our friend Abigail, commonly known as Abby at our house.  He, and all of the other little ones, had a fantastic time at the pool and splash pad.  He even made me go down the big kid slide many, many times.  

C'mon, mom

After the party we invaded their house for the evening since Dad is in Vegas. The two kids had a great time playing with the scooter and quad.  They even had a bath together.  I miss being able to get together with their family like we used to do.

Like father, like son

Splish, splash

I am one exhausted momma.  We have a very active little one with a very busy social life.  I am so grateful to have the happy and carefree  sweetheart back!  He is back to being full of joy and energy.  Which is a good thing or we would have never survived this past week.  Now if we could just get Robert back home life would be just about perfect.