Drinks with a Friend in Malibu

This afternoon we went to a late lunch in Malibu to we meet up with R's friend from high school. Matteson is single, but this afternoon he put up with our little mans' antics and may still want a family after hanging with us. We enjoyed sitting on the deck of the restaurant watching the waves and being with an old friend.

PJ happily bouncing in Daddy's lap

K Can Run

This weekend we are in the Los Angeles area, enjoying a mini family vacation. To start off the fun weekend, K ran a half marathon this morning. K didn't get to train much in the last month, so if she just finished that would have been a good accomplishment. She started the race at 7:30am. The plan was to meet K at the finish line. While K ran, PJ and I went back to the hotel for a tasty breakfast and some playtime. Although she had not been training much, PJ and I made it to the finish line at 9:30 just in case she actually was running 10 minute miles. I look down to make PJ a bottle, looked up and there was my amazing wife. She made it to the finish and did it in 2 hours and 15 minutes! Thank goodness for the Jim Hammell genes; I'm married to a physical powerhouse.

According to PJ's Face

Can you guess what we had for dinner?

Italian!

Day Care Pictures-10 months old

PJ has a good time at day care, and we love that they share pictures with us, enjoy. 

Climbing the ramp in the hallway

Playing/Eating GAK (corn starch and water)

Playing with a glove

Offering to share the glove

PJ and his buddy Noah

PJ still hangs out with his tongue out

Teacher Deb and PJ playing with scarves

Latest art piece, made with his feet!

Something New

PJ has been a busy little dude but nothing that new, until today.  Today PJ finally figured out how to open the cabinet doors.  Yep, I will be visiting Amazon after blogging this to find some child locks for the doors!  Before I realized how dangerous the inside some of our cabinets are I captured some cute pictures of PJ pulling all our baking pans out.  He took great pleasure in banging the pans together and pulling them onto the floor.  We had a good time watching him.

Daily Grind

We are finding a grove, its pretty routine during the week.
We start the day by getting up before PJ, shower, dress and generally get ready for the work day.   Around 6ish, we get PJ up dressed, bottle fed and ready for daycare.  We leave the house about the same time; R heading off to work.  I drop PJ off at daycare and then off to work for me.  We work 8-9 hours which gets us to about 4pm - 5pm and I go pick up PJ.  I get to hear how PJ's day was from his sweet teachers and then we head home.  At home we get dinner on the table while entertaining PJ and Cheyenne.  These days they entertain each other a lot.  PJ's latest is watching Cheyenne eat her food outside while he bangs on the door, singing and hollering the whole time.  Then once Chey is done eating she wiggles and barks to come back in so that she can bring her toys to PJ.  PJ loves to investigate all of her toys as she brings them to him and then PJ hands them back to Chey.  So much fun and gives me just enough time to make dinner, while Ry gets PJ's bottles ready for the next day.  After we eat dinner, PJ gets a bath, then a book if he is not starving, then a bottle and by 7ish PJ is in bed for the night!
Lately we have not been sleeping through the night but we are confident that won't last much longer.
Well since we are finding a groove, I am pretty sure its all going change....

Sunday Lunch

 

 

 

Sunday we went over to Aunt Amy's parents' house to celebrate her dad's birthday.  We had a delicious salmon meal and talked a lot about bike riding, flying and how awesome PJ is developing!  

PJ exploring the single step.  He kept going down and then crawling back over it

PJ climbing over the step to get to Sammy girl

Eating rice with Aunt Amy, using the serving spoon and Auntie's spoon!

Wearing Green

My boys in green! Celebrating St Patty's Day at a Greek breakfast place. We love diversity.

Sleep...

PJ has been recovering from his ear infection, amoxacilin "body cleanser", 4 teeth coming in, and a fluctuating appetite.  All of his changes equate to terrible night time sleep.  He is waking up with either very full diapers, gassy tummy grumbles, ready to be awake for a little while just because he can't sleep, loss of binky, or because he is starving.  With all these reasons for the wake ups, we are not sure when we should have him cry it out or when we should go in and give him a hug/change diaper/feed him.
Looking forward to the next phase, until then we are going to sleep when he does to maximize the shut eye.
Good night!
-K

Playing with Momma

PJ and momma got some time to play and be silly.  Nothing makes PJ happier to be upside, tossed sideways and about.  He also just likes hanging out in your arms.  Look how long PJ is in the second picture.