You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat!

     Well, it's Shark Week! Since there is nothing on TV and once Big Brother is in bed there's no leaving the house we've actually tuned into Shark Week with some regularity so far this year. Froggie has gotten pretty into it and had it out with a shark finger puppet at school today.

I'm supposed to be afraid of that thing? I'll show him!

SHARK ATTACK!

Froggie's victory over the shark!

     On a different note, Big Brother used his "treasure" from yesterdays Family Weekend event to buy his own car. He picked it out and handed over his coins in exchange for a new car. Hubby was being kind of sappy and took a picture. (This worked out in my advantage so I could use it here)

     Apparently attacking sharks takes it out of you, she's been passed out like this for almost half an hour!

Family Weekend Part 2

    Today was the second day of family weekend. We had a later start and Big Brother slept in a little. Once everyone was up, dressed and fed we headed up to the reserve center. When we got there they were setting up a giant bounce house and prepping lunch. We played a little in the two smaller bounce houses before having lunch. Froggie watched from her seat for a bit before going into the Ergobaby for the majority of the day.

     There were some other events today as well. There was a treasure hunt for the kids, a dunk tank, crfts and some of the higher ranking individuals got "pied" in the face. There were 3 bounce houses in varying sizes. The largest one was an obstacle course and after a series of races by the adults Hubby and I each took Big Brother through twice and ended up with some minor vinyl burn. 

Treasure hunt

Dunk tank

Dunk tank take 2

Obstacle course

End of the obstacle course

The obstacle course!

     'Did I mention that Big Brother has started doing REALLY well with the potty? He is typically not very good about leaving toys or activities but today he let us know a handful of times that he had to go and he even went poo away from home/school! We made a pit stop at the toy store on our way home and picked up a plane and a car for our big boy as well as a new "big girl carseat" for Froggie. Over all it was a fun weekend, but it was pretty exhausting

The Big Latch On and Family Weekend

     What a day!

     We were up and moving around a little earlier than typical for a Saturday morning today. I was determined to make it to The Big Latch On event since we had one locally. This was an event to attempt to break a world record for the number of simultaneously breastfed children. It was started in New Zealand and is always done during World Breastfeeding Week; last year there were 8,862 children breastfed during the event. 

     After we checked in we took Big Brother to play on the nearby park. I forgot all 3 of my carriers at home so I carried Froggie around while he ran around playing. It was nice to be able to keep an eye on him but give him space to explore on his own too. He loved the ladders and climbed them so well. At one point he told me not to help him because he was being careful. He played in the ship and made some new friends. He even found a frog for his sister and asked if he could sit on it - frogs have become pretty big for us.

Sitting in the pirate ship

Big Brother with the frog!

     Then it was time to feed Froggie. She ate briefly before the event but she never passes up the opportunity for milk! From 10:30am - 10:31am she ate and was counted to see if a record could be broken. At 6 months old Froggie has already participated in 2 events to challenge world records - todays event and The Great Diaper Change a couple months ago. The event was great aside from the fact that Big Brother decided today was a good day to start wandering and ran away from us twice. We hung out for awhile and did the chinese auction and I bought an awesome new shirt!

Record breaking Froggie

Sleepy milk face post event.

My new shirt

     After The Big Latch On we headed over to the reserve center for family day. This is mostly so adults can stock up on free materials and suffer death by power point regarding any military related topic you can imagine. We got some new coloring books, stickers and even some board books regarding being separated from a parent. The best thing we walked away with this afternoon though were deployment readiness boxes for each of the kids with a cute bear in it. The bear has dog tags and other accessories but the kids seemed to enjoy them "as is" out of the box.

     We head back to the reserve center tomorrow for another family day. We were promised this would be more "pinic-like" and there will be fun activities going on.

They love the bears!

Froggie and her new bear

     Our third event for the day was a "moving party" for my friend. She'll be leaving in a week and so there was one last organized shin dig tonight. (I will be sending her hate messages if I don't see her again in the next 6 days) It was a nice evening and seeing a  lot of faces I don't get to see too frequently was nice. My sister stole Big Brother's hat because the sun was in her eyes and it actually fit! Big Brother also snuggled up with Bella for a bit while watching a movie.

My sister wearing a toddler-sized hat

Big Brother snuggling with Bella

We Have Entered the Twilight Zone

     It's official, we've entered uncharted territory.
     Froggie got to try out the exersaucer at school today. She's tall enough now that she's standing rather than hanging so I think it's safe for her to use. She not putting any more stress on her hips than if I were to hold her in a standing position.

Big girl Froggie in a new toy!

     On non-school nights Big Brother is allowed to stay up a little later to spend more time with us/ participate in social things/ watch a movie/ etc. Tonight before his movie was over he asked for his cars, collected them all and headed for his room without anyone even uttering the word "bedtime". It's not every day your two year old sends themselves to bed.
     Froggie also laid with Hubby and watched the Pirates game while I stuffed diapers. I came up to a Froggie all prepped for bed in her harness and covered with her blankie.
     She's starting to be pretty upset with having to wear the harness since she's out of it more than she wears it. We never really did a count down or anything but she has 8 nights left of sleeping as a Froggied Princess!

Watching baseball in bed with Hubby

6 Months Old!

     Froggie is 6 months old today! I don't have a lot to say, but we've been through a lot of adjustments in the last few months. As we put Froggie in her harness for bed time I know that we're not quite done with her treatment and am reminded to live in the moment because things change consistently. Anyway, here are some cute pictures of Froggie!

Family Day and post #100

     Yesterday was a busy day for our family. Big Brother and I started off the day with doctor appointments and then headed to work/school. We had a busy and fun day there!

     Big Brother went poo in the potty at school! This has been a hurdle he hadn't quite passed until today. We had made a deal with him a week or so ago that if he went on the potty at school we could stop at the toy store and pick something out on the way home.

     So... after work/school we met hubby at the toy store to pick out a toy. Big Brother lucked out since the things he likes ( read as cars) aren't horribly expensive. So we told him to pick two. He's a smart cookie, he picked a single and double pack and they were buy oneget one 50% off so he was happy and so were we! 

     After the toy store we headed out to the zoo for a late evening there with a friend of ours who will be moving to North Carolina in just a few days. Every Wednesday in July our local zoo was open until 8 instead of 5 and because we have a zoo membership we got these fun cards for everyone. It worked out nicely because the only thing Froggie really needed a tab for was the carousel which our friend didn't really want to do anyway. 

     We took LOTS of pictures! Getting Big Brother to participate meant that we needed to ask him to roar like a lion for all of them. This ended up with a lot of pictures with his mouth open!

Our little family at the zoo!

My best friend, the kids and I

Froggie squeezing Hubby

Froggie kissing Hubby

Of course she road a frog!

Train ride!

Froggie was over pictures

One last smile on the train

Have I mentioned she started kissing people?