Fun in and around the Bounce House

 In June we went down the street to our friend Liz's house for her suprise birthday party! (Gabe and I filled up all those balloons by the way)

There were a lot of fun activities there for us to do.  Preston and I started out by reading a book, he was getting a little overwhelmed by all the people.  I had never seen him do that before.

After we calmed down we decided to go outside and try the bounce house.

 After he was in there by himself for a minute or two he wanted me to join him.

 He absolutely loved the bouncing (please ignore my crazy legs)

 I left again and Tessa took care of him for me.

 until he started eating her hair.  I had to step in on that one.

He was having soooo much fun!

 

Then he realized that he was in there and I wasn't anymore

 but his friend Sawyer still was and they decided to try to escape together 

 But Sawyer was a LOT faster at getting out than Preston

 So he decided to give me puppy dog eyes

 and plead with me until I helped him out.  A cage kind of sounds like a good idea some days.  Maybe I should invest in one of those.  Just Kidding of course. :)

 When he was finally rescued we decided to try out a swing but he wasn't too excited about those if you can't tell.

 So daddy swept him away

 and took him on the playground where he still wasn't enthusiastic

 Until daddy took him down the slide

 Yay!  Once was enough. :)  Then we moved back inside where

 Preston started cooking for us

 and doing dishes

 What a manly man!?!

 He loves being all grown up... or at least thinking he is.

Thanks for the fun fun day Shawn and Liz!

Come Fly With Me

When we were on our way home from visiting Gabe's parents in Cincinnati Preston was able to enjoy running around in the airport a little bit. He also thought it was pretty cool to look at the planes through the big window that he could see his reflection in. He really liked being on the plane because he could look out the little window too and rest with daddy until he realized that he was going to be stuck there for a really long time. Oh well, at least he had fun some of the time. Hopefully he'll still like the plane on our next trip!

Row Row Row Your Boat?

A few months ago Preston was being quiter than usual and then all of a sudden started crying. I went in the other room and found this. He had somehow gotten stuck inside the stuffed animal basket. That's pretty impressive for him because he's never been much of a climber. Which became apparant when he started crying because he couldn't climb back out. I don't know it looks pretty scary down there mister bear.Maybe you should join me up here...
in my boat. I'm glad he's constantly finding new ways to entertain himself.

Disclaimer: The pink stuffed animals pictured in this post, including the care bear, do not belong to my son. They are mine from when I was little... or in college, or something... Anyway, the point is they are not his. :)

A What?

Here's some background information about me. I was born in northern Utah and lived there until I was three when we moved to northern Idaho and we lived there until I was ten. Then we moved on to northern California for two years. The next place we moved was somewhere I had to look on a map to find (sad I know) Indiana. A small town in the southeast portion called Connersville. I lived through the the remainder of my middle and high school years. I learned to appreciate the town but at first it was a LOT different than anything I was used to growing up in the west. People would call a "vacuum" a "sweeper" and some people still can't pronounce my name right. :) One of the things that I don't think I've ever gotten used to is the term "pitch-in".

One of our first Sundays at church there in Connersville there was announcement about the congregation having a pitch-in later on that week. Every one in my family was trying to figure out what that meant. Were we supposed to bring pitch forks or something? Finally we had to ask someone and they said "You know, a pitch-in, everyone's going to the park to play games and eat." We were so confused. It turns out this word is interchangeable with what we in the west call a potluck. I guess it actually makes more sense than a potluck if you think about it. Everyone comes and pitches in a little bit by bringing a dish to add to the meal. Where did the name potluck come from anyway? Oh well, it's all confusing and silly.

If you're wondering why I'm telling you this long pointless story don't worry I'm about ready to get to the point. While we were visiting Sedona, Arizona this spring we found this beauty! I thought my family would appreciate it. It just made me laugh! I hope people don't get confused and bring only garbage to the pitch-in. :)

My Favorite!

Gabe's been on a business trip the past couple of days so out of boredom I started watching America's Got Talent. There are a few really talented people on there so it was kind of fun for me to watch. This guy was absolutely amazing and I loved the song he sang. This one's for you Mom. :)

Chapstick and Chapped Lips

Every day as I sit at the computer I have my phone and my chapstick on a small end table right next to me. I try to get up during the day as little as possible if I can help it. Yes, that is the couch potato in me. As Preston has gotten older and taller I've had to slowly move those items back when I realized he could reach them. One day he did reach my chapstick and I decided it would be okay for him to play with because he absolutely loved it. I couldn't have been more wrong.

As you can see he decided to try putting it in his mouth just like most things... and continued to leave it there and chew on it and suck on it until it was all wet inside yes, he is guilty of giving mommy even more chapped lips than before.

You know that feeling you had when you were a little kid with chapped lips and no chapstick so you kept licking your lips over and over again because it made them feel better at the moment... Then eventually you have an awful red rash all around your mouth because you were actually making it worse? Okay, so maybe I'm exagerrating a bit, but that was kind of what it was like applying chapstick to my lips that was coated in someones saliva. It's even grosser that it wasn't mine (not to mention the fact that it probably wasn't good for him either). So that chapstick is long gone and Preston is never aloud to play with my new much better burt's bees chapstick because now my chapped lips are long gone too thank goodness.

A Day With the Heidi's

Sometime in May we went to the Children's Museum with my friends Heidi and Heidi. It was tons of fun! I think I might have appreciated it more than Preston though. I'm sure he'll love it when he gets a little bit older. :) Here's a slideshow of all we did.

Out With the Old... In With the New

There are a lot of reasons I haven't been blogging lately, but one of them has to do with the fact that my beloved laptop decided to die on me at the beginning of last month. :( Preston is the only one in our family who's happy about it because it is now his "toy" laptop, he's even broken one of the keys off already.

Because the battery died and the backlight went out... and there were a whole lot of other problems that weren't easy to fix we decided to buy a new computer. As you can see the screen is already dirty on this one too, oh well.

I am really glad that I have my pretty new laptop so I can start blogging again. Oh, and doing homework too I guess. :)