Weekend Recap

Happy Easter, friends!  We had a very busy but fun-filled weekend.  G and I both had Friday off from school and work respectively, so it was more like a three day weekend for us (technically four day since I had yesterday off too - woohoo!).

We made the most of it and met one of my besties for lunch at a popular local restaurant.  I wondered if it was going to be crowded being Good Friday and all, and sure 'nuff, we had to park and walk a good five minutes.  It was a nice excuse to get some exercise (not just from the walking but from carrying my 26 pound little dude) and well worth it to meet up with a good friend.

In fact, she was the first lunch date G and I had after he was born.  Now that my work schedule is much more flexible, we try and meet for lunch once or twice a month to catch up on life.  It beats texting and FBing any day.

No, G was not nursing in the picture on the left!!!  ;)

What can I say? -- He's always had a thing for hot blondes!  I've known sweet H since middle school even though we weren't friends (or enemies) until college, crazy enough.  She is down to earth, isn't a girly girl like me, and has a big heart.  I love her so and am grateful she is patient and understanding with all of my mom texts like, "He's still sleeping... can we meet an hour later than we had planned?"  I can't wait until they start their own family and we can turn our lunch dates into play dates!

After lunch, G and I hit up the grocery store where he likes to "drive" the race car shopping cart and point at every free sample station and demand some food.  He got many admiring looks and compliments on his ridiculously adorable hat.

Now all he needs are his golf clubs!

Yes, he is wearing the same thing from the pictures in my last post because these were from the same day.  I put him in hats often because I myself love hats and also because I think babies and little kids look cute in them.

We also ventured out to get hair cuts -- for G and for dada.  G is still not a big fan but was amazed that dada also got his done.

R took one for the team and held the squirmy, crying toddler.

Mama's job was to try and pacify him with youtube videos of Flo Rida songs... after the mandatory crying pics, of course!

Saturday we started our first gym class at a new facility.  He is still in gymnastics (check out his forward roll skills down below - ha!), but we dropped G*ymboree and decided to try out another place.  I have nothing negative to say about G*ymboree at all.  G still likes going there, but after one year, mama was ready for a change.

Yay - gymnastics class is finally paying off!  Haha

He sat in his new teacher's lap immediately and loved every minute of it!  I like that it's early enough on a Saturday morning not to interfere with his nap time and it allows R to come with us.

Then we went to a good friend's one year birthday party (sorry, no pics were taken - fail!), came home, worked on the house for a bit and called it a day.

Life is hard!

Yesterday the Easter bunny came and left G two new books.  One of them he bought last year on sale after Easter - that smart little bunny!  ;)  I didn't do Easter bunny pics this year (or last year) and didn't do an Easter basket full of goodies.  I know there will be plenty of that in the years to come, as well as dyeing eggs, etc.  But for now, those things can wait and I am just fine with that.

G's Easter loot with his beloved sheepie peeking out... he's obviously not new!

He did have three different egg hunts in the span of this past week, and since then, he has enjoyed playing "egg hunt" at home.  I put a few little crackers or cookies in an egg, and "hide" it while he is fast on my heels.  Then he holds up his hands like he doesn't know where the egg is and snatches it from its "hiding" spot three seconds later to devour the goods inside.  Fun times!

We had a really nice Easter lunch (pot luck style) with my family.  I so love getting all the cousins together - can't wait until more are added to the bunch!

It's hard to get a good one of all 4 of them -- G wasn't helping any either :).

Sweet boys!

I hope your weekend was as good as ours and got to spend it with those you love.