The rest of the week

This is Joey in the Double Jogging stroller from our Saturday rollerblading trip.

Monday Kristin and Pete came over for dinner. MJ was doing something cute and then asked if we could take a picture. Of course, by the time I got the camera, he was bored with the whole idea. But I managed to get this.

This is an old picture from when the Kazas came over. Catherine and Joey had a little bit of fun together. Oh, and very exciting news from this week is that we have a new neice. Maria Clare was born Wednesday night. There will be 4 Suarez grandkids in the same grade. Catherine, Joseph, Natalie, and Maria. Bobby and Suzanne will complete the cousins being born this year, but their little one is due in October and I guess technically would be in a different grade than Joey.

Oh, and while I have no picture of it. We tried out a new babysitter last night. I went out for a baby shower for my friend Molly. We had a terrific time. Our favorite babysitter, Jessica, is going off to college :-( but she has 4 younger sisters. The next in line, Sarah, is very nice. MJ and Joey were well-behaved and fell asleep just fine. Yay!

Park fun!

These were from our park day on Saturday. I thought I'd get Joey out of the stroller for a bit and try out some new things. While he can sit up on the floor, sitting up in a swing like this is a little tricky. But he had a blast.

MJ can do the bigger kid swings, but he has fun on these too.

Joey's a bit young for sliding, but we tried having MJ and Joey go down together. MJ loved it...Joey seemed a bit concerned.

I'm not sure why I suggested MJ try the monkey bars. You know it has only made our park trips more difficult. We have to lift him across the bars, but he is able to just hold on and hang by himself.

Last weekend

In a last ditch effort to catch up with this, I'm going to try to recap last weekend before this weekend arrives. Friday night we met up with Andrea and Andy Staron to celebrate Andy's birthday (a little belated). They live in Georgetown now. Our boys were suprisingly well behaved at dinner and then enjoyed hanging out in the 3x dorm room that the Staron's live in. Joey fell asleep in his car seat while MJ just enjoyed hanging out.

The cooler weather leant itself to fun outside time. Saturday we rollerbladed to the park. I may have mentioned the W&OD trail before, but it is really great. Joey had an amazing poopy day on Saturday. He seems to hold his BMs in for 3-7 days...and I guess Saturday was the day to let it all out. The first one he pooped all the way up his back to his shoulder. Impressive yes, but it happens to every baby. Then he had another poopy diaper. Okay, 2 ruined outfits in one day...it can happen. But then #3 came along. I mean, Wow kid! These cute pictures were taken at the end of the day when we were so close to bathtime that changing into clean clothes didn't make sense.

This is Joey trying to launch himself from sitting and then crawl towards the paper.

Sunday we were browsing Walmart and found a bicycle trailer that holds 1 or 2 kids. I've been looking to get one for awhile. While this one of the cheapest ones out there, it seems to do the trick. It's narrower than others, but that makes it easier to stay on narrow sidewalks. I'm a little concerned that when they are both bigger boys that they won't fit. Already they were sitting quite squished but they didn't seem to mind.