Growing and summertime fun.... My little man is growing up so fast! Here is just a snapshot from about two weekends ago we were out of state for one of my younger first cousins high school graduation. I am super proud of my little cousin who was awarded a $150k Academic scholarship to college and he also was MVP at his school from football. He will try to do a walk on as a freshman on the football team and just maybe, he might be able to get additional scholarship money for the athletic side. I am so so so proud of him that I do not know what to do. He wants to become a Radiologist and he has ambition. As I shared on FB that no one should allow any circumstance or situation hinder them from achieving a goal! It is about persistence, prayer and determination. My son had a ball that weekend and I am glad that we sacrificed a quick weekend to travel with kids! It is nice to let family see the children when they are growing and changing so quickly. We were in a somewhat rural area and he had fun running around during the cookout blowing bubbles and playing with his water guns that my parents brought him.

It has been a long time since I posted! Shame on me, however, I have a good excuse. We have been enjoying and getting through the first three months of a newborn. Lack of sleep, every two hour feedings etc. However, the week my daughter turned 3 months she began sleeping through the night and our consistent schedule kicked in. She may wake up once through the night or early morning for a bottle and then go back to sleep after being burped. So, without anymore talk, I introduce to you my daughter. She is three months old now and will be 4 months early July. She is a happy baby and a complete joy. Her big brother is such a great help and loves her to death. We thought we would have tons of jealousy issues, however, we did not. Thank God! I have been a little slack with checking the email account for the blog, so feel free to continue contacting me there if you have any questions or prefer to comment there. I will do better with responding to emails! I am going to actually add that account to my phone so that I can know when I get an email sent to it. Here is a little picture that I took at home when she turned three months earlier this month. Nothing fancy, just a picture to capture her growth and changes weekly. I arrived home one evening from seeing patients in scrubs and my husband and I took the kids out into the yard and took a few shots before it became dark. I will back up later and show a few pictures of her from newborn until now. It is a little different in our home with 2 now. We are adjusted well, however, it is an adjustment. Traveling with 2 and just everything! It is a joy!

Part 2: Party pictures...

I have finally had an opportunity to upload a few images here. These are just a few random pictures from the birthday party in no particular order. I will do a small part 3 on how we kind of planned for this party and began designing a little early. We held the party at a park where you can reserve parts of the park with with a picnic area and all. I needed to have it somewhere to accommodate the number of guests that we were expecting (Which was about 50-60). We had about 23 children plus parents. In many cases, as most of our functions, both parents came and I also had a few older siblings come with the parents. They were welcomed to come as well.

The day started off windy and ended up being a nice day. My only regret was not remembering to hire someone to come to take pictures for the first two hours. I was busy trying to speak to everyone and be a hostess and I did not get nearly as many pictures, quality pictures as I usually do at events. I did get some beautiful pictures of the children riding the train and I have shared those pictures on FB since there are so many little ones in the pictures.

The lunch boxes had pre-packed subway sandwiches for the children and chips. I also had a subway party platter out for the adults and we had hot pizza delivered as well, shortly after the party started. Therefore, the children and parents had two food items to select from and it was easy since we were outside. My parents were the best at helping us package the lunch boxes and put the labels on. The wind was blowing table cloths and decorations everywhere initially. That is one reason why we held off put three sets of the banner up in the picnic area.

The most important thing was the kids had a blast riding the train over and over and jumping in the bouncer until they were tired. Everyone enjoyed themselves and despite the previous 4 days being rather worrisome for my husband and I with a sick child who had high temperatures for 4 days until the antibiotics kicked in. He did not enjoy his party as much as his friends did the entire time, however, he enjoyed it to the best of his ability as he was not 100% that day. He loves looking at the party pictures and he definitely enjoyed the cake! His actual birthday was that following Monday and we took ice cream, cupcakes and punch to the school for a party after nap time and the teacher put up his birthday banner on the door in the classroom. He also wore his number 3 birthday shirt that day and we allowed him not to wear his uniform so that he could celebrate it with his birthday attire. I guess I need to post a picture of that later! This was a big deal for me to take the time to upload these.
Enjoy!