Weekend Recap

What a beautiful weekend! The weather was amazing and we took advantage of it. On Friday morning we went for a walk and it was almost chilly but it felt kind of nice!

After our walk I headed to the grocery store to pick up some supplies for appetizer night. Michael was making his taco dip and I made smores pops. Friday night we headed to Tif's parents' house for appetizers and the guys were playing poker. Tif, Sandi and I hung out with the kids and talked. Ethan had so much fun watching his cousins play. Pretty soon he'll be down playing with them. Makayla was showing off her walking skills behind her stroller.

On Saturday we got up and went to breakfast and then ran some errands. I needed to return some things at Babies R Us and pick up props for Ethan's next monthly photo shoot. After running around we headed home and I did some things around the house. I had one last closet in the house that hadn't been cleaned out. I wanted to clean out the coat closet and turn it into a gift closet to hold all of my wrapping paper supplies and gifts to wrap. I've already started Christmas shopping so I wanted to have a place to put everything and keep it organized. The two big tubs on the bottom are almost empty and ready to be stocked with gifts!

After cleaning out the closet, Ethan was still sleeping so I kept my organizing going by packing away the first batch of Ethan's clothes. I packed away all of his newborn and 0-3 month clothes. His 3 month clothes will be getting packed away soon too as we move on to 3-6 month clothes. It was a little sad to pack a few of those outfits away since they were so little, but it was fun to organize his new and bigger size clothes too. Our little man is getting so big!

When Ethan woke up we had some fun and played. He is really getting into his toys and he absolutely loves sitting up. He can sit in his chair for a long time now, an hour to an hour and a half.

Saturday night we went out for dinner and came home and just relaxed.

On Sunday we wanted to do something outside since it was going to be so nice out. We've been wanting to get a family pass at the Brookfield Zoo so we figured it would be a perfect day to visit. Arla and Teddy are members too so we thought we'd see if they wanted to meet us up there. They were planning on going to the zoo too so it worked out perfect! We got our membership when we got there so we are officially members for the next year. We are planning on going to Boo at the Zoo and Zoo lights so it made sense to just join. After we got our membership stuff done we headed in and went to the dolphin show to get our tickets to the 11:30 show. Then we walked around and checked out the animals until it was showtime.

After walking around for a couple of hours it was time for the dolphin show. I don't think I've seen the dolphin show in 15 years so it was fun to be back and have our little man with us. They had a cute Olympics theme for the show and it was really good. I was glad we were up high though because they were very splashy!

After the dolphin show we headed to get some lunch. We had to take some family pictures in front of the sign and fountain though first!

For lunch we grabbed some sandwiches and found a shaddy picnic table to eat at. I fed Ethan a bottle and Lily, well Lily fed herself some macaroni and cheese! The following pictures are very....cheesy, HA!

She had a ball eating her mac and cheese, she was so funny to watch! She's doing so well eating like a big girl! After she was done Teddy and Arla cleaned her up and we were on our way again. 

We went to a few more exhibits and went to the gift shop before calling it quits for the day. The kids and the parents needed a nap! It was also getting pretty crowded. It was a fun day and it was just great to be outside enjoying the amazing weather. We came home and Ethan and Daddy took a nap. We had some dinner and just relaxed the rest of the night. It was a great family weekend and we have many more fun family weekends coming up! Here's hoping the week goes by fast so we can do it again!

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