Our weekend

We had a fun weekend around our house. Saturday morning while Isaiah was taking his morning nap, I took Carter to go school supply shopping! I still can not wrap my brain around the fact that our firstborn is going to be a big kindergartener. I don't know about you, but I used to LOVE school supply shopping. Yeah, I'm a dork like that. I hope Carter will love school as much as I did (and still do!).
Once little man woke up, we headed downtown. There is so much to do here and we haven't even covered half of it. We ate at a greek place. The food was alright but overpriced. Then we went to the Pioneer museum. I regret not bringing my camera but as I have mentioned before, we travel with so much. If I can lighten the load at all, I do. Ha! The only couple of pictures I do have are from Theo's camera. This is the three of us playing dress up.

 We left the museum kind of late. Olivia didn't even have a nap on Saturday and she did suprisingly well.  That evening, Theo and I sat outside on porch in our new rocking chairs. It was so nice. The weather here in the summer is just gorgeous. I won't be saying that four or five months from now but at this moment, I love the weather here!

Sunday was my day to volunteer at church so I took Isaiah and Olivia with me. Theo stayed home to work on his mid-term and Carter wanted to stay too for a change. So it was nice having the two youngest with me. After dinner, we took the kids on a spontaneous trip to Cold Stone Creamery and then to splash around in the water fountains right outside the movie theater. It was so much fun watching them run and squeal. I have a video of it that I'll try and put on here soon. It's on my phone so it's not great quality but they were having so much fun.

Back to reality tomorrow. We have a fairly busy week ahead so I'm thankful for all of the fun we had this weekend!

A fun comparison

I've spent quite a bit of time the past few days perusing through old photos online and thought it would be fun to share pictures of Carter getting his first meal of baby cereal, and also Olivia. Do Carter and Isaiah look just alike or what? Can't believe this little guy is about to start kindergarten!

and Miss Priss (who happened to be the worst baby food eater but best toddler eater, so far at least)

and Isaiah who is a pretty good eater thankfully and a lot less messy than his older sister!

Symbols of the South

Rice Rice Baby

We started Isaiah on some rice cereal right after we got back from Louisiana. He wasn't sure what to make of it. But he did a lot better than Olivia did at this age. I think the first batch was mostly breastmilk so I think he liked it!

But in this picture, I'm not so sure!

And this one, I'm pretty sure he's thinking he's had enough of this mess :)

To date, he's had some avocado, mashed banana, and a little bit of plum. His little system didn't digest the banana too much and he was quite cranky the night after he had it so I'm going to slow down a bit and stick to cereal for a while longer. I did go to Whole Foods this week and bought organic plums, peaches, bananas, and sweet potatoes. I made a big batch of the plums and sweet potatoes and froze them in cubes. I'm really excited about making baby food this time. I was too lazy tired to do it with Olivia and the thought never even crossed my mind with Carter so I'm excited about doing it now. Now that I've finally figured out how to do it, it's really easy to do. It's time consuming but I think it's worth it.

New Orleans Aquarium

I know I'm all over the place with my blogging lately. I am not doing our Louisiana trip in any kind of chronological order so please just hang with me! :)

While visiting my dad, we headed over the New Orleans to visit the aquarium. It was so nice but very crowded for a Sunday afternoon. The kids did great! Olivia toddled all over the place and was fascinated by not only the aquatic life, but the emergency exit doors too!

Amazed at the creatures

Looks like the shark is about to bite Carter's head!

Carter's favorite things of all.....the scuba guy cleaning the inside of the tank :)

The array of underwater life

Definitely a must do if you are in New Orleans. It's pricey but my dad treated us so it was great for us :)

Pool time

This was Isaiah's first time in the pool (okay, technically I think this was his second time but I didn't have my camera the first time!) I think he like it. He looked like a big stud muffin floating around in the pool.

Carter became quite the brave little swimmer this trip. He put his face in the water and was swimming all around thanks to his built in life vest. What would we have done without that thing?

And my all time favorite pool related photo......"Does this bathing suit make my bum look big?"

Love it!

Cafe Du Monde

On our day trip to New Orleans, our first stop was at the river walk. I needed a crawfish fix so I had a delicious poboy. This is only half of it. What can I say...I was starvin' and pictures were an after thought :) It was so good. Too bad I can't find any crawfish up here. Apparently, "there's not a regional taste for it here". That story is for another time. Anyway.....

Dad and Isaiah hangin out 

 The other daddy with his favorite girl (besides me!)

I've been dying to go here: 

to finally have some of these beignets. They did not disappoint. I was trying to describe them beforehand to Theo. They are most like a funnel cake in a bisquit shape. They were so good. When I looked up a recipe for how to make them, I saw they were over 500 calories a piece! Yikes! But totally worth it. I can scratch one more thing off my bucket list 40 before 40 list.