remember the scary broken leg day?

that wasn't broken, luckily! but maybe a muscle was pulled? well all we did that day & the next was watch movies. we vegged. & his facial features were cracking me up!

aunt lissa came to visit

aunt lissa came to visit us & help daddy out while i was away kayaking in baja mexico with 3 girlfriends for a week. we were celebrating our 30th birthdays :) yes, i was 6 months pregnant! pregnant women are strong ya know. badass, even. i'll post some pics of that soon.

finn & lissa had a lot of fun together... watching a movies.
painting a very cool train together that she brought for him!
& now they're putting stickers on it.

melissa got to experience the hilarious haircut. he is a zombie staring at the t.v. while eating his sucker. i usually take advantage & cut his nails- otherwise it 's a fight! she thought it looked like a spa day for finn, so she took a pic.
finn is forever wanting to watch the videos on the camera... he'll hand it to us & say "look, look!"
nana this picture is for you. we bought this at steph's wedding!
eating popsicles.

we had such a great time with you lissa! thanks for spending a week with us!!!

this boy loves his naked time.

after every diaper change whether we're in public or not "naked time, mommy?"

so we indulge at night, saving us one more cloth diaper to wash. but it usually results in at least two pee-pees we have to clean up. he tells us the second he's done... "pee-pee daddy! right there." these trains & train track never get old. have to be the best $30 bucks i've ever spent.

muah.
he has discovered the marshmallow gun. (i got bryan & his brother this for xmas one year) ugh- i didn't want him to know about those dreadful things for as long as possible, but i guess if you're gonna play with a gun it should have a real purpose like shooting marshmallows into your mouth. he loves the sound of the air releasing. we haven't actually shown him that things come out of it yet... i'm hoping to remember to make it disappear before then.
these two enjoy each other's company so much. it's probably my absolute favorite thing to watch.

petting zoo.

we visited a petting zoo way out in gilbert thinking the kids would love it. you get to feed camels & zebras & goats, oh my.

well, finn did not enjoy it at all. it always surprises me what he's cool with & what intimidates him. he seems so brave sometimes & then shy & tentative.

emma, on the other hand, loved it. she loves animals so much i bet she'll be a vet!
it was tough getting through our whole bag of food... but we did it.

he quickly walked out saying/signing "all done!"
the tortoise however wasn't so scary!
& neither was the tiny playground! i love this picture.
trying to get a self portrait of us...
love this one too. emma & melissa had to take a potty break.

i think this looks like a cd cover. maybe they'll be in a rock band together one day.
emma bean.

& then we met up with some other friends, kace & marnie at joe's farm & grill. some damn good hamburgers!

but mostly the kids didn't eat & instead played while the mama's caught up on our lives.
we should have taken a group picture!!! next time!

some more of emma.

melissa is on the board of gabriel's angels... this amazing organization that "uses" dogs as therapy for children that were abused & neglected. she invited me to their fundraising brunch, where i was able to learn more about it & it's such a great cause. i wish i knew about it while kylie was younger. she would have been perfect for it. anyways, she has meetings every so often so we get to watch emma, regularly.

during one of our b-sitting sessions they were being goofballs & cracking up over nothing.
we took them to see their first movie- gnomio & juliet. it was a really cute movie & we were amazed at how well they did. sitting still, for the most part, the whole time. they'd sit in their own seat & then want to sit together. they'd take each other's food & toys. quite entertaining. finn doesn't look like he's enjoying it & i wish now i'd taken another picture, but i was afraid of pissing someone off! we took advantage of harkins summer special, 10 movies for $7. so we go to a movie a week now! today we saw mastermind- awesome! we need way more awesome things like this for the summer- it was 103 today, or something like that.
& then on another play date we had swim suits & water tables & hoses & popsicles!

cutie patooties.
time to get unsticky!


privacy part showing ahead... consider yourself warned :)

none of finn's swim trunks fit him. none of them have real drawstrings. this pair is for 12 month olds. i know he'll hate me for this one day, but it was too funny.


& then on another play date we went to our aquarium. finn shouts nemo & dorie the entire time. looks like he took a little break to smoochie smoochie! i LOVE this picture.

mda walk

back at the end of march we walked with our friends heather & brian's team "warm hearted walkers" in the muscular dystrophy walk again. i raffled off another portrait session & we raised several hundred dollars! the highest bidder is my good friend kate, who is waiting to use the session for when their beautiful adopted child from ethiopia is in their arms!

heather teasing finn pre-walk. we don't use the stroller all that much anymore so i wasn't sure how he was going to do in it, but he did great. very patient & attentive to all the people. this day is always emotional, for me at least, watching all the children in wheel chairs or kids sitting in their parents wheel chairs as we walk around tempe town lake. but it's a wonderful cause & hopefully one day very soon we'll find a cause/cure!

after the festival we did some more walking around the tempe arts festival. this was one tired mama. so i was happy that finn wanted to relax and read some books.
then after heather & brian were done walking around the festival they joined us for some yummy charcoal grilled hamburgers. but first some rough housing with heather in the card board house.
& then some bike riding & chalk drawing outside.
daddy attacking finn with the whatchamathingers.

& then after we put finn to bed, we celebrated earth hour, where cities across the world were turning off all electricity for one hour. so we unplugged everything & lit some candles. lovely.

it twas a busy day.