my little firefighter

A new friend from church invited me to her Mom's Club open house today.  The Mom's Club is "club" for moms and their little ones where they have planned activities.  Yesterday, we did a trial run with the group at a local stable where the kids got to see, pet, and ride the horses.  Leon loved it.  The open house today had some fun things for the kids and vendors & give aways for the moms.  Leon got a little firehat from a firefighter and also got his face painted for the first time.  I could tell that he thought it was pretty cool. 

When we got home, he grabbed his hat (which he thinks is supposed to be worn backwards - maybe so its more like a baseball hat?) and ran over to his rocket car, saying "Bye mommy, my fire truck, go!".  I had to pull out my camera.

He's also pretty stoked about his face painting.  It's going to be a battle to get it off tonight.

Out Take

We did a little portrait shoot with Leon yesterday.  Here is one of the photos of him just being silly.  I don't know why he is lifting up his shirt - he's just a goofball.  Anyway to see more click here.

Playing Catch Up

Oh man, this week has been rough.  Lots of things I could say about the week but I'll give you the "short", easy version:

We had an ultrasound on Monday because I was measuring 6 weeks bigger than what I actually am in this pregnancy.  They wanted to make sure nothing serious was going on in there.  I wasn't nervous or worried until Sunday night came and I started freaking out a bit.  Thankfully it appears that everything is fine - the baby is a tad big and I just have lots of fluid, but it doesn't appear to be a problem.

Leon has been a pistol.  2.5 is hard.  It's like having a moody teenager - one moment they're happy, the next they're not.  I can't tell you now many times I've said "no" or "stop it".  We haven't had to do many time-outs lately, but this week canceled it all out.

I got some sort of big bite or something on my inner thigh last week.  I figured it would just go away in a couple of days.  It didn't.  It got worse - hurting and swelling and getting bigger - until I got so worried that I called the doctor.  They made me go in.  They ended up cutting it open and draining it.  Sorry, I know that's gross.  I've been hobbling around the last few days.  It hurts like H.E.L.L.  and I can only take tylenol.  Luckily, when I went in yesterday they said it was looking really good. 

Because of all of this, Kyle had barely gotten all of his study time in.  His next acturial exam is the beginning of November.  He's stressed about it.  I'm trying to be very supportive.  This week I blew it.  Luckily he still loves me and understands. 

I haven't cooked dinner once this week, but I'm making up for it tonight with one of our favorite meals.  I'm burned out on our usual foods - anybody have any good recipe blogs they really like?

Anyway!  I've put up a few new posts in the last couple of days in my attempt to catch up.  Please take a look!  One day I'll be better about blogging.

1st Baseball Game

Florence, the city where we live, has a minor league baseball team.  Kyle started going with some work buddies every now and then.  We decided that we'd go to the last home game of the season together as a family.  It was a good time.  We got in for free - someone didn't need there extra tickets.  We ate hotdogs and drank colas.  Leon, of course, wasn't too interested in the game but I he still had a good time running around with us.  I love the experience of going to a good ballgame.  This place was so family/kid friendly.  It was fun to have a carefree night doing something new with our little family.

p.s. Leon now has a baseball hat and loves wearing it.  He says "i'm cool" everytime he wears it.

EnterTRAINment Junction

We found out about this cool train place in Northern Cincinnati and we knew we'd have to take our train-loving munchkin to it.  They were having a special exhibit with Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, so we thought we'd take advantage.  The place was cool.  Leon was so entrawed in it and was so busy taking it all in while we were there that he didn't even take a moment to smile.  However, I know he LOVED it. 

The place is big for a train musuem and it has amazing models of train history.  Some of it looked so realistic.

Included in our tickets was a pass to the kid friendly fun house which Leon loved just as much.  It was so much fun to watch him try to go through the mirrored hallways and the funky unbalanced rooms with us.

It was a good time and I'm glad we've been able to discover a few things with our little guy before this next little one comes.

Cupcake Heaven

We've discovered, with the help of some new friends, a little cupcake bakery just a few miles away from our house.  It's heaven.  I'm in love.  There's nothing better than a super moist cupcake with buttercream frosting - nothing!  Here's a few pics of Leon enjoying his half of our cupcake.

This is Kyle's which he hasn't eaten yet. It's a peanut butter cup cupcake. 

It's taken all my might not to grab a fork and devour it. 

Next time I'm going to get the red velvet or the pineapple-cherry or maybe the other 10 flavors they have.  How on earth are you supposed to choose just one?