New Job?

Today Gerrit and I spent the day with my brother's family. We got a taste of the country club life (well, they have it for a year, and we got it for the afternoon). We went to the pool and enjoyed the zero depth pool and kiddie slides. Following the pool we headed inside for dinner 'at the club'.

Over dinner Max said he wished we lived closer and I said we do too - if Uncle Adam could find a job, we'd move closer to the family!

When it was time to say our good byes Max chimes in that Golf Galaxy is hiring...my sister in law and I laugh and she says to Max "you couldn't hold down a job, you barely stay focused on jobs at home" (he's in 6th grade and totally into golf).

Max responded by saying: "no, for Uncle Adam".
How sweet is that? Me, being prego and all, was almost in tears I thought it was sweet!

Sneaky Gerrit!

Yesterday afternoon Gerrit and I went to Grand Haven to visit friends. Gerrit loves playing at their house - they have 4 boys! We had a nice dinner and were relaxing a bit before dessert. Gerrit was outside with the 3 yr. old playing with toys in the garage. Cory brought them ice cream sandwiches for dessert and they ate them outside while we had ice cream inside. I went to check on Gerrit and see what kind of a mess he was making, and he seemed to be just fine. Cory went to check on them a bit later and noticed the boys still had their ice cream sandwiches, only this time they had MORE left then we when checked on them last! Yep, they went into the outside freezer and helped themselves to another ice cream sandwich! Cory said the look on their faces was priceless - then they dashed around the house as if they knew they did something wrong. Gerrit being too young, did not admit having 2 but Nathan (and his older brother confirmed) that yes, the 2 boys had 2 ice cream sandwiches! Good thing we don't live closer, those 2 boys could get themselves into a lot of trouble in the coming years!

Slacker

I'm not really slackin' in the mom department, just the blog updating...and my excuse? I don't have one (at least not a really good one). I guess you could say I keep busy with this:

Here he is sportin' his 'new' (hand me down from the boys) Twins hat. I have been trying to get the kid to wear a baseball hat for months and all it took was the Dahlen boys to give him one that no longer fits them! I offer his Spartan hat but he says 'no' and will grab his Twins hat. I'm thankful he'll wear one and maybe someday he'll wear his Spartan hat too.

I think he's grown an inch or two and has expanded his vocab a ton in the last few weeks. His new room is almost ready (hopefully it will be ready by the time we return) which has been my project recently.

Yep, Gerrit and I head out for MI again tomorrow night. We are flying into Chi-town and riding with friends to Sandy Pines on Thurs. This visit will consist of seeing lots of my friends that we didn't get a chance to see in July. Here's hoping all goes well flying - stroller, toddler, car seat, carry on, camera...you know - the kitchen sink! Its a short flight which is nice, just getting on and off is what worries me. I am looking forward to Gerrit having his own seat and having my lap free for once!

I once again might be considered a slacker while on vacation. Not sure how much down time I will have as the week is pretty full of play dates and gatherings, but I will try and do a better job posting...I promise!

Worthwhile Wednesday

Not sure why I titled it that, but it sounded good. As I write this Adam is retrieving his cell phone that he dropped on the trail during a ride tonight. He didn't know he lost it until he got home and there was a message from someone who picked it up. Turns out it was a woman who is in book club with me! She's new to the group and noticed a lot of the names in the address book looked familiar! Small world. I'm also getting a car wash and chocolate malt out of the deal! :) I'm pregnant, I can have a chocolate malt after 9 if I want! (even though I go to the Dr. tomorrow and will be weighed!)

Tonight after Gerrit's bath he wanted to go potty. No, I havn't officially put for the effort to train him and probably should. I'm waiting till we get back from MI which will be early Aug. and then I'll make a go at it...anyways, he of course told me to go away so I went and got his jammies out and when I came back, I noticed a wet spot on the rug and he was moving his feet in something wet - yep, he peed alright! He thought it was cool to hold it and spray I guess! I really shouldn't leave him like he asks - its my own fault! Anyways, we had a nice talk about aiming in the toilet etc... we'll see what happens next time!

After Gerrit was in bed and Adam had left for his errands, I watered the flowers and plants. I was very excited to see my beans are growing nicely, I have lots of buds on my pumpkins (here's hoping for a nice harvest this fall!) and my snap peas are large enough to eat! I think I ate more than I took inside! The only thing I'm waiting on is my cucumbers...the peppers are getting bigger and I don't have any tomatoes yet...hmmm. I'll just enjoy my beans and snap peas for the time being...can only eat so much anyways.

My malt is here and the tour coverage is almost up, the last 10 min. are the most exciting in today's stage. Better sign off. Till next time. Here's hoping for a Terrific Thursday!

Boxing

Gerrit was waiting patiently for me to finish taking care of the dinner dishes before heading outside. He realized he couldn't get outside because I dead-bolted the door. So he sat by the door and kept himself busy playing with my cool weather running gear (maybe I should put that stuff away?). He put on my mittens and this is what he started doing:

If you can't figure it out, he was 'boxing' - sound effects and all. Where did he learn this? Earlier in the day he was with Paul while I ran Luke to baseball. When I returned, Paul was boxing on the Wii and Gerrit was watching closely...obviously!

Dare Devil Swimmer

Gerrit started doing this Saturday night in the tub:

It made me nervous because I wasn't sure if he would come up for air! Sunday, we went to Lake City and swam and Gerrit picked up where he left off in the tub! This time he could show off to a bigger audience.
Dr. John said I didn't have to worry about him drowning himself - he said kids don't do stupid stuff like that till at least age 12-14! It gave us a good laugh and I guess I should be thankful Gerrit is not afraid of the water.


His latest pool trick is to jump in without anyone holding his hands:

(got to love a fast shutter speed on the new camera!)
Adam had not seen his new tricks yet so it was fun for him to see first hand what I have been telling him. Gerrit just started the no hands jumping this week at our local pool.


One of the great pool toys :

it actually runs on a battery and you can steer it! Gerrit just liked sitting on it!

His first Jet Ski ride - had to document that! :)

Ok, that is all for tonight, bed time. I realized I was slacking with only 2 entries in the month of July!

Master Gardener

This weekend was beautiful and we took full advantage of the time outside. Gerrit decided it was time to do a little yard work of his own:

Saturday he got his shovel out and started digging in the soil (nice use of the proper term huh? I almost wrote 'dirt' but knew Adam wouldn't be pleased) in my flower beds! I was able to get him to move to the back of the yard and showed him a good place to dig. He must have watched us use a shovel because he knew exactly what to do, just needed something to lean on to keep the balance!

Sunday, we were playing outside before nap time and he kept pointing at a bucket in the garage that had my garden gloves and some other stuff in it. I kept telling him that there was nothing in it that he would like but he insisted. So, I brought the bucket down and he grabbed my gloves - I guess he did know what he wanted! He put them on and decided it was time to pull weeds. He started pulling my flowers but I was able to bring him to the back yard and told him he could pull weeds all day in the area behind the garage. He did not get much seeing the gloves were way to big, but he tried!