Around the house...

I found some pictures on my camera that I hadn't posted.  Nothing particularly noteworthy, but I'm finding that as my due date draws nearer (5 more weeks!) I'm really appreciating my normal everyday pictures more and more.  It won't be much longer and we will be adjusting to a new normal, so I want to make sure I remember my family of four while I still can :)

These pictures were taken at dinnertime after Henry's first day of preschool, which is why he has the "You are Special Plate".  He LOVED eating off of this plate and was so excited that we celebrated his first day of school with a special meal (hot dogs, fruit, bbq chips, and carrots...all his favorites :)

For dessert I made "worms and dirt" (vanilla pudding with crushed oreos on top and gummy worms) which the boys loved...

 After dinner the boys have been enjoying their swing set in the backyard.  The sweltering summer temperatures kept us off of it for awhile, but now they are back at it and loving it!

We've been dabbling in putting both boys to bed in the bunk beds lately.  I was adamantly opposed to moving Charlie out of the crib, but lately he hasn't been wanting to sleep in it and if we can finally get him to sleep in there he wakes up often and ends up in our bed.  So, time to begin the big boy bed transition I suppose.  I was hoping that they would both be sleeping really well when the baby came, but that just might not be the case for us :/  We still have some more weeks to work on it, so maybe we'll make great strides, who knows.  One things for sure though, the Wiebes are certainly not sleep training experts, we just muddle our way through these things and hope for the best :)

 More after dinner backyard play pictures...

Henry really wanted me to play baseball with him one night a few weeks ago.  Clearly, I'm not quite in baseball playing shape these days...

It made him happy, so I'm glad I did it.  (this reminds me of when Henry wanted me to play baseball with him after Charlie was born :)

Dodger Game...

We took a last minute trip to the Dodger game a few weeks back.  My dad was trying to get rid of his tickets and John's basketball tournament ended earlier than he had hoped it would, so we decided to make the best of everything and head south for the game.  All went well other than an accident at the 5 and 210, which put us into the game an hour later than we had hoped, but the boys were good, so we lucked out in that department.  We actually really enjoyed ourselves and managed to stay in our seats the entire game (well, minus the first hour that we missed :(  I was thankful I wasn't nursing or chasing a toddler around the stadium like we've done the last few times we've been :)  But, of course, those days are soon to be ours again and we'll enjoy them while they're here too!

Dodger Game...

After we left the Pasadena Children's Museum we headed over to Dodger Stadium to catch the end of the Dodgers vs. Padres game.  We got there in the 5th inning and stayed after the game so that Henry could run the bases!  The boys did pretty well sitting through the last 4 innings, but by the time the game was over and we were in line to run the bases Charlie was D-O-N-E.  He was screaming, arching his back...basically in full on tantrum mode.  Luckily, by the time we stepped onto the field he was marginally under control, so we got Henry around the bases and then headed to the car as fast as possible.  Charlie fell asleep before we were even on the freeway, which was perfect, but didn't last long, thanks to Henry's emergency bathroom stop at the Pyramid Lake exit.  This, of course, woke Charlie up and then he managed to scream the entire rest of the drive home.  You win some, you lose some.  All in all, a very fun day though!

I think that might be Charlie's last Dodger game of the season.  John and I have decided that taking an infant to a game is fine, taking a 2 or 3 year old to a game is fine too, but taking a 1-year old who is just learning to walk...not ideal :)

Pasadena Children's Museum...

We took the boys to the Kidspace Children's Museum in Pasadena yesterday and had the best time!  We could have gotten there when it opened and stayed until it closed and not run out of things to do.  We would highly recommend it!  The best part is, with our Kern County Museum membership, we were able to get in for free.  You can't beat that :)

Once we got there we had a picnic before we went in...

After we finished eating, we looked at the inside exhibits first.  There was lots to look at and climb on.  Charlie wanted to climb on EVERYTHING!...

Bee exhibit...

There was a secret passageway that Charlie could have crawled through all day...

There was a a huge climbing structure that you could climb all the way to the top of the building and then look out over the outside areas of the museum, which was very cool.  Henry was nervous about going up, so I went with him...

At the top...

There was all sorts of stuff to do inside, An erosion center, an earthquake center, and ant farm, and so much more...

 Henry's favorite part of the museum though was the trike track.  He LOVED this!  It was so cute to watch him ride out there...

They also had outdoor garden areas...

In the middle of one of the gardens they had an alka seltzer rocket station.  You put a little bit of water and an alka seltzer tablet in an old film canister, shook it up, and then waited 30 seconds or so and then the canister shot up into the air.  I'd never done this before so it was fun to watch...

They had a little stream that the kids could play in...

And an ampitheater too...

But, to be honest, after Henry got a taste of that trike track, that's all he wanted to do.  So we went back and got him on a trike with a passenger spot in the back so that he could haul Charlie around too...

So, to sum it all up...we definitely want to go back!  We couldn't have had a better time :)