June is flying by...

So much has been going on these last few weeks that I haven't had a moment to blog about it! We had a fun trip to Branson with Jason's parents last weekend and I'll do a separate post about that soon. But here are some photos from the first two weeks of June so you can see what we've been up to.

We took the kids to a Driller's baseball game....it was Xander's first time!

He did pretty well for a few innings, but then I think he got a little overwhelmed with all the noise. I seem to have a knack for sitting in front of the loudest person in the stadium for things like this! So, Xander and I spent about half of the time walking around outside while the kids enjoyed the game (and their snacks) with Jason. Jason and I joke around that the kids love watching baseball...until their snacks run out. It's partly true, but I think the kids really do enjoy the atmosphere and they were even cheering on the players (of both teams)!

Xander is 3 months now and growing so fast! Here's a cute picture of him in his sailor outfit that I took a couple weeks ago. His expression looks like 'what are you making me wear Mom!?' but I think he might have just been flinching from the flash.

He is such a blessing and we love him so much. Who wouldn't want to wake up to this sweet face?!

It continues to amaze me how sweet Tressa and Corbin are with him. They ooh and aah over every little thing he does and they are so helpful at entertaining him. Here's Corbin holding "baby Hando." He even shared his Wubby with him... and that's a big deal!

Jason celebrated his 32nd birthday on the 6th. We had a really fun family day and Jason got to choose where to eat for lunch and dinner. We ended up going to Cici's and Buffalo Wild Wings. The kids get so excited about birthdays. Here they are eagerly looking over Jason's shoulder while he opened his presents.

We love taking walks on Sundays with the kids. We hadn't been out to the big pedestrian bridge that crosses the river in a while, so we decided to go out there a couple weeks ago. The kids are getting good enough on their bikes that we thought we'd let them ride across this time instead of walk. It was a beautiful day and the kids had a blast!

Don't mind the hair...it was a little windy! By the way I have since cut it all off! You'll see the new "do" in my Branson pics (coming soon).

Finally, the kids finished up their swimming lessons right before our trip. They both did really well and loved going to the pool every day. It got to be a little exhausting for me though, getting all three kids to the pool every morning by 9:30. Tressa's lesson was first and then I had to take Xander to the nursery so that I could get in the pool with Corbin for his lesson. It got a little old doing that for two weeks and I think Xander had pretty much had enough of the nursery too. But I'm really glad we did it so that the kids can enjoy the rest of the summer safely in the pool.

Tressa was definitely the most improved swimmer this year. On the first day she was scared to jump to her teacher, but by the end she was able to jump in by herself and swim half the length of the pool! I was so proud of her! Way to go Tressa! She was pretty proud of herself too and has been begging to go to the pool just about every day since.

Corbin was pretty fearless to begin with and probably the most advanced in his class (one of the oldest too...so that probably has something to do with it.) He is not swimming on his own yet, but is pretty comfortable in the water and does great with some kind of floaty. Oh, and no problem jumping in to me or the teacher. He'll even go under the water a little with no problem. For some reason he got such a kick out of the part where the teacher asks them to get their ears wet. He'd lean his head over in the water, pop back up and just giggle. It was so funny!

Here's Corbin with his teacher, Amanda. Amanda was Tressa's teacher this year and last year too. She is so cute with Tressa and really helped her feel comfortable and confident.

So the summer is off to a great (but busy) start. I'll post pictures from our Branson trip soon!