Thomas 2nd month

In order to help ease my duties, I'm cutting back photos to monthly (which as it turns out is all I did for the other kids) but I still want to try to capture memories and stages and blog about them as they come.

5 weeks old
He doesn't like the car, unless he sleeping of course. We try to time our outings with his wake/sleep cycle so he enjoys them more, but when it's drop off or pick up timing can't really be planned out.
He loves being outside and he loves laying on his play mat. If we lay him on his back outside he is in heaven. He does love his siblings, although they drive mom & dad crazy with how in his face he is, but for the most part he isn't bothered by it. He loves the attention and entertaining of their kisses, dialog, and immediate presence

LOL that didn't last long, I didn't get anything written before he turned 2 months (Today).
He still doesn't like the car and is currently mostly content for a short time while laying on his play mat then wants to be worn so he can sleep close to mama.

Weeks 5-7 were pretty tough weeks for all, mixture between end of summer, excitement and stress for school to start, worn out parents, tantrum throwing 3 year olds, and just the everything it seemed. We had a much better week 8 so things are looking up :-)

Thomas had his 2 month appointment today with good looking growth stats. He was 23 inches long and weighed in at 12.35 pounds. He is still smaller than Isaac was at this point (Isaac was 24.75 inches & 13.5 pounds) but he was also born before Isaac so maybe he will catch up eventually.

And some more photos just for fun:

Vikings Game

On Sunday, August 27th Kyle and Isaac got to go to the Vikings game. Kyle was given the opportunity to purchase discounted tickets because he coached his TBall team last spring. It was so fun for them to get to go together, this was Kyle's (and Isaac's) first time at the new US Bank Stadium. Isaac says it was loud. They didn't stay for the whole game and when they got home the girls were already in bed and Isaac ran into my room and was telling me all about it! It was pretty fun to see him so excited. 

He got to eat ice cream ("it was cold chocolate with marshmallows on top" Kyle said it was frozen hot chocolate) and a BBQ sandwich. The Vikings played the 49ers, when they left the vikes were losing but in the end they pulled out a win. 

They were seated 6 rows from the top of the stadium. This was the bottom of the top set of stairs they came down. Kyle said Isaac was pretty tired at this point. 

Isaac was excited to see the horn & drum.

Isaac's New Bed & Nursery

After searching and searching then finally finding the bunk bed we planned to get, we were at Ikea a few weeks ago and saw this one. Decided against the one we were planning to get and saved many $$ and just got this one which matches his dresser and night stand. Kyle picked it up a couple weeks ago, we got the bottom bed made shortly after than, then I put some of it together here and there when I had a chance. We finally got the top bunk put on, on Friday. He has a few things to accomplish before he gets to sleep on top, but it's a good motivator. And it's ready when the time comes. 

We moved his old bed into Thomas's room, however when Thomas is older the boys will share a room. Here is a photo of the 'nursery' before the twin bed was moved in. I made the vinyl clings back in June. I also got a cute little helm clock that is hanging above the changing table. It ended up being much smaller than it appeared online, but it fits the theme well and tells time so I can't complain. 

Mini Golf at the Science Museum

Isaac had been asking about mini-golf. I can't remember if it was from seeing the course at the sculpture garden a few weeks ago, or talking to Kyle about golfing. But we looked around for places and decided to go to the Science Museum before the backyard closed on Labor Day, the next day (wow that summer season went fast). It was after naps on Sunday, September 3rd and the backyard closed at 5:00 p.m., well we arrived at the counter about 4:15, she said it'd take about 30 minutes to complete, ha! Maybe if grown adults were playing. Took us a bit longer but with rushing the last few holes we managed to get them all in. 

Helping Thomas putt :-P 

Video of Isaac putting: 

The inside of the museum was open a few more hours so we went inside to explore. The kids really enjoyed doing this running exhibit where they ran against a character on the computer and learned about speed. 

Love Mary's tongue sticking out, haha!

We finished with a much needed visit to a Mexican restaurant and a margarita :-) As you can see, Thomas is NOT a fan of his car seat, which means he's constantly on me when we are out and about.

Saturday August 25th

We had dentist appointments for the kids then after naps we went to the children's museum. Isaac had wanted to go before he started school and I didn't want to go alone, so we went as a family on Saturday.

Needless to say everyone else in the twin cities had that idea as well, haha. It was the opening of the State Fair, but it was raining. We had hoped everyone was going to the fair, but turned out everyone was going to the Children's Museum, HA!

It actually wasn't that packed inside and with four eyes watching three kids it made things easier. The kids played in the scrambler for quite a while then they had fun climbing on the rock wall with the green screen. We hadn't done this before so it was kinda fun.

Emma is in a yellow shirt with a purple skirt:

I like how it looked like Isaac was climbing on a mountain,

Even though it was pretty drizzly we got to check out the outdoor terrace for the first time.

I can't even remember what we had for dinner, oh yeah I think we headed back to our neck of the woods and ate at Red Cow which just opened up near us in uptown. Great burgers for dinner and the kids were okay eating out. It seems to be getting tougher cuz they are being stinkers, but we're also tired and haven't been cooking at home as much as we should.