Sweet summertime

SUMMER 2021 has come and gone!  Here's a quick rundown of what we were up to, other than our little trips and events already blogged about. :)

Perry participated in three camps!  Art camp, Camp Cove (basically a week of preschool), and gymnastics camp.  She loved them all!!  Art camp (with her cousin!) is the only one I got a picture of.

Guinny came to visit!

We celebrated a low-key 4th of July with my parents!

We celebrated our annual Reid and Georgia Kate birthday outing.  John took Reid to Lupe Tortilla, and I took Georgia Kate to get our nails done and shopping at Claire's!  We met up at Lupe Tortilla afterwards for dinner, then Baskin Robbins for ice cream.  We had the best time!  Georgia is hilarious and was making me laugh the whole time.  A couple weeks later, Brittany took Perry, Georgia Kate, and I to see a Junie B. Jones play for her birthday outing, and Cheesecake Factory for dinner afterwards!  It was so fun!

The kids and I stayed overnight at the Mears' Bay House!  We always love it there!

Some of our random summer outings include a fire station visit, Rosenburg Railroad Museum, multiple visits to Playstreet Museum, and of course, swimming.

Perry and I went to a precious tea place with one of her dance friends and her mom, who happens to be Luke's preschool teacher for this upcoming year. :)

Surfside 2021 was great!  It had been two years since we all got together, thanks to Covid. 

I hosted a bridal shower for Amanda Myers at my house with my mom and sister!  We love this family so much and can't wait for the wedding!

We rounded up summer with a wonderful and eventful trip to Milwaukee before school started, but that will be a blog for another day...

We have a love-hate relationship with summer around here.  It is JUST SO HOT.  I hate being hot.  But we really enjoyed slower mornings and fun outings with family and friends!  Summer 2021 was a great one! :)  I'll leave you with this adorable picture of our matching boy cousins at church the other week - how cute are they!

Big boy bed and big boy underwear!

There were lots of changes for our big boy at the end of the summer!

First up was potty training!  We stayed home on 4th of July weekend and did the 3-day method. He did amazingly well with #1s.  I was pleasantly surprised and super proud of him!!  #2s are a different story...still, a month and a half later, we're struggling.  Yikes.  But, overall, it was a success!

Next - time for a big boy bed!  He still slept really well in his crib, so we were hesitant to switch him.  But it was time.  Sigh.  We made the transition the week of his third birthday, and again, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was!  He has done SO well and not come out of his bed even one time!  Go, Luke!  We went with a baseball theme (naturally), and had lots of fun updating his nursery to a big boy room!  It's not complete yet, as we are planning to remove the rocker eventually, put up some book storage, get a matching nightstand, and add a few more wall decorations.  But I'm loving it so far!  John made the hat rack, which has little baseball drawer pulls to hold the hats. 

He is growing up so fast!!!  Time, please slow down!

Luke is THREE!

Luke Robert is 3 years old!!!  He is soooo silly and goofy, sweet and thoughtful.  He cares about others and checks on them when they are sad.  He is a momma's boy.  He still loves to cuddle and be held.  He loves his sister and wants to do everything she does.  He is still obsessed with sports, but will also put on a princess dress and dance with his sister.  He is cute as a button, and it's a good thing because he has turned into quite the whiny little guy.  Three is fun ;)  He usually doesn't like to eat much.  He is a great sleeper and still takes a nap!

Height:  3 ft. 2.25 in.  (71%)
Weight:  30.8 lbs.  (41%)

I asked him a few questions - these are always fun!

Favorite color:  Orange
Favorite sport:  Baseball
Favorite food:  Pasta
Favorite treat:  M&M's  
Favorite animal:  Monkey
Best friend:  Rhett (love this :)
Favorite thing to do with Perry:  Slide at the park
Favorite thing to do with Mommy:  Play football inside (he knows I hate being hot, haha)
Favorite thing to do with Daddy:  Play baseball and go to the baseball store (i.e. Dick's)
Favorite place to go:  Baseball store (notice a trend?)

We had a fun day celebrating the birthday boy!  He woke up to birthday donuts and balloons, then got to open his presents.  His big gift was a mini basketball hoop for the driveway!  Later that afternoon, we headed to Surfside for our annual Preston beach reunion.  He got to run around with his cousins, and we sang him Happy Birthday with a giant baseball cookie cake!  It was happy day for our sweet boy!  We love him so much!

Happy (belated) birthday, Lukey!!!