After we got back from our trip Jamisen started going to preschool 2 days a week. This is a picture of him on his first day of school. He loves his monkey backpack and I could not get him to wear it on his back, so this is the best I got! He and I both love preschool days. I look forward to going grocery shopping alone or running errands (which go about 100 times faster when you aren't loading a child in and out of their seat and telling them not to touch things in the store every 5 seconds!) and he loves seeing friends, learning about new subjects each week and his teacher! He has a great teacher and always tells me that she is so nice to him.
The zoo opened a new sea lion exhibit at the end of August so we went to check it out. I was really impressed. There are 3 different viewing areas so you can see all aspects of the sea lions. This is our favorite part seeing them swim underwater.
In September I turned 27....yikes! It's weird to think I am approaching the end of my 20's. To celebrate I told Jeff all I wanted to do was have a day of eating delicious food. I'm already a foodie when I'm not pregnant, so when you add pregnancy to the mix, I get a little obsessed! To start off we went to a favorite breakfast spot where they serve HUGE pancakes. Every time I tell myself to only order one but then somehow it never seems like enough so I order two and then we get it and I think, "why didn't I just get one?!" I think one pancake would feed the 3 of us! After breakfast Jeff watched Jamisen for me while I went maternity shopping with my mom. I got a cute dress for church and some jeans that I have worn every day since! I had great plans for what I wanted to eat for lunch but the huge pancakes sort of messed it up and I was too full so I had to skip lunch. Later that night we went out to dinner at an Asian restaurant called Dai Bai Dang that has great food. It was a wonderful birthday!
The next night we got together for a family dinner so Jeff made me a birthday cake to celebrate. He made a huge cupcake in honor of my love of cupcakes!
My parents have a tradition of taking each couple out to dinner for their birthday. I look forward to this because it's nice to spend time with them and it's the one time a year I get Teppanyaki! After dinner we got ice cream sundaes at Marble Slab creamery, I was stuffed!
One Saturday in September there was a random airplane show going on near our house so Lynnsey and I decided to take the boys since both of them love airplanes. They had so much fun seeing all of the different planes and watching them take off and land. I love this picture of them holding hands...they are best buds!
Jamisen had a fun field trip to the fire station. He loves fire trucks and for about a week leading up to his field trip he watched "Handy Manny the Firefighter" about a hundred times so I was soooo excited for him to finally visit the station, tour the truck and meet the firefighters. He enjoyed the tour of the station but when it came time for the kids to get in the truck and explore, he completely freaked out! I was shocked and couldn't believe it. I barely got him to sit on the back of the truck (below) before he decided he didn't want to go anywhere near it. He kept telling me the ladder was going to fall and that the horn was going to be too loud. I don't know how he got this in his head but there was no convincing him otherwise. A lot of the moms told me their kids were scared of it last year and now that they are 4 they were really into it, so hopefully next year will be a better experience!
Jamisen also had a field trip to the pizza parlor. He had fun getting a tour of the kitchen and making his own personal pizza and then eating it after it cooked. This is him and his friend Nate as they add toppings to their pizzas. After they made pizzas they sang some fun songs for the parents and one of them is called "I am a pizza" It's a funny song with hand motions and Jamisen loves it so we have been singing it quite a bit! It's also horribly catchy so I end up having it stuck in my head all day!
One Sunday night Jeff told Jamisen they were going to build a fort to have a family movie night. Jamisen was sooo excited! They got every blanket in the house and built the contraption pictured below. We had fun laying on cushions under the fort, eating popcorn and watching Lion King.
We have been wanting to go camping for the last 2 summers but never could work out a weekend that worked for our friends. I was bummed that we weren't going to have a chance to go this summer since it was already mid-September and cold weather was around the corner. Last minute our weekend freed up so we decided to seize our opportunity and just do a quick camping trip. It was super low key and my kind of camping! We drove about 45 minutes up to the mountains, set up our tent, took the kayak out on the lake for a little bit, then grabbed dinner in town at our favorite pizza place, went back to camp to make s'mores, and then off to bed. The next morning we packed up and headed to my parents cabin since they were staying there with friends and ate breakfast, showered and got ready for church! It was a great little trip and Jamisen had so much fun. He told us his favorite part was lighting marshmallows on fire and watching them turn into fire balls until they were a ball of charcoal. He is all boy! My favorite was eating the best s'mores I've ever had. We got the super large "campfire marshmallows" and they did not disappoint. Jeff roasted them to perfection and they were sooo delicious!
At the end of September Jeff, our friends Garrett and Tashina and Lynnsey ran in the Color Me Rad 5K race at Woodward Park. As they ran through the park they were "color bombed" with packets of colored corn starch that dyed their clothes. By the end of the race they were running in a thick cloud of colored dust and were drenched. As if they didn't have enough color, Jeff got a blue packet and dumped it on Lynnsey when she wasn't looking. She looked like a blue Smurf! I'm glad it was her and not me! ;)
