A Busy Week

Last week was a super busy week with my birthday, Brecken’s 18-month check up, and a fun girls weekend. We were able to spend time with my family, and Chris’s family and friends on separate nights for dinner to celebrate my 32nd birthday..I had several friends mention that I am definitely in my mid 30’s now…Parker thinks I’m old…if she thinks I’m old, wait till she finds out Chris will be 34 in a couple of months!! Parker was so cute in singing “happy birthday to my mommy” all day and a few days after and she was very proud of the Mickey Mouse birthday card she picked out for me! She loved that my birthday was several days in a row!

On Wednesday Nana and I took Brecken for her well baby check up. She now weighs 20.3 pounds! She can officially be forward facing in her car seat…even though she’s been that way for months! She’s in the 3rd percentile for her weight, and the 11th percentile for her height! I’m not usually hung up on the percentages at all; I just think its funny how small she is for an 18 month old, and I'm glad that she's finally on the charts! All in all she’s healthy, and happy and right on target and even ahead a bit on her language according to the PA we saw, so I’m not worried! We did how ever find out that she is borderline anemic, so we’ll be buying some supplements for her at the store this weekend. I would love to say that we could get her to eat more vegetables with iron in it, but in reality, I know that is unrealistic…we’re lucky for her to eat 1 really good meal in a day, and SO THANKFUL that she eats well for Judy! Actually she eats breakfast great for us, just not dinner…aghhhh…

On Friday morning, my mom, sister in law Heather and I headed out VERY early for a girls weekend in KC. We picked up my aunt and met my cousin for 2 days of shopping till we dropped! It was fun to get away for a couple of days and with birthday money burning a hole in my pocket, it made for a very fun weekend!
We didn’t go for my birthday, it was just coincidence that we planned it following my birthday. Years ago, my grandmother planned our first girls trip. All the girls in the family got together, and we flew to Minneapolis for a shopping trip at the Mall of America! We took a few other trips to Dallas and San Antonio, and then with grandpa’s health decided to stay closer to home. Now grandma is in a nursing home with Alzheimer’s, and we’ve decided to continue the tradition without her, because we know that she and grandpa would want us too! Over the years, we’ve had a great time getting together and staying up late chatting, and shopping till we drop! I LOVE that tradition grandma started and the memories that we have, and look forward to many more girl trips in the future!

After arriving home, I’ve decided that the girls are going to want me to go away every weekend! They loved spending time with daddy..Parker loves to eat out which is what she got this weekend, her favorites…pizza for dinner, breakfast at Jeanie’s, Barnards’, McDonalds and a train set…yes a train set…At the first mention that she wanted a train set Chris got VERY excited! We made her earn it by helping us around the house, and Chris told her that since we was so good at breakfast, that they would get the train set, so they headed out for Toys R Us and picked it out!
All in all it was a great weekend for all!