Summer Fun

Nick has had a couple of grand ideas the past couple of weekends.....bowling and the EL Aquatic Center.  We took Gabi bowling for the first time and she was a bit skeptical at first but really enjoyed it!  Then we headed out the next weekend to the outdoor aquatic center in EL.  It had a huge pool that was about chest deep on Gabs (which she loves), a sprinkler pad, and a little water slide she could go down.  Both Nick and I didn't think she'd do so great on the water slide but she got in line and slide right down like a champ.....loved it!  It was only like 2-3 feet off the ground, but still.  Loved it.  They had some bigger water slides that Nick and I took turns going down too :)  They were pretty tame and luckily the teen aged life guards didn't have the guts to tell the pregnant chick she couldn't go down the slides so I enjoyed myself :)

Potty training has been going great and I think the "training" is over......dare I say?  There really wasn't much training to it.  Can it be that easy?  Gabrielle usually tells us when she has to go potty and sometimes she just goes by herself.  I forget she is even potty trained a lot of the time.  It's not that much difference really, since she has been #2 trained for so long.  But it's going well!  She's stayed home with Nick and done potty fine as well as gone to the babysitter and done fine too.

We are headed on another road trip (yikes) next week.  Headed to the UP for my Grandpa's 90th birthday party/family reunion.  We rented a two bedroom cabin on a lake so it should work out well.  No air conditioning, but the heat shouldn't be horrible so we will survive.  A 10 hour road trip with a six month pregnant woman and newly potty trained 2 year old should be interesting :/  But I guess it has to be better than a 24 hour road trip as a sick 10 week pregnant woman ?  It should be fine.

And today Nick and have date day while Gabrielle is going to the zoo with Jason, Corinne, and Isaiah!

A few *funny* things lately...
Gabi hears a creak in the floor.... "Cuse yous!  You fart a lil bit, mommy?"


"You mell (smell) like cereal!  Mell your mouth - it's mells like cereal!"

"So, how work go today daddy?" and "How your pictures going mommy?"  Gabs asks us everyday how things are going....it's so funny she sounds so grown up :)

Gabi was walking really slowly on the dock to jump off the end..... "Mommy, I walk like a turd"
Did daddy tell you that? 
"Yeah"

"I wash my butt crack!!"  Nick taught her how to wash herself in the tub and that she has to wash her face before her butt crack.  Very helpful.