Birthday & Memorial Weekend Recap

Wednesday Jacob officially turned 3! We have the poor kid thoroughly confused now because when you ask him how old he is he'll often say "I'm going to be three". We're like, no it's cool to say three now, bud! It was a beautiful day and Aaron used that day as his pass day for working this weekend. We started off the day with a trip to Secretary of State (Jacob should learn early that no birthday is complete without it, right?) to renew my tabs. One thing I LOVE about living in a small town is how quickly you can get through a SOS office. In fact our local one doesn't even have a waiting area!

Then it was off to the Sleeping Bear Dunes for a little hike to look for some morels (a bust) and then back to Traverse where we ate lunch downtown at Pangea's Pizza out on the deck. Afterwards we headed to the Children's Museum since Aaron has never been there before. I was hoping that we would finally get Jacob to go down the big slide if his dad was there, but no such luck. Which is so strange to me, he has never shied away from any slide no matter how big or scary on a playground, but for some reason he just will not. go. down. this. slide! I think I heard him mumble something about it not being structurally sound.... but Brody didn't mind - he loves it.

We ended our day out with Jacob's favorite - miniature golf and ice cream. In Florida Jacob played his usual way... hitting the ball from the tee, then picking it up from wherever it landed and setting it a few inches from the hole before hitting it in. On his birthday he decided on a new style of play... now he hits the ball from the tee and quickly runs after it, guiding it into the hole. Ironically, once he is done he will stand aside and let you play out the hole as normal. Silly kid.

Memorial weekend was pretty low key. Aaron had to work both Saturday and Sunday and is on call. The boys and I went over to my parents house on Saturday. Noelle, Kris and their three littles were visiting for the weekend and Mark and the boys came over for a bit (Lisa was celebrating a Bachelorette party in Vegas... jealous!), so Jacob and Brody got some quality cousin play time in. I didn't take any pictures, but they sure were cute together. Jacob especially loves playing with Libby - it's adorable. We went for ice cream with them in the evening and then they headed home in one direction and I turned the other and it did NOT go over well. Jacob spent the entire ride home (well, the entire time he was awake) saying "I don't WANT to go home!" When Aaron pulled him out of his car seat and transferred him to bed he woke up just enough to let Aaron know "I don't WANT to go home" again. The next morning the boys slept in a bit (after our late night out), but getting ready for church was a breeze after I informed Jacob "Anni and Libby will be there...". Jacob did GREAT at nursery school, but Brody cried. Thankfully he's quick to get over it. Afterwards we went to Uncle Mark's house where the boys played a bit and then it was back home. Aaron did have Monday off, so we went into town for a bit and had lunch with Mark AND (a recovering) Lisa and boys and then shopped for a bit.

Sooo, now we have a short week and then maybe some camping on Friday night... it's not supposed to be very warm (high of 60), so I'm not sure if I'm up for it yet. Sunday is my birthday and we become members of the Church.