dear daddy.day two

july 19, 2011

dear daddy,

today is mommy's last day of being 27 years old. she does realize she's going downhill quickly and even thinks she's going to need glasses soon. please pray for her.

we all slept until 7 this morning. all of us! woohoo! we all had a great breakfast and headed out to trader joe's to find ribbit the frog. grey thought he was going to be a real frog. when we found him grey looked at mommy and said, "mommy, he's not real at all!" indeed. he is a stuffed frog but he and tuck got a sucker for finding him. we found a delightful treat at trader joe's. frozen chocolate covered banana slices. you would love them.

tuck cried and wanted to go to bed when we got home {at 10:30} and did a flip into his bed to get his paci along with bear bear and doggie. he screamed and ran away when we said it was time to go to the pool so marmie stayed here with him while mommy took grey to swimming lessons. grey made mommy dive for the diving rings for about thirty minutes and then she swam around the pool multiple times with grey on her back. then mommy and grey had a picnic at the pool. during the picnic grey informed mommy that flies have itty bitty tongues that really like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. did you know that?

while we were gone tuck decided it would finally be okay to POO POO IN THE POTTY. that's right. my mom is a miracle worker. also evidencing her miracle work, she put will down for a nap and he ended up sleeping for an hour and a half!

mommy and will played for a long while this afternoon while the bigger boys napped. it was the sweetest time. that little boy is absolutely, positively precious. 

grey and marmie ran a few errands this afternoon. grey did not accidentally tell mommy what he picked out for her birthday tomorrow. and he did not then say, "oohh! woops! i forgot i wasn't supposed to tell you." to which she did not reassure him she was still going to be surprised tomorrow.
 
my word, we have laughed all day! we sure are funny.

we went to anitas for dinner. martha was there. in all her sassiness.

she kissed us all and was excited to meet will.

we laughed through the entire meal. grey and tucker decided it was a great idea to yell "poo poo" and "tee tee" really loud. at dinner. in a restaurant. with other families close by.

tucker got in and out of his seat 500 times and kept yelling "martha!" until she came back to the table. we made a scene as usual and mommy realized again why we don't go out to eat often.

will played with his toes and marmie fed him chips and salsa. i think his first anitas experience was a success!

grey ate lots of chips and cheese and also tried the parsley tonight while marmie explained the digestive system to him.

on our way home grey asked mommy 5 times if she could go straight to bed after she took a shower tonight. he has things to do to surprise the birthday girl tomorrow. you better believe he's following in your shoes. he's decorating the kitchen now. but mommy definitely does not know about it.

mommy here: so many things happen in a day that i wish i had a permanent video camera glued to my face. i laughed so hard today i cried twice!  tucker is talking non-stop and will is growing day by day. grey is bossing everyone around and being as sweet as ever. if those two things can go together. they do with him.

we miss you.

love,
us minus you

added after bedtime: 

grey asked mommy how God makes us without gluing us together. then asked if the God was angry with the men who took Jesus away. just thought you may want to be prepared for when you come home :)