a busy week

The week started out by going to a Wingnuts game with Dan's brothers last Sunday. It was a good game, but unfortunately the weather didn't hold and we got to the car just as the first drops of rain fell. We ended the evening at Old Chicago, in which Dan's awesome brother, Rob, bought us all dinner.
On Monday, Ronan got to try out his Bumbo seat for the first time. He does pretty well in it, but won't sit for long.
He has also become a super stud at holding his head up.
On Tuesday we went to a friend's house for dinner. There are their 2 little girls, Clare and Elizabeth.
Collin hung out with daddy part of the time. He was a little unsure of the girls at first.
Ronan hung out on the blanket with Pete. Pete is about 2 and a half weeks older than Ronan.
Friday and Saturday we helped with a garage sale at my parents house. On Saturday Collin got to hang out with my cousin's son, Nolan. Nolan will be 3 in October. They had fun playing with Dolphins in water.
This is the face of innocence. Though he is far from innocent.
And Collin picked out a couple of hats for him and Papa to wear. Aren't they cute?
Collin absolutely adores his Papa (both of them). On Thursday evening my parents came to get some stuff from our garage for the sale and Collin spent 10 minutes at the window shouting "Papa! Papa!" until my dad finally came in and got him. I was about to go bananas!

recent happenings

Collin is doing really well in his big boy bed. He still gets out of bed and yells from the gate, but he hasn't cried for more than 5 minutes. Generally I found him sprawled out across the bed, but the other morning I found him lying with is head on his pillow, and under his comforter. So cute. I wanted to snap a photo, but resisted for fear of waking him up.
Collin has also used the potty 3 times now! The last 2 night he has gone before his bath. We're still not full on potty training, but we sit him on before his bath each night, and any other time during the day that he wants to sit. I'm not sure he's ready to go full force, but at least he is getting used to it for now.
On Thursday we went garage saling and found some great buys. I got Ronan 7 outfits and Collin 4 pairs of shorts and 2 shirts and all together it was only $8! Yay for summer clothes I'm not worried about getting dirty!
Here are some pics of the boys each modeling a find...
Okay, so you can't see their outfits very well, but they look super cute in these pictures no?
Below is a pic of another great find....
No, not the baby. Him I made (with a little help). But the super cute chair he is sitting in only cost me $5! Now I have 2 little rocking chairs for my daycare. Yay!
In other news, my super somber baby fell asleep while I was cooking dinner the other night. Sweet sweet baby boy!
Today we went to the zoo and let Collin go to the petting zoo area for the first time... He was scared of the goats.
But him and daddy got to ride a cow-like wooden creature.
And were shocked to find out that what we thought was a horse was actually a mule.