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Ooops. 11 days without a post. How did that happen?

We've been busy with the usual. Last weekend Cade had gymnastics class, then we went on a ride at the Cedar Rock Railroad with Holden and then Mother's Day with the in-laws. Stacy made us these to-die-for steaks with portobello mushrooms in a Gorgonzola sauce on the side. OMG delish.

Otherwise, it's been work, a "sick" kid (I'm not sure I buy the fever you are claiming, preschool, but whatever) and every day stuff. 

Check out this CUTE pic of my favorite boy on the train. Don't you just want to eat him up!?

Summer of Fun

I am deeming this the Summer of Fun. Why you ask? Because it's only May 3 and it already looks like a ton of freakin' awesomesauce summer!

Just this weekend, several summer plans came together. Check out what our next few months looks like

• May 10: Mother's Day
• May 16-17: Ross' boys camping trip
• May 24: My parents visit
• June 5-8: Nashville with Deltas; Cade & Meg slumber party
• June 13: Toddler swim lessons begin
• June 21: Father's Day
• June 27-July 5: no pre-school!*
• July-28-31: Family beach vacation, staying at this awesome condo!
• August 1: Neighbor's birthday party with epic water slides they are already talking about
• August 29: Grandma's 90th birthday!

To get the party started, I took Cade to my company picnic today at Dell Diamond. His first baseball game! You tell me if you think he had fun...

He really loved clapping

A gal from my online Mom's group has a summer bucket list for her and her toddler. It's impressive. I think I'm going to steal the idea from her and work on a little bucket list for Cade and me too. Probably not as incredible as hers but at least something to make sure we check out pools and splashpads while the weather is right for it. And of course, storytimes and inside fun when the weather is too hot even for pools and splashpads.

So as you can see, between our calendar of fun and some bucket list fun, it's looking to be a Summer of Fun for sure. Yippee! I can't wait! New hashtag for sure #SummerofFun

*In fairness the no pre-school week will probably be fun and a little stressful as we will both still be working. But it's a short week with the holiday for me and I will probably take an additional half day off for some fun time. And we'll call in the babysitting team to help so I'm sure the end result will be a week that fits right into the Summer of Fun.

It's separation anxiety; no it's allergies; no it's molars...I don't know what it is but I'm TIRED

First four nights home from vacay and not one night of straight sleep. I THINK it is molars but who knows. At this point, I barely know my name, let alone what is waking my kid up 2, 3, 4 times per night every night.

Holy exhaustion batman.

Los Cumplenanos Mexicanos

We went to Mexico!

We're on our second night home and the real world and laundry is very much back so with that in mind, I'm gonna hit the highlights quickly in pictures.

Airport selfie Thursday morning

First stop, lunch and margaritas

View from snack bar

The resort layout was great;
you walked through a jungle to get everywhere!

On Friday we did a lot of this

And our fair share of this

Saturday we went to the Mayan ruins in Tulum

They were spectacular

The ocean view wasn't bad either

Then we cleaned up for a birthday happy hour

and surf-n-turf dinner on the beach.

And Sunday it was back to this.

I finished two books, Ross made progress in Don Quixote (just some light beach reading). We went to bed by 10:30 every night, 9:30 on Sunday night. I set out with one goal in mind: to return rested and relaxed. Mission accomplished!

We FaceTimed with Cade every day and had a wonderful four days of couple time, remembering how much we enjoy one another and quiet time together. It was the perfect way to ring in 30!

The Latest in Cute

Cade is pretty darn cute all the time but a couple things recently are super super cute.

New Thomas sunnies and hat on Easter

Five mo' minutes
Yup, he's become a master negotiator asking for 5 more minutes to play choo-choos, 5 more minutes until nap time, 5 more minutes to do any and every thing fun.

Um here Mama
When I tuck him in at night, his new stalling tactic is to say "um here Mama" and then standing in his crib, wraps his little arms around my waist and says "here Mama." He'll hug me and even pat my back repeatedly. Every time I start to walk to the door it's "um here Mama." Cutest (and most effective) stalling tactic ever.

Grabs his bag to go bye-bye
My parents got him this stacking block set that comes in a little box with a string on it. Today he picked up his block box, put his arm through the string strap, waved at me and said "bye-bye Mama!" and marched off toward the front door. Five seconds later he came back into the living room and said "open da door pease."

Pretend Froggie
Two nights ago at bedtime, he started bouncing around in his crib on all fours saying "riddit riddit" and told me he was a frog. It's the first time I've seen him pretend that way!

As you can see, there is a LOT of cute in our house right now (and a lot of bedtime stalling...three of the four cutes are definitely stalling tactics...and speaking of bedtime stalling, he's been singing in his crib for 45  minutes now which is definitely not taking a nap...hmm...).

Springtime Fun

It's like Texas heard me when I said a couple weeks ago "no bluebonnets this year...". Apparently I was just a couple weeks early because this week they came out in full force, right in time for Easter!

Between bluebonnets and Easter, here's what we've been up to

We went to the Round Rock flashlight Easter Egg Hunt on Thursday. The highlight was meeting this giant chicken. Egg hunting was really just picking up one and running around the field like a wild man. But hey, he was happy.



On Friday Cade and I played in the cul-de-sac with Jenny, Jeremy and Holden. The boys went cruisin' with the top down.



Yesterday, also with our neighbors, Cade and I did bluebonnet pictures. Really it was pictures of him in the bluebonnets but I snuck in for a selfie.





My favorite though was this one Jeremy took with the two boys.



And this morning was our first Easter basket for Cade. Really an Easter beach bucket to help provide supplies for our summer beach trip.



The winning gift was the Curious George coloring book and crayons. Honorable mention to the vanilla wafers in an Easter egg. Other inclusions were tee balls, paint brushes and a toy car (to be honest, it was just plucked out of the toy box because we needed something else to fill an egg but trust me he had no clue).



Happy Springtime!