Sept 14-17

The weekend of Sept 14-16th was very busy and very fun! Unfortunately I started out the weekend with strep throat! I had a sore throat all week and finally went into urgent care on Thursday to find out...I had strep! I was feeling much better by Friday, but was still tired and Saturday I was almost to 100%!!

With that being said, Friday we stayed home and had a nice, relaxing night in! Saturday we had a busy day! We had our first babysitter (other than the grandparents) on Saturday during the day. Courtney, Bishop's favorite teacher, came to watch the kids Saturday while Luke and I went to the Twins game. Our friends, Jon and Jennie own Cambria and have access to the Cambria suite, so they invited us to watch the game in their suite--it was a ton of fun!

She's getting close to crawling!

After the game we had Johnny's 3rd birthday party! 

The theme was Toy Story--here's Johnny!

The kids eating pizza

Danny and Bishop

Daddy and his cowgirl!

After the birthday party we had our annual block party! I absolutely love our block and our neighbors! It's so fun to catch up with the neighbors I know and also meet new neighbors! The neighbors rent a big bouncy house for all the kids (and there are a ton of kids on the block)! So that was a ton of fun for Bishop! It was right outside our front door, so that was nice!!

The view from our front step

The view from our front step

On Sunday afternoon we walked (and Bishop biked) down to Lake Harriet. We had pretty good timing as the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra was about to begin playing. We sat and listened to the music for a bit and then went to play at the park.

Nora picking grass

The view from the park--there were a ton of people there!

There was a really neat waterway in the sand at the park! I would have loved it as a kid...and Bishop was in heaven! He would shovel dirt into a pail and help dump water into the "rivers"....it's pretty nice when we find something he enjoys doing by himself and we can give him some freedom!

It was the perfect ending to a wonderful weekend!

On Monday night Luke was out of town for work so I took the kids over to Auntie Shelly and Uncle Ryan's house to play with Madelyn! It was quite chaotic, but it's so fun to see them interact, especially because Madelyn just laughs and laughs and laughs at Bishop (and he loves the attention)! :)

We brought some "baby" things over for Baby Boy Bormann that Nora has outgrown....Bishop decided to take a little bath in the tub!

COUSINS!!!

While we were there, Bishop pooped on the potty!! His reward has a HUGE carrot cake cupcake (Thanks Shelly and Ryan)! Bishop pooped on the toilet 3 nights in a row (he hasn't pooped his pants at school in a LONG time...but waits until he gets home), so we were making some great progress, but then we went out of town for a long weekend and that may have set us back a little again, oh well, we'll get there! We've learned special treats work (cupcakes and special cookies for sure)! :)