A New Friend

Not much going on this week...still trying to nurse my knees back to health. The weather has been beautiful, making me even more mad that I can't yet get outside to run:( Oh well, because I have been enjoying watching tons, and I mean TONS, of tennis this week as the US Open started Monday-I'm teaching my kids early how awesome tennis is and they enjoy watching it too:) Spencer has started rolling over this week:) He really only goes from front to back, but we're so excited that he's making this much progress already! I'm fine if he's a little more laid back than Avery was and takes his time becoming mobile!!

We're heading to South Bend this weekend to help the Irish kick-off the new season!! I hope the weather continues to be this beautiful-no matter, Artie and I will enjoy an all day outing-our first-without the kids. I'm getting a little nervous about being away from them all day, but looking so forward to the game. We have tickets on the field, opposite end zone of the band, so look for us!!

Have a great weekend and I hope you'll be watching Notre Dame on Saturday!! GO IRISH!!

Here's the new friend of the family! After doing some research on strollers-again-I came across this one and we found an incredible deal on it so decided to try it and see if it would help our problem of taking Avery in public when she has to be in a stroller...for the time being, it has worked! She loves this "big girl" stroller. We had to run an errand at the mall today for about a half hour and she didn't scream once-you have no idea how remarkable that is!!
Spencer being really interested in the toys on his jumperoo...this is a new thing-he is really starting to pay attention to toys and grab onto things. If you notice in this picture, I'm losing my dark-haired buddy...he has blond hair coming in:( But, I'm still holding out hope that eventually it will turn back to the beautiful dark hair he was born with:)!! He's cute no matter what color his hair is, though!

Oh, Avery! She has found a new favorite spot-and favorite hobby! She loves to climb on everything and make mommy very nervous! Her new spot is climbing behind the chair.

Just thought I'd throw in a picture of the yummy homemade salsa I made yesterday to go with the homemade taco pizza I made for dinner...the mexican cravings that I had while pregnant with Spencer have stayed very persistent-Artie, however, is very sick of mexican food!

This is just so funny because she was playing with this box and all of a sudden she fell in and got stuck and it freaked her out! Check out her cute new crocs-her very first pair. They have mickey mouse shaped cutouts on top and this girl absolutely loves these shoes...I think she's going to be a shoe-lovin' kinda girl:)

I've had some inquiries about the status of my knees so I thought I'd post a picture of one of my knees. This picture really doesn't do justice for how gross it really looked, but other than the sever bone bruise I received playing softball in 8th grade (that sucker hurt for a year-no joke), these knee bruises are the most painful things ever! Two weeks later and I'm still having a hard time bending one of my knees and running on it because of where the bruise it (right under my kneecap) so it makes it very sore to run on. Hopefully the swelling will go down soon!

I thought I'd post this short clip of Spencer bouncing in his jumperoo. He hadn't been in this for a couple of weeks and then I put it in him this week and to my surprise, the little guy could touch the floor already! He can get himself really going in this:) He has had a major growth spurt in the last few weeks, jumping from 3 month clothes to 6 month clothes in a matter of days because he has gotten so long!!