Thursday...

The day started out like any other day. Today was 'inside out day' for Jae and 'wear red day' for Hannah at school. I got the kids dressed and made Jae pose in his outfit (just so I could post this). Well, I'm at work for a couple of hours when I get the call.."Hi Patty, this is Kris. You didn't want to work today, did you?" Kris is a teacher at Kids Campus. She proceeds to tell me that Hannah has a temperature of 102.6 and that I will have to come and get her. Ugh.

I went to pick her up and poor thing, her cheeks were all red and her eyes just looked so tired. Well, Jae wouldn't let me leave him at school while I took Hannah home, so I took both kids home. This just made for a longer day..with a cranky Hannah and an energetic Jae.

I took some pics from the day. You would never know that Hannah was sick in these pictures!

Hannah is still under the weather as I write this, but asleep. Tomorrow she will be home with Bill and hopefully back to her normal self.

Poor baby.

I heart the Olympics, but...

I love the Olympics. I did not think that I would get into it this year, but after watching the opening ceremonies, I was hooked! Needless to say, the Olympics have been depriving me of my much needed sleep.

I guess I could always just read about the events, but where's the fun in that? I want to watch the emotions on the athletes faces as they complete their events, I want to watch about the come from behind wins, I want to watch about how the athletes overcame adversity to be a part of this elite group of individuals, I want to cry like a baby! Besides, I sit in front of a computer screen all day. I don't want to read from a monitor anymore.

Anywho, it's been more of a challenge to get out of bed these past mornings. Luckily, I've got a 3 y/o who wakes me up and in the most cheerful of ways...from the mouth of Jae.."Mamma, it's wake up time" who can't get out of bed with that greeting? =)

Here's to another groggy morning..

Sitting Up!

Hannah is growing up so fast! She has been developing in warp speed (so it seems) and becoming her own little person. I feel as though she's discovered so many things about herself in such a short period of time. I can't believe that in two weeks she will be 6 months! Sometimes it seems like just yesterday that we brought her home from the hospital.

She has been enjoying rice cereal, green beans and bananas!

She's been rolling around on the floor!

She's been sitting up!

She's still has her highlights and is giggly and cuddly as ever.

But of course I can't forget to tell you that she is also becoming a high maintenance girl! This must be 'payback' for Jae (he was/is one of the mello-ist kids I know). She definitely likes hanging with Mommy and hates to be alone in a room! She loves her Uncle Jake..bounce baby bounce bounce and being sung to. She DISLIKES car rides and will let you know it!

But everytime she flashes her gums, the 'crazy Hannah' disappears.

We love our little Hannah Bear.

Bones and Brew

The day after Bill's b-day party, the family decided to check out Bones and Brew. Located in the Pearl along NW 15th-16th and NW Glisan, it was a chance to just relax and enjoy some bbq and beer (pretty much what we did the day before, but in better weather). We went with the Poirier's + Bennigan, Pollingers + Anna, and Bill's coworker Niels met us there.

This was the first time that we had checked out Bones and Brew and I have to say that we were a little surprised that there weren't more "bones" vendors. But I guess we should have realized this when we read that it was only three blocks. There were (I believe) only three vendors and from what I was told by our table, the food was just "OK". We've had MUCH BETTER BBQ at RUSSELL STREET BBQ (check it out on NE Russell Street and MLK)!!! LOL!

I did not really sample any of the ribs at Bones and Brew..instead, I indulged myself to a hot link on a stick..and boy was it HOT! Then we had a couple of trays of fries (which Jae inhaled) and Jae had a huge Hawaiian icee - grape flavored (this was bigger than his head). Bill wandered around and had some ribs and of course sampled the beer.

There were some stands with various activities and items for purchase. Jake and Jae wrote on the ground with chalk and Bennigan got a bath at one of the stands and sampled some treats as well. It was a pet friendly function so we were able to see all kinds of pets!

The weather was great and it was just a great opportunity to hang outside.

Happy Birthday Bill!

August 4th was Bill's 33rd birthday! We celebrated by inviting our friends and family over to the house and having a BBQ and just hanging out.

Bill and I worked hard to get the house in shape for our guests, and it was all worth it. We had some special guests from California in the house...Bill's Uncle Bob and Aunt Lorraine were up visiting cousin Caryn and were able to stop by and spend the evening with us and Anna and Jake's mom and aunt rode the train up and spent the weekend for Anna's b-day (whichwas a couple of days prior). We had a house full of people. I was amazed that our little house could accomodate so many people and CHILDREN! The house was crowded and there was a lot of talking and little conversations going on and children running around, but I loved it! It definitely shows how we have grown in the past couple of years. But I loved seeing all the kids! They ranged from just two weeks old to six and I can't forget the moms-to-be. Yeah to the Year of Girls!

Jake did a great job working the bbq (Thanks Jake!) and everyone else did a great job of eating all the grub!

Jae particularly enjoyed helping daddy blow out the candles.

It was a long day and I'm glad that my honey had a good one!

Happy Birthday Bill!!!

We Love You!

Meiko

For those of you who don't know Meiko, I advise you to go to your nearest store and purchase her cd or find her online at http://www.meikomusic.com/ (it is myspace affiliated) or on iTunes. She's labeled as Folk Rock/Indie.


She's been around, but I just don't get to sample music like I used to. I found out that she'll be playing at Imbibe on Hawthorne in a couple of weeks.

Mirena

I know that this is TMI (too much information), but I just had to say that Mirena sucks right now!