Mine that Boy

I'm actually blogging about events that happened this month!

We made a trip down to Uncle David and Aunt Hilary's house for their traditional Kentucky Derby party. Miles stole the show last year with his baby shower being on that day, so we returned to the Bluegrass state (OK, across the river) to watch the race.

David does online betting, so we were able to put money all on the preliminary races throughout the day leading up to the Derby. I did relatively well - generally broke even. Jason, on the other hand, was almost a complete bust for the day, but luckily was able to win big enough on the post-Derby race to help us come pretty close to even for the day. Miles still spent some time commiserating with his Daddy:



We also enjoyed some non-race fun. Miles made a new friend, Ben, and had lots of fun chasing the big boy around.



Miles also likes to play "Cool Joe." Steps involved: Remove Mommy's sunglasses from top of her head. Place glasses on Mommy's face. Listen to Mommy say "Cool Joe!". Laugh hysterically. Let Mommy place sunglasses on your face. Squirm. Steal glasses. Place glasses on top of Mommy's head. Repeat.

Drinkin' Beer and Eatin' Dirt

Miles experienced his first trip to a bowling alley on Easter weekend. Luckily, some things have changed since we were kids - all the bowling alleys in our area are now smoke free. Miles will never understand what we mean when we say "this place smells like a bowling alley". To us, that means a place reeks of smoke...to him, it'll probably just mean the smell of deodorizing rental-shoe foot spray.

Anyway, when the six of us there (Uncle David & Aunt Hilary plus the grandmas) ordered a pitcher of beer, and this is what it came in. There's nothing more hilarious than mimicking serving alcoholic beverages to a minor, right?


Recently, Miles was a great help when we decided to plant some flowers. He really is leery of the grass - it's super icky and tickles his legs. In any case, we were able to assuage his aversion to the outdoors for long enough to do a little planting.



Of course, a tiny bit of that potting soil made it to his mouth. Otherwise, how would he know what people mean when they say something "tastes like dirt"?


We also enjoyed a bit of bubble blowing that day. Miles really did like the bubbles...this is more of his "ick, grass" face.


Last week, Miles helped me with even more planting. This time we got to play with a worm (amazingly less disgusting to Miles than the grass), and we saw "Johnny Tractor" (aka John Deere) plowing the fields at the dead end of our street. Maybe there's hope for our little outdoorsman after all.

Easter in May?

OK, these pictures actually are from last month at Easter....or we're super-duper Orthodox x 5 and celebrating late. Enjoy!

Decorating the eggs. Not surprisingly, we shied away from dye and went with cute sports shrinky-dink thingies. Yes, I do believe "Shrinky-Dink Thingies" is the official term.




The Easter Bunny came! He brought books, trucks, and "puffs" since Miles can't have his very own chocolate bunny yet.




And now...SUIT UP! What's it gonna take for me to get you to drive that '92 Taurus off our lot today?



Aww...matching suits at Easter lunch.



Indoor Easter Egg Hunt for the boy who hates grass.



Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend! At this rate, we'll be posting pictures from our trip to KY/TN in October!

Snip, Snip

Miles' first haircut was pretty traumatic. Kudos to the people who work at Cookie Cutters - despite Miles' all-out tantrum, he was able to get a pretty good cut. This was way back at the beginning of April, so we'll be needing to made the trip again soon...eek. I'm not quite so sure about this...


Hmm...this rhino looks a little fishy.


Lord Jesus, I'm not sure what you've gotten me into.


Oh crap.


GET ME OUTTA HERE!



Can we go now?

Showing Baby Girl Cuz

I feel pretty dumb. I lost my camera cord so I haven't uploaded any photos...then my coworker told me you can take the memory card right out of the camera and stick it in the computer. Uh, duh. So there will be a lot of catching up over the next few posts.

Tonight's post is the oldest of pictures (Aunt Kari's April Shower) and the newest of pictures (yesterday's shower in Lexington).

The first shower was in Port Clinton, and we had lots of fun visiting with family and friends. Miles started out chipper while hanging out with Great Grandma Hornsby.




He was not exactly thrilled to be the only boy amidst all the crazy ladies. His refusal to take a nap beforehand (imagine that...) didn't really help his mood.



He finally passed out on Nana in the middle of the gift-opening extravaganza.



Yesterday's shower was a whole different story. Miles was Mr. Personality, entertaining everyone with his usual antics.



Miles waved buh-bye, walked (with help), and showed everyone what happens when you say "Oh no!" (imagine Macauley Culkin in "Home Alone"). However, he wasn't too pumped when picture time came...



...but he still had lots of fun with the guest of honor, his Aunt KK!