Well, Where to start, where to start! I've been so anxious to blog, but unfortunately haven't had the time. So this might be long :) So lets back up to the 4th of July. Honey and Pop Pop made a visit down to Galveston. They spent a couple of days here and then took the boys back to Longview with them to spend the week. It was really hard to let them go REALLY HARD!! Chad and I were long overdue for some downtime but it kinda felt like I was missing one of my arms all week. We both got to catch up on some rest and relax a little. On Thursday July 10th Chad and I both had the day off. We slept in, went to eat lunch at Salsa's, and then headed to Slitterbahn Waterpark. We had a blast at the waterpark. We have never done anything like that together, we acted like two kids. Its was so fun and relaxing, but the whole time we were there we kept saying how much Ryan would love it. So back to the kiddos week of being spoiled at Honey and Pop Pop's. Here is a day in the HARD LIFE of Matthew and Ryan. Wake up Matthew has his bottle that wears him out so he needs a catnap after breakfast. Ryan has breakfast then its outside to play with the kittens. Ryan gets way too hot, so Honey says its time to cool off in the pool. After a refreshing dip in the pool, its lunch time. After lunch its afternoon nap time. After nap Pop Pop comes home and its time to hit the pool AGAIN. Then we are starving so its Dinner time where we scarf down 2 plates of Spaghetti. Then bath and bed. Oh and if you wondering if I forget about Matthew, I didn't. His honey held him pretty much the whole time he was awake. So it was bottle, nap, & being spoiled by Honey. These boys have a hard life. And one more important tidbit. On Tuesday evening July8th I get a phone call from Honey, she was calling to inform me that Ryan was now jumping off the diving board. Thanks Honey, that just spells trouble for me, there will be no stopping him now. I have to say, I kinda felt like the boys probably didn't want to come home WOULD YOU? I mean we go to the pool once a week. They go to Honey and Pop Pop's where there is a pool in the backyard and get to go swimming 2x a day.

I am so glad the boys got to spend some time with there grandparents. And I was so happy to have them back home. So the weekend they came back home, I took Ryan to the pool, and sure enough he headed right for the diving board and off he went. The next day Chad came with me and got to see it for his self. We caught it on video, so everyone can see. So we have been going to the pool quite a bit and Mister Ryan is becoming quite the olympic swimmer. We have also been going to the little waterpark called Palm Beach where Ryan goes down the waterslides all by himself, he won't even let me go with him.

We are so lucky to live in Galveston with so much to do right here. We have a pool within walking distance, the beach within walking distance, and two waterparks down the road, and so much more. God knew what he was doing when he brought us to Galveston.

So today July20th Ryan went poo poo in the potty like a big boy. He has pretty consistently been going tee tee, but never poo poo. I was on the phone with my momma and I was feeding Matthew. Ryan is walking around the house in his birthday suit( I told ya'll I can't keep clothes on this boy) he comes to me and says POO POO, I say do you need to go POO POO? He says NO! I say do you want me to put a diaper on you? He says NO! He says POO POO Potty! So I walk in the bathroom and Ryan walks over to his potty and lifts the lid and SURPRISE!!!! He went poo poo while I was yakking to my momma. So being the momma I am I took several pictures of the PRIZE don't worry I want share that photo with you all. So after that we went to target to get some things and I told Ryan he could pick out a prize for going POO POO in the potty. So my son picks out Summer Beach Barbie as his prize. And he slept with her during naptime. We took her to the beach with us this afternoon. We took a bath with her this evening. And we went nite nite with her. Oh how proud Chad must be :)