We can hardly believe it! Our MIDDLE child is 4 YEARS OLD! This light guy has rocked our world for the past four years as he travels across his wide spectrum of emotions (hourly). He is the yin to Levi's yang and man has it been fun. He challenges us daily on issues we rarely ever considered, like today he wanted to confirm that the Flash is faster than a cheetah (of course). Thank goodness for the easy one! He is full of energy, love, and always thinking. You just never know what is going to come out of that little mouth. Thank you GOD for our Tigue guy!
More on his birthday later, but let's get you caught up on the rest of the month of May and early June leading up to this past Monday...
Jumping back to the middle of May (only 3 weeks since my last post - a step in the right direction), here's our kindergartner Levi in his first play. He took it easy and was simply one of the choir birds. The play was in Spanish... so, even if he was in a lead role, sadly my Spanish teachers (going all the way back to middle school) would have been disappointed in how little I could follow it.
Where Levi really comes alive is the soccer field! For those of you that are not following us on Facebook, Levi is a little goal scoring machine. I believe he has 12 goals through the first 4 games of the season... time to move up a division son!
I've met my match on face painting... I cannot create a Levi-approved Octopus.
And this is why we needed a bunk bed
Finally! There's that happy new baby. This is a picture of the fun side for Atticus' life. He's being loved on by his Mama and his Dad is making silly faces. We'll get to the "other" side of being the newest addition to TheJonesPod shortly.
Tangent Alert - our Whole Foods is up and running at the end of our street AND it has a bar with a really good beer selection. This was a local IPA brewed here in our neighborhood.
One of the "joys" of having your kid be kind, enjoyable, and in a large public school class is...
LOTS OF BIRTHDAY PARTIES!
Tigue and I were invited to stay too, and yes, those are our boys in their soccer uniforms.
This is that other side of Atticus' life...
can you see how much Atticus is enjoying the communal bath?
"What the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks Mom and Dad... get me out of here!"
"NOW!"
"Ok, I'm over it."
All better.
"No, I don't look funny in Mama's glasses, Tigue!"
Levi and his posse
Getting some Dad snuggles after work
Herding cats people, herding cats
Another Levi-tastic scoring fest!
(and overall good playing by the rest of the team)
Tigue - I am sorry for the lack of soccer praise in your direction, but you have to stop pulling yourself from the game for not being able to catch up to the other kids - just give it your all dude! You'll get there!
Lakehouse hangout with my cuz over Memorial Day weekend!
After the lakehouse, we took a little side trip to Manitowoc on our way home to Chicago AND yes, it appears I took all of one picture all of Memorial Day weekend. Sorry, Atticus, you're the third. There will be less picture of you, but they will ALL be more meaningful... (I'll tell myself to get to sleep).
Anyways, back to that Manitowoc place - we got to spend a lovely day with Horst and Barb AND their amazing grand-daughter Sonja. We went to the local zoo, oddly enough, it was called Lincoln Park Zoo - go figure (same zoo name as the one in Chicago for those that have no idea what I find funny about that). It was a great time and our hosts were incredible! It was wonderful seeing you all!
Back in Chicago I found myself with the boys one day while I was working from home. I decided to try an experiment as I had a client call that I was praying wouldn't get interrupted (though yes it was my own fault for even having one on a day that I knew I was working from home and had the boys). Well, the cinematography of A Bug's Life held all THREE of them in check... for about 15 minutes. Just enough time for the call!
If I was better about posting at this point I would have given this next milestone it's own post, but sorry dude, we're just not back there yet. Without further ado...
LEVI'S FIRST LOST TOOTH!
(again old news to our FB friends)
Another fun visit this month was from the New 52 Wally West as The Flash! To the one or two of you that get this reference... thank you! No, it's our friend Tyler in Levi's Flash costume. He's a very sweet kid and it was great to have him over for the day!
And back to this cutie... just being cute.
Somehow we've made it to June and man does it actually look like June! Another great friend visit was from the Benner kids this past weekend. Nothing gets the energy out like a trip to a well laid out city park!
The looks we got walking around town with six kids under eight were priceless!
One of our stops on Saturday was Levi's school's main fundraiser - Fiesta Cultural. This is one of our friend's daughter's Lemonade stands - benchmark set. Do you see that tap and cup dispenser - goodness!
Back at home just giving Tigue some lessons on loving his bro
AND WE MADE IT! TIGUE'S BDAY 2015! THE BIG 4! And no, I'm not talking about the Big Four accounting firms, I'm talking the little man of the hour - who started out breakfast under the table because he was upset about the amount of butter on his toast... good start!
Present opening went a lot better and he loved his new "cooker-man" costume!
Which meant he needed to help with second breakfast, but without the costume. Ha!
But he'll wear his apron
Birthday Mama LOVE!
Yeah, that pancake is a winner!
If it wasn't his birthday this eating style would NOT fly!
Got some cards in the mail!
(I asked him to make a smile again as the first picture was fuzzy)
Alone bath time on his birthday
Now, Tigue's day also consisted of a trip to the Magic shop, with two new illusions to share with you all, a lot of cake, ice cream, pizza, paninis, and basically anything else he asked for within reason, but most of it is covered in videos and just us experiencing it. So, my apologies on the lack of photos. You'll have to visit to see the videos, which includes someone's toddler crying for the entire happy birthday song (I won't call anyone out here).
And this brings us to tonight - a little selfie action and hair gel
And some much needed Mama snuggles!
Once again - Happy Birthday to our sweet Tigue! You are an awesomely unique (but slightly clone-tastic version of me) little guy and we are blessed to have you as our son! We look forward to seeing what GOD has for you and promise to help you along the way. Have a great rest of the week everyone and congrats in advance to Laura and Neal on TIGUE-ing the knot this weekend!
(I know you like what I did right there)
"As a prisoner for the LORD, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the SPIRIT through the bond of peace." ~ Ephesians 4:1-3
