July has been busy with both work and fun activities! July 4th weekend was crazy but really fun, especially for the kids. We spent the weekend with our friends the Lewellings and Coes enjoying all the activities in town. We had a parade early in Downtown Monterey, an old fashioned BBQ at Caledonia park - including bounce houses - and fireworks that evening after naps and dinner at our house. (and a birthday party the next afternoon!) By Monday morning, the kids were completely exhausted!
The rest of July was spent in a blur of birthday parties, baby showers, play dates and getting prepared for our trip to Hawaii. Cole and Eva are going with Mom and their friend Amari (and his mom!) to Oahu on the 30th for a week. (Daddy has to stay home and work - but still gets a break too!) We had our friends (Eva's age) Vicky & Sophia's 2nd birthday parties to go to in early July...very fun! Eva got to hit her first pinata! (What? You WANT me to hit it? A confusing concept for a toddler...) Vicky's party was at Lovers Point and Sophia's party was at a Community Center/Park in Seaside...both with lots of daycare friends there! They had such a great time, and Eva is really beginning to like cake!
Eric and I took advantage of our first "Parents Night Out" with our daycare. They have a program that allows the parents to leave the kids at daycare until 10 pm on one Friday night each month and go on a date! The kids get a pizza party and videos with their friends while the parents are out. Eric and I went to see a movie (well, to preview for Cole) and out to sushi for the first time in I can't remember how long! We got done early enough to come home and clean the house for the weekend before heading out to get the kids. Cole did great, but Eva was a little lonely in the under 2 room. They brought her over to the big kids room with her brother, and she was fine after that. She just missed her "Bole."
The next weekend, after we had previewed the movie last Friday, we took Cole to see his first movie at a movie theater! We saw Wall-E (pixar - his favorite) with Cole's friends Lucas, Jonah and Sean. It was great - one of the main characters is "Eeeeva" and he really got a kick out of that! In all, he and his friends had a great time.
Both kids are doing very well in school...Cole has moved up to the preschool class now that he is totally potty-trained (Yes!..one down, one to go!). He loves the "big boy" class and is really learning quite a bit. Eva is starting to get quite a vocabulary...and is talking every chance she gets. (We can actually understand her!) They have both have been great fun to play with and we are having such a great time with them. Now that they can both run, jump, climb, etc at the parks together, they are really best friends...I hope it stays this way!
Here are some photos of our adventures this month! I'm sure I'll have some fun Hawaii photos to post next month. Have a great rest of the summer!
Erin, Eric, Cole & Eva
