Patrick and I went on a "date" to the Library this week...just the two of us! It was a very fun time. He is growing up so quickly. He makes us laugh and laugh. We love him so!
Here's some funny stuff he's said over the last few months, as well as some stuff I want to remember about him....
Here's some funny stuff he's said over the last few months, as well as some stuff I want to remember about him....-------------------------------------------------------
"Mommy, Sprite makes me BURP!"
"My water went ker-splat in my eye and I wiped it away!"
"I hope Jesus will help Rachel to have another baby." (said when baby Daniel was about a week old)
Me to Patrick: "You have such pretty eyes. Do you know who made them?" Patrick: God and Noah."
"This is a stir thing to stir this" (talking about his spoon and his cereal)
P asked if we had anymore jellybeans. I told him no, we ate them all. He said "We have to get some more from the jelly bean man!" I asked who was the jelly bean man and he said "Mimi and Poppie!"
We were talking about the things God gave us....eyes, nose, cheeks....hair. Then we talked a little about how some people have no hair. Patrick looked out the window and soon began a prayer...."God, help Poppie to get some hair. Amen"
"I don't know if I can eat that fat fish..." "It might make me fat."
He calls wilbur from Charlotte's Web "the famous pig"
Avocado look like grass, because it green!
I was crying. Patrick looked at me and said with a thoughtful face: "Maybe you like to take a nap?!"
When he hears or sees a 3 he says "That how much I are!"
Looked at his friend David's paper in Sunday School and said "Daddy start with D" also wrote a P on his paper in S.S
One week his teacher said how God takes care of (and named each child) Patrick kept looking behind him and pointing at me and Nicolas. Finally he said "And Nicolas, too!" The teacher heard him and said "Yes! He takes care of Nicolas too, and your Mommy!"
S.S. Teacher showed the class her old special lamb she slept with. She asked each child if they had something. P has a bear who he sleeps with, but said "I don't sleep with it, I just play with it in the mooorning"
Doesn't like the toilet to flush. Says "I runned away 'cause I flushed it. So I runned away to the KITCHEN"
singing about psalm one, all of a sudden he sings ..."but he says blah about his food..."
Mr. Elephant is Mr. Teddy Bear's BROther. and he like him to pinch him"
a toy was broken he said "I think I throw it away. It brokes ALL A TIME. so I better throw it away!"
"God says to the mailman "can you give Mama and Patrick some mail" and the mailman says "ok!" "
"I get TWO (holding up two fingers) sads. One for the ouchie from the cart (Heel got run over) and one from the flushing potty" (automatic flusher scared him and Nicolas to tears!)
Me to P: You were so tired last night. P to me: Yes, so I close-ed my eyes because I think I could because I was so very tired"
loves his stuff to be put in "a LITTLE bag" goes up to checkers at stores and asks "can you please put this in a little bag?" sometimes before they are even done checking out the other person. Too cute.
He rubbed my back just out of the blue. (6/30/09) I said that feels good. He was worried about my back hurting. He said "it is the first time I rubbed your back!" He is in to saying "it is the first time....." about stuff. He came in most excited the other day saying "I touched the rain for the FIRST TIME!" He was also thinking of reasons why God let it rain, after I told him a few. He was sad about it raining because he "wants to see out his window better!" but he liked thinking of happy reasons why God let it rain (like cooling off the house etc. etc.)
Picked up a bug in a tissue to throw away. Said "I did it for the FIRST time" "Mommy, can you write that down?" "He were a dead bug"
I asked him what he was thinking about. he said "about your --niversary." So we talked about it and he grinned and grinned when I said how we missed him and Nicolas and prayed for them. I told him what we did and how we got him a funny pen and came home and were happy to see him. he said "I like my pen very much. Thank You!"
Sometimes when we sad other people give us kisses. to make us happy.
I thinkin'. "What'cha thinking about?" About Mimi day. I want it to be....1,2,3,4,5" (ie, he wishes everyday were a Mimi day!)
out of the blue "Daddy, I like it when you home and you play with me!"
"Mommy, Sprite makes me BURP!"
"My water went ker-splat in my eye and I wiped it away!"
"I hope Jesus will help Rachel to have another baby." (said when baby Daniel was about a week old)
Me to Patrick: "You have such pretty eyes. Do you know who made them?" Patrick: God and Noah."
"This is a stir thing to stir this" (talking about his spoon and his cereal)
P asked if we had anymore jellybeans. I told him no, we ate them all. He said "We have to get some more from the jelly bean man!" I asked who was the jelly bean man and he said "Mimi and Poppie!"
We were talking about the things God gave us....eyes, nose, cheeks....hair. Then we talked a little about how some people have no hair. Patrick looked out the window and soon began a prayer...."God, help Poppie to get some hair. Amen"
"I don't know if I can eat that fat fish..." "It might make me fat."
He calls wilbur from Charlotte's Web "the famous pig"
Avocado look like grass, because it green!
I was crying. Patrick looked at me and said with a thoughtful face: "Maybe you like to take a nap?!"
When he hears or sees a 3 he says "That how much I are!"
Looked at his friend David's paper in Sunday School and said "Daddy start with D" also wrote a P on his paper in S.S
One week his teacher said how God takes care of (and named each child) Patrick kept looking behind him and pointing at me and Nicolas. Finally he said "And Nicolas, too!" The teacher heard him and said "Yes! He takes care of Nicolas too, and your Mommy!"
S.S. Teacher showed the class her old special lamb she slept with. She asked each child if they had something. P has a bear who he sleeps with, but said "I don't sleep with it, I just play with it in the mooorning"
Doesn't like the toilet to flush. Says "I runned away 'cause I flushed it. So I runned away to the KITCHEN"
singing about psalm one, all of a sudden he sings ..."but he says blah about his food..."
Mr. Elephant is Mr. Teddy Bear's BROther. and he like him to pinch him"
a toy was broken he said "I think I throw it away. It brokes ALL A TIME. so I better throw it away!"
"God says to the mailman "can you give Mama and Patrick some mail" and the mailman says "ok!" "
"I get TWO (holding up two fingers) sads. One for the ouchie from the cart (Heel got run over) and one from the flushing potty" (automatic flusher scared him and Nicolas to tears!)
Me to P: You were so tired last night. P to me: Yes, so I close-ed my eyes because I think I could because I was so very tired"
loves his stuff to be put in "a LITTLE bag" goes up to checkers at stores and asks "can you please put this in a little bag?" sometimes before they are even done checking out the other person. Too cute.
He rubbed my back just out of the blue. (6/30/09) I said that feels good. He was worried about my back hurting. He said "it is the first time I rubbed your back!" He is in to saying "it is the first time....." about stuff. He came in most excited the other day saying "I touched the rain for the FIRST TIME!" He was also thinking of reasons why God let it rain, after I told him a few. He was sad about it raining because he "wants to see out his window better!" but he liked thinking of happy reasons why God let it rain (like cooling off the house etc. etc.)
Picked up a bug in a tissue to throw away. Said "I did it for the FIRST time" "Mommy, can you write that down?" "He were a dead bug"
I asked him what he was thinking about. he said "about your --niversary." So we talked about it and he grinned and grinned when I said how we missed him and Nicolas and prayed for them. I told him what we did and how we got him a funny pen and came home and were happy to see him. he said "I like my pen very much. Thank You!"
Sometimes when we sad other people give us kisses. to make us happy.
I thinkin'. "What'cha thinking about?" About Mimi day. I want it to be....1,2,3,4,5" (ie, he wishes everyday were a Mimi day!)
out of the blue "Daddy, I like it when you home and you play with me!"
and what's an anniversary without some kissing pictures?! 
After that we put in a call to check on the wee one (who was still sleeping) so we went on over to the park! We took some more pictures :) and I gave James his gift.
James wanted this one where he was laying on the fence! What a silly guy. I was keeping him from falling, I think :) 
Walking about under the pretty arbor!
We climbed the trees for a picture!
Then we went home so I could feed Nicolas. We also changed into some swimming clothes, so we could enjoy the little water spot at the park. We were a little shy to do this, 'cause it's actually for kids, so we walked around a bit first. We walked and talked by the water, then got brave enough to get a little wet. It felt SO good on that hot July day! After that we walked around the park and laid in the grass some, looking up at the beautiful blue sky. It was really a gorgeous day!
After that we stopped at Braum's for a treat! Then we headed back home to feed Nicolas and get cleaned up.
Patrick and I also decorated our car :)
James said this picture reminded him of a spot we saw on our honeymoon in Oregon.
The bed was beautiful. I love all the pillows arranged just perfectly!
We got a room with a view of the lake! It was so fun!
After awhile it was time to go give Nicolas his last feeding, so we headed off....
It was fun recalling at different times what we were doing 5 years earlier! Around this time 5 years ago we were heading out from our B&B to go to Target and Wendy's. Yes, we really did go out to Target on our Wedding evening. We laugh about that!
We decided on this place:
There was live piano music and it was SO lovely! I am SO glad we came here. The food was perfect and so exotic (to me anyways!) My salmon came beautifully displayed on a plate, covered in sauce with two tiny potatoes, a small portion of green beans and carrot mousse. I'd never heard of that, but I actually liked it. I even liked the exotic salad with raspberry vinaigrette dressing and goat's cheese. I'm really not an "exotic" eater, so James and I were both amazed :)
There weren't many people eating here at that hour, so it was a lovely quiet little spot for us! So much nicer than many of the "loud" places we'd thought about going! Oh, and James ate quail and loved it as well!
After dinner we walked about by the fountains and lake, finally sitting in a little spot by in the grass. We even saw a few fireworks! By this time we were quite tired, but it was so fun to be out and about so "late" (late for us to be out anyways, since we have kids, hee hee!)
We returned to our room close to midnight! It felt very festive, and had been a wonderful 5th anniversary. James decided before we went to bed that we would order breakfast to our room! What fun....
We've had breakfast in our room for the last 6 July 4th's! This was our first year to be in a hotel though. We usually go to "our" bed and breakfast, but we enjoyed the Hilton this year, and were blessed to be so close to home and Nicolas ;) (We left him some pumped milk for his night feedings)
After check out at 11:00 (actually we checked out a bit late!) we sat in a big comfy love-seat type chair together, doing our laptops a little! It was fun :)
We found out that there was still some milk left over from the night for Nicolas, so we decided to extend our outings for the day! We walked about and got some (MORE!) ice cream at Marble Slab. They even put little flags in it, which was fun! We ate it outside by the fountains, which was also fun, even if the heat made it melt really quickly all over our hands :) Then we left, making a quick stop at LOVES gas station to pick up something for Patrick and the babysitters :) Then we were re-united with our cute little 4th of July boys. 
It was a lovely anniversary, and we are so grateful to God for giving us to each other. We are also so grateful to my parents and James' sister for watching our precious little guys!
