Big Time

Papa came to town Thursday night for a long weekend (and to go to the race) - the kiddos had such fun reading and eating Long's donuts together!

Friday, I chaperoned a field trip to the Children's Museum with Phoebe's class. 

She loved riding the bus there with all her friends!

I think there were 25 kids and 16 adults and I still think it was a miracle we didn't lose anyone!

Saturday we headed to the parade and survived the 90-plus degree temperatures only because we were in the shade for most of the event and had a lovely breeze.  It started at noon - right in the middle of Maverick's nap time so we pulled through, but just barely!

My man Mitch.

Olivia Newton John

Golden Dragon

Guy Fieri

Cat in the Hat

We kept the snacks coming and only made one bathroom run during the parade.

Conveniently, our seats were right outside my office building so we headed upstairs for a quick potty break before we hit the road.  While in the office, Maverick got to run around and burn some energy.  Oh how he looks like his daddy!

Sunday, since it was in the mid-90s and we FINALLY found a floaty at Target (since our other one is MIA in storage) we headed to the pool!

The pool ranges from two to four feet so Phoebe didn't keep her floaty on for long.  She's Miss Independent these days and I'm desperately trying to find swimming lessons so she's even more confident - especially in pools where she won't be able to touch the bottom!  Maverick wasn't sure about the pool - he loved walking around but refused to sit in his tube. 

He much preferred roaming around the pool to floating in it.

And...Miss Big Time here is finally able to ride her bike!  Forget the tricycle!  We bought this beauty at a garage sale last summer for $5 and only had to get new inner tubes for the tires.  She's probably a little big for it but I think it'll be the perfect bike for her to learn without training wheels.  It didn't take long for her to get super confident on it either.  We should have had her wear her helmet but sort of got caught up in the moment.  She only had one tumble and that's because she got distracted with people playing catch outside and went into the grass. 

And...she's off!

May, Take Three

Although his goose egg is slowly but surely fading, Maverick just wasn't meant to keep his cute face simple this month.  Thursday, I picked him up after work and apparently there'd been a scuffle over a toy and he got the brunt of it.  He seems to be handling it all in stride - and it made me go home and make sure his nails were nice and trim so he can't do the same to someone else!  We headed to the library Friday afternoon to pick up a book I had on hold.  Not sure if it was school or the library but Saturday he woke up with pink eye!  Poor kid still can't catch a break!

A little eye gunk didn't deter us though!  We had a big KinderDance recital to attend.  They were doing 12 schools every half hour all in a row and everything went smoothly and on schedule.  Here's Phoebe hanging out with her pals before the big show.  Love the tutus - the tiaras just didn't agree with fine hair but we made it through the event all the same!

Most of the crew - Stinna, Madelyn, Lola, Phoebe, Maria, Eli (his grandma owns the KinderDance franchise in Indy and usually loves their class - Saturday was another story) and Phoebe's best friend, Hadley.

Warming up.

Stretching some more.

The curtsy.

They even did a few tap numbers for us on the carpet.

Yeah, that's my kid on the floor in the crowd.  It was at our church so he felt pretty comfortable moving around on his own.

Phoebe with sunflowers from Nana and Papa.

Pink roses from Mommy, Daddy and Maverick.

Good-bye hugs for Miss Ana - I observed many KinderDance classes since they were on Fridays and oh boy, let's just say this lady has patience I'd pay good money to have!  The kids did a fantastic job and I'm sure it's because they have such a great teacher whom they like and have fun with!

Chasing Maria (who also goes to our church) around the lobby.  They were beyond wound up before and after the performance!

And then for whatever reason, we got a little attitude when it was time to leave.

Phoebe is NOT afraid to tell it like it is.

Since we don't seem to have any vases in the apartment, we combined flowers and put them in one of Nana's mason jars - Phoebe loves her flowers!

Sunday was Papou's 62nd birthday (don't ask about the candles - we'll be making an effort to stock more numbers for future family parties).

Looking rougher but at least the eye isn't pink and oozing anymore!  So thankful we had drops left over from the last time pink eye plagued our household!

Phoebe, once again, assisting in gift opening.

Sporting his Greek shirt in honor of Papou.

And this is currently what our living room looks like.  We have gone ahead and just bit the bullet.  We're going to build a home in Westfield and are getting pretty darn excited about it.  However, that means we're in the apartment for at least five more months so we headed to storage in search of our summer clothes.  Of course when we originally packed the first storage unit, we had no intention of using it so long - our totes of summer gear were in the back corner, on the bottom.  And we're still missing half of Ryan's summer clothes and all my sandals.  We'll survive somehow, besides, the kids loved playing in the totes so it was all worth the sweat.  This just means we have a LOT of organizing to do before Papa heads back north for the race! 

May, Take Two

  Nana and Papa came really early Friday morning for a quick trip to Indiana.  While they were in town, we celebrated Mother's Day with Nana.  Phoebe loves to help open gifts.

Maverick just likes to play with paper!

The real reason for their visit was to welcome Parker Lynn Shull who arrived on May 11.  She's an itty-bitty so we didn't get to meet her in an effort to not expose her to all the Wallis germs that seem to hover nearby us at all times.  Papa will be back up for the race so we're hoping to meet her then!

They headed back to Georgia on Saturday so Papa could sing in a quartet at church on Sunday.  It worked out that Uncle Steve and Bevin came to celebrate Mother's Day on Saturday so we headed over to YiaYia and Papou's.  We brought our 3-D sidewalk chalk.

Maverick is VERY ticklish!

Silly Kali sat on the chalk!

Phoebes loves to play with her Uncle Steve!

We headed back to their house after church on Sunday.  Maverick got a huge goose egg on his forehead while we were at another model home Saturday afternoon.  When we picked him up from the nursery at church he had another boo-boo on his chin.  This kid is rough and tumble all. the. time!

Phoebe assisting YiaYia with her gifts as well.

My boys.

See the resemblance? Give it time!

Uncle Steve insists our kids be cultured.

Our cutie enjoying a park.

And lest you think it is just Phoebe who sleeps without abandon, think again.

But she does have more room than he does so she ends up on/off the side quite often.