Kelly-Hannon Family Reunion

For all of you who wondered what happened to blog posts this past week, sorry about that! Mommy is a bit behind :) But wanted to get pictures out from our family reunion last weekend. We headed down to the Winona/La Crosse area for a Kelly-Hannon reunion. A good time was had by all! Trevor and Mommy headed down on Friday with Jim/Annie/Sam since Daddy had to work. We enjoyed a wonderful chicken dinner and spent time together in Aunt Alice's apartment gathering room. Trevor hit his chin while attempting to climb up and sit on a big boy chair. Just another bruise for our little guy!

Saturday morning the little stinker was wide awake at 4:30. Mommy got him to lay in bed with her until 5am but then he got up, walked over to the hotel door and screamed until Mommy opened it up. Nothing like taking a hotel tour at 5 am in your jammies! We were at breakfast by 6:30 :( This is a trend with Trevor - he doesn't like when Mommy and Daddy aren't together. When Brian was in China the little stinker was up at 5:30 every day. Once Daddy got home he would do his usual 7:30 wake-up time!

On Saturday afternoon since the weather was a bit rainy we took advantage of the hotel's indoor/outdoor swimming pool. Even Grandma Jeanne joined in on the fun!


He especially enjoyed swimming with his cousin Bethany. They were pals the entire weekend. She loved taking care of him and was great at it. Wish she lived in MN so she could baby-sit and spend more time together. She even has her CPR and babysitting certifications!

Trevor seemed to really like his new floatie device!

Saturday night we headed to downtown LaCrosse for a family dinner. It was perfect - we had our own room with separate doors to the outside area so the kids could play. At one point Cody, Nichola, Trevor and Mommy were down by the water when Mommy wanted to go get the camera (big surprise, right?). Cody said no problem, he'd watch Trevor. Mommy mentioned that maybe they should go up away from the water and Cody replied, "of course but just know Sara that I wouldn't ever let anything happen to Trevor. I would jump in the water to save his life before mine." Melts the heart! So Mommy ran to get the camera and came back to find them playing away!

It's just so fun to see the cousins play together and pick up like no time has passed between visits, even though it had been a year!

Trevor really enjoys watching what the big kids are doing. He's a great observer!

Buddies and pals forever!

Cody is Bethany's brother but we think Trevor could pass for Bethany and Cody's brother as well!

And here is the gang. It's sad to not have Grandma Kelly with us, but we could feel her presence through her sister - Aunt Alice!

Wasn't kidding for a second. If Trevor wasn't with Cody, he was with Bethany!

And here is the Hannon clan, except for Mackenzie and his fiance Krysta:

Aunt Alice and her sons:

Trevor and Grandma Jeanne except that Trevor is a man on a mission who doesn't stand still for long. He's usually too busy walking around taking things from people and saying "mine, mine, mine, mine"!

And back to Bethany! Love!!

Happy Father's Day

Trevor's first gift to his Dada for Father's Day was sleeping in until 8:30! And from there the day just went up! We tried out a new place for breakfast, played a lot - inside and at the park, laughed a lot as you can see below...

With Trevor even asking for more...saying it as well as signing it. He really wanted to get his point across to Dada!

No day is complete without lots of reading!

What else? Let's see...after a two hour nap we headed to the Splash Pad for fun. Trevor loved it, although we think he loved the playground even more because he didn't stop chatting the entire time he was playing. Sounded a bit like 'ba ba ba ba ba ba' - not sure what that translates to but he had a smile on his face the entire time he crawled up ladder after ladder to slide down slide after slide!

On the way home Dada made an impromptu decision to forgo eating the pork loin he had slow roasted all day for fajitas so we could all eat together for his Father's Day meal. Instead he picked up pizza! The carnitas probably wouldn't be ready until 7:30 or 8:00 so it was nice to all eat together and who doesn't love pizza? Trevor sure loves it!

After we put him down to sleep there was a tap on our door and guess who it was? Our fun neighbors and their friends who are moving to the neighborhood as well at the end of next month. We had a few brewskies in the backyard - gosh it is GREAT having neighbors that are so fun and who aren't afraid to knock on the door! Having them around makes us love our home that much more and we already loved it a lot!

Last but not least for the evening were some yummy molton chocolate lava cakes with ice cream and sprinkles. Perfect end to a perfect Father's Day! Well, minus the visit from the Golden Valley police dept. While talking to the Hillins, Trevor had the phone and pressed some buttons. When we hung up with them and turned the phone on to call the Roslansky's the phone dialed the numbers that Trevor had pushed. Sara promptly ended the call and punched in the right number. Well as we were talking to Sara's parents the police were knocking on the back gate. We later learned there was a 911 hang up call (Trevor must have punched in the numbers 911111 and whatever other numbers after that). Well, the good news is that there wasn't an emergency but if there was the cops were there in under 4 minutes. No more holding the phone for Trevor!

Twins Game

On Saturday we braved the light rain and headed to the Twins game courtesy of our friends Kirk and Trone who gave us their tickets. Their seats were awesome and we really had a great time! And it didn't really rain that much!


The best part of Trevor's Twins game was the chicken strips and french fries. Okay, who are we kidding? Of course it was the ice cream with candy toppings that Dada bought!


On the way out around 8:45 (yikes, way past T's bedtime) we spotted Mickey Mouse - one of Trevor's favorites these days:

And a nice passerby snapped a quick photo of all of us! Go Twins!

Swimming Lessons

Trevor started swimming lessons on Saturday! The day started bright and early and we actually had to wake the little sleepy head up at 7:30 so we could get to the lessons on time at 8:15 (well, technically we thought they were at 8 but we digress....)

So we got to spend some time checking out the pool and getting used to the space:


And before we knew it, it was time for Baby Backfloat! Trevor proudly walked over to his area with Dada:


But wasn't so sure when the teacher wanted him to come to her. He's going through a 'shy' stage!

Once in the water with Dada he was just fine!

And that folks is pretty much the last smile you'll see from our little guy. After that he wanted nothing to do with swimming and all of the interesting tactics the teacher used to get them used to the water, such as this shower:

and the full bucket of water:

He wasn't a fan of laying on his back either. Maybe because of his ears? He did keep tugging on them :( but the teacher helped him ease into it. You can almost hear the cries though!

Trevor must have thought he was all done with swimming at this point because they were sitting on the edge doing 'humpty dumpty' and he was fine. Just wait buddy...remember that humpty dumpty fell off the wall!

Eek!

Time for your strokes! Yep, still not happy!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Nothing can make him happy!

And then the worst thing happens. He reaches out and just keeps saying "Mama! Mama!" How Mommy just wanted to jump in and save him and never make him go back there again :(

The teacher said it will just take some time, especially if we've been avoiding water in his ears and whatnot because of all of his ear infections. So she helped him a bit:

We're pretty sure that Trevor and Cecelia were talking to each other in this picture saying "now what? let's get outta here!" Well at least the tears stopped for a bit.

Then back to the tears...

Hopefully the next lesson goes much better for Trevor. Swimming is supposed to be fun!

Our Little Cutie

Sara's friend Stacey shared her photography talents with us on Sunday and captured some beautiful images of our family in action. These were just a few sneak peeks she shared with us so we're sharing them with you! Here's the first one:
http://sdanddoublee.blogspot.com/2011/06/just-had-to-share.html

Here's the second one: http://sdanddoublee.blogspot.com/2011/06/obvious.html
As you can see she not only captures wonderful images but she is an amazing writer. We can't wait to see the other images as well, but we'll have to wait a little bit given that photography is not her full-time job! She is a Mother and a nurse first!

You may remember that Stacey was Sara's BFF in 6th grade before her family moved to a town 90 minutes away. The were reconnected on Facebook about a year ago and it has been great spending time with her ever since! Thanks Stacey for sharing your time and talents with us. These images really do show how much love we feel for one another and for little guy...who clearly isn't so little anymore!

Week in Review

Where does time go? Well, we know - time goes too fast when you are having fun and that is just what we are doing these days. Trevor is such a joy! He's chatting like there is no tomorrow. We love how he has conversations with us and when done with a sentence that you can't entirely make out he just looks at you and waits for a response. He's talking up a storm and repeating everything so watch what you say around him (Mommy needs to remember this when yelling at Randle!!). He's very big into saying 'bye bye ____ (fill in the blank)' - could be house, Randle, people, bird, poop or grass just to name a few! Yes, that read poop. When he gets his diaper changed he says it or when he sees someone go to the bathroom! We don't think he's far off from potty training. Ugh...he's growing up too fast!!

He had his last week at his current day care. We switched him to a different day care for the summer until he switches one last time to Calvary - the top rated center in our area and the place he was going to go as an infant before Sara's job was eliminated. The day care he was at for the past two months was never a top choice but it was a faith-based program that was 2 blocks from our house and they had openings when Sara had to start work. You could tell they really loved Trevor, even saying he was their favorite, but we wanted to try out another center while we could.


One of Trevor's parting gifts from one of his friends at Sunshine Valley was a bite. It's always ironic when they say 'one of his friends bit him today.' What? Friends don't bite friends! Ouch!

Trevor continues to be a great eater and is not afraid to get food from the cupboard when he's hungry! He doesn't discriminate against foods but continues to prefer carbs, fruit, and meat.

He went through a stage of not liking his baths (weird) but fortunately we're past that. Or maybe not...because now he has a tough time getting dressed in the morning. It's not very much fun to fight him on getting ready for school!

Other news for the week is that on Friday night we tried out a new sitter since two of our other ones have left for other nanny jobs out of state :( and we had plans with grad school friends. The Hases are moving to North Dakota so we had one final rendezvous at Psycho Suzi's! Who knew that build your own s'mores could bring such belly laughs!

Saturday morning Trevor and Mommy made blueberry pancakes. Trevor really is a good helper - stirring when asked. He also does a good job eyeing the dough and trying to take a lick!

He is a bit messy but nothing Mommy's apron couldn't fix. Although it is a bit long!

He wasn't too happy when it was time for Mommy to make the pancakes on the pan. He surely likes stirring and helping!

On Saturday afternoon we had fun around the house. Especially playing 'up' with Dada. Trevor could play this for hours and just giggle away! He's great at saying more and please too!

Late Saturday afternoon our friends the Flaherty's came over for some play and some dinner. Trevor was a bit startled to find people in his house when he woke up from his nap but after some food in his belly he wasn't shy and had some fun hanging out!

Myles and Reagan even brought over some of their 'old' toys for Trevor to play with! He is very fond of the elephant rocker.

Did you notice what was missing from all of these pictures? Yep, a little hair - just got his 6th haircut! But no, that's not it! He's nuk-free for over a week!! After talking that 'nuks are not forever' we took his nuk away last Saturday (June 4). After he got up, his nuks just mysteriously disappeared and he really hasn't asked for them since. Saturday nap was a bit rough with him crying for close to 15 minutes before laying down to sleep and Mommy almost caved and went in to give him his nuk but she held strong and it's been great. He really is such a big boy that is growing up way, way too fast!

Saturday Fun Day

Saturday started like any other day...music class, early nap (without a nuk!!), and lunch. Then our friends down the street texted to see if we wanted to go on a family walk (dogs and all) which we did. We decided mid-walk to stop at their house and enjoy a 'cold one' in their 3 season porch. Well, that turned into a progressive party that ended on our backyard patio. What a fun day - the doggies chased each other, the kiddos were great, and we had some great drinks and conversation. This picture pretty much sums up the afternoon...this picture was taken at 4:55pm :)


After they left we decided to try out Trevor's new Burley on a ride to dinner. We rode to Latuff's, our favorite pizza place a few miles away and Trevor did pretty good. He liked it the best when he could see Mama :)


He wasn't such a fan of his helmet but hopefully that will be better once Mama and Dada wear one too!


And the perfect day ended with a dance party! Trevor's got some good moves :)