Busy...

I can sum up our life right now in one word:

Busy.

Blair is working like crazy lately. He has been putting in 10-14 hour days every day at work.  This would make most people unhappy, but not Blair.  He loves to work!  He also loves what he does.  The only problem with the construction industry is the slow time in the winter.  I guess hes making up for it now.

With Blair working so much it means that my life is a little more crazy too.  With working a full time job, hauling Blaise to swimming lessons, t-ball, and soccer, taking care of two dogs, a cat, 8 ducklings, and keeping up with the house and yard work you could say that my hands have been pretty full too.

The swimming lessons didn't go so well.  For some reason Blaise just did not want to get in that pool.  He did get in for a little while during his first and second lesson, but jumped out quickly saying that it was too cold.  I felt the water, and I don't blame him, it was freezing.  But you'd think with all of the other kids enduring the cold temperatures he would get in and get used to it.  Not my boy (he's always a challenge).  So I kept taking him for the next few days, but he still wouldn't get in the pool.  At one point they had warmed up the pool, but he still refused to get in.   I can't figure out what the problem was.  He wasn't acting scared.  He was probably just being stubborn.  I wonder who he gets that from... probably both of us.  Needless to say we are no longer going to swimming lessons (its frustrating, but I don't want to push it).  Blaise is going to spend a week with Auntie Marissa and Uncle Doug in July. Since Marissa is a trained life guard and swimming lesson instructor she is going to try some one-on-one lessons (per some great advice from friends). Hopefully he'll ready by then.  I think its important for him to know how to swim and be confident in the water.

Among everything else, Blair and Blaise both had birthdays in the beginning of June (the 8th and 10th).

This year we decided to keep Blaise's birthday pretty low key.  My mom and sister took him to the zoo.

And on the day of his actual birthday I picked Blaise up from daycare a little early so we could go home and get the animal chores done and the plants watered before Blair came home so we  could head to St. Cloud and have dinner and play games at Space Aliens before picking up his new birthday bike.

We found some time for cupcakes too.

I can't believe my baby is 4!

Somehow I managed to make sure that Blair had a special birthday too (its always hard because their birthdays are only 2 days apart).

I threw a BBQ party

and

He got this...

So now we spend our evenings like this...

And we are loving it.