Pre 2nd Birthday Party

We had a great time celebrating Hayden's almost 2nd birthday with family and friends at Chuck E. Cheese in Cedar Falls. We were there right at 10:00 when they opened, and claimed our spot. Hayden had a BLAST at Chuck E Cheese. We played some games, ate pizza and cake, and then left to go to the pool. Hayden had fun swimming, but was pretty pooped. Joey had the most fun going down all of the slides and off the diving boards with his niece Faith.
It was a great day, and so nice to have all of our friends and family with us. As always we needed more time to chat with everyone as long as we would like to.

Friday Grandma P watched Hayden for the day so my Mom, Sister and I could run down to the outlet mall and get some fall shopping done. Grandma P set up a luau for the kids. She also watched Hayden's cousins Faith and Noah. They had hot dog kabobs, pineapple, a pool party, and lots of leis and toys. I picked Hayden up at 7 and he had dinner was bathed and was sooooo excited to tell me all about his fun filled day! What a blessing Bev is to offer to watch Hayden so I could have some time with my Mom and Sister. Hayden spent 7 hours there and wasn't ready to come home by any means. It is so nice that Hayden can spend such a fun day with his grandparents and cousins. I am excited for him to get older and experience more fun time with Grandma and Grandpa P.

After I got Hayden to bed friday night I met Johnny, Darliene, Sarah, and Donnie at the Hub to watch a Johnny Cash revival band. We had fun and the band was awesome. It was great spending time with everyone and spending an evenig out now that there is no smoking allowed in bars. It is sooooo great not smelling like smoke. Loved it! It made the whole evening way more enjoyable!

We came home Saturday night with Ingrid and all of her luggage in tow. She is spending the rest of the week with us until she leaves in Friday. She heard from her husband today and he is home from Iraq. He has to work the rest of the week, and then hopes to take some time off when she arrives! I am so happy for them to be together again, and am so happy he is home BEFORE the baby is born. It makes it easier for me to share her! We HATE to see her go, and like last summer, this one has flown by as well.
Next time we see her we will have a new Nephew! We are so excited. Ingrid will honestly make the best mother!!!

We will just be laying low this week. Ingrid and I are going out to dinner with my friend Kari tomorrow night. Kari has some more maternity clothes to give Ingrid. She gave Ingrid all of her maternity and baby clothes!!!! Ingrid also received baby clothes from her sister-in-law in Fargo and some from me. I hate to part with too much if our next child ends up being a boy.
Then we are headed back up to CF on Saturday for a family wedding. I think we are just going to make it a 1 day trip. We are hoping to be home for a few weeks, so we can get consistent with Hayden's sleeping issues we are having at night now. I am happy to say that he did fall asleep on his own in his own bed last night. I tried leaving his door open, and that seemed to work. We will see what tonight brings. Ever since he started getting all of his 2 year molars last month we have been having issues. Not sure if the 2 correlate, but will be glad when we get this all worked out!!!!!