two and a half

Stephen's half birthday was yesterday. He was born almost exactly 4 and a half years after Catherine. He is all about reading board books over and over and over... He likes the Byron Barton books, many of our Eric Carle (and/or Bill Martin Jr.) books, and song & nursery rhyme books. I am thankful that Catherine and Teresa are willing to read & sing these to him because after 4 or 5 times in a row, I am ready to go clean the toilets.

We celebrated with ice cream sundaes at the Zesto where Grandma used to work. We also visited the Sunken Gardens in spite of a few rain showers...







...then headed across the street to see the BIG "waterfall" outside the Lincoln Children's Zoo.



Finally, we visited with some of Adam's extended family because his grandparents were in town for Father's Day. Adam has some older cousins and one was there with his twins and another with his triplets. Another cousin, who also has twins was not there. I have a friend who is expecting twins, our neighbors across the road have triplets and there is also a set of twins in Catherine's class. With all this exposure to multiple babies, Catherine is a little jealous - "Why don't you have two babies in your tummy, mom?"



Sorry, honey. God only put one in my tummy - like this water lily in one of the Sunken Garden fish ponds - the only one in bloom.