Minnicks On Their Road To Ever After: Spring and Statesboro

Last weekend we had NO plans and it felt SO nice outside! We had our first day at Kennesaw Mountain of the year and Lola loved having the freedom to run around in the open fields!

Lola has been so into watching airplanes lately, I showed her how if you lay on your back you can see them longer- she loved it! We actually got to lay still with her for longer than usual…

even that is barely 60 seconds! The girl is on the go! The girl is on a mission!

…. and she’s off! Family selfie!

This time change has really messed us up, we left the park thinking it was so early and it was almost 7! Lola’s bedtime has been pushed back to 8 almost every night because mama can’t get it together! She hasn’t seemed to mind though! I always say for a schedule baby she sure does adapt well!

We also got a visit with another one of our favorites that weekend!! Lola was so excited to wake up from her nap and to find a visitor- JJ!!!!

We took them both to dinner and JJ insisted on carrying Lola everywhere! They saw horses, a bird and several puppies so Lola decided JJ was the coolest auntie ever!

JJ had to leave after dinner but we stayed a bit longer to let Lola play! I almost died when JJ told Lola bye and walked to the door of the restaurant….Lola started crying and reaching for her…

It was the sweetest but saddest thing ever!

Thankfully Lola quickly found two new friends after that and brought them her pita bread to their high chairs!

We finished up dinner (and Lolas mingling) and let Lola play for a bit! This was when she learned how to really slide and actually anticipated enjoying it!

All good weekends must come to an end but I swear not that Spring is here (some days) and the daylight hours are longer it’s a bit less depressing on Sunday night!

Spanky clean and all ready for another week!

Right Lo?

Ok this is actually a side note just to be clear about how much she loves other babies… As soon as she saw this box she lit up and hugged the baby on it…

Yes, you saw right…. hugging a box.

My child, my sweet, sweet, baby lovin’ child!

Geez that girl is sweet…And BUSY, very busy!

The goal these days is all about ENTERTAINMENT!

Most days as soon as we come home from work it’s go, go, go so if you think you were exhausted from working all day and going to sit down- very funny! I can’t even remember what my couch feels like!

On top of that you have the guilt from being gone at work all day so you try to be OVERLY engaged and “fun” so she get’s the best of you when in reality it’s the end of your day and your POOPED!

Ok, rant over, I love you Lola but damn being mommy’s and daddy’s is hard stuff!

We took Lola to the tennis courts for the first time last week and she actually loved it! She chased Milly around with the leash and cried when we had to leave!

…and going, and going, and going….

Do we look tired?

No?

How about her?

That’s a hell no.Please Lola, at least just slow down!

We still love collecting rocks after our nap while we wait for daddy to come home!

But first we have to have our cheese stick…. priorities!

Lola has gotten a bit more “helpful” with my baking too which has been our other go to “entertainment” on not so pretty days!

You can imagine what happened after she helped me with the cookies… her bath toys went right into the mixer!

Other kitchen news:

Sometime last week i decided to let my baby grow up and eat at…. well, the big kids table!

Can you believe we made it that long though honestly?! After 13 months in the Bumbo I think it’s safe to say we got our moneys worth out of it!

We haven’t done the plate every night since then because it’s still most nights just anther thing to throw but we’re working on it…. nights that i have the patience to “work on it” that is!

Friday, FINALLY and we were so exhausted after work but we still had to pack and then drive… well Lou did.

Poor Lou.

Lola HATES being in the car now so going in the morning was NOT an option!

It was about 8pm and this little cutie was ready to hit the road!

Believe it or not as tired as we were Alex and I didn’t even turn the radio on the whole trip! I think we caught up on the ins and outs of EVERTHING over the last few weeks and it was so nice yo just have uninterrupted conversation!

The day to day bedtime routine and cleaning and us crashing leaves little time to muster up the energy to stay up talking for hours so I ended up being so thankful for our long ride home!

Lola was thankful to wake up and not know any of it even happened…. she was ready to go again!

Gigi’s house is the best playground ever!! Then we were off to meet Aunt Taytay for lunch!

This is Aunt Taytay’s most favorite picture!

After we shopped a bit more and went TT through our pants, giving mommy and gigi an excuse to buy more clothes we then stripped down into this because it was HOT and we were ready t play outside at Aunt Taytays!

Tea party on Aunt Taytays patio!

See our boo boo from Tucktuck :(

That night we celebrated Josh's 30th birthday at Chops where Renee threw him a fabulous birthday party!

The girls!

He was SO surprised! Selfies hAAAAAy!

We love the Variations! They played at Josh and Renee’s wedding and they are seriously THE BEST!

The next day was all about being outside! Spring always seems to come faster in Statesboro!

Lola had to go check out all of Poppys new toys in the yard! Carrying her quack quack bubbles Gigi got her!

My first girl, how cute is this!?

Around lunch we met Alexs mom and Tara and headed to the sticks…. ok even more of the sticks; Claxton, GA to see what this years “Rattlesnake roundup” was all about!

Lola wanted Aunt Taytay the whole time! She actually wanted to get down to walk over to Tara to then be picked up…. I think we were all jealous!

See Lola’s new scratch? Hershey is a mean beast! She jumped on Lola when Lola leaned the opposite way for her sippy cup and popped my poor baby three times before I could rescue the por girl! Hersh has been demoted to “outside cat only” while Lola is present after Gigi caught wind of the news!

SorryB!

I may have lied and told Lola this was a quack quack so she would go say hi…..

We got back Sunday night and thank the lord I had already taken Monday off to “get it together” because we obviously needed time to do….. that… right Lo?

I was SO excited to have a day off and play catch up that I think I was a bit too ambitious! We started cleaning the closets out and Lola made a game of handing me EVERY SINGLE HANGER!

Needless to say the room looked worse than when we started and so we did what any good family does…. we left the room and made sure the door was shut behind us!

Cleaning was a bust so we ran to meet daddy for lunch at a new favorite spot with a beautiful outdoor patio and for the first itmes in our lives (literally for Lola) we were early!!!

But then I went to get Lola out and found this…. The girl was passed out! Mondays always hit her hard!

I woke her up and promised her her two favorite things… shopping and going to see daddy Lou!

Yay for time with daddy! He enjoyed his time with us so much he swore Tuesday was a Monday to his co-workers! I told him that’s how powerful our lunch break was with him- he forgot he worked that day!!

We went home for our real napwhich was SUPER long and I think it was the MOST time I have had in months to myself to get things done at home… it was truly amazing!

You know it’s a good nap when she wakes up with hair like this!

Then to our surprise daddy came home an hour early!!

Daddy Lou typically has one thing on his mind when it’s a sunny day and he is home early…. the square!

So we changed into outfit number three for the day and hit the road! Literally for Lo!

Their happy place!

This is officially my favorite view…

Choo choo!!

We had dinner outside too that day and Lola loved watching all the puppies walking by!

After dinner Lola was on a mission to get to the play ground to go slide! She wanted to carry all her snacks herself and as soon as she got to the playground she walked up to the first stranger and handed them her snacks (to hold we assume) and then walked off to go down the slide!Yes, Lola, This is your world… we are just living in it!

The next day was a big one- St. Patrick’s Day!

Brittany has started to take Lola to he gym with her to practice “gymnastics” and Lola LOVES it! They went on St. Patty’s day and Lola even jumped on the trampoline!

She is getting so independent these days so after seeing the snaps that day from the gym I decided to go ahead and sign her up for this May to start gymnastics!

We are SO excited for her!

Lola talked me into taking her out in her car while we waited for daddy to get home and halfway down the road she stopped the car, got out and walked home…..