Summertime!

July marks the beginning of Harman crazy summer! It feels a little awkward only having 2 kids to watch, does that sound odd? But now that it’s just Brett and Bailey, I’m taking advantage and we are doing as much as possible! We’ve been hitting the pools, started swim lessons, day trips to the museums and zoo, visited the Art Institute, lunches/dinners with Daddy downtown, birthday parties and cook outs…you name it, we are trying to fit it in.
We owe a big thanks to Grandma Nancy, and the Wisconsin aunts, Bobbie and Barbie for coming and hosting our 2nd annual Camp Grantie. Basically the 3 ladies come to watch the kids and tell Rob and I to get lost for the weekend. It’s wonderful for all parties and the kids had a blast! Brett said it was so much fun showing the aunts all of his toys and being able to talk about them:)
I finally got Brett and Bailey in for their 3 year and 18 month check up. Taking 2 to the doctor at the same time is a challenge. Thankfully the doctor had a nurse AND resident on hand to help. Bailey made herself at home and ran wild in the office, opening any drawer she could find, climbing through medicine carts and using every medical tool she could get her hands on. As I’m trying to fill the doctor in on Brett, I see Bailey out of the corner of my eye, taking the stethoscope off of the resident’s neck, hitting the poor lady with it and yelling “boom boom…boom boom”. At 3 years old, Brett is 37 ¼ inches tall and 30.5 lbs….Bailey, at 18 months, is 32 ¼ inches tall and 27 lbs. The nurse was typing in the numbers and doing some calculations and kind of laughed making a comment about their BMI’s. I was trying to chase Bailey so didn’t hear her exactly and asked her to repeat herself. She said ‘Bailey’s BMI is higher than Brett’s, meaning she’s basically chunkier than her brother.’ I laughed along but thought to myself, I don’t think one really needs to use math or a computer for that matter to come to the conclusion that Bailey is curvier (as her daddy would say). But I appreciate their need to put everything in ‘medical terms’. So Brett is now in the 40th percentile for both height and weight (down from 50% previously), and Bailey is 70th for height and 85th for weight (down from 90th and 95th!!). The doctor couldn’t believe how much Bailey was talking, stating at 18 months you look to have 7 words. Not to be THAT mom, but Bailey is certainly way beyond that. I attribute a lot of that to Brett and how much he talks to her. I tried making a list but stopped after 100 words. Granted, not all of those are clear, but enough that I can usually understand her.
Tomorrow marks our 4th wedding anniversary (YAY) and I think Rob and I would both say we are very happy with where we are in our lives. We have 2 healthy, silly, adorable kids and are having so much fun with them. And I love that we are in the point in our relationship that we can agree on things in a mature, adult fashion. Even better, is when we can give credit where credit is due. The other weekend, Rob was gracious enough to get up with Brett as he was an early riser that Saturday morning and let me sleep in (how nice, right?). I receive a text from Rob (yes, as he was just downstairs), saying he had a GREAT (censored) idea for the day. I get up and join him as he is full on describing how there is this awesome program with the library that allows you to check out passes to museums around the city for free. He was so pumped up, not really allowing me to get a word in edgewise…running to the computer, printing stuff off, writing down numbers of multiple libraries just in case the one we wanted was already checked out. I try to chime in that I had actually heard of such a thing and maybe, just possibly told him about this exact program FOUR weeks ago. He was not convinced and said there is no way, this is different. Seeing that there was no point in arguing, he was entirely too proud of himself… I just went to the kitchen and pulled out the brochure detailing the exact same thing and handed it to him. So yes, taking our kids to the Art Institute was a wonderful idea, and getting in to it for free was even better…allowing your husband to have credit for an idea that you may or may not have told him about a month prior is apparently something you do in happy married life.

Quotes
Bailey was being funny. I said “Bailey are you a silly girl?” She said ‘No, good girl.’ Then she pointed to her chest saying ‘mommy’s girl’

Brett came down from his nap exclaiming, ‘Mommy! I had dreams!’
This for some reason, went right into a debate about how he felt it was necessary to have a t.v. in his room. This is not happening Rob, non-negotiable.

Brett received baseball batting gloves for his birthday. He HAS to have them on if playing baseball.

The kids were running around and Brett slipped. Bailey stopped and asked repeatedly ‘Brett, ok? Brett Brett ok?’ until he answered.

Every once in awhile Bailey will put together phrases out of no where and it takes you by such surprise. The other day, I was picking something up while the kids were still at the table eating. Bailey yelled ‘Mommy, SIT DOWN!’

Could hear Rob blowing his nose upstairs, Bailey yelled ‘SNOTS!’

Bailey was really unhappy and fussing so I asked her what was wrong. She cried, ‘Mee-Maw….Brett Brett!’ Brett had just left with Grandma Nancy to go to storytime. Bailey was sad.

‘Brett, who’s on t.v.?’ He responded, ‘That’s Obama…I saw him at Legoland!’

Our newest niece Adelyn was born and I was showing Brett and Bailey a picture. Brett said, ‘Adelyn! She’s beautiful, maybe we take her home?’

Discussing sports for some reason over breakfast. I said, ‘we like Ohio State’. Brett’s immediate response was ‘This is a Michigan house!’ WHAT?! Then I realized this was the day after Nancy watched the kids. I should really monitor her influence more closely!:)

Bailey was stepping on/kicking all the toys walking through the livingroom, saying sorry to each one.

One of the joys of Rob working downtown in the summer is going down and meeting him for dinner. We were sitting outside, enjoying a nice evening when Metalicca came on…Bailey got so excited and started dancing like a maniac. That silly Uncle Pat Pat and his music….

I had a nice girls day with Bailey and I took her to a kids splash pool. Told her it was time to leave. She sat down in the water, refusing to get up, saying ‘no mommy, more splash splash’.

Our neighborhood had a 4th of July bike parade. It was adorable. The next day, Brett announced, ‘I think I need a bike, a red Cars one and we should get Bailey a little pink one’. So that’s what daddy did.