World of Wurdemans: Busy days

Friday Matthew took the afternoon off of work so that we could head down to visit family. It was an extra long drive due to rain and accidents (luckily none that involved us!) and we were all ready to get out of the car by the time we got to Jim and Jean's house. Unfortunately Jim had to travel and wouldn't get in until late that night, but we had a nice time visiting with Jean and Brittany.

Brittany made a great breakfast casserole Saturday morning. There weren't any leftovers. It was a quick morning because we were going to visit Gramps. Matt's mom was already there with him. We visited with him for about an hour and then picked up lunch and took it to Mimi at her house. After lunch we headed back to visit Gramps and brought Mimi with us. We went to Monett and Gary's house for dinner. Kim and Adam joined us as well. The dogs were out and Robbie didn't like all of the licking, but I don't really like it, either. We stayed at Barbara's that night and Robbie was literally asking to go to bed. When does that ever happen??

We headed to my parents' house Sunday morning. Lisa and her kids had driven down the day before, so they were there to greet us. Lisa, Jonathan, Chat and the kids were going to go to Chuck E Cheese's that night, but then plans changed and we joined them there for lunch and games. Dad offered to stay home with Alex. Alex wouldn't have much fun anyway! I don't know how much Robbie really enjoyed it until we put him on a roller coaster simulator. He would have stayed on that until it closed except that other kids wanted to ride on it, too. It was a lesson in taking turns that Robbie was not ready to learn! After Chuck E. Cheese's, the Eikelands and Wurdemans headed back to our parents' house. Kayleigh and Brian took a nap, but Robbie did not. Lisa and I sneaked out for a little Target shopping trip while (her) kids napped. Mom fixed a great dinner and then Barbara and Jack came over for a visit. It's a running family joke that they go out of town whenever we come in, so we had to trick them and tell them we were coming the weekend before (when they were out of town) and came last weekend instead. We bathed the boys before loading them into the car for the trip home. I'm sure Robbie would have been asleep before we pulled out of the driveway if we didn't have a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse DVD playing! Luckily the drive home was much less eventful and we made good time.

Yesterday Robbie decided that green is finally green (not blue) and today Mickey is finally Mickey (not Minnie). Alex is starting to make some forward progress crawling, though it's pretty much canceled out going backward.

We gave Alex rice cereal for the first time tonight. I have to say he didn't have nearly as good of a reaction to it as Robbie did his first time trying it. I think most of it came back out, though by the last spoonful I heard him swallow a couple of times. He also kept grabbing the spoon so it was a messy meal.

I haven't watched these videos, but I'm sorry for my baby talk!

Some pictures from dinner.

Love that face!