this moms life: week before Easter & a few milestones!!!

We had such a fun packed week! My best friend came into town on Tuesday evening. We just hung out the first night...I made strawberry fields salad and (boxed) jambalaya (pardon my spelling), It was DELIC. Than Sara and I drove down the street to the local soft serve ice cream shop. It is sooo good! But then again I think any small soft serve dive is delic. On Wednesday J let me have a girls day! I mean no kids, no husband...just me remembering what it is like to shop for myself, eat for myself and just be relaxed. Sara is so good at making me remember that I matter too and that I deserve to spend time and money on myself. If you are reading this, thank you Sara someday you will understand what it means to have someone remind you that you are a woman and not just a MOM. :/

After a long day (OK a few hours lol) of outlet shopping(I scored some awesome deals @ Gap Outlet). That is where most of clothes are from now. I can always find such great prices and not compromise and quality. SCORE. We went home, relaxed for a bit, I made my family dinner and then Sara and I met up with our friend Sandra who works @ Gap (convenient I know). They took me to Wild Ginger. Sara has been trying to get me to go for years but it is not a place for kids so It has always been hard to steal me away with out either J being home with the boys, or a sitter so we can all go. But once again it was not only nice to have FUN adult conversations, essentially about nothing important in life BUT the food! OMG GUYS! BEST SUSHI HANDS DOWN. I got eh King of the Ocean it was pricey @ 16 bucks but for a specialty roll I guess that's not bad? IDK. To be completely honest I would have paid double that for how goo it was. YUMM-O. Than of course there was a Busken bakery next door and I could not resist my favorite cookie on earth. I might of bought a whole box of Easter cookies. Possibly :)

The rest of the week was pretty fun. Not as much excitement as Wed. but just having my BFF here is good enough for me.

This week was filled with quite a few milestones too! Our boys are growing up so fast it is amazing.
Cayden:
learned how to put his shoes on all by himself! This kid is so independent.
learned what "stuck" means, "locked", he knows how to push and pull things and usually says them in the correct context.
began to say more phrases and sentences. Before this past week he would always say please and thank you...but now he says "thank you mama" & thank you dad! it is so cute to listen and notice the little changes in this growing boy!
beginning to cut his 2 yr molars so he is TAD BIT unhappy sometimes. Aint that the understatement of the day.
We found out he loves hard boiled eggs?? & is still OBSESSED with cheese

Mason:
You are blabbering like crazy but only to mom and dad. occasionally others.
Your smile just keeps getting bigger and bigger! You are sleeping through the night on most nights but occasionally wake for a 2-3 am bottle than back to bed you go.
You are finally fitting nicely into 0-3 months
you are eating 7oz every 4 hours or so
and you still sleep like a rock!
Pretty soon you will be blowing raspberries! You are trying so hard to mimic mom and dad.
You had your first ear infection but daddy caught it and we started you on ammoxicillin the next day! You were pretty cranky the first day but you are cool as a cucumber on day 2 of meds. thank god.

Now for some pictures of this past week. Ill post Easter in the next post.