These two. Always together. Always laughing.
He’s still in firm blatent denial that his baby is going to move on to her forever family. We’ve been telling him for coming up on 11
months and he still says she is staying with us forever. Couseling. He will need some couseling. Poor dude. 🙁
We decided to be brave and take all the kids camping with some friends. It was awesome fun. They all ran around and really had a blast exploring the wild.
And then the night came, and with it our super chill Monkey girl decided that she did NOT approve of sleeping in the outdoors. She SCREAMED. ALL.NIGHT.LONG! Like she was possessed. It was so very out of character.
I had the four older kids in the tent and Jon took Monkey to the van to sleep (really to try and reduce the noise so others could sleep.). Jon and Monkey did not sleep at all.
It was a very very strong reminder to us of our never go camping with babies rule. We thought super chill Monkey girl would not be a problem. We thought wrong.
Ryan made Jon a super gigantic cupcake for his birthday dessert.
Looking super glamorous… Eh. 
Regan was VERY protective of his special dairy free chocolate bars. He had to keep them with him the whole time Smores where being made. Heaven forbid someone should use HIS chocolate. 😉 
You see that smile on RJ’s face? The best. And Monkey girl trying so hard to get that mallow?
They LOVED it.
Monkey girl was climbing all over the inside of the van (I was with her) and she got herself a bit wedged between seat and door. She didn’t love that I took a picture before rescuing her. (She wasn’t hurt, just mad about being stuck.)
I don’t think she actually ever made significant contact with the ground. Everyone wanted a turn holding her. It was a pass the baby kind of weekend.
Aside from not sleeping it was fun. The four big kids loved running around the woods with friends and roasting all the mallows. I think we brought home all the dirt. Super fun. Super tired.
Kaylee had Jon’s night all planned. Birthday dinner at Red Robin followed by FoYo. Sounds fun in theory. In reality we have R. And he is at that age where dinner at a restaurant is torture.
So it was more trying to get him to stay in his high chair and not throw food than actual fun. By the time we finished dinner Jon was DONE and just wanted to be home. FoYo was put on hold.
Hahahaha! Oh, man. He kills me. Total fake OOH face just for the camera. HA!
This shirt says DAD in binary. He could totally read it. I just had to trust the site that it was right. 
I cleaned our room (gasp!) and found his missing double sided foam tape. So I thought it would make him laugh if I tossed it in a gift bag. It did. 🙂
So the day before his birthday he was all, “So…I could really use a new wallet…” I told him too bad I already bought and wrapped his present. And then I had wife guilt and hunted down a new wallet for him. Which by the way, didn’t realize that they had SO very many options. And I couldn’t call him about preferences because I wanted it to be a surprise. It was and I picked a good one. Phew.
Hoping next year is a bit more fun an not as full of wrangling toddlers in a restaurant. 🙂