Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Arriving after the airport- Ryder's not too sure

muskrats

Grandma Jadwin flew in the day after my birthday, June 24. It was a late night- but did that stop us in the morning? NO WAY! We went and spent the first part of the (hot & humid) day at SciQuarium in Greensboro. We started outside in the zoo area to try and "beat the heat" bahhh. 

Grandma pushed while I carried Ryder in the front pack

Levi & a lemur!

aquairum

We watched the scuba guy clean and then answer questions from the water. The kids were all sitting on the ground in front and the scuba guy came right up to Levi and put his hand on the window. Levi didn't know what he was doing until he saw Addi high-five him. Levi caught on and did it. It was pretty special for him!

She's finally brave enough to do it on her own!

These pictures are uploading weird!

A very large tortoise

Finally eating the cake Scott made for me!

trying to catch him smile

While Grandma was here, Ryder started smiling just slightly. You had to egg him on a lot to get him to do anything. There's a lot of photos of the maybe smiles.

Then one day we went to the park...and Ryder had a BLOWOUT of all blowouts. He hadn't pooped in many days so it was a ticking time bomb. Thank goodness my mom was here because it was everywhere. 

It was a family event.

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her face is just priceless...

Addilyn had her first dentist appointment. We left Ryder and Levi with Grandma. I went first so she watched everything. I wasn't a very good example because one of the lovely "side effects" of pregnancy is bleeding gums due to the extra blood that's pumping through your body. Since I was only about 4 weeks post-partum, my gums still were bleeding. Poor girl thought it hurt! That's why she's laying on me, she wouldn't by herself. After she said it tickled. Then they painted on the fluoride and she thought that was the best part. She now thinks the dentist paints her teeth.

Clean teeth!

youtubin' with Grandma

downtown restaurant

Whenever my mom comes, we always have some sort of project to do. A couple years ago we canned dilly beans, another year we watched a bunch of VHS home videos with the intent to put them on DVD. The first year at our house we were painting our ceilings after we had removed the popcorn...You get the picture. This year we canned chicken. It was my third time using our pressure cooker that she got us a while ago. I bought 40 pounds of chicken and man...it was time consuming. My mom cut all of the chicken and we tag teamed filling jars and prepping them to cook. We were successful. Even though I couldn't stand to eat the chicken until all the smell was out of my house-it's been awesome to have!! 

And another activity we did- we went to SciWorks which is by Scott's work. They have a new exhibit and it is awesome! Half of it was sports themed and the other half was construction stuff. The kids went nuts in there.

This green screen showed us kicking and blocking soccer balls from a goal. It was pretty cool. And the kids obviously though it was awesome.

Big sister

painting...

In the summer the theaters around here do summer movies at 10am. Depending on where you go, they range from free to just a couple dollars. The place we frequent is free and you can buy popcorn for $1. Grandma tagged along and we saw something...I don't remember now.