Fun in the City

The day after Cade's birthday we went to the city for the night. Emalyn was caught getting into the diaper bag in the hotel room!

Cade had some birthday money to spend so we went to the Lego store. Maddi entertained Emalyn while Cade shopped.

She even got to play with some of the bigger Legos.

Then Cade entertained Emalyn while Maddi shopped at American Girl. I actually think Emalyn entertained the bigger kids while the other ones were shopping too. It worked out well because it gave each of them something to do to pass the time and it kept Emalyn happy. That, of course, made me happy because nobody was complaining/whining/crying!

Then we stopped at the Hershey store and they gave us each a Hershey kiss as we walked in, even one for Emalyn. I wasn't going to give it to her, but the kids wanted to see her eat her first Hershey kiss. I was curious to see if she'd like it because I did not want chocolate at all when I was pregnant with her. I went to let her get a bite of it and she sucked that whole thing in her mouth!

She was smiling with a mouth full of chocolate!

And the verdict is....she LOVED it!

Me and my little munchkins by the water tower after Brett met us from work. We took about 5 pictures and in every one of them Cade or Emalyn had a weird face or their eyes shut. Silly kids. So, that day when Emalyn had her headband on, we got so many comments about how cute she is, love the bow, she's adorable, blah, blah, blah. However, without the bow, she was called a boy 3 times! Twice with Brett. Brett actually asked for the headband to put it on her so she would look like a girl. I know she was wearing a blue shirt, but it was puffy on top, and there was an alligator, but there were also flowers. Anyway, Brett says she needs to wear all pink now. Ha ha. My little boyish looking girl. Looks just like her daddy!

She loves to chew on straws.

She also loves to chew on her toes and was just chewing them before the picture. She never sits like a normal child. She's always got her leg pulled up if she's sitting in her high chair or stroller or car seat. Lots of baby flex in that little girl.

Saturday we ate breakfast and then headed over to the beach for the Chicago Air and Water show. Luckily little one fell asleep and napped while we were waiting for the show to start.

The little dots in the sky and smoke are parachuters who just jumped out of the plane. That's how the show started. I am so skydiving one day!

Gotta love the USA!

It was a hot one but the kids stayed cool in the sand and water. Maddi made some friends and they were digging a big hole.

Emalyn loved the sand, but did not love the cold water. She was screaming with excitement at all the kids/people in this picture.

The cool trick planes. Love to watch them, but they make me nervous too!

Not sure what plane this was but it was really loud!

Cade and Maddi started digging a hole in the sand.

We put Emalyn in to see what she'd think of it. She clearly did not enjoy it! Look at her thighs! Can you tell she's never missed a meal?

Now Cade's in the hole to show how deep it was. They kept digging and digging....

....until Cade could stand almost all the way in the hole!

Maddi and some random boys starting covering Cade with sand until only his head was out.

He couldn't get out of the sand so we told him we'd leave him the umbrella for shade and come back for him one day.

Looks kind of like a crab here. These are Maddi's legs!

Then random boy wanted to be covered in sand and asked us to take his picture.

Then it was Maddi's turn to be covered in sand. She's come a long way from the first time we took her to the beach as a baby and screamed bloody murder when her feet touched the sand!

Daddy with is baby girl.

I love Chicago and love how the lake is right among all the tall skyscrapers.

Daddy was playing chin chomper with Emalyn. Luckily we brought an umbrella to keep Emalyn out of the sun and heat. I was happy to hold her and keep her and I shaded and the kids were happy to play in the lake and sand and we were all happy to watch the air show. It was a lot of fun.

The next day Cade was building his new Legos and Maddi wanted to build too so Brett helped her make an RV type thing. Maddi had fun and was very proud. She is such an odd girl, she is either naked except underwear or wearing footy pjs in our house. There is no in between with normal pjs, even in the summer.