Ashlock Family: A Full Weekend of Fun

On Thursday, we went to see my OB for a follow-up appointment. MiMi and Pops were able to come and babysit Jeremy, so Christian and I could focus on the appointment and sneak away to a daytime date at one of our favorite restaurants. I am healing well. My OB explained that even though she had to remove part of my left ovary, we should still be able to get pregnant and everything looks good. An ectopic pregnancy on an ovary only occurs in 1/10,000 people—she said that I am special. Not exactly the special thing that I would like to be…but hopefully that means that the chances of it reoccurring are low.

On Friday, my Mom’s club had a clothing swap. We were signed up to bring snacks for the kids. So for the healthy eaters, we chopped up a ton of fruit. And for the rest of the kids, we made rice krispy treats. Jeremy’s job was to pour on the sprinkles—and he was so excited to get to help Momma in the kitchen! He also helped me to use cookie cutters to make shapes out of the treats. They were hit!

That's 2/3 of a jar of sprinkles.

Jeremy chose to make circles and stars.

Cooking Momma and Jeremy

Jeremy was thrilled to get to stand on the ladder.

On Saturday, we went to Jeremy’s MyGym class again. Any time that we say something like, “We are going to do something fun today” or “What do you want to do today?” Jeremy replies, “gym?” He absolutely loves it there.

Jeremy in the ball pit.

Jeremy loves to run up and down ramps.

Working hard to stay on the rungs of the ladder.

On Sunday, we walked to the Art and Wine Festival in Downtown Mountain View. The highlight for Jeremy was definitely getting to drive the real fire truck. While in line, he kept tapping his chest saying, “Nare-my, Nare-my’s turn!”

Playing in the I-tikes bus--I wish these worked with Android!

Practicing the piano.

Saur-Saur! (aka Dinosaur!)

So excited about the fire truck.

Nare-my's turn to drive!

And to push all the buttons.

Checking out the truck.

To bad he can no longer aspire to be an astronaut.

On Tuesday, we decided to fingerpaint some art for Mimi and Grie’s birthdays. We had some friends over and let the kids dive in. It was fun to see how each kid responded differently to the paint. Jeremy smeared it all around—and eventually added a pound of mud to the mix. Aaron used it as face paint. Vivienne very carefully painted with just her fingertips. At one point, Jeremy smeared red and blue together and shouted, "Purple!" My teacher-side is so proud. I am excited that Jeremy is reaching an age where we can do more art projects together—Pinterest here we come!