Father's Day Fun

This past weekend was the first in a long time where we had no real agenda other than to just have fun as a family. No traveling. No big house projects. Just the four of us.

So we ended up starting the weekend by picking strawberries at the strawberry patch on Saturday. Last year, Jordan had a lot of fun picking strawberries and we thought this year would be more of the same. While Jonah just chilled in his carrier, Jordan was more interested in walking up and down the aisles looking for ants, carrying around the marking flags, and stepping on the sprinkler than he was in actually picking strawberries (although he still ate enough strawberries for the four of us!). All in all, it made for a very unique outing.

Then on Sunday, after Dad got to sleep in with Jonah as Mom made apple pancakes, we made our first ever trip to the Minnesota Zoo.

We had a hunch Jordan would enjoy it, as we'd already had numerous ventures to the Como Zoo. After several hours at the zoo, we'd had enough fun to decide on purchasing a membership. For Sally and I, our highlight was time walking around together as a family, and experiencing all of the sights and sounds through Jordan's eyes. Jordan claims his highlight was the buffalo, although we are a bit skeptical as we only spent about 5 seconds or so watching them. Jordan also really enjoyed the opportunity to touch both a snake and a lizard, as well as the butterfly exhibit, the wolves, and running around with the binoculars.

All in all, it was refreshing to spend quality time together as a family, and we are thankful for the blessings God has given us in our two little boys.

An Eventful Month

Okay, so we know we said we'd be updating the blog more frequently and haven't really held up to our end of the bargain... So what follows is a mega-post that will update on the many things that have happened over the past month-and-a-half.

First, some news on the Jonah side of things: Jonah has grown a lot in the past couple of months. He is already 10 weeks old, and started sleeping through the night this past week. Yahoo for BabyWise!!! He is similar to his brother Jordan in that he was in the 90th percentile for length, while being a little heavier than Jordan at the 50th percentile for his weight. He is a very smiley and talkative boy and has been such a gift to our family.

We've also had some fun times with our families in the past month. In May we went down to visit Matt's family, where Jordan had a fun time taking a canoe ride with Dad and Papa Dave. Then this past week, we went to visit Sally's family, where Jordan got to see Papa Ken's trucks. He really enjoyed both experiences immensely!

Finally, we embarked on our first family road trip as we drove down to St. Louis for Luke and Sarah's wedding. We were admittedly apprehensive to take an infant and a 2-year old on a 10-hour drive, but we were so proud of how the boys handled it all. We made it a two-day trip on the way down, stopping at a hotel in Rockford that had a fun pool area for Jordan to play at.

When we arrived in St. Louis, we had a great time celebrating Luke and Sarah's wedding. The wedding went great - the weather was beautiful (a bit warm, but still great), and it was fun to spend time with family in a different setting. Jordan was the ringbearer, and did a great job fulfilling his duties (even if we did have to bribe him with M&Ms...).

The real surprise of the night came at the reception. Despite his father's complete ineptitude on the dance floor, somewhere somehow got the dancing fever. He had a blast tearing up the dance floor, and the video below only offers a small glimpse into our son, the dancing machine. He even displayed some breakdancing moves (which we're still trying to figure out where he learned them from)!

We drove home in one shot, and again the boys did a phenomenal job. In all, we only had to pull out the DVD player for about 2 hours. Not bad! Well, that is a glimpse at the past month in the Anderson household. We'll post an update in the next few days (seriously!) with some pictures on the fun that we've had over this Father's Day weekend. In the meantime, you can check our Shutterfly account for more pictures from the past few months.