Weekend with Cousin Thomas

Cousin Thomas (and Beth, and Ben) came to town for the weekend! We had a pizza party Friday night, went to see Thomas the Train at Tweetsie on Saturday afternoon; and then grilled out and played in the sprinkler before the storms hit that night.

The boys plan their escape!

Chatham and Thomas adore each other and I can't wait until we have four little ones running around together!!!

Q & A with Chatham

do you want to be a Big Brother.... no, I a Big Sister!

do you want a baby... I want two of em!

do you want a boy baby or a girl baby... a BLUE one!

Classic Chatham answers, Classic Chatham pose!

But at least he's happy that Mommy's having a baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tons of Pictures!

Just like I promised, here are a ton of pictures of what's been happening with the Donley clan.

We played skeet ball and basketball and rode go karts at Hickory Dickory Dock for Ethan's birthday.

Chatham followed a little boy up to the top of the soft play jungle gym and then got scared of the dark tunnel of the slide and sat at the top until Devin climbed up to help him navigate his way back down.

We got the sprinkler out at Gram and Poppy's last weekend and Chatham had a blast riding his bikes, cars, and lawnmower through the "car wash"

The night before Ali went back to DC we all met at the Black Angus in Statesville for a big steak dinner. Chatham and I took the opportunity for a photo op before dinner.

Chatham looked like such a big boy that night- and he even tried lobster for the first time and LOVED it. He ate several bites of Grams lobster tail AND some of mama's lobster bisque!

oops!

I can't believe it's been so long since I posted! Who knew moving would be so time consuming- HAHAHHAHA!

Well we are in and settled for the most part, Devin has been keeping busy with outside chores; while Chatham and I put our finishing touches on the inside.

Other than an AC issue (or lack there of) upstairs the house is great! There is so much room for C to play and he LOVES climbing the stairs. He sleeps in his new room like a champ and has helped his Daddy with any task involving a drill or a hammer.

We are spending a lot of time here.....

We moved in the weekend before my birthday- so we kept it pretty low key this year. We took our annual trip to Big Daddy's for oysters and crab legs on my actual birthday evening- and then had a pool party/cook out/ cupcake party at the Cadwalladers the following weekend.

Ali and Curly and Aunt Ma'am came to town to see the house and Chatham and celebrate with a sushi dinner at Wild Wok (my FAVORITE)! I was so excited to have everyone in one place I left my camera at home and have no pictures!

This past weekend we celebrated Ethan's 2nd birthday and Mary Grace's 3rd birthday; then Sunday we had a picnic with our Sunday School class- I have a few pictures from those that I will post soon.

Still here!

We're still here- moved in to the house this weekend and Chatham had his first weekend long stay at Gram and Poppy's! (a post from C will come soon)
For now we're digging our way out of boxes and loving everything about the new place! Thanks for sticking around!