There's a first time for everything

NOTE: Today is June 2nd. I started this post a long time ago (like over a week ago) and planned to post a second video. It's hopeless. The second video does not want to be uploaded and posted here. Sorry. It involved Miles cleaning up after eating his popsicle...he might have had some help from his daddy and the hose. Use your imagination!

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Today's heat and humidity provided Miles with the perfect opportunity to taste his first popsicle. He chose strawberry, and we think he liked it...

A short trip to a small zoo

What better way to spend a sunny, 75 degree afternoon than at a zoo? We ventured over to Oxbow Park in Byron on Saturday and had fun seeing some animals and getting lots of fresh air.

Unfortunately many of the animals were napping while we were there. It wasn't a bad day to snooze in the sun, so we really couldn't blame them. Miles and daddy were particularly disappointed in the lack of activity in the otter house, though. Last summer when we visited, the otters were completely nutso and Miles thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen. This time, they were bums.

The coyotes were the busiest guys around, probably because a crew of zoo workers were nearby with food. All of the hussle and bussle from the coyotes got Miles excited. He wanted to see MORE PUPPIES!

Handsome boy in his baseball cap. When did he grow up?!

Checking out the baby cows.

A ticked off turkey (some rowdy young teens got him all fired up. I almost ruffled my feathers at the kids, too...).

It looks like Miles is in the firing zone of a daddy toot right here, but that's not the case. Tanner strained a muscle in his lower back while golfing Saturday morning, and this is his new look. Don't you agree that it's worthy of being posted to the blog?!

Cute little bear cub.

Cougar siting!!! Roar.

(If Miles were 15 years older, he would have rolled his eyes over that shot. Instead, he laughed. Funny mama! Roar.)

Happy Mama's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there! I'm lucky because Miles usually acts like every day is Mother's Day... of course he IS only two years old, so it's easy for him to turn on the charm and make me feel especially important :) A nice treat today was hearing Miles wake up at 7:30am yelling "MAMA! I'm UP!", then not a peep from him for another hour. Apparently he decided to go back to sleep. That's my boy! I'm really really really hoping this next baby likes to sleep as much as his/her big brother does...

Speaking of baby (in case you haven't heard), we are looking forward to baby "G2" to join us in October! That's partly why it's been so long since I've blogged. I couldn't get myself to do it because in order to create another post, I'd have to first read/see the last entry about burgers. Blegh. No more blogging about food for a while.

If you're wondering what we've been up to lately, here's a recap:
Miles and daddy have been having many loop-de-loop races.

We made a trip to St. Peter to visit grandparents and make a birthday card for...

Ethan and Owen!! They turned 1!! Wooot wooooot!!

Another thing we've been wooot woooooting! about is daddy's hole-in-one! We're very proud of him. He sunk the ball into hole #11 at the OCC.

To kick off Mama's Day Weekend, we met Grandma Doreen and her crew for Pizza in Mankato on Friday night. Then on Saturday, we kept up the busy pace by having these guys over for brunch -

Grandma Jill and Uncle Charlie were here too, but they managed to avoid the picture.

And finally, Miles' Big Boy Bed has now been converted to a Super Big Big Boy Bed. We decided to raise him up a few feet and he's thrilled...mostly because now he can sit on his bed and see out the window.

It's the small things in life that we need to notice more often :)