You, Me and the Bean: May 2011

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Weekly update 5.29.11

This week has been pretty quiet. Aunt Susie, Uncle Ted and Bagel are in town, staying with Gigi and Grandpa, so there has been some excitement for Henry during the time he spends with Gigi in the mornings, but everything at the Kelly household has been pretty much the same ol' thing. We were all pretty exhausted by the time Friday came and really looking forward to a 3 day weekend. On Saturday morning we went to the garden center and Gigi found some lovely shade plants for our front yard that Wade is planting right now. In the afternoon, Wade, Grandpa and Uncle Ted had a rib cook-off. Henry was the bbq assistant and had all the appropriate gear for job. He was very helpful taxing food and utensils back and forth from the grill and handing out samples of brats to all the judges. Henry loves beer brats. It's funny, the kid spent most of his life as a vegetarian and just one taste of beer brats and he's hooked.

The competition was pretty fierce and in the end the result was a 3 way tie, which means that all 3 kinds of ribs have to come back for the next cook off.
Henry also got to shoot some baskets with Papa and throw a baseball around with Mama. He is practicing catching with a mitt for the baseball game tomorrow. He's pretty sure that he'll catch a fly ball.

We are headed over to the neighbors for a bbq this evening, provided that all of us can stay awake. We are a sleepy bunch around here today. Tomorrow Henry gets to go to his first Royals game. We are hoping to make it to the 5th inning. Hope you had a great weekend.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

And....we're back

Well, well, well....look who decided to show her face around these parts again. Yes, it's true, we have been MIA from the blog world lately. But I promise to make it up to you with this mind blowing post spanning the past 2 months with Tom Brokaw-like reporting and National Geographic quality photographs. Okay....that may be a stretch but stick with me anyway cuz the kid is cute and sometimes says funny things. Here goes...

March:
Explaining St. Patricks Day to an inquisitive 5 year old is challenging. Mainly because my understanding of St. Patricks Day is limited to drinking beer, wearing green, and and eating corn beef and cabbage. After many confusing attempts at an explanation for what this holiday is all about, Henry settled on Wear Green Day. For this photo he also grabbed all his green toys on his way out the door.

Drawing robots has become one of Henry's favorite activities. Except for when he is sleeping, it really is the only time that he stops talking.

April:
Henry's friend Sophia came over and helped us dye eggs. We dyed 24 eggs before they told me that neither one of them like to eat hard boiled eggs.

We usually spend Easter with my parents but this year they were out of town and we were on our own. Easter is not the same without my Mom's amazing strawberry pie, so I had to make an attempt. I had a little trouble with the pie crust but overall it was a success. I ate 2 pieces, despite my horrible morning sickness. We are planning a trip to pick strawberries in the next couple of weeks and you better believe there will be a lot of strawberry pies in our future.

The Easter Bunny was pretty good to Henry. He got more candy then any one child should have. Fortunately, he forgot about the candy after a few days. Unfortunately, Wade and I did not. :) It was a freezing cold morning but that did not stop Henry from doing some serious Easter egg hunting.

Found the money egg.

Some of Henry's other favorite activities are:
Having a "Battle of the ages" with Papa.

And sorting Lego robots.

On his birthday, Papa built Henry a 3 story tree house. Henry and I decorated the house with balloons and a Happy Birthday banner and I forgot to take photos. But catch a few photos of Henry exploring his tree house. He did the "I have a tree house" dance for 20 minutes which I think is exactly what Papa wanted for his birthday. :)