As the picture indicates, the love of cowboy hat is still going on strong. The morning we picked T up from the airport, we were headed home on the freeway and saw that right at our exit is the local junior rodeo grounds. They happened to be having a little exhibition and there were REAL cowboys, horses, tractors, you name it. We pulled off and went to show our little cowboy. He was quite impressed, though hesitant to actually touch a horse.
The wind was whipping us and little cowboy E nuzzled into Daddy for some protection. I loved it.
E caught me doing my pilates arm exercises one morning and was quite insistent that he be allowed the same opportunity. I was honestly shocked by how well and how long he lifted the weights, especially considering he was lifting 1/7 of his body weight.
The sun graced us a couple weekends ago and so we set to work organizing our garage. E found the box containing all our dress-ups and ran around the neighborhood as a tiger, rooster, and bumblebee. Here's our busy bee playing with sidewalk chalk.
This past Saturday was my honey's 29th birthday! He started his day with a 12 mile run and when he came home, E and I had breakfast cake (definition for non-Beans: coffee cake) in the oven and decorations all around. E was genuinely thrilled that it was Daddy's birthday and it made it so much fun. He couldn't wait for T to open presents or blow-out his candles. It was tender for T and I to watch how much E wanted Daddy to have a great day without thinking of himself. When T laid down to ice his knee, E ran to his bedroom to bring him a toy to play with while he laid down. T entertained both himself and E with our monkey puppet.
We went out to dinner on Saturday, so we didn't have T's traditional birthday dinner until Sunday. We ate french onion soup and for dessert we had the most decadent cake I've ever made. It's a peanut butter cake, with chocolate peanut butter ganache between all the layers, cream cheese/whipping cream frosting, and broken Butterfingers scattered atop. The ingredient breakdown:- 3 sticks of butter
- 1 C. peanut butter
- 3 C. heavy cream
- 1 lb. semi-sweet chocolate
- 1 lb. cream cheese
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 C. buttermilk
We barely made it through 1/5 of the top cake layer. Intense.
Stay tuned for more pregnancy pictures being posted this week. I'm looking more and more pregnant and getting more and more reactions from friends and strangers. But that's another post...
