A Big Boy Bed in Big Brother's Room!

Tate has reached a huge milestone in his little life, moving from his crib into a twin bed! Since the twins will be here in a few short months Tate needed to make his move a little earlier than we had originally planned. (Although at 18 months, he stayed in his crib 2 months longer than Nathan did because he climbed out of his crib at 16 months.)

We're still working on getting him to stay in the bed because he loves the freedom of being able to climb out of bed whenever he wants, but he is so excited about moving in with Nathan!! For right now even Nathan is loving having a roommate, but I'm sure that won't last long!

Sesame Place

In June we took a fun weekend trip to Sesame Place in Pennsylvania with some of our best friends.

We left early Saturday morning and caravaned with the Jen and Brian Smith and their kids Hannah and Bradley, and then meeting up with Mike and Karen and their daughter Mykenzie for lunch outside the park.

After lunch we headed over to the park. The first thing the kids saw was Oscar the Grouch! They were so excited to get their picture with him. Although the afternoon was overcast we got to ride a few rides and watch their parade. Unfortunately thunderstorms in the area shut everything down an hour or two after we got to the park and it wasn't too much later that it started to rain. We stuck around watching one of their live shows hoping the rain would stop, but it only got worse. After a mad dash to our cars in the rain we were all soaking wet. That night we met everyone at the restaurant in the hotel for dinner since no one wanted to venture out in to the rain again.

After breakfast in the hotel the next morning we headed back for day two in the park. The morning started out cloudy, but we ended up with a gorgeous day that let the kids enjoy the water rides in the park. I think the big hit of the day was the little wading pool. We met so many Seasame Street Characters and Nathan even got to participate in a live version of Elmo's World- teaching Elmo about fish. Nathan loved the water and Elmo's World but Tate's favorite part of the whole trip had to be meeting Big Bird in person! He was just starstruck!