Pioneer Day + Baseball + Fireworks

Justin saw that the SL Bees were playing the Tacoma Rainiers this weekend AND there would be fireworks after the game! The Bees always put on an amazing (and long!) fireworks show so we thought it'd be the perfect thing to do for the Pioneer Day holiday.

We were a bit worried however that a 9 inning game + fireworks might be asking a bit much, even of Nolan, so we went to Mo Bettah's for dinner and planned to get to the game about half way through. But, it took us so long to park that by the time we got to our seats it was almost the 7th inning! It worked out though because the game ended up going 11 innings so we felt we got a good amount of game in. Not to mention we had a perfect spot right on the front row where Nolan could watch, walk, sit, etc. It was perfect!

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Little baseball fan

Picture overload, but he was just so darn cute!

 

Of course my guys had to wear their Mariners shirts!

I couldn't decide which one was cuter, so here's both family pics ☺

Nolan being a ham

 We sat next to this cute boy, Kaycen, and his mom and dad and Nolan was in heaven having a friend to play with. He was sure sweet to Nolan too, it was fun to watch!

More cuteness

This little boy absolutely adores his dadda!

FIREWORKS!!

Nolan got a small taste of fireworks from the car as we were driving home from the cabin on the 4th of July, but this was his first time really seeing them and he loved it! For days after he's been saying "Fiawohks! Pew! Pew! BOOM!"

I'll say it again, we don't deserve this kid. He was SO good. Even during the late walk back to the car and on the drive home (with no milk) he was a perfect angel ♥ 

Summers Are For Getting Wet!

 We signed up for swimming classes again! It's the same teacher as the last two classes we took (which is awesome, she's great) AND we showed up on the first day to find our friends Brian and Meghan Shelby and their daughter Samantha also in the class!

It's been a while since our last class and Nolan is a bit older so I wondered if he'd like it as much as he did when he was a baby. He's definitely more hesitant this time, but still seems to like being in the pool which is good. He now doesn't like it when I put him on his back in the water, where he didn't care before. And he's always struggled with not closing his mouth when going underwater, which makes him cough so he doesn't always like that. Actually, if you just put him straight down into the water and bring him back up he does just fine, it's when he's 'swimming' on his belly and you dip his head under water while still moving forward that he struggles with, but he did much better with it yesterday so that's exciting. I think he's remembering and getting more comfortable.

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Being a good boy and waiting on the side until mom says it's ok to come in the pool.

Definitely still remembers how much he loves splashing haha!

  

Sometimes he gets out and wants to run around so dadda has to bring him back to the pool. Yesterday he found the red 'No Running' letters on the ground and pointed to them and said the letters. I absolutely LOVE how he recognizes letters and wants to say them now. 

  

He of course wanted to go down the 'side!' after class, but only once. After going down he always wants to stand right in front of the slide (or maybe climb up it?) so I always have to move him and convince him to play somewhere else.

He loves sticking his hands in the streams of water. He's also so much better at being able to walk around in waste deep water without falling, improving so much even since last week!

 

  

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Summer fun at Jeanni's house!

"What da heck?!" haha, I'm dying!! 

We're still not sure why the resolution is so bad on these, but you get the picture ☺ he's being cute hehe

I just think it's so cute and sweet how Jeanni's boys play with Nolan. What a lucky boy! He will be sad when they go back to school in the fall.

Also, apparently he doesn't like it when his feet get wrinkled because sometimes he'll look down, inspect his wrinkled feet, then say, "I done." ☺

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Last Friday after dinner we stopped at the park so Nolan could play. I think he enjoyed it so much more that it was not as hot and not as crowded as it is on a Saturday afternoon.

I think this was his favorite slide because he could climb up and slide down all by himself!

 Beautiful mountains in the background

"Helping" dadda play a game

Cool kid

 Having so much fun in the water!

 Running to daddy! 

Justin took his shoes off and ran through the sprinklers to show Nolan how it's done ♥

Helping dad get his shoes back on

Soaked to the bone and lovin' life!

 I got tired, found a spot on the grass, and watched the cuteness from afar.

He was saying "up and down, up and down" and "ready, set, go!" Usually he said all three himself. I was trying to prompt him in this video, but only got out a "go!"