Chocolate cake weekend

Friday evening we went over to the Whitman's for grilled pizza. We brought over a salad made with greens and veggies from our garden and for dessert Cecilia served chocolate cake and ice cream. Yumm-o! The kids had a blast playing together. Jacob enjoyed exploring their playroom and discovering all their cool toys. He especially liked pushing around the doll stroller and even put a baby in it (upside down). He also piled all the dolls on top of Isaac in his car seat. Such a silly boy! Isaac didn't seem to mind, though. He just sucked on the head of one and batted the others away.

Saturday evening we had dinner with Alan's colleagues. The physics department has a new faculty member this year and the dinner was so everyone could meet each other. We had grilled pork and sweet potatoes, we brought another salad (we have a lot of veggies!) and for dessert we had chocolate cake and fruit from the farmer's market. Jacob played with Evan, the four year old son of one of the faculty. They had a ton of fun playing with the toys Evan brought and then they discovered the backyard and all the lemons. They were throwing them, squishing them, kicking them and Jacob was biting into them. Did you know that kids don't taste sour until they are around 2 years old? That explains why Jacob would bite off the end of a lemon and it wouldn't phase him. By the end of the evening he was a sticky (but fresh smelling) mess. He went straight into the tub when we got home. :P

This afternoon we had lunch with my parents and brothers. Jeff grilled us up some delicious chicken and I brought a pasta salad with zucchini pesto. For dessert we had - you guessed it - chocolate cake! This was chocolate zucchini cake that my mom made using some of our zucchini. So good! After his nap, Jacob had fun playing with his uncles and making a huge mess of Grandpa and Grandma's house. Isaac tried out the exersaucer and loves it!

He also took a nice nap on Grandma's lap. He was really tired and didn't want to be held any way my mom tried. He was just agitated and thrashing around. She tried this and it worked like a charm. He settled right down, just laying there very calm until he finally fell asleep. I am going to try laying him like this the next time he gets thrashy.


We took the exersaucer home and Isaac enjoyed playing in it some more this evening


This picture was taken earlier in the week and it is a bit blurry, but I just love how the boys are cuddling on the floor together. Jacob is into blankets lately for some reason. He is always lugging around these four blankets and bringing them to Isaac. If I ask him to play 'night-night', he'll lay down and cuddle with the blankets. That's what he is doing here.


With all the chocolate cake I ate this weekend and more to eat this week since my mom sent us home with a giant hunk of the chocolate zucchini cake, I need to really crack down at Boot Camp this week.