Trew Essentials: Busy weekend!

What a busy life we are having lately!
Friday, Ace was introduced to his cousins! Dorian helped feed him as the other kiddos looked on in amazement. It's funny to see youngsters around newborns. They laugh at every little movement and makes me appreciate all the little things Ace does, more than I already do. Friday was also the day we got our new roommates for the next few weeks. Aunt Towel came over with Ryde and Luke to visit uncle Cody. Of course Luke is 2 and doesn't want to just 'sit and visit', cause that's boring! So he went out back with the dogs, throwing the ball around and drawing with sidewalk chalk. It had been about 45 minutes when all of a sudden, we hear Luke crying outside. Val rushed out there to see what happened and Luke was sitting on the ground saying 'ouch' and pointing to his head. Turns out he's got a gash on the back of his head that looks like it needs stitches! We asked for about 15 minutes what happened, but of course a 2 year old can't articulate all that well, so we have no idea. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a dog bite, mainly because the doctor said it didn't look like one and Luke doesn't seem to be scared of the dogs. He bounced back well and we got to watch baby Ryde while Val took Luke to the hospital. He ended up needing 3 staples and I feel horrible that it happened in my back yard! Ugh Friday!
Saturday, Matt, Ace and I went to the 'Chavez Family Picnic'. It was nice to see my family and introduce Ace to them. We ate some great food and caught up with people we haven't seen in a while. Ace pooped on his great aunt and we almost gave him a bath before leaving to head to Addison's birthday party! This was Ace's second party he's been invited to since he's been here... this kid is more popular than his parents are! It was also really nice to catch up with people from work I haven't seen since the middle of June. Listening to the stories about the first month of school definitely didn't make me miss work :) and it also got me thinking of how hard it's going to be to go back in another month and a half :( We won't think about that right now. Moving on...
After the party, we dropped Ace off with Grandma and went on a date! The first date we've been on since Ace was born. We went to Hapa Sushi (yet another first since I got pregnant!). The sushi was fantastic and we enjoyed each other's company. I enjoyed reconnecting with my husband again. We made a pact that we would get away with each other at least once a month, which is nice and extremely important for me and our little family. Later that night we went to Southlands to see if we wanted to watch a movie. We weren't too keen on the theater, so we walked around holding hands like high schoolers :) We watched people playing in the fountains and talked about the little things. After the water fountains shut off and people cleared out to go home, we stopped into a crepe shop and had some dessert. It was a perfect evening among adults.
Ace and I had been lucky enough to get Matt off work for 2 days in a row so Sunday we decided to go to the museum for the pirate exhibit. It was quite interesting to learn about 'real pirates', and to see everything that was pulled from a shipwreck that happened almost 300 years ago. We got a good look into what a pirates life was like and it almost made me want to be one (minus the no showers for months on end) ha ha! After the museum we walked to City Park to have a picnic. We laid on our blanket and enjoyed our first picnic as a family, just us. On Sundays in the summer, 'Jazz in the Park' is in full swing. By the time we got our blanket set up under the trees, the jazz music started. We enjoyed listening to music as we played with Ace and ate our tuna sandwiches, again, another perfect date. We picked up a movie on our way home and rounded out the weekend snuggled up watching Limitless (good movie, I suggest you see it).
Here are a few pictures from our wonderful weekend.

Cousin Dorian helping Ace eat