Swim lessons

We decided to do the infant swim classes at our local rec center with Will. He has cabin fever, and I wanted him to get used to the water for the summer. The session is six classes on Saturday mornings and our friends {who just moved by us!} decided to join with their son Jack who is four months younger than Will. I was scared Will would be the oldest in the class but there is another little boy his age, {he comes with who can only be known as super dad} the rest are younger.
I knew Will would love it! He loves the water, kids, and activities that make mommas sing and look like idiots Mary Poppins.... remember her? :) Will likes to float on his belly and do the lazy river but hates to float around on his back.  
I was in the water with Will for the first class, he did great. His favorite parts were jumping in to me, (he got dunked and did great!) and playing with the toys after.
Luke and Ross got in the second class because Colleen had burned her hand pretty bad and could not get in. They all did good but got a lucky pass and got out of class right before the group singing began. Kid puked in the pool.... Luke could not of been happier.
The third class was just Will and I, Jack was sick. Dada came for a while to watch but left to help his mom move. We did great, but man is it hard wrangling up a slippery toddler and getting him and yourself dressed in a little locker room stall, may or may not have flashed some people during this class.

I am not super impressed with what we are doing or learning during class, the girl who was supposed to be our teacher got in a bad car accident after the first class so we've had a different teacher every time. Not sure if this is why, but we have not learned anything. But all in all it is a fun activity to do with Will and he gets to run around at the end and enjoy himself, money well spent :) 

Me, Col, and our boys

floating with dada

singing hokey pokey....

Wills favorite part is running around after class like a mad man

lol

Our weekend and Purina Farms

I don't know how but our weekends are always jam packed, even the ones that start off with nothing end in a whirlwind of two days. However, Fridays are different.... for the past few months Fridays have been pretty quiet, tired from long weeks but excited for fun weekends. We've been playing when we get home and just spending time together, ordering in dinner and after Will goes to bed we watch something fun and spend some time just relaxing and catching up. I've found myself looking forward to these lovely Fridays at the end of the busy week. In Wilson fashion we started our Saturday bright and early rushing around, packing up some clothes, and eating in the car to make it to our 8:45 swim lesson. Then Will and I went off to  Meemaws to do some laundry and dada when to help his mom move. We met up a few hours later for a fun family day.

Purina Farms is a sweet little place just 20 minutes from my moms, I hadn't been since I was little and they had been advertising their spring time festival so I knew it was time to take Will. I've always loved animals, farms, and of course sweet little baby animals, and Will is no different. It was so much fun watching him run up to the cow and MOOO and pet the little piggys. 

Before my dad moved the the big city he lived in a great little farm in Illinois when he was younger they had sheep and ever since then my grandma would get the kids little sheep stuffed animals I remember ours from when I was little and Will's sits proudly on his shelf in his room, for some reason after bath time he always likes to love on it.... and I love this. I digress, When we walked into the room that held all the new baby animals I was quietly hoping we would get to see a lamb. After making our way around we saw the sweetest little baby lamb and tears welled up in my eyes knowing grandma Ad was watching down on me and Will as we petted him. 

We walked around and saw all the animals, saw some fish, met with the Easter bunny, and caught the dog show at the end.  It was supposed to rain all day but ended up being just beautiful! It was one of the most perfect little family days ... then later ended with a 102 fever, never a dull moment thats for sure!

With some doses of ibuprofen the fever was down, I took Will to the doc this Wednesday and she gave him a zpak to help with the nose/cough issue he's been fighting for 2 weeks, which I think is due to these bad spring allergies so we got him a script for claritan too. 

Sunday was Bennett's birthday party at the park, it was another gorgeous day and a great little party! 

When we had time we've been working on our laundry room which I THINK will be completed this weekend (hallelujah!)

Will with all the kids singing happy birthday

cool dude

Will looking down on the baby ducklings

Petting the sweet lil lamb

Looking at a moomoo with dada

I love pigs! They are so stinkin cute!

hey horse

soaking in a hug from my sweet boy.

our family

Watching the piggy enjoy some lunch, and oink oink!

Will was not sure what to think of the Easter bunny!

Watching momma give the bunny some 5's

One tuckered out boy!

A toddler of a photoshoot!

A few weeks ago we had our photo shoot with the always lovely Whitney. She was our wedding photographer and did some of Williams newborn pictures, it was fun because she hadn't seen him since then! We decided on going to Old Towne St Charles, it was cold but it was a nice sunny day. This momma obsessed over planned out what we would all wear, some poses to "for sure" capture, locations that would be good.... but one thing I forgot to plan on is my little tiny sweet infant turning into a totting toddler who wanting nothing to do with getting his picture taken, nothing....
My goal was to get some sweet photos of William alone, and a couple family shots of us three.... Whitney worked with us as well as she could, even decided to come back home with us to see if we could capture some more. I am almost postivite he was cold because once we got back home he was a whole new baby, but he still decided he ran the show during this saturday photo shoot and it was "Wills way" or the highway!
Half way through we even resorted to bribery which worked for a minute, mommas bribery was a little different considering I rewarded myself with a large glass of vino after this was over and someone took a nap....
Don't know if I will put us through another one of these until we can explain to William that he is getting his picture taken, or when we can bribe him better! 

 althought this is not my favorite shot I can usually tell when I am faking something, a kiss, a smile and this photo is 110% true love to me. love.love.love.

 first bribe, 16 months.... LOL

 for some reason this might be my favorite.... messy boy.

look at my face.... thoughts in my head.... "its almost wine time, you can make it!"