the library & the weekends

I heart the library. I have always hearted the library since we were little and Mom would take us every week. We would literally check out the maximum number of books each and just read our lives away. I am thankful every day that I was given the gift of loving to read. Truly, truly loving nothing more than reading a good book. Now, I am  loving getting Anderson hooked on the awesomeness that is the world of words (and videos of garbage trucks).

*speaking of books, read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. The man is amazing. Huge crush. Big. Huge.  (imagine me in a dress holding shopping bags sort of like Pretty Woman when I say that)

Because I am an obsessive planner/doer, I (we) are constantly on the move. My response to people who think I take Anderson too many places is this-He is 2. He requires very little sleep. He requires an eyepatch for the many, many (many, many) hours that he is awake. This requires CONSTANT distraction/business on my part. I like taking advantage of free activities and exposing my kid to fun stuff. Whatever. Here we are at the ChickFilA Family day a few weeks ago complete with the barrel train, moon bounces and cookies!

Is it in my genes that I MUST find a bounce house every. single. weekend?Yes, yes it is.

This is really the only playground he can do completely by himself. And by "do" I mean climb it, slide down it & poop in it. That was fun.

After ChickFilA fest we visited Brandon at the "Let's Move" event & it was pretty fun. I cannot stand am not a huge fan of Obama, but I will shout out to Michelle Obama with her fight against childhood obesity. This event had all kinds of fun stuff for kids like worm bins to dig through, samples of strawberries (see above) and FREE tomato plants from Home Depot (back to my theme of "How can I make money off of this?") And, it was our second moon bonce/playground of the day! (Yes, there was a third one of each of these later that day, too when we visited Bop at a school fair)

Check out Brandon in the corner informing everyone about the pros of CrossFit. He is a Cross Fit instructor for KPD & is always impressing me with his tales of burpees, squats & push ups. I feel like listening to the description is sort of close to actually doing it. And, check out the little orange eyepatch that we left behind, as usual. I cannot imagine how many of our patches are spread around Knoxville. 

This is the free helmet from the YMCA day! It is seriously brand new. He thinks he is so official. 

 Two eyes!

 Our ice cream van is so sketch, but there is nothing more fun than the idea of just getting some ice cream in the middle of the summer. Plus, it gives us a chance to teach important lessons about never approaching white vans alone.

 Anderson has had a really rough time at my parents' lately.

See what I mean? The last I heard they took him to the zoo, to buy a new bobcat and swimming at the YMCA. It gets rougher by the day.

 Love the hair.

We spend massive amounts of time outside. We walk, play with his bike, look for bugs. He found a snail here. Pumped.

 The green patches have been on backorder and FINALLY arrived. Happy day in the Glover house.

A few of Anderson's crafts from Mother's Day Out. I can't keep everything, so I figure pics will serve the purpose!

"I need some owives".

 This boy is so loved by his GG. His wardrobe is basically 90% GG, 10% consignment sales, so it works out pretty well for us! He loves spending time with her & always wants to "See GG. Get some orange juice. Play with BIG garbage truck!"