Weekend Recovery

After a long weekend, I finally have an update!

First off, Corey has been so helpful at night reading books to Brody. Here they're cuddling in Brody's train bed before bedtime, reading - what else - a Thomas book! Sometimes Brody won't let me read books to him at all - he has to have "BorAY" (Corey) do it or "Bobo do" (he does it himself.) Very opinionated and independent!

And lest you think we were busy ALL weekend, you can see that the kids had time to couch potato out during Backyardigans. But we were busy, and had a great time with Aunt Kristin and Silly Goofball Johnny (aka SG Johnny, at least on Wii.)

Corey joined them, and Rob, of course, to see the Diamondbacks beat the Cubs. Corey 1, Johnny/Kristin/Rob, 0. Corey was pretty excited, but not quite excited enough, because he conked out on the ride home.

While they were at the game, Brody and I bonded on my bed (see the nice quilt Grammy made us!) and Brody was copying Mommy's stance during the t.v. show. Looks like a little cherub. Of course, we know better.

In fact, Brody ended up sleeping on Boray's bed - which was an air mattress on Brody's floor. So three beds, and it had to be the one that Corey uses. Fortunately I was able to move him to the train bed before conked-out Corey got home.

We also went over to our friends' house for swimming and brats. We kind of had a German theme going on since they had brats, I made pretzels (link for recipe - time-consuming and totally worth it!), and brought potato salad. However, we drew the line at the beer. It may be of German origin, but all the really good beer is not German!

And we wrapped up today with Corey's VIK talent show. The pictures didn't turn out great, but there's a great video. And who could resist Corey's biggest fan - Brody - who was on the edge of his seat for the songs and dancing and cheering Corey on (listen for him in the video.)

Brody wore all Thomas to school the other day for "pajama" day, and then he wore his Bob the Builder equipment he received from Johnny and Kristin. Our little commercialized boy....

I also got slightly addicted to Facebook this weekend. Fun!

Rob and Corey head to KC for a week tomorrow, so Brody and I will be doing major bonding, which we apparently need! Corey told me Brody doesn't really like hanging out with me (!) and then said he'd rather it was me going to KC with him than Rob, since he loves me so much. Rob was thrilled with that statement!