The Kundin Family: Sunday Funday

This has been a pretty lazy holiday weekend for our family, so far, but it has been really nice to spend a little time doing whatever we want and not having any kind of agenda or itinerary for once. Sawyer spent the night with Gigi and Granddad on Friday night, so Mitch got to spend some special one-on-one time with Sutton while I went to a Mom’s Night Out with a few of the girls from my mom’s group (the best part was definitely dinner at Cabo’s – thanks for going with me, Holly!).

Saturday morning, we woke up bright and early and took Sutton out to breakfast at Awful Annie’s (which, despite the name, is actually pretty delicious) – it was so nice and sooo much easier going out to eat with only one of the little guys! Unfortunately, we also got news on Saturday morning that Mitch’s grandfather passed away, so Mitch will be flying down to southern California Thursday morning for the funeral and flying back that same night. I really wish that I could go there with him, but especially with it being on Thursday (my biggest work/payroll processing day) I won’t be able to get away.

My parents brought Sawyer back home on Saturday around lunch time, and my dad (and Grandma Ardy) finally had a chance to see the new backyard and playhouse. We all hung out on the back patio for awhile, and my dad spent such a long time pushing the boys on the swings that I wouldn’t be surprised if his arm muscles were sore today. Not that I’m calling him a wimp or anything, but seriously, our kids are rather, well, huge. At the daily weigh-in today, Sutton weighs 30.2 pounds, and Sawyer was tipping the scale at 33.6 pounds. Sutton is starting to catch up to Sawyer weight-wise, but he’s still a good few inches shorter, which seems to make a difference in the good old sport of brotherly wrestling. I have no doubt that Sutton will eventually overtake Sawyer in both height and weight one day (Sutton is already 3 inches taller than Sawyer was at the same age!), and it probably won’t actually take too long for it to happen. Some day the little guy will get his payback!

We spent the rest of the day Saturday playing with the kids around the house, and in the evening we took them down to the pool to go swimming. It had dropped in temperature quite a bit from the previous few days, so the water felt really nice, but it was pretty darn cold when you stood up and caught the breeze while soaking wet. We stayed about an hour, and then came home, grilled up some hot dogs, gave the boys a quick bath, and then we all went into Mommy & Daddy’s room (which the boys promptly tore through like a hurricane…excuse the whirlwind of destruction in the pictures) for some bedtime stories.

With Daddy & a truck book...this is heaven

Sawyer took this picture of Mommy & Sutton

It's Funny Face Time!

Sawyer took this one too :)

Sunday morning started with some more playing in the backyard, followed by a trip to Trader Joe’s and Costco for a ridiculous amount of groceries. I absolutely hate grocery shopping, especially on crowded weekends, and I also hate dragging the boys on long errand runs when Sutton wants a nap in the morning, but the trip actually went pretty smoothly (despite the fact that Sawyer wants to walk everywhere now instead of ride in the cart, which can be frustrating on a busy Sunday at the most crowded Costco ever!). I’m just glad that I know the answer to “what’s for dinner?” for at least the next 2 weeks now.

After the boys woke up from their naps we took them to Joiner Park, yet another park that we’ve never been to before. It’s an older park, but there still isn’t much shade there, which is kind of strange, nor were there any baby swings or much of anything for Sutton to do there. What they certainly did have, however, was a rather large abundance of trash. I had to stop Sutton from trying to eat an old half full bag of Cheetos from under the swings, a partially full water bottle from under the slide, and about four random water bottle caps scattered around. There was so much trash overflowing from the trash can that I had to stop him from grabbing a Sprite as we walked into the park. Yuck.

Sawyer had a blast at the park though. He is always really confident and brave when it comes to trying new playground equipment. I certainly wouldn’t have charged full speed ahead at some of the things that he did. The slide he loved the most today was a fully enclosed tunnel slide with the steepest stairs I’ve ever seen at a park! He probably went down that thing like 10 times before we finally convinced him that it was time to come home and eat some dinner. “What’s for dinner?” Chicken pitas for the kids and carne asada tacos for Mommy & Daddy. Yay for Trader Joe’s :)

Tomorrow we may head back to the State Fair because we have 2 more free admission tickets that we haven’t used yet. We’ll see how cooperative and enthusiastic the kids are in the morning!