Parker Baby!: Busy, busy June!

Ugh....I just sat here for a good thirty minutes or so writing about our busy, busy June only to find that the post didn't save!!!! This one will probably not be as detailed, but I wanted to make sure I at least hit some of the highlights!
We had our family vacation June 9-17....it was wonderful to have that much time off together! We had the perfect mix of time away, time here, time alone and time with family/friends! We started the week with the Cubs/Twins game on June 10! Addison loved the game and lasted the entire time, even in the 92 degree heat! We definitely have a baseball fan on our hands! :-) We left right after the game and drove the couple hours down to Stockholm, Wisconsin (a small town with population of 66!). It is a beautiful town right on the Mississippi River! We spent a few nights enjoying our friends quaint apartment in the town.......we walked around town, hung out on the river with Addison and Wally, watched lots of choo-choos (Addison's favorite!), enjoyed some of the local restaurants, and just relaxed! It was a perfect get away! The highlight was when we went to "farm pizza" on Tuesday night. We brought a big blanket and enjoyed pizza made from freshly-grown farm ingredients while enjoying the animals! It was so much fun!!! :-)
We came back on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday we enjoyed watching Addison in her first Beast Little Gym class! She loved the beam, bars, air mat and climbing on whatever she could find! It was fun that daddy got to see her too! She now thinks that everything, everywhere is a balance beam, and all bars are meant for swinging...mommy's nightmare! :-)
Thursday-Sunday we had Uncle Adam and Cousin Victoria in town to visit! We enjoyed some breakfasts out with the girls, a morning at Mall of America on the rides, a BBQ Saturday afternoon, and time relaxing and catching up at home. Addison loved chasing her big cousin around until the point of exhaustion.....lots of skipped naps and early bedtimes those days!
Noah and I attended the ENT graduation Friday night and our friends Kate and Will's wedding Saturday night that week....it was fun to have some time out together! We took daddy to Jax Cafe (our new tradition) for Father's Day brunch...delicious!!! :-)
Other events of the last couple weeks have been a playdate with Levi and Ali at the splash pad, more Little Gym classes, a lunch out during the week with daddy and his coworkers, a happy hour with mommy and work friends, time in the park by the river, and our trip to the Como Zoo (this morning) with our friends William and Stacy! Addison definitely missed her friend "WiWi" when he was out of town!
Addison is really stringing words together lately.....she now says things like, "mama, more juice," "no-no nap," night night bus." It is so much fun to watch her vocabulary expand! She has also taken a liking to picking out her own clothing in the morning. It seems like whatever I grab in the morning is not the right thing as she says, "no mama" and proceeds to dig through her own drawer in search of the perfect outfit! Oh my!! :-)
Enjoy pics from the last couple of weeks!
As for peanut #2....only one more week until we find out the sex and have the level 2 ultrasound!! I can't believe we are almost halfway there! I am feeling pretty good....but the bump is definitely growing!!! I have been feeling baby kick for a couple weeks now....sure is an active little one! :-)