the last few days...

saturday the kids and i headed out to my parents house to spend the day hanging out on their new deck!! it was a gorgeous day to be outside and tuscan had a blast out there with all of his trucks and his art easel. we had some delicious hamburgers cooked on their new grill and some tortolini pasta salad that we had left over from the 4th. tuscan spent the night there - which of course meant not much sleep for him and beth!

sunday i worked for a few hours and halfway through my day, frank went into work for a few hours, so when beth brought tuscan home, she hung around for a little while until i got home from work...which also meant, no nap for tuscan! (never a good thing!)

monday morning was kind of crazy...i worked, only until 9 - but tuscan had his first swimming lesson at 940...and he did amazing! he had so much fun!! frank was the only dad in the group, everyone else had their mom in the pool...and i think that will make it that much more special for the two of them. we had to bribe tuscan to get him out of the pool because he was having such a good time! and now he comes home and shows us all the stuff he learns...like how to jump and how to kick his feet in the water. while we were eating dinner that night he heard our neighbor jump into his pool and he got all excited and ran to the window and started calling out for our neighbor, lee..."lee-lee" and she heard him and told her son, eric, that she thought it sounded like he wanted to come over...next thing i knew, lee was standing at the front door asking if she could bring tuscan back to her house so he could go swimming with eric! (eric is like 21) so it was super cute, the two of them in the pool together...tuscan got so upset when he had to get out of their pool too...then later that night, while i was putting vincenzo to bed, tuscan thought it would be a good idea to sneak out the front door and go knock on our neighbors door...i came downstairs and he wasnt in his tent anymore...started going from room to room and realized that the big wooden front door was open! i ran outside and heard lee say "does your mommy know u escaped?" i nearly had a heart attack...so needless to say...all three doors in the foyer area are now kept closed/locked until we can get an eyelet hook for the top of the screen door...(must love 2 year olds - thats becoming my phrase for the year!)