Even though we were given Monday off work, I need an extra day. A day to recover and sleep. No interruptions, cell phone off, no one here, just a day off! This weekend didn't really feel like the 4th of July. Mainly because it rained. Rained, rained and rained. Not fun. Most of the fireworks was postponed. I did get to see fireworks thanks to Jos sending a video via text message. We spent the day with family and friends. It was a good day even though the weather didn't cooperate.

Jake's 3rd birthday was yesterday. I cannot believe he is 3. Time goes way too fast. He can say/sing his ABC's, county to 40 (sometimes 50), somehow count to 10 in Spanish and loves to sing. I have sadly got him hooked on any GLEE music whatsoever and his favorite song currently is "Somebody to Love". It was "Faithfully" last week. It changes weekly. We let him pick whatever he wanted for breakfast. As usual, he wanted blueberry pancakes! We then let him paint for a few hours on his new easel (a birthday present from Eli). I may say he is pretty good at abstract art. He loves putting his art work on the fridge. He then moved on to Play-Doh (another birthday present).  He loved being able to to mash it and do whatever he wanted to with it. I was a little worried he would want to mix the colors and all that, put he is OCD (like me) and didn't even want 2 colors touching! He made spiders, snakes and random foods. It was fun to watch his imagination go! After about 3 hours of coloring, painting, Play-Doh, it was time for lunch. He wanted his PB and J sandwich cut up in shapes and ate a healthy portion of fruit. He then was stuffed. I said it was okay if he watched an episode of his favorite show. After that, he took his 2 hour nap! We read some more and made dinner together as a family. He loves to help out with any meal. When he got into bed he said "Mommy, you gave me the best present, a great day!" Can we say, melt my heart?! I love this kid!

In other news, Jana is still on her rendezvous vacation. Searching for McDreamie, E.C. and Michael Buble. Her photos make me jealous but they are gorgeous! I think this will have to be a vacation in our near future. Maybe not to Forks but at least Seattle. I have a feeling I will fall in love with that place and never want to leave. This week is a 4 day week at work! I kept forgetting today that it was Tuesday.  Michael has a double header tennis match tonight for the finals so I am home with the mutts. Hawkeye is sleeping on my feet and Zoey is basically sitting on my laptop. That dog, I tell you what.

One thing I am really starting to get excited about is:

Hopefully November comes quickly. Actually, maybe not. That means Baby J will be here in less than 4 weeks! Yikes!