making our last weeks last

we had quite the day starting with ambrose's two year old well-baby check-up and here are the stats (this is mostly for the grandmas but it's kind of you to humor me, thanks.):

32lbs. 37.5 inches tall 49.5 cm. head (way to go son) and healthy as a horse.
he has had another growth spurt height wise and has gone off the charts again leading the doctor to believe that he may be 6' 3" or 6' 4" or so when he is an adult. he was impressed that ambrose is so tall and grew so much since he mostly eats fruit, but the boy drinks a lot of milk too so i guess milk really does do a body good. :)

anyway, he had to have a blood test too and since he was such a good boy for the whole ordeal we headed out for a day of adventure. i think i ran out the energy-o-meter so much today, that by the end of the afternoon he was running on fumes and poor thomas got the worst of it when i headed out for a baby shower and he put the boy to bed.

we started out our afternoon at coldstone- cashing in his free birthday ice cream coupon (yeah, i removed his shirt in the store before he ate it... i really like that shirt and dont trust ambrose to eat anything neatly... least of all chocolate ice cream)

next we headed out to kaneohe district park- one of our favorites to play and get energy out:
he's been working on those dangerous stairs in that top photo for a while and can do them by himself with full confidence now (crap) and refuses to have me anywhere near him (bitting my nails nervously picturing him with missing teeth) to help him. ah, a toddler's independence.
after a while we were starting to head home when he started saying "play! PLAY!" and i said, "OK!" and we pulled over to explore heeia state park. it's cool. you can walk down this little path and look at all the boats in the harbor and then you quickly find yourself in front of a random house... i thought maybe jakob would summon me in and tell me all the secrets of the island but no such luck. no john or jack's dad or weird claire without her baby either (this is all LOST talk... sorry if you're, well, lost.. haha... i'm sooo funny.) so we continued on but the path looked a little too narrow and mysterious for a mother who is 30 weeks pregnant to be taking her two year old on alone... so i thought we could come back with daddy sometime.
really, ambrose's favorite part of the park was doing this over and over:
i got bored of that so we left. a few minutes down the road he was asking to play at the park again and i was like, "well, why not. we have nothing else to do and it's good for him." so we stopped at swanzy beach park in kaaawa.



and he did this again a couple of times as if to prove a point:
he really wanted me to play with him the whole day too. at one point i was just sitting down catching my breath and he impatiently came over to me and took off my slippers- just the way i take his off so he can climb up the slide more easily and placed them just so:
it was a pretty fun day. we just went wherever and had a good time being together. days like these make me so happy, but a little sad too. ambrose and i are such good friends and i know that in about two months everything will change for me, for him, and for "us." i am so excited to meet this second baby, but i feel a little like i am letting go of my first baby somewhat since it will never so easy to pack up on a whim and have an adventurous day like this until the boys are older. and i will never be able to give him this kind of undivided friendship once baby number two comes. i am going to cherish this time and keep it with me forever.