Park & Ride and WEEE

Today Andy and I met up with some other moms w/ their kids from church at a park this morning and had a blast! Andy conquored the entire "castle" and went down the slide all by himself with a "1...2...weeee!" as a push to get himself going. A few rounds of this, then tried the "big kid" swings- which he liked. We left about noon and on the way home, he was staring out the window with his mouth open already! He is still sleeping and it's almost 4. S'pose I should go wake him up... nah.

3 Trick or Treaters, 2 Coloring Turkeys, and a Sword-fighter who wears a tree skirt

Trick or Treat! Ok, so its a little late, but better late than never, aye? Mike was on duty, so Andy & I rendezvous-ed at our friends' Perry & Michele's house. Afterward, we stayed a bit to chill and when I went to look for my car keys.... uh-oh, no keys! So I spent an hour looking up and down the streets in their neighborhood and...nothing. Thankfully, it was Mike's car keys I lost, so I still had MY set in my purse. (for those of you wondering why I "risked" taking Mike's keys, as I was leaving our house, HIS keys were so readily available and I had so much stuff in my arms and hands that it was just easier instead of rummaging around in my purse for my own.) Sadly, there's more- my purse was in the car-- that was locked. So I called our insurance company and they sent out a guy to unlock the car. Michele said she would put up signs for lost keys and check the office on Monday. So, sure enough -somebody had turned them in! So we all have our keys, and all is right with the world again. Whew!

Andy as you can see, dressed as Tigger, and the girls went as pirates! :)

Chasing Monty

Thanksgiving, we covered our coffee table with drawing paper and the kids colored.

All of us helped in setting up the tree... Andy is still confused with what the term "help" means.

Sword fighting with dry doggy bones

Andy has recently picked up sword fighting. We were at the home of a couple in our Young Couples Sunday School class and the guy who led the devotional also brought his boy who was probably about 4 or 5. I went to go check on Andy when I heard 2 little voices sparring at each other,"H'yah! H'yah!" They both had little toy swords and were duelling.

Take a vacation from your PROBLEMS!... :)

Goin' to the zoo zoo zoo...

We had great Italian at Buca Di Beppos...

a very tired Andy at Buca Di Beppos

"BUMP!"

Waking up Andy

For those of you who have not been to our house yet here is our living room & Andy's play room:


Stair Sliding is all the rage with toddlers these days:

Other Miscellaneous Andyantiscs:

Filling In

Since our trip down south let me fill you in what we've been up to. We finally have a home, Mike came home from deployment, & Andy is FINALLY starting to walk! :)

Andys 1st haircut




Fathers Day


We took 2 weeks for a vacation to Texas at the end of June through mid-July. During our time there, Andy was surrounded by his peers who were all walking and he decided to join them. He has taken more opportunities on his own to walk.





A beautiful sunset ended a beautiful first day of driving... ugh!

Mary

Josiah, Jacob, Alaina, & Anya

Abby

Matt & Edna

A Carolina Easter

For Easter weekend we (my parents, Andy, & I) went to South Carolina where there were drones of cousins for Andy to play with. The Easter pictures are taken all of which Andy is being carried just in case of craziness gets dare I say- out of hand? (naaaaaaaaaah!) ;)



We went to Swan Lake where they had a park where Andy got to ride on a swing by himself. Shortly after the swing picture was taken, Grandpa had the little tyke clinging on for dear life and a look of sheer fear on his face. So, for a more relaxing experience, I put him in the grass. He has only been in grass 1 other time when he was much smaller so he didn't like it very much, but this time, he seemed to be interested in the grass itself and in one of the grass pictures, he was pulling out the grass to investigate.


This first picture, he is saying his favorite word, "Da-da!!!" really really loud.


Easter Sunday!


Monday after Easter Sunday, we drove to Charleston SC where we walked around what seemed like FOREVER and we found this (famous) seafood restaurant, Hyman's, where Andy was so worn out as you can see, that he fell asleep while CHEWING his food! :) That made a very peaceful dinner at least for about 10 mins, but hey, close enough. :)


On the way home in Tennessee we stayed at this beautiful Colonial-style hotel where we got to chill out.


I am teaching Andy how to color with crayons... I'll let you be the judge of the progress.

*Note: Seeing these pictures of Cracker Barrel still gives me nauseous since the whole way to SC we ate there breakfast, lunch, & dinner, and then on the way back.
*Note to mom: Fireplace or not, how can you still STAND IT?! ;)