Easter and 8 Months Old!

Andrew got to celebrate Easter and his 8th month Birthday on the 12th! Here are some pictures from our day of fun!

Having a chat with the Easter Bunny!
"Look, I found an EGG!!!!!"

Andrew's first Easter basket

Showing off his little teeth!

Posing for some 8 month pics!

Trip to Ohio

As many of you already know, Andrew and I recently took a trip to Ohio to visit friends and family. We were able to spend two weeks at home and still did not have time to do everything and see everyone that we wanted too. However, we did have a great time while we were there and we did squeeze in a ton!

On our way home we were able to stop in Memphis and see Graceland and the Civil Rights museum. The three of us packed up early Friday morning and headed to Memphis and spent the day there, we stayed over and continued on our way to Nashville to meet up with my mom who drove down on Saturday to make the big switch.

The Neely's Bar-B-Que (from the Food Network!)

On Saturday we headed to Ohio and Zac headed back to Little Rock : ( For the next two weeks we enjoyed all that Ohio had to offer us! After two weeks at home, Andrew, myself, my mom and sister took up Thursday afternoon and drove down to Nashville. We spent Friday in Nashville visiting the Grand Ole Opry and the Gaylord hotel at Opryland. Zac drove up to Nashville and picked us up and we went back to Little Rock.

Inside the Gaylord Opryland Hotel

More fun in the hotel

Grandma and Andrew

Our Little Cowboy!!!

We had a great vacation in Ohio and are looking forward to moving back as soon as we can.
Although it is nice to be able to get out of Ohio and see other parts of the country, I am finding more and more that Ohio has a lot to offer us and is much more progressive then the last few places we have lived. I am hoping that the east coast has as much to offer us and what we have at home.

At the Columbus Zoo

Playing with Julian (bestest buds!)
Playdate at Aunt Alice's (Andrew, Macy and Cohen)

Hope you enjoy the photos from our trip! We can’t wait to get back to Ohio!!!! Easter pics are coming soon...

In Ohio!

As many of you know we are in Ohio until April 9th, so there will probably not be any Andrew updates during our vacation...hope you are not too sad!!! We will be sure to post many pictures when we get back to share our trip to Memphis, Nashville and various parts of Ohio!!!

A TOOTH!

Something very exciting was discovered tonight! Andrew finally is getting a tooth! Zac was the one who made the discovery and we were both eager to stick our fingers in and get a feel, although Andrew did not enjoy it very much! Once we both confirmed that it was a tooth coming through we got out a flashlight and tickled Andrew to get him to open his mouth wide so we could get a good look at it!!! I wish that we could get a picture of it to show everyone! I was so excited that I had to share the news!!!

Here are some recent pictures for you to enjoy until we can get a good one of the tooth :)

Andrew and his buds at Caleb's House

Andrew enjoying a homemade teething biscuit

The Lesson Plans You've All Been Waiting For!

Finally I am posting about the last 3 sessions of Gym…I guess you could call that a little “behind”! Oh well, I figure everything will get done eventually  For all of you out there who have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the lesson plans to see what we’ve been up to, I’m sorry for the delay!

We had our first outdoor session today and it was a ton of fun! It was a beautiful, sunny, almost hot, day in Arkansas. It was forecasted to be 78 and sunny today and in my opinion it is perfect outside! I’m very excited about the spring weather that has graced us with its presence and I know the members of Andrew’s Gym were excited about it too! Babies seem to be so much happier when they are outside, something about the fresh air I suppose.

Today we learned about outdoor things. We tried to listen to some fun songs about spring such as “Mister Sun” but unfortunately my iHome was not operating on its batteries (very sad). Just so we had a little music during class we did sing a song about spring coming! We learned some new signs for animals that we might see including duck, cat, dog, horse and frog! We have really been adding to our repertoire of signs and are hoping that we soon start to see our little men displaying their new language!

The best part of gym was at the end when Caleb’s mom Sarah read us a book about clouds that look like spilt milk and when Parker’s mom Leigh Ann taught us exercises with our strollers (still feeling the burn)! I really love that we have each been able to bring our specialties to the table and share with each other. I think it is not only good for our little men but also for us!!!

Here is this week’s lesson plan and the spring song!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13401253/318-Plan

Here are the last two sessions that were held 2/25 and 3/11. I really won’t elaborate much on them since they were a while ago. I just wanted to make sure that I got the links up to all of the lesson plans – hopefully in the future I can be a little more timely about postings!

2/25
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13401251/225-Plan

3/11
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13401252/311-Plan

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I’m really starting to slack with posts to this blog. It seems that somehow I have become busier with other activities and am finding less time to make updates and keep people in the know. So, I am making a little resolution to try and post two times a week to the blog. I really think this is manageable as I was posting a million times a week before. I think that our family trip to Disney just slowed me down a bit, which is probably a good thing. I also think that the change in weather has promoted more activities in our day which is leading to less time inside on the computer – good for everyone!

As today is St. Patrick’s Day I feel that I should post lots of pics of Andrew in his Patty’s day apparel. His wonderful godmother sent him the cutest onesie, bib and Winnie the Pooh toy for the holiday!!! He also had a pre-St. Patrick’s day outfit on yesterday as he ended up with two outfits! He looked really cute and had a fun time with the photo shoot!




As for posts on lesson plans (which I promised last week) I will try and post these tomorrow after we have gym time. I know that it is fun for everyone to see what we are doing at gym, so I will put up pics also!!! We are taking Andrew’s Gym on the road tomorrow and heading outdoors as the forecast is 78 and sunny for tomorrow!!! Yeah for spring. That is one thing that I do love about Arkansas – it is warm all of the time here, I don’t think it got lower than 30 during the winter for more than 1-2 days and as for warm weather I think it is here to stay!!!

We Went to Disney!

As you probably have noticed there have not been any new posts for over a week now and that is due to the fact we took an amazing, impromptu, much needed vacation to Walt Disney World! For the year of 2009, Disney is running a special for all active duty military members offering them a FREE 5 day hopper pass that includes the water parks and Disney Quest. For spouses and other family members they are offering up to 5, 5 day passes for $99 and then for just $25 you can make the pass a hopper. It is basically the best deal ever if you frequent Disney. The average cost for a 5 day pass is around $222 and for a hopper, it’s another $50. So, as you can see $124 for a 5 day hopper pass is a great deal and a free ticket is even better (also kids 3 and under are FREE!). I recommend this to anyone who is active duty, active guard or reserve and retired, it is really the best deal you will ever get! So…we took advantage of this awesome offer and went to Disney! It was a very spur of the moment trip. We decided to go on a Tuesday and left that same week on Friday! Zac is on casual duty right now while we are waiting for a back up on the flight line to pass, so we have a lot of free time, and I mean A LOT! It was a much needed vacation for both of us. We have not been anywhere since we went on our honeymoon and the past two years have been grueling on both of us.
We had the greatest week ever! It was relaxing and fun to get away. It was so much fun to take Andrew to the parks and watch him take it all in. Zac and I are both Disney fanatics and we knew Andrew would love it just as much as we do! He was able to ride many of the rides and we saw the parks through a new light. For the two of us, the parks are fun, but we have done just about everything – with Andrew, everything was new again. I know that sounds really cliché but it was true! One of the best parts of the week was when Zac and I got to have a day to ourselves and go do all of the fun adult rides and activities! Uncle Chip and Aunt Sarah watched Andrew for us, making it the longest time we have ever left him – and they survived – haha!

It was an awesome time and we are really looking forward to the next time we will go. I hope you enjoy the pictures from our trip! There will be more posts soon as I get caught up on everything! We are looking forward to baby gym tomorrow so look for a post about that and lesson plans from the last two sessions! As for my other blog on baby food – that one may be put on the back burner for a few more days :(