Flyin’ High

We recently took a trip to South Carolina to visit my great aunt and uncle. We hadn’t seen them since my wedding and they invited us to come…so we went! We were nervous about our first flight with Will. All things considered, he did really well. We learned a few things and the trip back was easier than the trip there.

Aunt Juli took us on a sailboat ride on Friday. Will loved this. He loves boats – and it was a great (hot) way to spend an afternoon. He even did some driving at one point.

Here are some pictures of our lovely hosts. They live in a neat retirement community. Their social life is awesome!

On Saturday, we took Will to this neat Children’s Museum that was perfect for Will. He could run and explore and not mess anything up! Of course he zeroed in on this truck and wanted to play with nothing else.

On Sunday we took him to the beach. We didn’t stay long because we had to get back. I wish we had planned to go for the day because Will loved it! I was shocked. You never know with him. He ran up to the waves and back to the beach. He kept saying….come here wave. So cute. He couldn’t get enough. I have some priceless video of him running in and out of the water. I know I’m posting way too many pics, but there were so many cute ones!

Good times and good memories made! Successful first trip wit Will!

Closet Fun

Yes, this is random but I wanted to write this down in hopes that I can look back and remember the fun we had as a family playing in the closet last night! Will has been so fun lately and so incredibly playful. And he wants to play with us. For some reason he convinced Kevin and me to go into the closet and he told us to sit down. And he wanted to just hang out and play. So - we did! Kevin went and got a flashlight and he loved that. It was just a sweet moment where you look and him and think - wow. We are so blessed. We were chosen to be his parents. What a gift and a huge responsibility. I seriously love him more every single day. I don't even know how it is possible - but my heart must grow daily. Loving my life!!

Summer Time This and That

So, admittedly, I've been in a blogging funk. Not sure why. Things have been fairly busy and I just haven't made it a priority. I think I recently covered all the major events. But I thought I'd do a quick post to catch up on recent stuff.

We finally got Will another haircut. After the one that was awful, we don't really rush to take him to get it cut. And, it was kind of cute shaggy. But then - it wasn't. I would pick him up from school and the poor boy looked quite ragged. So - we took him and it was rather successful. It was iffy at first - he wouldn't even sit in my lap, but once she pulled out a sucker and put on a cartoon, we were good to go.

(Which reminds me of this lovely little music class I tried to take him to last week. He hated it! He clung to my neck for dear life. And towards the end he was pointing to the door and saying...Shoes...Shoes! As in - let's get my shoes and get out of here! Oh well.).

Will has started counting!! It is so cute and it was out of nowhere! He can fairly consistently get from 4-9. I don't know why 1-3 are not clicking, but we're working on them. I am so impressed with my little guy! Colors are coming, too. He can recognize the right one, but then he gets stuck on it and everything is that color. But spaced out, he can get red, yellow, blue, and green correct. I'm a proud momma!

Been spending time with these kiddos as much as possible. And snuggling with Dylan's sweet little brother as much as possible.

Last Thursday was our 4th anniversary! I can't believe it has been four years. In some aspects, I feel like I've known Kevin forever. In others, it seems like we just had the wedding. Time sure does fly! We had a lovely time Friday night celebrating. Kevin took me to an amazing restaurant where I had the most amazing dessert...ever. I had to take a pic. They had rose petals on the table when we arrived - fantastic service!

We recently found out that we are getting another newphew! Kevin's sister Kellie is pregnant and it is a boy! Good thing we're good at boys around here! I'm not sure what we would do if someone had a girl. We could figure it out though! Will is rather pumped that he has 2 boy cousins and one on the way! He says bring on the boys!

And that's the quick blog post for the day!

Happy 4th of July!

We have had a fun 4th of July weekend! We’ve been much more social than usual – which is good for us!

Friday night we went over to my brother’s and had a mini welcome home Miles get together. (I even cooked for everyone – felt oh so grown up). Got some good cuddle time with the adorable baby. But no pics.

Saturday, Kevin mowed in the morning, I had lunch with a good friend, and then we went down to our friends Matt, Paula', & Bryce’s that evening to swim and have a cook out. That was fun!

Sunday, we went to church and took it easy that afternoon. That evening we headed up to visit with some friends in Plano to swim and cookout. They were very sweet to have us and invited us to go with them to watch fireworks. We thought about going but were worried it would really be too late to keep Will out. Maybe next year. However, we could not have planned it if we tried but managed to get to see the fireworks on our way home coming down the tollway. My way to do it – in the air conditioned car! After they we had passed them, Will kept saying…I seed it! I seed it! So cute.

Then this morning, we headed over to the LH parade! It was so cute and reminded me of the parades in my hometown growing up. Paula and Bryce went with us and the boys seemed to really enjoy it. At first we had to wait a bit for it to start and they saw this huge open field as a huge temptation for running free! Then they found this spot of dirt and decided to pick it up and play in it. Will isn’t smiling but I was pretty proud that I got this good of a picture of them! Impossible to get a good one of all 4 of us – but this is the best we got. The 4 of us enjoy lots of fun play dates! The parade was starting – Will was excited to see the big fire truck that was in the front of the parade! Paula and Bryce were excited, too! The Tookers in our red, white, and blue! Will loves fire trucks! About half way through the parade he kind of looked at us and said…more fire truck? Aw. Unfortunately, there was just this one. Kids could decorate their bikes and ride in the parade – so fun! Will behaved so well through the whole thing – I was pleasantly surprised! A cute picture of my two favorite men after the parade. Love them! Hope you all enjoyed your holiday weekend, too!

Play time & Bath time

I haven’t been good at posting pics lately, so I thought I’d just post a few of some random happenings around our house. Seems like we’ve been keeping busy lately. Our days off seem to get filled with a playdate or some other event. This particular day, Will wanted to help with the yard. Believe me Will, if daddy could let you mow it – he would!

Lately, Will has been a bit of a handful. He’s officially hit the tantrums associated with the terrible twos. He’s been doing this for a few months now. It is hard. No one really prepares you for these things and no one prepares you for figuring out disciplining. We’re at a point where we can’t just excuse him for being too young to know – we have to start doing something. So, we’re trying time out. He’s been in at least once a day since we started! Oh boy. His most annoying new trick is saying No…repeatedly. When he doesn’t want to do something or doesn’t like what’s happening he starts yelling…No, no, no, no, no, no!!! Ugh. Mommy and daddy are not a fan of this. Neither are we a fan of him throwing or hitting when he’s upset. That is one that lands him in the time out chair frequently. It is hard because he’s also at a really, really fun age! He’s learning at a ridiculous pace. His verbal skills have come such a long way and he can communicate really well with us. That is so fun. He is starting to learn to count, learning colors, and shapes a bit. So cute to hear him sing songs. He tries the abc and twinkle twinkle song a lot. He also plays really well with us. His favorite thing is to play chase. We have to chase him, of course. He frequently says…Get me! So cute! He also doesn’t like to be alone right now. He used to play really well in his play area but now he needs someone right there with him at all times. Not sure why. He frequently is saying Mommy sit down! Or Daddy sit down! When he falls down, Kevin has taught him to say “Safe!”. Hilarious! He seems to like baseball and if he isn’t really hurt, he’ll do it. He plays hard and he seems to go non-stop. Wears me out watching him. Wish I had that energy. He plays with cars all the time. He’s such a boy. Cars, trains, trucks, etc. I thought he would love this spray toy for the yard, but he wasn’t too sure about doing it on his own. Kevin had to help him get wet. Eventually he warmed up a bit but seemed to need Kevin holding him to enjoy it. Silly boy.

I hadn’t done a bath pic in awhile, so here one is! He’s growing up so stinking fast. He actually has a lot of bath toys, but seems to love playing with the boat the most. Sweet boy saying Cheese! Love him to pieces!