Tooker Holiday Fun

Kevin’s sister and brother-in-law were in town for a week over Christmas.  We don’t see them very often since they live in Nashville, TN, so we made a point to get some good time in with them.  It was actually Uncle Nick’s first time to meet Will.  We decided to get out of the house and do some fun stuff while they were here.  Here are all of the adventures that we went on.

I don’t have any pictures but on Sunday we had lunch with Kevin’s dad, Daneille, and Uncle Ben, Aunt Wanda, and cousin Zach at Buca di Beppo – yummy.  Then Sunday afternoon, Kevin’s mom took me, Kellie, & Kayse to the see the Rocketts Christmas Spectacular!  It was fantastic!  I can’t imagine being able to high kick like they do.  I’m just not at all coordinated! 

On Monday, the group decided to take a tour of the Cowboys Stadium.  It was excellent and we learned all sorts of fun things about the stadium and Jerry.  We also got to use the Baby Bjorn for the first time!  Will loved it.  He got to hang with me and see everything. 

Little cutie…

Seeing that huge screen never gets old.  Unfortunately the field wasn’t out because they had a basketball game there.  We didn’t get to walk out there, but it was still cool. Once again, Will tires from all the fun.  He slept really well in the carrier.

You can see the cables hanging down from the screen and a bucket at the bottom.  That’s how people go up into the screen.  Crazy that people hang out up in there.

They are hosting the Cotton Bowl at the stadium and always have a Big 12 team.  They have a cool room with the Cotton Bowl offices.  Oh poor Texas Tech.  They were at the Cotton Bowl last year (not good, not good).  This year I am really scared to see what happens at the Alamo Bowl after they fired our crazy coach.  Ugh.  I’ll stop before I get all upset again.

Just a fun pic of us hanging out in the Dr. Pepper lounge. A neat view of the Ballpark

Another fun pic My favorite player’s locker

Kevin, Allyson, & Kayse in the locker room.

Sweet boy sleeping and missing it all

The whole group!

If we were players, this is where we would go out onto the field.

 

After the tour, we decided to head to Cowtown (Ft. Worth) to the stock yards for lunch.  We had a lovely lunch and enjoyed walking around.  I hadn’t been there in years.  

My mom works in Ft. Worth, so she met us over there, too. We tried a cowboy hat on Will.  It was just a little too small!!  Ha!  I love this picture.  Kevin does not.  I just think it is hilarious with the look on his face like…mom…seriously?

We stayed to see the cattle drive.  A must for the stockyards!

I wouldn’t want to mess with with these guys.

 

On Tuesday evening we headed back to the AAC for Will’s first Mavs game!   Here he is hanging with Kayse and Ally and just checking everything out.There’s so much to see!  Here is his new favorite thing – eating his hands.  They are ALWAYS in his mouth.  Always.

With Aunt Kellie & Nick. Once again he can only handle so much fun.  He snoozed in Ally’s arms for a good part of the game.  I don’t think she minded.  :)

First Game

On December 19th, Will experienced his very first professional sporting event – a Stars Game! Kevin had the suite at the AAC and we took our Community Group for a fun afternoon. The game was really good as there were a lot of goals scored and the Stars ended up on top of the Red Wings. Not bad for Will’s first event!

We had him all bundled up because it is cold in there!Daddy and Will getting excited about the game. A family pic

All the excitement wore him out! He really did enjoy looking at everything. There is so much to catch his attention. He did fall asleep and every time someone scored and the crowed roared he would spaz a little. It was cute. Here he is worn out from the fun.

3 Month Pics

Yes, I have so much blogging to do to catch up on all of the fun activities that we have done over the last week with our families, but I don't have the energy to upload all the pics and properly document all the fun. I've this annoying cold/crud thing for going on about 10 days now. Yuck. So, I thought I'd leave you all with some adorable pictures of our favorite little guy. We had his 3 month pics taken a few weeks ago and used them as Christmas presents, so I had to wait to post them. I thought they turned out great! Joy Neville took them and she is awesome. I was so pleased. http://www.jnevillephotos.com/ Check her out if you need pics in Dallas.

Here are a few of my favs.

We also had pics of Dylan & Will taken together as a gift for mom. She loved it, of course!

Answered Prayer!

We just found out yesterday that Will got into the daycare downtown that is right by my office!!!!!! I can't tell you how excited about this I am! I really didn't think he would get in as the ones downtown have crazy waitlists. There were 2 people infront of us and I kept emailing to get updates and she kept telling me she was waiting to hear back from the other 2. Well, I guess they passed and we got the last spot! We had a back-up plan, of course, which was in a neighborhood near our condo. It would have been o...k...but I wasn't all that excited about it. This place is in walking...(yes literally right behind my building)...distance from my office and I can easily walk over to check on him at lunch. (Or anytime I am having severe anxiety and just need to make sure he's doing alright).

I go back to work the week of Jan. 4th and I have been dreading it. This helps a lot just knowing he'll be so close. I am so thankful and feel like it is all going to be alright. Praise God for this answered prayer!

3 Months

Warning – this post is filled with pics of our 3 month old!  Yesterday (I know, I’m slacking) Will turned 3 months.  Wow.  Really?  How did that happen??  I don’t know, but it did.  He is more fun than ever.  He smiles much more freely now and it is pretty easy to get one.  However, the minute I point a camera (or anyone else for that matter) at him he loses that precious smile. 

He is so incredibly active.  I wish I had a pic but he loves to lock his knees and stand up.  We used to pull him up and he would go to a sitting position.  Now, if we pull him he goes straight to standing.  And he loves it!  He looks so proud of himself. 

Here’s Will in his Christmas outfit from Ally.  Actually the outfit had cute pants that coordinated but our sweet boy is long and lean.  The pants fall of him.  I have him in 0-3’s but they’re getting short.  So if you see pics of him in pants that look too short, it isn’t because we’re poor – he’s too skinny!

Proof that the kid won’t smile on camera.  He was just smiling at me while I was in the floor wrapping presents and just melting my heart.  I pull out the camera and this is as close as I can get.  Silly Will.

Here he is in his sleep sack.  We still swaddle him at night but while he’s napping I put him in this.  

Oh look – he smiles.  He does seem to be excited to see me when I go get him out of his crib.  I love that sweet face!

Here’s the big boy lounging.  He sits pretty well with just a little help.  (Excuse our unmade bed).

Took some pics so we can see his size under the clothes.  Still not bulking up.  He does, however, weigh right about 13 lbs.  So he’s definitely gaining and growing.  We did move his nipple up to a larger size in his bottle.  He drinks much faster now and seems to be eating a little more, which makes me happy.  For awhile he was eating pretty light.

This shows his length.  He’s a long little boy.

Man I still love these little feet.  I’ve caught him staring at them a good bit recently.  Cracks me up.

I love this little belly, too!

And I still LOVE watching him sleep.  Man he’s sweet.

He still loves to sit in his bumbo.  The view of the backside of him is hilarious.  He enjoys watching tv.  He looks like a little old man…except that he’s watching the View.  Oops.

Kind of looks like a lounge chair.

Yep, loves to watch tv.  It has great lights!  Maybe I’ll find him something better than the View to watch next time.  :)

Uh oh – Busted!! 

I thought this was so sweet.  We went to visit our friends Matt & Courtney last Friday night.  They have a 2 1/2 year old daughter, Savannah, and one on the way.  Savannah was sweet enough to read to Will.  They were so cute!

What else can I say?  This little boy is the best blessing we could have ever asked for.  And he just woke up from a nap -  off to get him!

Christmas Party – Cowboys Style

I am a little behind on posting.  On Sunday we had the privilege of going to Kevin’s work Christmas Party.  Some companies have a party at a nice restaurant or at their lovely house.  Kevin’s company took us to the Cowboy’s Game…in their suite.  Not too shabby!  We had a blast despite the fact that the Cowboys had a disappointing loss.  It was a little hard to get into the game with the excitement of being in the stadium and in a suite.  It was our fist time going to the monstrosity that it is. 

Prior to the game we “tailgated” in style in some tents.  They had a nice buffet where we ate lunch.  Us at the pre-game festivity.

Our view in the suite.  I’d say that’s pretty good!

Walking up to the stadium

Kevin and I checking out the HUGE screen

Us taking a pic in the suite.  Notice I am wearing a red sweater.  Not sure why I went with the red.  Kind of stands out at a Cowboy’s game.  Well it was a Christmas party, right?

Again, the screen.  I did not get a pic of it in 3-D which was a huge bust.

The inside of the suite.

Looking out from inside the suite.

The good old days.

This for Kevin.  His favorite Mav (JJ) was taking pics.  Ha.  :)

Us again.  I was picture happy – it was a neat experience!

Thanks to Kevin’s wonderful company for taking us to a game!  We had a blast!!