showers

I think we all remember Little's first shower....

How could we forget? He's taken to showers again, this time like a big boy.

*He's cleaning his orange bath tub crayon drawing off the walls, so no, our bathrooms are not that disgusting. :)

shutterfly, oh how I love thee...

We've been using Shutterfly for the last 2 years for our holiday cards. Every year I think they can't get any cuter, and I'm pleasantly surprised.

We just had family portraits done a few weeks ago and I cannot wait to send out holiday cards again.

Here are the cards from the last few years:

Does it get any cuter than this?! I really miss him this tiny!

I think this one will be an all-time fav! I have a feeling as our family grows it will be a lot harder to get us all looking at the camera and smiling.

Shutterfly has come out with some beautiful designs this year and I can't wait to pick my favorite! Here are some contenders:

Pretty Poinsetta

Peppermint Giftwrap

Elegant Lace Snowflakes

Snowflake Dazzle

Emerald Green Stars

Which are your favorites?

Start watching the mail, folks!

the real thomas

Grampy and Nana took Matt, Little and I to Burnett to see "A Day Out With Thomas" this year. It's a life sized, real Thomas steam engine that travels all around the country. Steven is just *a tad obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine and all his steamy friends. All day long I hear "whoowhoo....whoowhooo!!". All.Day.Long. So when Nana found out about this she knew we all had to go, Aunt Katie and Uncle Tom included!

I don't think Steven really understood why we were just standing in line.

And then the moment of pure joy and disbelief.....

shock and awwwwwe....

There was a Thomas poster at the front of our train car that Steven could not get enough of and kept waving to and yelling "Hai!!!!".

Yes, we brought one home with us. It was hanging in his room, but mama had had enough of waking at 7am hearing "Whoo Whoo!!!! WHOO WHOO!!" over the baby toddler monitor. And nap time was becoming quite a challenge. Now it hangs in the hallway.


"Grampy, I'm waving to THOMAS!"

getting a temporary tatoo on his hand



Posing with Sir Topham Hatt. I'm not sure who he thinks should be holding his other hand...

Such a wonderful day! Thanks Grampy and Nana!

*read: completely obsessed and thinks about nothing else. THOMAS IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS.

goodbye, summer

Steven and I had a wonderful summer. The first half was pretty mild, lots of rain to keep the temperature in the low nineties. We had lots of days like this:

and days with sidewalk chalk like this:

Yep, that's my boy with a stroller. But it's BLUE, so it's a MAN stroller. (Thanks, Coopers!)

We visited a new splash park very close to the house more times than I can count.

Early September brought about the start of PRESCHOOL. Yep. My only baby is in Preschool. He goes two days a week, Tuesday and Thursday from 9a.m. to 2p.m. He LOVES it, and has had no issues adjusting. He has only gotten upset one morning and only stayed upset for a few minutes. I can't even get a kiss goodbye before he runs in to start playing with his classmates. He is in a classroom with 4 other boys, aged 18 months to 2 years. He even napped on his nap mat the very first day of school. I wish I had a video camera to see how his teacher actually made that happen since he will hardly even stay in his crib at home (see last post for details).

How freaking adorable is this?!

Mama is very grateful for the ability to run errands in a timely manner and grocery shopping solo, but she still misses her Little while he's at school. BUT she LOVES the excitement at pick up time! Running, smiles, hugs and kisses are the best!

So, farewell, summer! We will miss you, but Fall aspires to bring about lots of excitement, too! A certain Little will be turning TWO! :)

escape artist

Long time, no blog, sorry. There will be more soon, I promise, but this is just too good (or bad?) to not share ASAP.
This happened about 5 minutes ago when he was (supposed to be) napping.

Crazy Little Monkey Man. LOVE the clapping at the end. He's just so proud of himself.

july

We've had a busy July! We started it out going to San Marcos to visit Aunt Phyllis and Aunt Tammy for the 4th and we had a blast. Steven loved their blow up pool. Mimi came up to celebrate my birthday with us, and one of my best friends got MARRIED! I've spent several nights in Waco bachelorette partying it up and this past weekend was the wedding. Steven has spent some quality time with Nana and B making up for when they went to Alaska at the beginning of the month for 2 weeks.

with Aunt Tammy

with Aunt Katie

just being adorable with his mama

A cute video of pool time with Katie

August brings us a Vegas trip, sans-toddler, and PRESCHOOL*

*cue uncontrolable sobs from his mama

Disney cuteness overload

Here are some adorable video clips from Disney.

WARNING: If you do not want the tune "It's a Small World" stuck in your head for the rest of the day/week/year, kindly turn your sound off until the second video clip. :)

At Raglan Road, Steven dancing in his high chair

At breakfast with Pooh and Friends.

WARNING: This is unbelievably cute.

Parading around the restaurant with Tigger

flashback friday

Where did my baby go?

magical

This is the only word I can think of to describe our Disney World trip. It truly is the most magical, happiest place on earth.

Mimi, Uncle David, cousin Michael, Steven and I all flew to Disney World in Florida for 7 days. It was hot, to put it lightly. 110 in the sun, it felt like we were ON the sun. Despite the skin-melting heat we had such a WONDERFUL time! Steven loved it. REALLY loved it. I wasn't sure he would understand or really even enjoy it, but his eyes were wide and he pointed and gasped at every little thing. It was magical being there with him, seeing Disney World through his eyes.

Instead of hearing me blabber on about it, I'll just show you how much fun we had. WARNING: tons of pictures ahead. : )

Ready for take off!

Before we even took off...


We wasted no time, this was just a few hours after we landed

Already drenched in sweat!

Steven LOVED "It's a Small World"

Character breakfast at our resort, with Lilo and Stitch, and Mickey!

At Tom Sawyer's Island

At a restaurant called Raglan Road Irish Pub in Downtown Disney- they had live Irish music and dancing and Steven had a blast!

Silly Michael!

Steven was so great in his stroller

Baby giraffe on our safari in Animal Kingdom

"Uh, mom? Do you know there's a baboon behind me?"

kisses for the criket

Goofy and Pluto

We had a character breakfast with Pooh and Friends and I think this was Steven's favorite!

Telling Pooh stories...

kisses for Pooh!

soooo cute. : )

Piglet!

Tigger came and grabbed Steven's hand and they paraded around the restaurant together. It was honestly one of the cutest things I've seen him do thus far!

Look at that cute smile!

Trying to cheer Eeyore up

maybe kisses will do the trick....

He was totally wiped out every night!

Hollywood Tower of Terror Hotel. Probably the scariest ride I've ever been on. And that's saying a lot.

Toy Story

This probably comes in a super close second of the cutest things he's done. He RAN up to Goofy to give him a hug and WOULD NOT let go! We kept asking him to turn around and he just stood there hugging him. ::melt::

and hugging him....

aaaand hugging him....

Goofy started blushing...

uuhhh, Steven?

There are other kiddos here...

FINALLY! hahaha

more kisses

I'm still not sure who this character is or what he's from, but we took pictures with him anyway

the Electrical Parade

Steven watching closely

Cinderellas Castle at night

Our last ride- Dumbo