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

swim swim swimming

numbers

18- that's how many months it's been since my baby boy was born. 18. It's almost hard to type it and I almost corrected the nurse at the pediatricians office this morning when she confirmed that we were there for our 18 month check up. YIKES.

72- the number of consecutive hours I was away from my baby young child a few weeks ago when his father and I skirted off to The Big Easy for a little relaxing, drinking, walking all over the great swamp that is New Orleans, and some much needed alone time. I (we?) missed Little terribly and I often caught myself saying "is it too soon to call again?". Little had a wonderful time with Nana and Grampy and pitched an all-mighty fit when they left. You'd have thought we had a 2 year old on our hands. He didn't cry at all when we left, but whatev, I'm over it.

Oh, and my all-time bestest friend in the whole wide world just happened to be in New Orleans the day we got there. How's that for ironic?

4- the number of molars that Little has cut in the last two weeks.

3- the number of teeth he is currently working on. Count 'em up- that equals 7 new teeth.

4,385,817- the number of very pissed off moms of babies cutting teeth during the largest recall of Infant and Children's Tylenol and Motrin (and lots of other drugs). Myself included.

0- the number of bottles of generic Infants Ibuprofen left on the shelves by the time I got to the store.

50%- the percentile Little is in for weight.

70%- the percentile Little is in for height.

75%- the percentile Little is in for head circumference.

1- the number of perfectly healthy, perfectly perfect little boys in the whole universe and he's MINE! HA! Jealous?

427- the number of extended family members that I saw at our family reunion this past weekend. Well, okay, not really that many, but there were a lot. And there were a lot that couldn't make it, too. That would have been A LOT of people. Good thing we were on a farm!

With Uncle Jon riding yet another plastic pony. He sure does love plastic ponies.

And yes, that is dirt on his face. Didn't I mention we were on a farm?

Stay tuned for some first-of-summer pictures and videos coming soon!!

fun friday night

these were taken tonight....

Can you believe all the cheese?!

Easter 2010

We had a lovely Easter this year! Mimi and Uncle Jon came to visit and we had a lot of fun.

We started out our weekend on saturday at Butler Park downtown. Lots of fun, bubbles, we walked around Town Lake, had some popscicles, and ran around.

This is a boy who loves his Mimi. :)

Then Sunday morning we went to church, came home to check out our Easter loot, then we took a nap. Matt and I were up with Steven since 4:30am that morning, so yeah, we were a little tired. More on that later.

We then went to have brunch at The Driskall. It was YUM.

Here Uncle Jon is teaching Steven how to ride his cow...thing. Easter Bunny Mimi brought it and we're still not sure what it is exactly.

It was a tad windy...

We came home and did a little Easter egg hunt and Steven caught on to it pretty quickly! He loved hunting for more eggs and putting them in his Easter basket.

So all in all, great holiday!

flashback friday

one very short year ago.....