Play Dates--- The End of Summer

Our little man is so fortunate to have so many friends that love him so much. We finished out our summer with a bang. We had play dates with Anthony, Kyle, Lucas, Madilyn and of course Cassidy! Our little man swam in the lake for the first time this summer, went to his first movie at the movie theater, hung at the zoo, went to kiddie park with his best buddy Anthony, and got to hang out with mommy all summer. We finished out our summer with the Wiggles concert which I just posted. Better late than never!!! Now I just have to get caught up on all our Fall festivities.

The Wiggles Concert

We're going to the WIGGLES!!!!! That is what my son told all of his friends the entire week of August 23rd. The concert was on a Thursday and my husband decided we should tell him we were going the Saturday before. All week, I heard "Mommy, I need to give Dorothy a hug!!!" And thank goodness that there is a Wiggles God because he was the only kid in the audience that actually did hug her!!!!
Here is a slide show of the concert! We had a blast!

May 23rd-July 4th (Just Keep Reading, Just Keep Reading, Reading, Reading, Reading)

The last month and a half has been filled with so much love and joy among family and friends. And at times, tears too.

May 23rd was a day filled with both heart ache and joy. The hubby and I planned to take our little man to Thomas the Tank Engine Train ride that day. To make things easy, I always try to have everything ready to go so that we can just jump in the car and enjoy our day without any "drama". Well this particular morning, I had to move cars.... a few of them.... one of which included my husband Ford 250 Truck. And prior to leaving for our fun filled day we had a terrible accident. Speagle Beagle (my husband's dog of 15 years) was tragically injured by me while moving the truck and she did not make it ( there was hysterical crying by all). It was one of the most terrible mornings ever.
Speagle Beagle- You are thought about often and we will never forget you R.I.P.

After all that, we had these train tickets that we had told our son about. So he knew that he was going to ride Thomas that day. We couldn't take that away from him. He didn't do anything wrong. So, we still went to Thomas and tried to make the best out of our day at Thomas. And I'm glad that we did and I think my husband is glad that we did and I know our son was glad that we did because he had a blast. The train ride itself was not all that great but seeing the big Thomas come down that tracks was awesome. Our son just loved seeing Thomas and he really loved jumping in all the Thomas blow up bounce houses, playing with the red bouncy balls, and getting a few tattoos.
Here is my man, daddy, and Thomas:

I think our little man might be a toy hoarder..... If he could have collect all the balls he would have!
Applying tattoos at home:May 30th we went to Peepaw and Grandma Mueller's for a Memorial Day cookout. We were only there for about three hours and in that three hours I think our little man almost cut all sixteen acres of grass. He just wanted to run, run, run and look at the horses. We tried to get him in the pool but he did not want to "wim" as he would say. He definitely enjoyed his tractor ride with Peepaw and if he could have rode that tractor all day, he would have been in tractor heaven!
Here are some pictures:

On June 5th my daycare provider posted a sign on her door that said, "Does anyone want a cat? There is a stray cat in my backyard that needs a home." So, what do I do? I go home and tell my husband about it and he says, "Our little man just asked for a cat. Why don't you bring it home, if it's cute." And this is what I got myself into to!!!!! I have to admit.... she's a cutie and a keeper and our little man loves her. He named her KIKI. On June 7th I took our little man to have his first and last lunch with Peepaw Mueller at Perry High School. I was fortunate enough to work in the same school district as my father for the past three years. Unfortunately, he is moving to a new school district come August. My lunch is typically a half hour lunch which was never enough time to take our little man for lunch with Peepaw but this day was a bit different. Most of the sixth grade class was gone so I had a little wiggle room in my lunch schedule and I thought that I better squeeze this lunch in because we will never have the opportunity to have lunch together again. Our little man enjoyed lunch with his Peepaw!!!! And here is a picture of the daycare crew.... This was taken on June 8th, second to last day at daycare. They had parties all week! Our little man just loves going to Ms. Celeste and he loves his friends that he has made there! On June 11th my husband took our little man to a hot air balloon show at a local winery near our house while I went to a baseball game with my mom. And can you believe out of hundreds of people he ran into his best friend from day care. Here they are: June 14th we began going to the local library for story time. Story time always begins with a little marching song, then a short story, a puppet show, a longer story, some songs, and then ends with twinkle, twinkle little star with the lights out and glowing stars for the kids to hold. Our little man absolutely loves going to story time. Our first trip was a learning experience. As you can imagine, he was so excited and curious.... sitting the first time there was not really an option but now we go and he will sit on his little carpet listening attentively to Ms. Eason!!!! He is so cute, sometimes at night before going to bed he will say, "Mom, Ms. Eason???" and I say, "Yes honey, we will see her on Monday at story time!"

Here are a few pictures at story time:

The first time we went, Cassidy (our neighbor who I watch once a week) was with us. We actually made the Tye Dye t-shirts together the week before. Aren't they cute??June 16th we began going to gymnastics class. It's not really a structured class but they do have a balance beam, swing, and rings. Our little man can almost walk on the small balance beam by his self, jump on the trampoline, roll, attempts to do summer salts (he still needs help with this), attempts to get on the swing (still needs to learn to pump his legs- we are working on this), and of course can jump off of any mat. June 18th we went to the Strawberry Festival. Our little man loved the car ride..... but only when it was not moving!!! Luckily, it broke down and he got to sit in the purple car while the ride was being fixed!June 20th Peepaw and Grandma Mueller came over for Father's Day. We had a nice relaxing afternoon, a great dinner, and enjoyed each others company. When our little man woke up from his nap he wanted to go for a tractor ride, so of course daddy took him! And what did they find after they started up the tractor? A family of mice!!! A mama and some babies!

Here is one of the babies!Here is grandma Mueller pushing little man in his swing! And Peepaw opening his Father's Day present!June 27th we celebrated cousin Jason's birthday. His party was at a bounce house!!! Once our little man got warmed up there was not stopping him. He had so much fun!!! I have a feeling we will definitely be having a birthday party at a bounce house in the future.

Here's our man having fun with his uncle Mark: Here's my cutie pie:Being held by the birthday boy, Jason:After the bounce house party, we went to cousin Bella's first birthday party! Our little man danced his butt of with all the cutie little girls and stole Bella's birthday car for a good part of the party. WARNING: Our little man loves cars, trucks, tractors, and four wheelers... if you bring one to a party, park, gym class, your house or ours he will most likely take it some how some way!!!!

Here he is with Peepaw, Bella, and Uncle Louie!Fourth of July weekend was very eventful!!! As you can see from my pictures below..... we found another little friend. OMG..... I now have two cats!!!!! Long story short, the hubby was taking our little man for a tractor ride when all of a sudden they saw 8-10 kittens running through the backyard. We ended up catching the black and white one and yes for some strange reason I was apart of the wild goose chase??? She was found on Friday July 2nd and she has been named PUPPY CAT .... our little man has named both cats. I don't know how or when he became a cat lover but he is and he just loves them. July 3rd Grandma and Papa Alberts came over for a cookout and July 4th we went to Grandma and Peepaw Mueller's house. Here is a picture of the three of us sitting by Peepaw's pool!
Our summer has been a blast so far!!! Our little man is growing by the minute and has developed the best personality ever. He is kind, gentle, smart, curious, loving, adventurous, and ours!!!! He melts our hearts each and every day.

FYI- Title was inspired by Finding Nemo! Our son is loving his movies right now. His favorites are Cars, Toy Story, and Nemo!!!!

2nd Birthday Party

This years birthday theme was Thomas the Tank Engine. Our toddler was so excited to see all of the Thomas characters up around the house and couldn't wait to get a hold of his Thomas cake. He celebrated his second birthday in style and enjoyed the company of family and friends despite the nasty weather we had that day. We had his party two weeks after his actual birthday in hopes that the weather would be with us but not so much! But like I said, our little man had a great time and his party was a success. One thing I really enjoyed about having his party two weeks after his birthday, was listening to him sing happy birthday to himself every day in the car ride home from work. And then on the actual day of the party he joined us in singing. And then two weeks after his party was over, he was still singing happy birthday to himself. I think his birthday lasted for at least a month but that's okay because he's our baby and only turns two once!

Here are a few collages I put together of pictures from the party!

My two boys:

My little man and his grandmas:
My little man and his grandpas:It only took me three weeks to make this post. I really hope to be able to post more about our life together and the development of our TWO YEAR OLD love bug!

Happy Second Birthday

Happy Birthday to our baby. We love you so very much. Here is the second year of your life in pictures. There are no words that can describe the joy you have brought us. You ARE the love of our lives. Love Mommy and DADDY!

My Lil Man's Birthday Week

A year ago Thursday, this is the slide show I posted to celebrate the first year of our son's life.

It's hard to believe that in a few days, I will be sharing memories of another year to celebrate our son. My baby is two years old this Thursday, April 29th. He has grown so much this year and has developed the best and cutest personality ever. He is walking and talking and learning so quickly. He's intelligent, loving, kind, strong-willed, beautiful (handsome), and funny. He is the love of our lives!!!

March Events/ Easter 2010

Three birthday's later and March has come to an end. My father, mother, and I all have birthday's in March. So needless to say, March is usually a pretty busy month. Then, add in working full time, taking care of a toddler and a house, not to mention all the fun activities we try to do with our son.... and voila, the month is over. We've had three birthday dinners, lots and lots of cupcakes (which our little man just absolutely loves), went to see the Easter bunny, rode the train next to the Easter Bunny, went to Chucky Cheese (aka: "Chuy Cheez") for the first time, had Palm Sunday dinner with the Alberts family and have gone on about what seems like 40 tractor rides. Our little man looooves... "TRWACKTOR RIIIDESS." He goes on tractor rides (four wheeler) with his daddy around the yard and tractor rides with PeePaw Mueller on the kabota when we go over for visits.

Today has also been a full day. We woke up first thing this morning to look for a giant stuffed bunny and Easter basket that the Easter Bunny brought to our home last night. Our little one was so excited. He really, really liked his bunny, as well as, his candy and a couple of other toys the Easter Bunny (Mommy) brought him. Grandma Dresp came over for an early dinner and to be apart of our first annual Easter Egg Hunt. After going for yet another "TRWACKTOR RIIIDE" with daddy, our little one still had it in him to hunt for eggs. He was so stinking cute. Every time he found an egg he would let out a squeal of delight!

Here are lots and lots of pictures of more memories:

Our Local Community Easter Egg Hunt

Yesterday, we took our little man to our local Easter egg hunt. There was a lot "Wows" (because of the Easter bunny)and "Look Dad, Look Mom" from our little one but once the hunt started it was game on. It didn't take our little man long to catch on. While we were looking for eggs, the news reporter took a few photos and asked us for our names! Yes. We made the paper!!! Here is our little man's first debut.


Easter egg hunt really all it's cracked up to be - The News-Herald News : Breaking news coverage for Northern Ohio

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I YA YOU

Our son has the best personality ever. He does and says the cutest things. My favorite is, of course, "I LOVE YOU" which comes out as "I YA YOU!" He also says, "What's that?" which sounds more like "Whazzat" and "I need it!" He's talking more and more and we can understand him now! He's not even two and he is already such a smart little boy. He can count to 10 and sometimes 11, 12, and 13 (he's only shared his counting abilities with us on one occasion, he would rather count at school, little stinker). He knows how to say the days of the week, the abc's (maybe not totally in the right order), can make the sounds of many animals, and can point to all of his body parts. Did I tell you that he's not even two?
The month of February has flown by like all the rest. We've kept busy spending time with grandparents and each other.
For some reason, Blogger does not like my videos so here are some pictures of February!