Well Spring has finally sprung! The daffodils are blooming, pollen is in the air and I think we have all developed allergies from enjoying the great weather outside! With the exception of a few days, we have been having beautiful weather in Atlanta, which has been great for getting outside with the kids after a very cold winter! We have also kept very busy over the past few weeks which has made it hard to update the ole' blog!
A few weeks ago, Kennesaw hosted another Touch-A-Truck event. We took Harrison last year and he wanted nothing to do with the trucks. I decided to have a Harrison-mommy morning so the two of us walked to downtown Kennesaw for the event. He was so excited the whole way and kept talking about all the trucks he was going to see. Unfortunately once we got there, he really didn't want anything to do with any of the trucks. I climbed onto a school bus with him b/c I thought once he got on the bus he would like it. We sat down in a seat and he immediately said, "okay Mom, I"m all done now. Can we go play on the playground now!??! Please?!!?" Ha! I guess not much has changed since last year! He did like looking at all the trucks, but didn't want to get too close. The only nice part about it was that we didn't have to stand in any of the long lines! I finally gave into his pleas and we hit up the playground...
After about an hour, we were thinking of heading home when we ran into Harrison's friend Matthew. Matthew likes trains even more than Harrison, if thats possible, so we took them to play on "the General"(an old caboose that was used during the Civil War) Of course, the only thing the boys wanted to play on, was the train that is there 365 days a year...nevermind the trucks that were brought in for the big event!
It was funny b/c at one point the boys were on opposite sides of the train so I told Harrison to go find Matthew and say "surprise!". He did and Matthew thought this was too funny. This turned into a "fun" game of yelling "Surprise" as loud as they could to each other on the train. I'm sure the the other parents and kids just loved us! I figured, if they were having fun, go for it!
Next up was our trip to Cincinnati. I was nervous about the trip b/c this was the first time that I was traveling with both the boys (by myself) since Davis started crawling. To my surprise, they both did great! I made two long stops on both legs of the trip to let the kids stretch their legs and they didn't fuss at all! I'm not sure I could say how well the trip would have gone without a dvd player - it is a total life saver! Unfortunately once we got to Cincinnati Harrison came down with a cold and had a fever every night for about 5 days. Thankfully it didn't seem to slow him down so we were able to enjoy the trip. Mom and Dad have their house on the market so we had to scramble to get out 2 of the mornings we were there, but overall it was a great trip. Harrison's favorite part, as always, was going down to Lunkin Airport. They have a really nice playground and you can sit right next to the runway to watch the planes and helicopters take off and land.
Here is Davis enjoying the swings:
Davis having fun with Granddaddy
I tried to get a picture of Harrison and his Grandmommy but he was running too fast to track down. After they boys were done playing we had a picnic lunch and then headed over to watch the planes. When we got to the runway, there was a huge Air Force plane taking off. Harrison usually loves sitting outside, watching the planes but this one was so loud we had to go inside to watch. I think this picture makes it pretty clear what he thought about this plane -
We also had the boys pictures taken while we were up there. I needed to get Harrison's 3 year pictures done as well as Davis' 9 month pictures, so we just did one big photo shoot. Since the boys were sick, I was worried about how they would turn out, but I have to say they did great! I think Harrison could have a future career as a model - he was having so much fun posing for the camera! I took a picture of each of the pictures:
We were only able to get Davis to smile in one picture. He is either very smiley or very serious...not much in between. He was so serious the whole day so we had a tough time getting a smile out of him. We let him crawl around for one picture and that was ticket!
Davis has his serious face in this picture but I love it because it shows his "studious" demeanor. I will be curious to see if that part of his personality sticks - I'm not sure how you can have too serious of a personality growing up in this family!
Other than the airport, I think the highlight to Harrison's week was when we went digging for worms and splashing in puddles. I feel like boys need to be boys, so as grossed out as I am about bugs, I know that Harrison is fascinated by them. We had a few rainy days, so we went out one morning and dug in the garden for some worms. I put some dirt in a tupperware bowl and let Harrison put the worms in the "farm". He had so much fun and would just pick up handfuls of worms and carry them around. He loved watching them wiggle through the dirt.
At the very back of my parents' back yard, there is an area where water always pools up when it rains...its like a little stream that runs the length of the backyard and gets pretty deep on one side. After a rainy morning, I let Harrison put on his rain boots for a little splashing around. It started off with some innocent fun splashing, but once he saw the really deep puddle (about knee height on Harrison), he just went crazy. At first I tried to get him to stay out of the big puddle/pool, but he was having so much fun that I just let him go to town. He was soaked from head to toe but he enjoyed every minute of it. My parents have a utility sink in their laundry room which leads straight to the backyard, so we would just throw Harrison in the sink and bathe him there after he got all muddy. It made me jealous of #1 - their flat backyard and #2 - their laundry room! Someday! I'm bummed that I didn't get any pictures of this - It was quite the sight to see!
Overall we have had a fun spring, hopefully I will be better about keeping up with posing pictures.
I will end with this cute one...Lance scored some tickets to the Saturday round at the Masters this year so he wanted to buy something for Harrison while he was there. I told him that he loves wearing Lance's hats around the house so he should try to find a kids hat. Boy, was that hit - he loves his new hat so he can be just like daddy!
Here he is serenading me with "I'm in the Lord's Army", his favorite song of the moment...
Phew, sorry for the long post!
