Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Learning to throw

Lately Davis has loved playing with balls. If he sees one on the floor amongst other toys, he inevitably goes for the ball. I realized a few days ago that he was trying to throw the ball like Harrison. It cracks me up because he always throws it behind his shoulder...I think we needs to work on our technique...

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Fun with friends & cousins

We took the week to come to Alabama to visit my bestie, Teresa and my sister. Harrison has been having so much fun hanging with his buddies that he doesn't get to see very often. I have been trying to take pictures throughout the week but it's always so hard to remember.
Harrison & Madeline posing:



Davis and his sweet friend, Paxton. Davis just crawls all over the place and gets into everything. It was amazing to see the difference in boys vs. girls because Paxton would just sit happily with her toys, smiling and dancing.


When visiting with the kids, its always hard to really try and catch up since we spend most of the time mediating and chasing, but we had a great time!
Next up was visiting my big sis in Tuscaloosa. Harrison just looks up to his cousins so much so it's always fun to watch him run around with them. This first picture clearly shows the theme of our visit...


This is a picture of the boys at a restaurant watching a video on my iPhone. My nephew, Trey, got an itouch for his birthday so both Jack & Harrison wanted to play games just like him. Julie also has an itouch so the boys would walk around with our iPhones/itouchs, making sure they were all playing the same games. Thankfully the games they wanted to play were all free. I felt like it was a glimpse into my future since boys love video games so much. Hopefully I have a few more years before I have to really start dealing with the video game craze!
The other funny event involved the water squirter...see below:


Harrison & Jack discovered that when you put your hand over the bottom of the squirter where the water come out, when you push down the handle, it will make a "tooting" sound. They thought this was hilarious! I can tell you that my sisters and I never would have played this game when we were little!! Crazy boys! Overall we had a great week, it went too fast as always! I will end with a cute video of Davis motoring around the pool. We went with Julie and her boys and he loved that he could touch the bottom of the kiddie pool, so Jr would walk around the pool, chasing the toys...

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Our world right now

Trains taking over the family room...(I have to admit, this is my biggest track creation yet-very proud!)


Cars and baby toys exploding in the dining room.


Thank God it's summer so we can get outside and escape the madness which is my house right now!


....awww, this is the life ladies!

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

2 Year Old Preschool Comes to an End

Today is Harrison's last day of 2 year old preschool and I can't believe how fast this year has flown by!  He has learned so much over the year and I have been so happy with the Summit Baptist program that he has attended.  Ms Amanda and Ms Melissa have been so sweet and Harrison has loved every minute of it!  I tried to explain to him this morning that this was going to be his last day of school but I don't think he really understands what that means yet.  I know he will really miss his teachers this summer!  I think the biggest concepts that he picked up this year are being able to sing all of his ABC's and recognizing a few of the letters.  He knows his shapes and colors and he can count to 16...sometimes 20 on a good day and he even knows a decent amount of Spanish (1-10, gracias, hola, and a few animals).  Such a proud mama am I!  We were reading a book about numbers the other night and when he saw the number "8" he said, "Look mom!  Its ocho!!"  It really caught me off guard and I thought it was so funny that he knows the Spanish name for it over the English!  Having double majored in Spanish, I am really envious that he is learning it at such a young age!
We had to miss his end of year school play this week because he caught the stomach bug so I was really sad about it but at least he doesn't understand right now what he missed!  In the scheme of things, I know its not something to worry about, but it still would have been fun to see him up on the stage singing with all his school buddies!
Here is Harrison on his first day of pre-school:
Harrison on his last day of pre-school:
They grow so quickly and when you see them everyday its hard to notice all the changes, but its amazing how he truly has changed into a 'big kid' over the course of the year!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

All About My Mom

In honor of Mother's Day this weekend, Harrison's teacher sent home a project that they did where the the teacher asked a series of questions to the kids about their moms and they posted them on a piece of construction paper.  Here were Harrison's answers:

My mom's favorite color is: Red
My mom is 2 years old.
My mom has red eyes and blue hair.
My mom cooks the best dinner.
My mom brings me to the basement.
I love it when my mom goes to the gym
My mom loves blue
My mom looks so pretty when she wears her jammies.

I thought this was too funny.  You can tell they asked these questions right after the tornados came through the other day b/c we don't have a basement but we spent the night at my in-laws house, in their basement.
So cute & definitely put a smile on my face for the day!

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Take me out to the ballgame

Lance's dad recently bought some baseball tickets and thought this would be a good time to take Harrison to his first baseball game.  We have been telling him about it for a few weeks and every time we pass the stadium on the way to the zoo, I point out the big baseball stadium, so he has been very excited.  Unfortunately the night before the game, Harrison came down with a fever.  He seemed to be feeling better in the morning so I thought that getting out of the house and getting some fresh air might distract him and make him feel better.  I was definitely wrong about the feeling better part, but he did have a fun day!  When we got there, we met granddaddy and headed over to the cartoon network area.  I had never been over there, but they have a mini baseball field, a big tunnel slide and some other fun games for the kids.  Harrison picked up a bat and one of the workers pitched a few balls to him.  I was shocked when he "knocked it out of the park".  Of course I missed the shot of him actually hitting the ball, but here is one of his attempts.
On our way to our seats, we passed a few of these huge baseballs.  Harrison was intrigued...
"uugghhh - Its too heavy!"
We had amazing seats but they were in the sun so Harrison didn't really want to sit for too long.  We spent most of the day walking around the stadium, but thankfully there are a lot of fun things for the kids to do there.  He saw a little girl with her face painted so we tried to find the face painter, but no luck.  I couldn't pass up this shot...
Watching the game by the big Coke bottle
They have a little a little area where kids can run to a base and Harrison had so much fun running like the baseball players.  Go go go!!!
We did this over and over and over and over...
We made Harrison sit for a photo op before we headed out.  I wish I would have angled the camera so you could see the field.  We had such great seats, probably the closest I've ever sat, too bad I didn't get to actually sit and watch the game. :)
By this point, I think Harrison's fever had started to come back so we had to leave, but overall, I think he had a fun time.  Looking back, I probably should have kept him home to let him rest but he was a trooper!  Go Braves!  Whats sad is that I don't even know if they won or not!

Here are just a few other cute moments from the last few weeks.
Harrison's school had spirit week last week and the kids got to do something fun each day.  Thursday was crazy hair day, so I gave Harrison a mohawk.  I should have taken a picture in the morning, but we were a little rushed, so here he is at the end of the day...
Harrison got this bubble wand for Easter and I made homemade bubbles for him...they are the best ever!
These bubbles are huge!
Poor Davis hasn't made it to this blog post.  He got to stay at grandma's during the baseball game and I swear he was on a picnic blanket behind me in these pictures!  Here is a cute video of him to end the post.  Harrison has been eating a lot of popsicles lately so I have been letting him give Davis a lick or two.  Its pretty funny because Davis makes a sour face everytime you let him have some but then he gets mad when you take it away!
I feel like Davis has been learning so much just in the past week.  He was waving to me and pointing to his nose.  He also started playing the game where you say "How big is Davis??" and he puts his hands in the air.  He gets the biggest smile on his face and is so proud of himself.  Hopefully I can get all this on camera soon!

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Happy Belated Easter

Its been a little busy around here lately but here is a belated Easter post!  We had such a wonderful Easter this year, spent with Lance's side of the family in Atlanta.  It started for us on Saturday night when we put out a few carrots for the Easter bunny.  Harrison thought he was going to be really hungry, so the Easter bunny got 4 carrots...(as you can see we are very into silly faces lately)
When Harrison woke up in the morning, this is what he found!  The Easter bunny ate almost all of his carrots and he brought Easter baskets for Harrison, Davis and even one for Mommy & Daddy...how did he know that Mommy & Daddy needed new coffee cups!?!?  I clearly have been a slacker and forgot to get Davis his official Easter basket this year.  Oops!
Say, "I love Easter"!!...or at least look at the camera!  Getting TWO boys to look at the camera at the same time is not always the easiest task, especially when both of them are mobile!
We got the boys up early enough that they could find the Easter eggs that the Easter bunny dropped off at our house, then jumped in the car to head to church.  After church we went to Grandma & Granddaddy Randolph's house for an Easter brunch and would you believe that the Easter bunny dropped off even more eggs at their house?  60 eggs in fact....all for 1 child to hunt!  He was in Heaven!
That Easter bunny sure was good at hiding those eggs...
I LOVE this picture...
Can you help me open this Easter egg Granddaddy???
We had to switch to a bigger basket to hold all the eggs and then it was time for opening them.  I can't even imagine how many jelly beans he ate that day, but what kind of Easter would it be without an overload of jelly beans!?
While Harrison hunted for eggs, Davis had fun getting to play with all of the toys inside without the threat of his brother taking them.  He had an entire room full of toys and what did he carry around all morning?  A piece of paper that Harrison uses as garbage to put in his toy garbage truck.
Davis and Grandma enjoying Easter.  Davis loves to clap and wave his hands around now, so here he is showing off his tricks...
It was a beautiful day and we were so thankful to be able to spend it with family.  Especially after hearing of the recent tragic event in Tuscaloosa, I am reminded of how blessed we are to have all of our family and friends in our lives.  Harrison has been talking about Easter in school for the past few weeks and will randomly say things like "Mommy, did you know that its Lent!", or "Mommy, Jesus' body is gone!!"  Its so sweet to hear him learning about the meaning of Easter and it has been fun to read stories to him and help him learn about the Easter holiday.