Alley Cats

Weekend Wuv

Duke Gardens

Sunshiny Day

Marbles

Gus' daycare buddy, Beckett had a great birthday party at Marbles, a cool children's museum downtown.

We'd been wanting to go and Gus really loved it. Life-sized pirate ships, fire trucks, stages with costumes...

Nice way to break up a cold winter day.

Cabin Fever

It has been a rough winter for NC. We aren't used to the kind of wet cold we've had this year, nor the snow/ice accumulations that seem to decide to show up on the weekends! How do you entertain yourself and your toddler?

We've tried it all - free trial passes to Little Gym (knowing we wouldn't join but it was fun to go once!), trips to the mall playground (usually go out of my way to AVOID the mall)....

And some art projects at Gus' little table. This weekend is supposed to be in the 50's and 60's. Hallelujah! Time for a hike outside!

Winter Wear

Forgetting something?

A little snuggle with Grandma Katy.

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Heart's Day to all! We have snow on the ground and a sun in the sky. Perfect day for enjoying my two handsome Valentine's. This week was a blur. I was thrilled to get home to my boys after a long week of meetings in San Diego (don't ask about San Diego. I never actually saw it). Luckily, Katy came to help take care of Aaron and Gus and it sounds like they had a great time. Time to eat some chocolates and smooch my valentines. Have a lovely week.

Clothing Optional

Gtunes

Gus loves our i-touch. He thinks its great that it puts out music and he can carry it around.

Unfortunately he thinks it is an iphone and talks on it as well.

Rhyme Time

We have bad luck with "Rhyme Time". We have attempted it twice and both times Gus was sick. In fact, we could start using it as a diagnostic test for how he is feeling. When he slumped in Aaron's lap and merely watched his buddies jump around we knew he was "off". Later he had a temperature and today he has RSV. AGAIN???

At least we got to check out his first set of library books. Aaron and I each picked out one for him and I have been reading to him while he eats in his highchair. He seems to pay more attention that way. What a great resource. Guess we'll try Rhyme Time again next month!

COOKIE! Num! Num! Num!

We can blame the talking cookie monster he got for Christmas or we can blame ourselves. Gus loves cookies. I think it really started at Mimi's when he got his first taste of oatmeal cookies. He kept going back to where he saw us get them on the counter and pointing and grunting and if he won he would do a victory dance.

Now he knows where we keep his favorite snacks - in our pantry. He dances around it and points and grunts and if that doesn't work he actually grabs me by pants or robe and leads me to it, giggling like "I can't believe you're making me do this".

Honey Bee

Gus wearing his Savannah Bee Company Honey House shirt. He discovered raisins this weekend - fed them to himself, to dad and tried to treat the dogs as well before I stepped in. Since he couldn't feed his pups he dumped a huge container on the ground and stomped on them.

Horsing Around

Gus, Aaron, Dad and Clayto, dad's ranch hand during our visit to KY after Christmas.

Clayto has made these "tops" since he was a little kid in Mexico. He makes all sizes and can spin them along his hand and pull them up from the ground to his hand with the string. They're really cool. They are so well made and perfectly balanced. Sad to think kids in the U.S might do things like this if they weren't in front of televisions and computers all the time!

He was very interested in the horses and vice versa.

He even duplicated the "motorboat" lip sound they make and nodded his head like them.

Disc Golfing with Gus

While in my home town in Oklahoma we got to literally surprise some people with a visit after many years. It was such fun. I walked into my aunt's place of work and started talking to her casually and she did a doubletake and then saw Gus, whom she hasn't met and it was so much fun to witness. I have missed my family very much.

Although the town hasn't changed much, I was surprised and impressed that there is now a disc golf course by our airport. Strange but great. We stomped through the long wheat colored grass, Gus' hair a perfect match blowing around in the Oklahoma wind.

He carried around dad's discs and even tossed a few very deliberately after watching his dad intently to see how it was done. I hope he and Aaron enjoy playing rounds together as he gets older.

Silly Stripes

He did this himself and was so pleased to have it on his head. He gets this serious look that says: what? Is something odd? when he puts, say pasta, on his head. Such a joker.