Craft time with Daddy
Playing in the jungle gym with Uncle Trid
Sitting pretty with Aunt Leslie
After a break for snow cones the mommies took the kiddos down the giant slide. I am not sure who had more fun because we were all laughing when we hit the bottom.
We ended out the fun with a giant obstacle course (what were we thinking??)...
and cotton candy as we walked back to our cars. What a day!!!
Things are really starting to heat up around here, despite the rain, but it hasn't stopped Little Man from asking to go "oussigh" (outside) 100 times a day. As soon as we get outside he wants to strip down to his birthday suit and run around the yard (this was the most G-rated picture I could find). Guess we'll have to have a little talk before he invites any friends over to play outside!
Growing up we had an awesome vegetable garden out behind our house full of corn, radishes, peas, okra, and cantelope. I can remember many a time swinging out on the tire swing underneath our pecan tree watching my mom work in the garden. For the past few years I've been telling Trav about my desire to have a garden of my own and I usually get the sideways look that means, "Great, another bee in her bonnet". As a compromise, I promised him that I would actually GROW something 
from a seed before attempting an actual vegetable garden. I did cheat a bit and buy an existing tomato vine but I have been nurturing my flower bed since I planted SEEDS nearly two months ago. While the tomato vine has been yielding fruit steadily (Little Man is a big fan), the flower bed didn't begin boasting flowers until this past week. I have been "cleared" to begin preparing the soil for next spring. Yipppeeeee! Anyone have any tips???
Guess he took me literally when I told him to stay in bed and just brought all of the toys into bed with him! Here is a funny one of my little monkey being a silly boy...
Even though Little Man has been sleeping in a "big boy" bed for 5 months now, he has only recently discovered that there isn't anything keeping him there after we put him to bed. For the past week or so I've gone in to check on him and found him in his new hiding place...under the table. It is really cute because he gathers up the toys that he wants, drags down the big stuffed dog and backs his way under the table. When I open the door he sits up really straight and tall so that his head is hidden up in the table so I can't see him.
Travis and I just returned from a much needed solo cruise to the Mexican Riviera. It was great to get away but after around day 5 of the 7 day cruise we were very much over our childless lifestyle and ready to get back to the hustle and bustle of parenthood.
- Meagan sans laptop - pretty rare!
- no computer, no phone and no way to get a hold of me
Ashlie and Little Man enjoy the rain!
Nana and Little Man being entertained by Pop! 
It all started the first morning when I arrived at 6:00 a.m. so that mom and dad could leave. Later, I heard him crying via the baby monitor. As I approached the closed door of his room, the crying got noticeably louder. I turned the knob to slowly open the door, but it wouldn’t budge. I pressed on the door a little more, only to realize that he was prostrate on the floor with his lips pressed under the door so that his crying could be heard and he could be rescued from his room.
As I opened the door, he cried out, “Momma” while getting up. I scooped him into my arms as he giggled with delight then pulled back in alarm when he realized I was, in fact, not Momma. He recovered quickly, though, and we had a good morning.
We now play this every day (his initiation). Needless to say, this is a game I tire of long before he does. It is worth it, though, to hear that giggle!
