Water with Friends

Andrew and Jordon

This weekend was incredibly hot!  After Caleb's birthday we all headed to the Websters.  The parents cooled off inside with the air conditioning and the kids got wet!  Andrew, like always, loves playing with other kids.

Elijiah

 It looked a little like chaos, but all had a great time!

Jordan, Andrew, and Nathan

Brendan and Sammy

Clockwise: Brendan, Sammy, Taylor, Jordan, and Andrew



Nathan and Andrew "shared" the ball back and forth.

The birthday boy was pretty content to play on the bikes.

 and the shamelessly cute pictures of Andrew playing can't be left out

 taking his turn climbing the stairs to go down the slide

 ahhh, I see the ball!

"mommy, when will I be big enough to play with them?"

Caleb turns 2!

 We celebrated together with cupcakes in the park! 

 the pinata was pretty funny--we started with the youngest (Andrew) and worked to the oldest

Taylor (the oldest) is the only one who actually whacked it hard enough to make a difference, but even that didn't help. Between Rob's selective puncture, Dave's selective battery, and around round of the kids hitting it, Taylor finished the job the second time around and the kids were actually able to get some candy!

 After the pinata, we opened presents in the shade and got ready to

head over for water play at the Websters.

Grandma T turns 84!

Grandma T turned 84 and had a great brunch party at El Torito this past Saturday.  Her all time favorite thing is mariachi music and the band that was hired did not disappoint.  Andrew added mariachi music to his all-time favorite list too.

 dancing

 dancing bull

 trying to contain the dancing machine

The Langevins

Great Grandpa and Grandma T with their two great-grandchildren. 

Avalon, 18 months, and Andrew 13 months old

It's been a great party folks, but it's nap time. 

Bye, bye!

Mothers Day 2012

This year for Mothers' Day, I have the wonderful joy of having a very adorable thirteen month old!  I am extremely blessed to be his mommy.  We started this morning with church and then drove (in bumper-to-bumper traffic) to Yorba Linda to have lunch with Grandma and Grandpa Bennett.

Daddy and Andrew did a great job giving love and presents.  I got an adorable card from Dave, another one from Andrew, and Reese even thought of me :)  Dave also picked out the perfect necklace from Brighton (small heart charm with "mom" on one side and "unconditional love" on the other) and let me go pick up a bracelet and earrings.

 After we got home, we actually put water in Andrew's water table!  He LOVED every second of it!

 He had a great time splashing himself and then running over and jumping on us to get us all wet too!

 After a little while, we got out his splash mat.  He didn't quite know what to expect.

but when it actually starting going, he thought it was hilarious!

This picture was completely unplanned--Andrew kept crawling over me to roll around on the towel.

Best Mother's Day Ever!

Thirteen Months?!?

I can't believe that Andrew is thirteen months old already!  This month has absolutely flown by because of work and weekend commitments.

New Developmental Milestones this Month: Here are the new developmental things that he started doing this month: run, jump, climbs up steps using hands, slides down slides by himself, helps you dress him (put on shirts), tried to put on his shoes, rolls and throws balls/objects, empties and fills containers, hides himself during peek-a-boo to initate the game, gives kisses, hugs, and high fives on command, waves bye and runs to the door when it is time to leave, turns pages of books, and "answers" the play phone with "yeahyeahyeah, bye."

• Vocabulary: We've added "mah" for more, "yeahyeah," "hiya," "nah" for no, and "buhbye" to the list (old words are Mama, Dada, Dog, Duck). 
• Teeth: We've gotten three teeth this month and they haven't been in pairs.
• Left, Top Lateral Incisor--April 17th
• Left, Botton Laterial Incisor--April  30th
• Right, Top Lateral Incisor--May 4

Physical Growth this Month/Doctors:  We've had two ear infections, pink eye, and cellutis of eye (most likely caused by the bacteria that caused his ear infection).  Even with his issues, he's gaining weight rapidly!

• April 17 (double ear infection): 22 lbs
• April 26 ("well" baby visit with fluid in his ears w/o infection): 23 lbs, 3.2 oz and 30.5 inches long
• May 5 (cellulitis of the eye and ear infection again): 23 lbs, 9.6 oz

Sleeping: He's taking one nap at daycare (about 11:30-1:30) during the week and two naps (9:30-10:45 and 3:00-4:00) during the weekend.  He really isn't ready for the one nap, but he doesn't have a choice in his new room. He has another month before we out for the summer, so he'll be continuing with this pattern until then.

Eating: We're on all whole cow's milk (WCM) and finally down to about 16 oz a day.  He eats breakfast at home, breakfast at school, snack, lunch, snack, a huge dinner, and a bedtime bottle. He will eat me out of house and home by the time he's three.  The only thing he doesn't really like is meat (chicken nuggets, meatballs, and fishsticks are the only thing he'll touch).

Diapers: tAndrew wore his last size 3s today (2177 diapers total).  Even though they still fit, I didn't want to get another 256 delievered from Amazon, so we moved on to 4s (overnight diapers will change to 4s too).

Clothing: We're firmly into 9-12 month clothes now and pretty much all of them fit.

 Eating dinner (mac and cheese, peas, and meatballs)

 playing in the dining room

 singing and dancing any time music plays is a new trick

 egg salad was a hit (especially when he realized that it made mommy and daddy make a big deal about putting it in his hair)

I know I wasn't planning on doing a traditional monthly update, but I can't think of any better way to document Andrew's new cute things.  I've been holding back of the daily, or weekly, updates about his new tricks because really, you don't care that much :)