Hello Everyone!
Happy Memorial Day weekend! As my title implies, we are having a very lazy 3-day weekend, and that suits me just fine. Matt is off all three days - woo hoo - but we decided just to stay in town and enjoy some family time.
Hailey officially turned one last Wednesday, May 23rd. We didn't really do much of anything since we had already celebrated down in Missouri. I'm afraid the most she got was Luke and I singing "Happy Birthday" a couple times. She is so, so, so close to walking. She stands up in the middle of the room all the time, looking like she's about to take off but then just plops back down. I think she just wants to let the anticipation build for a little while longer. :-) She's been fighting sleeping and naps this week, and I hoping it's just that her little brain is so busy learning how to walk that it is having trouble settling down to sleep. I've heard that can happen when they're learning something new. We'll see...
Luke played a whole lot of basketball this week - he loves shooting and attempting to dribble. After he makes a basket, he gives you this huge smile and shouts "I made the team!" What? I think it's a combination of "I made it!" and "Go team!", but I'm not sure. He's not too bad at shooting, so maybe basketball will be one of his sports - hey, he's got the size 12 feet already.
Luke and I took our first bike ride together on Friday night, that is with both of us on bikes. It was a neat moment - he's old enough now to do an activity together that we both really enjoy. I only crashed into him once (he does quite a bit of spontaneous braking).
Hope you and your family have enjoyed some fun moments this weekend as well!
Christy
Sunday, May 27
Saturday, May 19
Here we go!
Well, here we go.....my first blog! I am feeling lots of pressure to be interesting and exciting. But no one really knows I am blogging yet, so maybe I don't have to be so interesting...
Basically, this is just a new way to communicate with our family and friends that live far, far away - to let them in on the goings-on of our daily lives.
We just got back on Thursday from visiting my parents down in Springfield, Missouri. It was a really fun trip - although I don't think I drove down Battlefield Road once, so I feel I really did not experience Springfield fully. I think Liz drove down National to pick up some dinner one night, and came back ranting and raving about Springfield traffic - so maybe it's not so bad I missed Battlefield. Marc and Liz and little baby Drew were down visiting the same time we were, so we had a little miniature family reunion. Here's a photo of Luke, Hailey, and cousin Drew (2 months).
We took the kids down to Silver Dollar City - which none of you will have heard of unless you are from Missouri or Arkansas. It's a really neat amusement park done around the theme of the early 1900s - and I absolutely LOVED it as a kid, so it was really special to take my own kids there. Here's Luke after his ride on a real steam engine, and Hailey on her very first amusement park ride.
The kids did really well with the 11-hour drive down to Missouri and back. We only had maybe a 10-minute period of all out screaming from both of them :-). Let's just say the DVD player was well used. Luke and I did play some traditional car games, though. That was weird because I feel like it hasn't been that long since I was playing car games with my mom. How can Luke be that old already?
We had a little birthday party for Hailey while we were down there, since her birthday is coming up soon. She was much more fun to watch with her first piece of cake than Luke was! No offense Luke. She dove right in and destroyed it - good thing we were sitting outside. I know every mom says it, but I can't believe she is one already! She still seems so small. But she will be walking any day now, and is learning new words all the time. Some days it's a blessing that time goes so fast when they're little, and some days I want to yell "Wait! Hold on!"
That seems like enough (or too much) for my first day, so......
So Long,
Christy
Basically, this is just a new way to communicate with our family and friends that live far, far away - to let them in on the goings-on of our daily lives.
We just got back on Thursday from visiting my parents down in Springfield, Missouri. It was a really fun trip - although I don't think I drove down Battlefield Road once, so I feel I really did not experience Springfield fully. I think Liz drove down National to pick up some dinner one night, and came back ranting and raving about Springfield traffic - so maybe it's not so bad I missed Battlefield. Marc and Liz and little baby Drew were down visiting the same time we were, so we had a little miniature family reunion. Here's a photo of Luke, Hailey, and cousin Drew (2 months).
We took the kids down to Silver Dollar City - which none of you will have heard of unless you are from Missouri or Arkansas. It's a really neat amusement park done around the theme of the early 1900s - and I absolutely LOVED it as a kid, so it was really special to take my own kids there. Here's Luke after his ride on a real steam engine, and Hailey on her very first amusement park ride.
The kids did really well with the 11-hour drive down to Missouri and back. We only had maybe a 10-minute period of all out screaming from both of them :-). Let's just say the DVD player was well used. Luke and I did play some traditional car games, though. That was weird because I feel like it hasn't been that long since I was playing car games with my mom. How can Luke be that old already?
We had a little birthday party for Hailey while we were down there, since her birthday is coming up soon. She was much more fun to watch with her first piece of cake than Luke was! No offense Luke. She dove right in and destroyed it - good thing we were sitting outside. I know every mom says it, but I can't believe she is one already! She still seems so small. But she will be walking any day now, and is learning new words all the time. Some days it's a blessing that time goes so fast when they're little, and some days I want to yell "Wait! Hold on!"
That seems like enough (or too much) for my first day, so......
So Long,
Christy
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