First Day of 4 Year Old Pre-K

Here's my big handsome boy sporting his new Mario backpack he picked out. He's becoming so independent, even picking out his own clothes for school each day. :) He had no fears about moving to the "new" Mrs. Donna's room. He had Donna Nolin for 3 yr pre-k and he has Donna Swain for 4 yr pre-k. He was ready to go to his 4 year old class and see all his buddies from last year and meet some new ones! Lots of fun learning and fun things to look forward to this year!

Noah 13 Months

I feel like Noah has changed more in the past month than he has in a while. He is still crawling, still pulling up and holding on, but I think it won't be long before he lets go. He is about done with baby food. He pushes the spoon away when we try to feed it to him, yet he is pretty picky about the table foods he eats. He loves snacks - crackers, cheerios, etc. but is not digging other table foods too well. He does better with anything he can pick up whole and hold in his hand - corn dogs, fish sticks, bananas for example. He holds them and gnaws away on them. But chicken, peas, strawberries - he spits them out, makes a face and throws them in the floor. Not sure how to work through this. He is still taking a bottle, learning the sippy cup bit by bit, a sip or two more at meal times. Though we are struggling with these things he is flat out adorable. He is babbling more and playing more. Almost every day when I pick him up at daycare he is in one of Lindsey's girls' rooms playing with the girls. Friday she said he was chasing them down the hall just talking away with his crawl and babble. Today Shane was in the den with him watching TV and Noah brought the ball over to him and threw it down in front of him saying "play ball with me, daddy." Noah also loves music and though he can't stand up on his own he has a cute little dance waving his arms around whenever music plays. Maybe we'll get some new pictures and video up soon.

Just the Two of Us

There are lots of stories that I could tell about our Mission 36027 event last weekend, but I really liked this picture and wanted to share it. Nathan and I are leading the hand motions to the Tumbleweed song.

Summer Slam

First Boat Ride

Being a church secretary often has many perks, this time being an awesome boat ride on the lake. Bro. Glenn and Carol offered to take us out in their boat Friday and Nathan got to go along for the ride too. We set sail at a dock closer in town and rode on the boat up to the Lakepoint State Park Marina. We took a break their for lunch - lunch for us and for the ducks. Nathan just squealed in delight as the ducks fought over bits of his hot dog bun. Then we headed back to get in the car and cool off. It was hot, hot, hot but fun, fun, fun!

First Dentist Visit

I took Nathan for his first dentist visit last week. As a child I very much disliked going to the dentist and very much disliked the dentist we went to because he was rather rough so I chose a pediatric dentist for Nathan. We passed by this one a few times going to the OBGYN in Auburn. I was very nervous about how it would go but when Nathan came back out to the waiting area he said "Mommy that was fun!" Here he is showing off his pearly whites, no cavities by the way! He is all excited about brushing and even flossing his teeth now. Yeah for East Alabama Pediatric Dentistry!

Family Fun with FeFe and One

Last weekend my family came down for a visit and we spent most of the day in Columbus, GA together. We happened upon a Country's BBQ that was an old greyhound bus station with a bus built in as part of the restaurant now. The food was great and we all had fun touring the bus. Nathan even took us on a drive to Africa and Guatemala. We then went to visit the Columbus Museum and the National Infantry Museum at Ft. Benning.