squeals and laughs...

One of Michael's favorite things to do is get one of Kirby's toys and play with her. Yesterday, he was having such a blast with her. He was squealing and laughing and having a wonderful time!

Pit stop for a drink of dada's cherry lime...

The chase is on....












these two are the bestest of friends....

fun weekend

Last weekend was Michael's friend, Kamryn's 3rd birthday party! He was so excited to go to the pizza making party that he forgot to take a morning nap. He tried to have as much fun as possible! He got to watch all the 'big' kids play and make pizza. He loved eating the toppings to the pizza!

Happy 3rd Birthday Miss Kamryn!


Since the boy didn't have a nap, we left a little early. We had plans to meet up with Juice, Pa, Uncle Bruce & Uncle Curt that afternoon. Thank goodness he slept the whole way there. He was so excited to see everyone and needless to say, the boy wasn't lacking any attention! He got to sit on the saddle at Texas Roadhouse and have fun in Gander Mountain.

last christmas...

Because of the bad weather during the Christmas holidays, we finally got to have our Christmas with Uncle Ryan and Aunt Maggie. Although it was a short time together, it was a fun time. They brought Michael a cool wagon that has a gillion legos in it. (thanks Aunt Maggie & Uncle Ryan!) Michael and Kirby even got to hang out with their cousins...Audrey & Bogart...Kirby didn't so much want to play with them, so she got to go home. Michael loved to pet them and get sweet kisses from them.
It was beautiful outside, so we decided to take a little wagon ride over to grandma & granddaddy's house...

meeting bogart & audrey...

building a lego tower with aunt maggie...

Uncle Ryan...what are those puppies doing?

sweet baby blues...

loving Little Jo...

gotta love the morning pj pictures...

Grandma found daddy's old Dallas Cowboys t-shirt! It's faded, has stains and holes...but we love it!

We tried to yell hard for the Cowboys, but they didn't win.


We had a fun weekend with Uncle Ryan and Aunt Maggie....thanks for everything! Come back to see us soon!

momma

I'm bragging...
Michael totally said 'momma' tonight. It was too cool! I had my feet up on the ottoman and he was trying to walk around it. I think in his mind he was saying 'out of my way momma!' Anyways, whatever he was thinking, he did say momma.

the red hat

This was my dad a few years ago...

This is Michael a few days ago...in that same hat!

How cool is that!?! My mom found that little red hat and has been hanging on to it. I have had that picture of my dad in my room for a long time. I love it! It makes me smile all over! And the cute little boy that wears it now...he makes me smile all over too!!

10 months

Happy 10 Month Birthday Michael Lance!!


This day actually snuck up on me. Today marked the beginning of tax season for daddy, so momma had the morning by myself. Needless to say, after trying to get out the door, then having to come back in to change a diaper and already running late on the first day back to school after the break and daddy already at work early...oh my, we didn't get our 10 month pictures taken until this afternoon.

After being at home for two weeks, I didn't know how Michael would react to going back to Anna's. Let me just say, he's learned the word bye-bye! I took him yesterday and while I was standing there talking to Anna, he went to her and started saying bye-bye. Guess he was ready to go back. She also told me that he hasn't taken a nap under two hours these last two days! Guess he likes it there! :)

Michael is growing and changing and doing lots of new things. He now has 6 teeth with the 7th almost there.


With these new teeth comes eating real food! This boy LOVES to eat. It's so funny. Here's a little video of him eating pancakes and smacking! Eating has been a lot of fun.

His most favorite food of all time is blueberries! He also loves sweet potatoes...


Michael is all over the place. We look down for 2 seconds and he's in the other room. We now have to shut the doors to the room where Kirby's food is. Yes, I had to go digging for dog food in his mouth one day. He has sort of learned the word 'no' which I feel like we say quite often. We try to take his attention away from what he's doing and give him something he can play with. I was doing some things in the kitchen the other day and it got quiet. yeah. I looked around the corner to find him climbing up his chair to get the remote controlled car that was on the hutch! Oh dear. I think we are going to have to also take the bumper pads off his crib because he's using them to climb too.


With crawling and climbing and exploring comes bumps and bruises. He got his 2nd busted lip the other day. He did this all by himself. He was on our tile floor and just slipped. He was tough though. (And this is the best picture I could get of it.)


Michael got some way fun toys for Christmas and he is loving playing with them. He got a fun John Deere truck that he loves driving all over the place. He also got this choo choo train. He has really started walking behind them and having tons of fun with it. He's not trying to walk on his own yet, but will walk all over the house holding your hands.


Michael got to go to his very first basketball game tonight. We went to watch the Indians. They did awesome...it's going to be fun to watch them this year. Michael enjoyed all the action. He even caught a basketball that the cheerleaders were throwing...ok, daddy caught it, but Michael got to play with it.


Happy 10 Month Birthday to our little Indian!