My Little Swimmer of the Month!

The most exciting news for Andrew this month is he earned Swimmer of the Month at his swim school. He is he’s doing so well in swim lessons and really learning a lot I think. He got Swimmer of the Month this month and was featured in the newsletter. They did a really cute article and included his photo and video. I love it! Jeff is so proud of him J

Andrew talks sooo much more every day! My favorites lately are "hold on mommy, I be right back" and he holds up his pointer finger. LOL! This is usually when he wants to do something he's not supposed to or wants to try and go get a snack. It's like he's trying to be polite and tell me what he's doing, but then still doing what he's not supposed to. Oh, too funny! Jeff loves that he repeats everything lately and he has definitely got him to love baseball and the Cubs. He wants to watch it with Jeff and I swear he picks up little things that the players do. When he goes to bat, he has a stance, a face and he pulls his hat down over his eyes! How do they pick up this stuff? It’s hilarious.

 It's also amusing how he says "I can't like it." instead of "I don't like it." :-) That's usually in reference to food. Still not eating the best, but I'd say pretty average for his age. They are SO picky and not willing to try new things! He takes after me ;-)

Speaking of me, this time of year means the start of my MOPS group again and today was our second meeting. We’ve got a lot more moms joining us this year—yay! Last year we had 10 regulars maybe and today we had 25 moms there! I’m excited to meet some new people and take on the responsibility of Creative Activities Leader. We have some fun things planned that I’m excited to share with them. I’ll post my finished products on here. Our first one was supposed to get started today, but our speaker ran long…we had the idea of each mom doing a scrapbook page that tells the group a little more about herself. It will be a simple craft, but fun to read everyone’s pages about their families.

Since the Arizona kids are back to school it kind of feels like it’s starting to be “fall” around here, but not really. Record heat of 115 this week. Ick. I am DONE. Bring on the jeans and long sleeve shirts!

Great "end" to a great summer

I think our visit with our Army friends (currently stationed at West Point) was the cherry on top of a new, different and fun summer for me. Kellyn and I got to meet each other's children that we've never met before (but felt like we already knew!) Playing at the pool, relaxing with a cookout and spending some quality time together was great ... too bad we can't do it every few months! Thanks for letting us share in your vacation Wilsons!

Fun times at the Arizona Grand Resort Water Park

Look, they're already acting like brothers!

Andrew was scared of the wave pool at first.

Backyard fun at our house for a cookout.

First "real" 4th of July

I skipped over my 4^th of July post!

So this was the first official year of Andrew actually celebrating at the fireworks and the first year I’ve been to fireworks in a while too. (Jeff was always working nights before!)

So I half expected Andrew to be a little scared, but it wasn’t that noisy this year and he just thought the fireworks were pretty cool.

“Wow…Cool mommy!”
“Get ready Mommy!”
“Whoa!”

He was so funny throughout the whole thing.

4th of July 2009

Didn't really do 4th of July in 2010 because we were waiting to celebrate with Daddy a couple weeks later!

My sweet little man

At the zoo yesterday. He LOVES the carousel!

Had to share the cutest little Andrew moment from a couple weeks ago...

We are walking out of the grocery store and a lady is saying bye to someone (her Dad I think) and she says "Ok, bye, love you!" as we walk by, so Andrew yells "Love you!" She turned around, realizing what happened and just smiled really big :-)

He is just so darn cute right now!

Summer Days

It's 7/7/11 and I feel like we've enjoyed summer activities a lot, but there's so much more to do and so little "summer" left. Even though it's warm here all year, our pools close with the coming of the school year like everywhere else. Not fair! Here's some of our fun summer so far. 4th of July post to come ...

Happy Father's Day!

Andrew has a blast watching baseball and more fun watching Jeff yell and clap and get loud at the game :-) We had a relaxing day at home and Daddy cooked hamburgers and hotdogs on the grill. We got him a personalized Dunkin Donuts gift card with our family photo and the fire pit he's been wanting, so I think he had a good day. Andrew is very fortunate to have a Daddy who loves him so much and teaches him new things everyday.

This year I am especially thankful for a husband and Daddy who works so hard for his family that I can now stay home!

Illinois Fam Fun

This pretty much sums up the kind of time Andrew had during our visit to Illinois.

He had a BLAST with all the Grandmas, Aunts, Uncles and friends who he loved showing off for :-) The fam got to see everything Andrew from giddy giggles to screaming tantrums and I have a feeling they loved every minute of it! This photo was actually in a hotel in my hometown because Memaw got sick and Aunt Beth is in the process of moving. First hotel stay in Mommy's hometown--exciting!

I have lots of photos to share, but I'll just post a few here and give you the link to more :-)

Oh sweet Auntie love...