SNOW!!

We had our first snow yesterday/last night! We managed to get I'd say around 2-3 inches!! We went out this morning to play in it. Garrett had a good time. It took him awhile to get used to it b/c during the night we also had freezing rain- so it wasn't fluffy snow- more like "ice-snow". Anyway, once I showed him he could have fun by throwing snowballs at Daddy, he warmed right up :), but then he turned against me and started hitting me!! Overall, we had a great time playing in the snow!




Earning his keep

Christmas Program 2009

It's really late- and I'm tired...but I wanted to go ahead and post this for a certain someone in Korea that asked ever so nicely to see it :)
This is most of Garrett's portion. They combined the 1 year old room and the 2 2 year old rooms for it. Garrett did so good (atleast he stayed up there). Sorry for the horrible tape job....I was trying to get around the little girl infront of Garrett (or the one Garrett was hiding behind), laughing my butt off, and my knees were KILLING me from crouching down!! Anyway, we think he did awesome...and we think we have the cutest little boy up there!! :) Enjoy!!

Santa Visit 2009

As a certain someone (Summer) pointed out - I have been very lazy updating the blog lately :) I have yet to post Thanksgiving pictures, however I hopefully will do that soon. We had a great Thanksgiving weekend visiting all our family! Tyler was home visiting before leaving for Korea so that was an added bonus! We had a great time.

Ok-onto the Santa pictures. Garrett for weeks, well maybe months, has been saying he wants Santa to bring him a bike (don't know where he got that from). We told him that he had to tell Santa that he has been good all year and wanted a bike. So, off the the mall yesterday we went. Papa is in town for Garrett's first Christmas program (more on that later), so he was able to join us. As you can see by the pics, Garrett didn't want to sit on Santa's lap. Kevin said the minute he walked over there with Garrett, Garrett looked at Santa and said "bike, bike!!". We managed to get a high five-but that's about it. Wasn't as bad as last years experience - so maybe next year will be even better! There is also a picture of Garrett with his new "big" Mickey Mouse. Mimi and Papa were in NY for Thanksgiving to go to the parade. Macy's has a annual Mickey, and they got Garrett's this years "look". He LOVES it. He was holding it while watching Mickey this morning.

Garrett has his first Christmas program tomorrow night. We are SO excited. His class will be singing "Frosty the Snowman"! We will see how he reacts to being up infront of alot of people! Hopefully he's not like his Mommy and afraid!! I will try to get pictures up either Monday night or Tuesday of this!

Enjoy!! :)

Annual Family Picture waiting for Santa. Don't know why that big white dot is on Kevin's shirt. Blame Papa he took the picture!! :)


Oh, if we only knew what he was really thinking!!!

"Hey, he gave me a coloring book- maybe he's not so bad after all"

Fall Pictures (2)

 

 

 

 

Fall Pictures (1)

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween!!!!!

 

Pumpkin Carving

Tonight we carved Garrett's first ever pumpkin!! We had a great time. I don't think it turned out that bad :)

 

Football Fun

Daddy and Garrett have taken advantage of the nice weather we are having to play alittle football after school & work.

 

NC Zoo 2009

This post is a week overdue b/c of a stomach bug that had me not feeling well. But anyway, Last Sunday we went to the zoo with Carleane and Bill. They had never been & Garrett was so young last time he went it was like a whole new adventure for him as well. We had a great time!! These are just some of the 200 that we took! LOL!!
I might add that we had PERFECT weather. We originally were going to go on Saturday but had to postpone it a day b/c of rain. We ended up picking the best day to go, temps were in the low 70's maybe-and little humidity. Made the 5+ miles of walking not so bad!!

 

New Belt

This morning Kevin and I came to the realization that Garrett is beginning to lose his "baby fat". It's been chilly here so Garrett has had to wear jeans to school. Kevin put on a new pair of his 2T jeans only to discover that they wouldn't stay up!! Luckily I had remembered seeing a belt at Gap a few weeks back (actually Carleane (Bubba) wanted to buy it for him then, but I wouldn't let her) - so to gap we headed today after work!! It looks adorable on him...and holds his pants up!! Thanks Bubba for helping a little boy out with his saggin' drawers!! :)

 

 

 

Pool fun!

It didn't take long for Garrett to enjoy the pool! He had a great time splashing, playing with water balls, learning to kick, being thrown in the air, and of course jumping into Daddy's arms!!

 

Beach 2009

This weekend we went to the beach for a long weekend. Garrett was yet again afraid of the ocean this year (although alittle more interested in it-still didn't want to go in it)! We ended up finding (thanks to his brother and sister inlaw) an inlet type area where the ocean ran in however there were no waves. It was shallow enough (came up to my chest) that you could walk across to the other side where a sand bar was built up. Once we got over there we sat Garrett down and he just played and played - the ocean didn't seem too scary anymore! He had so much fun playing in the ocean with the sand (didn't get any pics of that b/c I was with them and the camera was on the other side of the inlet!!). We had a great time...it just didn't last long enough!!

 

Washing Cars

Garrett helped Daddy wash Mommy's car today! While helping he also washed 2 of his own cars. He had a blast!

 

 

 

 

Big Boy Underwear!!

Garrett is starting to become interested in the potty thanks to daycare. Their rule is, if you sit on the potty you get 1 gummy bear, if you go in the potty you get 2 gummy bears.....well, once Garrett realize what the reward for the potty was, he became very interested!! He loves those gummy bears. He has gone pee pee in the potty twice for daycare, hasn't yet at home...however we are taking this very slow, basically letting him take the lead (for now). Because of his interest we decided that big boy underwear was a MUST just to have on hand, so Garrett and I headed to Target yesterday afternoon to pick some up. He choose the "Cars" themed underwear, with Lightning McQueen and 'Mater. Don't know if he quite understand everything when it comes to these - but it's a start. I'll keep you updated on the developments! :)

Also, this has been a very monumental week in the life of Garrett...not only has he started to use/sit on the potty...but we got rid of paci!! This was something I dreaded (but I think part of it was b/c I didn't want to accept my baby was growing up!), but last Saturday I just decided "today is the day". It has gone SOOOO easy. He will still ask for it some but right after he does, he looks at us and say "all gone"!!! YAY!! :)

 

My new guest bathroom

This doesn't really go along with the "theme" of this blog....but this was the easiest way to get pictures to people. This week for my birthday-I took the $ I was given for gifts to re-do our guest bathroom!! I think it turned out great- however my "indecisive,doubter mind" needs opinions - hence the price tags being left on everything!! :) Ok-I need feedback, so I can remove these tags, or return!! :)