going through our pictures, here are some faves

Girl's Night

I went with a few friends to a place called Corks N' Colors to have fun painting and visiting. We were celebrating Lyndsey's birthday, it was a blast!

  

Work it, girl!

PS- when did get get to be so short?...

Froggy Jump!

I don't know where he learned this, we were playing together this morning in his room and he just did it! So, I brought him down to show his daddy. I sure love this kid!!

the beginning of the end

You know how you always hear people's stories about what they put up with as their kids get older? You never really think of it in terms of yourself because it seems like such a long time off. So you forget about it and focus on all the cute things your little one is doing... Until one day...

(knock knock knock) Momma? Where are you? Hi! Potty? (knock knock knock) Hiiiii! Potty? Mommmaaa!!! (knock knock)

Learning and Growing

-Today when we got out of the grocery store Nicholas was pointing to the sky and saying "nana! nana!" I thought he was asking for a banana that we had just bought, but knew he wasn't hungry so I investigated some more. He was pointing at the moon. It's a crescent, and he loves to say "crescy" when we draw them together. So, then I always draw a line down the side which makes it a banana. Silly boy, the moon is made of cheese not bananas. :D
-He finally learned how to jump and get his feet off the ground. It comes from many jump practices off the side of the pool. Now that he's figured it out, he jumps everywhere. Including off the coffee table onto the couch, down the stairs and in his crib. (He has done the crib thing for a while, but gets way more air now)

He is saying more and more words every day, it's hard to keep track. But here are a few favorites:
-momma, daddy
-gator
-tree
-flower
-nana (banana)
-apple
-crescy (crescent)
-peeze (please)
-where are you? & where did you go?
-boom
-oofs (oops)
-bubbles
-baskeeball
-uh oh
-color
-car
-truck
-George
-boo hoos (blues clues)
-kung foo

I better stop before this list turns into more than "a few"... lol

Lazy Days

I am the epitome of the lazy days of summer. We are enjoying having Tyler home around three every day since he has this small break from school. It starts back up again in a few weeks, and so we'll be going back to craziness soon. In the meantime we are just appreciating what we have.

Our new ward is really fun, and we are getting to know some of the families a little better. Funny thing, there are 3 people from my high school that are in this Gainesville ward. It's such a small world, especially when you live in a college town!

Here are some pictures from yesterday at the new play group, and some from today when we went to the pool with Tyler.

Also, just as a little side note: a few weeks ago I ran into a problem with my blogger page. It said that I had run out of capacity in my "picassa" account that hosts the pictures for our blogs. It wouldn't let me upload any more pictures. I don't know if any of you have run into this, or what you did... but I figured I would throw this out there just in case you have or ever do. I didn't want to delete pictures to make more space until I am able to back up my blog entries, because the picture will no longer appear on the blog entry if I delete it from picassa. But, it fixed itself when I signed up with google plus. I'm guessing that each google account that you have gives you so much capacity, and so my limit expanded when I added google plus.
So, when I run out again (I'm sure it will happen) then I will probably just add Tyler as a contributor to the page, and do it through his google accounts. :) That is all.

Recovery

You know how everyone always says you need a vacation to recover from your vacation? So, we're just coming out of that, and I think we'll be rejoining the land of the living here any minute now...

I have no pictures for today. But, does anyone know what kind of bird has been outside my window for the last week... it sounds like a cat being stepped on when it squawkes. I hate that bird.

We are going swimming today, maybe I'll take pictures of that. :)