Climbing on the dashboard at Sonic on Friday.
Playing in the pool.
Get ready for a family photo:
Cousin Claudia
The tent
Resting with Aunt LaLa
Hanging with Cousin Whitney
Monday, August 24, 2009
Family weekend...
The Okies in the family came down for a visit from OKC this weekend and Fen got to play with his cousins (all girls). Memaw even put up a tent and pool in the back yard and camped out with the two little ones (Fender and Claudia) Saturday night. What a fun Memaw!
Climbing on the dashboard at Sonic on Friday.
Playing in the pool.
Get ready for a family photo:
Cousin Claudia
The tent
Resting with Aunt LaLa
Hanging with Cousin Whitney
Climbing on the dashboard at Sonic on Friday.
Playing in the pool.
Get ready for a family photo:
Cousin Claudia
The tent
Resting with Aunt LaLa
Hanging with Cousin Whitney
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Dallas Zoo...
Despite the heat driving most of the animals into hiding, we managed a successful weekend outing to the Dallas Zoo. Even the birds in the children's petting zoo weren't coming down to play, but we did find a playful monkey, couple of giraffes, one gorilla, and a bunch of slithering snakes. Fender's favorite seemed to be the 18-20 yr old tortoise, which he and Daddy named Jujubee. Jujubee was having a nice nap, then woke up, yawned, and stretched his neck up high before slowly bee-lining his way to fresh food and water.
In the end we took advantage of the monorail and saw many of the hoofed animals who were hiding out in the shade at the back of their enclosures, like gazelle, antelope, zebras, crocodiles and more. The zoo ticket was $10 for adults and Fen was free (under 3). The price of a bottle of water or soda...$2.50. Yikes! Thankfully there are plenty of water fountains around for a quick drink or bottle refill whenever you need.
Here is Fender eagerly waiting for Momma and Daddy to be ready so we could head to the zoo.
Zoo entrance.
Stroller for the day.
Fen and Daddy watch the animals at play.
The gorilla...
Fen and Drew in the window...
On the monorail...
Fish toy he got at the zoo...
Caught one...
Making time for the dog...
In the end we took advantage of the monorail and saw many of the hoofed animals who were hiding out in the shade at the back of their enclosures, like gazelle, antelope, zebras, crocodiles and more. The zoo ticket was $10 for adults and Fen was free (under 3). The price of a bottle of water or soda...$2.50. Yikes! Thankfully there are plenty of water fountains around for a quick drink or bottle refill whenever you need.
Here is Fender eagerly waiting for Momma and Daddy to be ready so we could head to the zoo.
Zoo entrance.
Stroller for the day.
Fen and Daddy watch the animals at play.
The gorilla...
Fen and Drew in the window...
On the monorail...
Fish toy he got at the zoo...
Caught one...
Making time for the dog...
Artwork of a nearly 3 year old...
Fender did this at Bible class last Wednesday.
And here are a couple of random pics I cleaned off my cell phone.
This one shows how big his tree has gotten that our good friend Tuesday gave him when he was born. Can't seem to find the original picture to compare, but it wasn't much taller than he is in this picture and definately not as spread out and no flowers when we started.
Fender in PaPa's Xenias.
(Fender in Papa's Xenias last year...)
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Buddies...
Monday, August 10, 2009
Weekend fun with Nana and Pop...
Nana and Pop arrived on Thursday for their youngest son's soccer game against Dallas then stayed with us through Sunday. Despite their loss in Dallas, Houston went on to win their match against Chicago on Sunday. It is a busy life for professional athletes.
Saturday we had Memaw, PaPa, and Uncle Bill over to grill burgers with all of us. The rest was just play time and fun with Nana and Pop all weekend.
Fen liked Nana's binoculars...
Uncle Bobby #32 in Houston Dynamo Orange
Sipp'in on a chocolate milk after the game...
Puzzle time with Nana...
...and Pop.
Frisbee time with Papa and Dobby...
A little basketball move...
Memaw, PaPa, Momma, and Fen
Playtime with Daddy...
Daddy, Fen, and Pop...
...with Pop and Nana.
Saturday we had Memaw, PaPa, and Uncle Bill over to grill burgers with all of us. The rest was just play time and fun with Nana and Pop all weekend.
Fen liked Nana's binoculars...
Uncle Bobby #32 in Houston Dynamo Orange
Sipp'in on a chocolate milk after the game...
Puzzle time with Nana...
...and Pop.
Frisbee time with Papa and Dobby...
A little basketball move...
Memaw, PaPa, Momma, and Fen
Playtime with Daddy...
Daddy, Fen, and Pop...
...with Pop and Nana.
Sunday, August 02, 2009
A boy at play...
Fen is always fun to watch. He has so much energy. One of his favorite things to do is run the circle in our house (Living room, guest room, den, kitchen, and back to living room). Even better than running this circle is having someone playing with him that hides along the route and surprises him when he comes around or he loves to have someone chase him to show how fast he can go.
He also likes to remind me that he was a little baby in my belly, and that Daddy was a baby one time too. He says he wants to read to the babies, and kiss them and tickle them, and teach them to run and jump and make chocolate milk. We'll have to wait and see just how involved he wants to be after they get here. I won't hold my breath on all that help, but I have to admit he has reached a very helpful stage. :) Happy to bring me water whenever I need, washes his face and hands and goes potty all by himself. If we need him to do something, he typically does it...but he is a boy and is occasionally side tracked before completing a task and you have to be sure to physically pause or turn off whatever might be occupying his attention at the time if you would like him to do something while he is otherwise engaged.
He is good about going to bed now in his own bed by himself. We still try to have a bath around 8:30PM then settle down to watch Blue's Clues. After that he typically heads to bed, where I have a drink of chocolate milk waiting for him. Sometimes we read a book before getting into bed, sometimes after he is in bed, sometimes not at all. It depends on what he wants to do. And then we say our prayers and depending on nothing in particular, some nights he wants his light off and others he wants a small light on. Most nights, he will get out of bed after finishing his milk just to turn off his light by himself and gets back into bed to sleep. Asleep by 9:30 - 10PM most nights.
His favorite song is the theme to the old Transformers. I have no idea why we haven't recorded him singing this song yet. It is pretty funny. He wakes up singing it, sings it most of the day when he plays, at bath time, etc. "Transformers...more than meets the eye. Transformers...robots in disguise. Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of...the deceptacons." Have we mentioned that he's a Transformer fan? He has transformer everything, thanks to his Daddy, though I'm sure somehow they both think he could have more. He has the original 80's cartoon Transformer movie (with voices by Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, and Leonard Nimoy...I'm not kidding). Plus the first Transformer movie from a couple of years back, and even some of the original cartoon series on the computer. I'm pretty much on Transformer overload and have no idea how they are not.
Transformer repercussion...on more than one occasion I've had to explain to our boy that the police car is NOT a bad guy but a good guy and that deceptacons get their name because they are deceptive and impersonate good guys. So...at two years old, I'm trying to explain the concepts of deception and impersonation...not great. He does best when you explain that most everyone in the "real" world are good guys on a daily basis and that the bad guys are mostly on TV. Plus...he recently received a few great toys: a stunt rider and his motorcycle and a helicopter...it took a little while before he understood that some toys are just what you see and do not transform into anything else. We actually have to hold the helicopter in the air and run the house circle making whirrring noises because it doesn't have batteries that would do that for us. And the same for the motorcycle and rider. He seems to like them just the same now that he understands them.
Here are a couple of pics from this weekend.
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He also likes to remind me that he was a little baby in my belly, and that Daddy was a baby one time too. He says he wants to read to the babies, and kiss them and tickle them, and teach them to run and jump and make chocolate milk. We'll have to wait and see just how involved he wants to be after they get here. I won't hold my breath on all that help, but I have to admit he has reached a very helpful stage. :) Happy to bring me water whenever I need, washes his face and hands and goes potty all by himself. If we need him to do something, he typically does it...but he is a boy and is occasionally side tracked before completing a task and you have to be sure to physically pause or turn off whatever might be occupying his attention at the time if you would like him to do something while he is otherwise engaged.
He is good about going to bed now in his own bed by himself. We still try to have a bath around 8:30PM then settle down to watch Blue's Clues. After that he typically heads to bed, where I have a drink of chocolate milk waiting for him. Sometimes we read a book before getting into bed, sometimes after he is in bed, sometimes not at all. It depends on what he wants to do. And then we say our prayers and depending on nothing in particular, some nights he wants his light off and others he wants a small light on. Most nights, he will get out of bed after finishing his milk just to turn off his light by himself and gets back into bed to sleep. Asleep by 9:30 - 10PM most nights.
His favorite song is the theme to the old Transformers. I have no idea why we haven't recorded him singing this song yet. It is pretty funny. He wakes up singing it, sings it most of the day when he plays, at bath time, etc. "Transformers...more than meets the eye. Transformers...robots in disguise. Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of...the deceptacons." Have we mentioned that he's a Transformer fan? He has transformer everything, thanks to his Daddy, though I'm sure somehow they both think he could have more. He has the original 80's cartoon Transformer movie (with voices by Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, and Leonard Nimoy...I'm not kidding). Plus the first Transformer movie from a couple of years back, and even some of the original cartoon series on the computer. I'm pretty much on Transformer overload and have no idea how they are not.
Transformer repercussion...on more than one occasion I've had to explain to our boy that the police car is NOT a bad guy but a good guy and that deceptacons get their name because they are deceptive and impersonate good guys. So...at two years old, I'm trying to explain the concepts of deception and impersonation...not great. He does best when you explain that most everyone in the "real" world are good guys on a daily basis and that the bad guys are mostly on TV. Plus...he recently received a few great toys: a stunt rider and his motorcycle and a helicopter...it took a little while before he understood that some toys are just what you see and do not transform into anything else. We actually have to hold the helicopter in the air and run the house circle making whirrring noises because it doesn't have batteries that would do that for us. And the same for the motorcycle and rider. He seems to like them just the same now that he understands them.
Here are a couple of pics from this weekend.
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