Summer Fun

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We are enjoying our time home together. We have enjoyed playing outside, doing arts and crafts, going fun places, visiting friends, and relaxing.

Have A Great Summer!!

A Fun Week!

Thank you!!!

Thank you to a great Crew Leader!

Lindsay made this week at VBS a fun experience.

Busy Ashe

This evening I am going to a potluck with some friends from work. I was only away from Ashe for a few minutes while I took something out of the oven. In the mean time, Ashe helped himself to some decorating. I can't even take my eyes off him for a minute. Sometimes he gets himself into trouble while I am busy cleaning up the last mess.

Who knew someone under three foot could be so exhausting?

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If you are looking to travel this summer you really shouldn't use Ashe's travel agent. As you can see they are just shipping him to his destination. Today was a rainy day so to pass the time (about two minutes, due to attention span) Ashe played in his diaper box.

The Next American Idol

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Our little rock star just got this plastic microphone and he loves to sing into it. I thought he already sang loud enough but now he can really amplify his noise.

Singing Baby

I am still learning the camera. Today I found this nifty movie setting on my camera. Before I knew it I was recording. I just had to share the video. Ashe walks around singing everywhere we go. He loves the moo moo (most people call it a cow).

Please don't mind the waffle, Ashe is always eating.

Vacation Bible School

This week Nick is spending his mornings at St. Peter and Paul's VBS. He is having fun making crafts, singing songs, and learning wonderful lessons of faith. Today the kids bought in canned foods for the church pantry. I really wanted to take a picture of him participating in VBS activities but now that Nick is getting older I had to take the one and only VBS picture of him in the parking lot.

Pablo Picasso

After we played at the park today we stopped and had some ice cream. Ashe ended up with ice cream on his shirt so when we got home I had to soak his shirt. The only problem with soaking his shirt was that he was sleeping when we got home from our day of fun. So when I brought him in from the car he woke up a little. After laying hm in his bed and carefully removing his shirt, I headed to the garage to work some stain fighting magic. I realized when I left Ashe he was awake but very sleepy and appered to be ready to roll over and fall back to sleep. He was so quiet when I finished cleaning his shirt that I assumed he fell back to sleep. I sat down at the computer and checked to see what was happening out in the Internet world. It couldn't have been but a few minutes but something told me to check in on him. When I walked into the room I made the mother gasp sound because what I found was my little boy drawing on his body with an orange marker.

I am still shaking my head because... Boys Will Be Boys!

Visiting the Park

Ashe is busy making calls on my cell phone.

Today Ashe went to the park to play with his friend Lauren. They had fun going up and down on the playground equipment. They enjoyed running around and trying new things. After our park time we went out to lunch at Jason's Deli. Ashe had a yummy lunch with an ice cream for dessert. We had a fun day.

Orlando Science Center

Today we went to the Science center. We had a lot of fun. At the science center right now they are doing a special show about the Titanic. Is was very interesting. We also had fun in the hurricane simulator. It got the wind going in there at 78 miles per hour. The wind was strong but not as strong as the sound. The boys also enjoyed some hands out activities. We had so much fun we got a family pass to come back more throughout the year.

Space and Beyond

This was a school project for Nick. He worked on it each night getting it just right. He made each planet out of model magic (like clay), he researched the colors and sizes of each planet, he then put many coats of paint on each one. He used an old tooth brush to make the star effect background. He even went out onto the Internet to find the best font for his wording. Let's hope it is A worthy.

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Homework

Not even two years old... and already homework!!!

Ashe had a family bear project to do for school. I think our bear was the cutest but then again I am a little partical. Ashe loved ripping up the cotton for the project. After he pulled it apart he threw it up like it was snowing. It was mommy's job to catch it in midair and put it on the bear before the layer of glue dried.
To be honest every once in a while I still find cotton around the house from this family project.

Rock-and-Roll

This past Christmas Nick got Guitar Hero for the Playstation. When he first got it I think Steven was more excited to play then Nick was. Since one of his friends also got Guitar Hero Nick has been talking about it and playing with it more and more. He is really starting to enjoy it and getting rather good.

The boy may have some rock and roll in his soul after all. That would be his father's dream come true since he has been trying to get Nick to play a real guitar since he was big enough to sit up.

George Carlin Show

As a Christmas present this year, I got Steven tickets to see George Carlin. George Carlin is a funny tell it how it is comedian. This was a great gift idea because when all the fun of Christmas is over we still had special plans together for a night out. Steven has read all the Carlin books over the years, so he was so excited about the show. What I couldn't believe is how close we sat to the stage. We had a great time, the only downfall of the night was... it happened to be on the same night of the Monster Truck Show and we got lost in a very bad section of town.

Well we made it out alive and had a great time.

Odyssey of the Mind

Nick has worked very hard throughout the school year in Odyssey. This is a group of children who meet weekly to create a script to a given problem. The students are responsible for all parts of the project in order to compete against other students. The students are even responsible for making their costume. So Nick had to sew this dinosaur outfit. Let me tell you I was standing very close as he was sewing just in case we needed to go to the hospital. He made me very nervous with his hands so close to the needle going super fast. I know the needle shouldn't be moving that fast for a beginner but Nick has a lead foot when it came to the foot pedal.

A New Look!

Look what a few pillows can do. The bed just didn't look right something was missing. So this weekend I went out and bought some fabric and made pillowcases. Now his bed has a little boy sofa look. The large orange pillows in the back match the surf stripe on the wall. The three little pillows were done in cream color cases so I can bleach way the drool. My favorite pillow of them all is the one in front we took it down to have it embroidered. It has a palm tree on it and the words Surfs Up in the same orange. Even his cute Build a Bear, Nate has his Hawaiian shirt for the surf party.

Big Boy Bed

Ashe's New Bed

It really is his old bed with the side taken off and converted into what is suppose to be a toddler bed until we make it into a regular full size bed. We think it looks a little strange but before we know it he will be moving into the next stage of this bed. I know it seems a little early, it did to us as well. At school he sleep on a mat. Every night we had been rocking Ashe and fighting him to get him asleep. I mentioned at school one day how hard it was for us and they made the comment that he was the easiest one to put to sleep. So for a few nights we took the mattress out placed it on the carpet and had him try to fall asleep without us holding him. Each night the process was easy and he was much happier. We didn't want bedtime to be a struggle and we didn't want him crying himself to sleep, so we decided to try him in a big boy bed. We hope we made the right decision. We have a gate up in the hallway so he can't get into the other parts of the house, he can only be in his room or our room.

We are keeping our fingers crossed on this next stage.

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I think I may sew some surf theme pillows to create the look on the website showing his bed.

Climbing

Nothing is safe around Ashe, especially when it come to his own safety. Ashe has now figured out that he can climb and that he is very good at it. Tonight while Nick was trying to practice his spelling words from his planner, Ashe wanted to see. Nick didn't want Ashe to rip his planner so he tried to keep him away from it. Ashe was determine to get a closer look, so he did... he went right up on the coffee table.

Don't worry no babies were harmed in the taking of this picture.

We snapped fast and quickly got him down, but now he has found a new a fun place to sit. This must have been the way Evel Knievel started out.

Talk, Talk, Talk

Ashe loves to babble to himself on the telephone. I have no idea which parent he could have possible inherited his gift of gab from???

Ashe Update:

Ashe has so many words these days. He says Mom Mom, Da Da, Pup Pup (puppy), Uh-Oh, Juice, No (he shakes his head in a silly way when he says it) What's that?, Football (he puts both hands up over his head when our team scores a touchdown).

He is also fond of blowing his own nose. What he really likes to do is take the tissue out, put it to his nose, and make blowing sounds with his mouth. He is getting really good at following directions you can ask him to put something in the trash, and close the door. One of Ashe's favorite thing to do is dance. Anytime he hears music he gets his little head bobbing back and forth.

Ashe is changing so much. We are enjoying all the fun changes.

The Polar Express

During our winter break we went to Sea World. I really wanted to see what the Polar Express Experience was all about. We had a lot of fun they took the Wild Arctic ride and change all the signs, the video (a movie clip) for the simulation ride, and added some beautiful decorations with even a real Santa you could have your picture taken with. Fortunately you were still able to experience the polar animals within the exhibit.