Weekend Recap

This past weekend might go down as one of the best "just the three of us" weekends yet. Friday night, we just hung out at the house, but had two pretty big highlights! The first one is a follow up to my previous post about the milk cup. Drew has been having to drink out of an open cup at school, so we tried it at home for the first time... He didn't throw it OR spill it! Sounds so small, but to us, it was a big deal!

Now, the BIG highlight... Drew went pee-pee on the potty for the first time!! He has been entertaining the idea for a few weeks, but we've never had results until this past Friday. This crew had quite the little celebration afterwards... pretty sure I've never jumped as high as I did when I realized what he was doing! 

Quick little warning - this next story may be TMI for some, but I thought it would be a good little read for Drew someday... We had been outside and he had sat in a puddle, so his shorts were soaked. It was getting close to bath time, so when we came inside, I asked him if he wanted to sit on his potty. We took his shorts and diaper off and marched to the bathroom. He started out wanting to go in the big potty, which he hasn't done before, but I'm guessing they look the same as the potty at school. Andy redirected him to "Drew's potty" and he turned around, opened the lid, sat down and immediately started going. His face and our reactions were priceless! Really wish we could have caught all of that on video somehow. Woohoo!! Way to go Drew! We were so proud!! We are far from trained and know it was just really good timing on our part, but good grief, it was such a BIG moment!

Saturday morning, we met Andy's parents for breakfast and spent some time at the Farmer's Market. Drew loved it. He helped pick out veggies, played in the fountain and maybe thought about going for a swim...

We met our friend Miles and his parents at Wilson Park that afternoon. The boys played for over an hour and then we all headed over to Orange Leaf for a FroYo treat. Drew doesn't love cold treats yet, but he actually liked it a little more this time.

After church on Sunday, we met Lance, Traci and Marlowe at the Safari in Gentry. We loved it! I hadn't been in at least 15 years and this was Andy and Drew's first time. Such a neat experience for little ones. I took so many pictures, I had to put them in a collage...

We wrapped the weekend up with "Sunday Dinner" at Mimi and Poppy's. My phone died from taking so many pictures at the zoo, so I didn't get any pictures from there. However, Drew did start his Monday off doing some hard work... building of a morning, mowing of a night...

Picture Post

Our last few weeks have kind of been all over the place. Busy with lots of little things going on, so I thought I would do an update from the last few weeks via iPhone pics...

Playing with Aubrey at the park....

Drinking out of a styrofoam cup for the first time and had huge success! Didn't spill it and didn't try to destroy it.

Getting familiar with his new potty chair. He has finally started sitting on it without his pants on, but still no results. He sits, gets up, turns around and says "bye bye potty"...

Trying on my shoes. He is obsessed with shoes. Loves to sit down and put them on and will ask where they are if he isn't wearing them. I love how he got his toes in the perfect spot here...

 Hanging at the softball fields with this little man! They kept us on the move, but we had a blast!

 Loving on Aunt "Sessa" at the cabin...

 Yoga with Halle...

 Cartwheels with Aunt Dess...

 Thinking about playing in the rain. He wasn't a huge fan. He kept saying "wain, wain... bye, bye".

 Eating breakfast on the deck with an amazing view...

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Talking to Uncle Tim...

 Relaxing with the girls...

 Sporting his backpack after Sunday dinner at Mimi and Poppy's. He just looks so big here...

18 months

We had Drew's 18 month well check last week. He weighs 23 pounds and is 33 inches long... 75th and 25th percentile's. The doctor had all good things to say and thought he was doing great in all areas! Highlights for Drew at this milestone month...

- Talking non stop and tries to repeat everything we say. 

- Imitates pretty much everything we do. Andy is not a huge fan when Drew chooses to imitate me getting ready to go somewhere... he has tried to fix his hair, use the eyelash curler, apply makeup and lotion his legs. I have some pretty good pictures and video of all of these that will come in handy one day!

- Went from calling us Mama and Dada to Mommy and Daddy, but he also learned our first names... "Andy and Sessie". 

- Surprised me one night last week and started singing "Jesus loves me" during our nighttime routine before I even started! He says Jesus pretty clear, but the rest of it is mostly the pattern of the song. Doesn't matter... highlight of my week, for sure! 

- Loves having his shoes on and can put them on himself if he has enough time to try.

- Loves music and loves to dance. He has some pretty decent moves too!

- Still doesn't watch much TV, but did get in to Mickey Mouse on the way to the beach. He says "oh toodles" when he sees it now!

- Moved up to a new class at school. Very emotional day for both of us, but his first week was great! - - - Signs and says "more", "please" and "all done" anytime he really wants something or really wants to be done with something.

- Loves to clean (especially sweep), empty his plate after dinner and is really good at putting his toys away when we ask him to.

- Loves Duke and looks for him all the time. He really likes giving him treats too. When we got home from the beach, he followed him around the house with hand full's of his dog food trying to feed him. And when we pull in to the house after being gone, the first thing he says when we get in the driveway is "where's Duke". 

- Starting to count a little bit. Most of the time when he's "counting", he just says 2 over and over, but he has started including the 1 over the last couple of days and has actually gone to 3 a few times. 

- Recognizes a few letters.We have foam letters in the bathtub and he likes to look for O, D, Y and J and will say them while looking for them.

- Really in to "working"... he loves taking things apart and putting them back together, opening and closing things, taking things out and putting them back in (i.e. the shelves in the pantry and refrigerator). 

- Has most definitely started showing an ornery side and has really started testing us. One of our biggest things right now (at home and school) is throwing his milk cup and food during meal times. We have tried everything... scolding him, ignoring him, not giving it back, swatting his hand, making him pick it up every single time he throws it... he. does. not. care. Nothing is working! Apparently he has gotten better at school and I would say some days are better than others around here, but we still have quite a bit of work to do... we will get there... eventually. 

- Has been introduced to the potty! We bought one just to get him familiar with it before we fully start trying. His school starts lightly working on it with them from 18 months - 2 years and then really get in to it after 2. To my knowledge, he has never actually had a successful trip to the potty, but he has sat quite a bit, so he is definitely interested! His teacher told me last week that she can't keep him out of the bathroom in the classroom because he mostly wants to wash and dry his hands!

That was a lot of highlights, but he is doing SO much lately and I wanted to make sure I didn't forget anything! So many of these milestones seem small, but they are so exciting to us! We are having a blast with Drew at the 18 month mark... he is funny, sweet, smart, very busy and very ornery... but oh, so very perfect!

Cute little video while waiting on the doctor...

Aw Man!

One of my favorite things that Drew is saying right now. Closing his eyes while he's saying it, might be the best part!

Father's Day and The Beach!

I am so behind on blogging! I had to get a new phone, and all of my pictures from Father's Day were on my old one, so I lost them. We had fun celebrating though! Uncle Tim, Aunt Dessa and the girls came up on Saturday and we did some shopping, hung out a little and went to Wing Fest. We love when they come see us... those girls are like little mama's to Drew and he loves it! This is the only picture I was able to recover from Saturday...

Sunday, we celebrated with Poppy, Uncle Lance and Daddy at Burger Shack. Drew's Poppy can eat some burgers. He orders them everywhere we go!

The following Friday, we headed out for the first leg of a 12 hour road trip to Navarre, FL to spend the week with our family.  He did so good in the car! Much better than we expected...

We stayed in a hotel that night and Drew was not a fan! This was his first time to not stay in a crib or pack & play, so he was really confused with the big bed. Once he got settled down, he did great and was back to his normal self the next morning. 

On Saturday, we met my parents at the condo we were staying at for the week and then The Emerson's and The Brightwell's were staying just a mile down the beach from us! We pretty much did the same thing every day... wake up, visit on the balcony, head to the beach, nap for Drew, lunch, back to the beach and then dinner and more visiting. Because every day was so similar, I thought I would finish this post up with pictures from our week! 

Enjoying the view..

Goofing off at the restaurant...

Headed to the beach...

First time in the sand...

And not sure what to think about it...

First look at the ocean... He did not like the waves coming in the first couple of days.

Building something...

Hanging out with the men...

Snacking with mom...

Monday was my 30th birthday!! I was spoiled all day by everyone. It was the best birthday ever, by far. I have to say, hearing Drew say Happy Birthday, might have been my favorite part!   

After dinner birthday pic (before Andy got food poisoning...ick!... it took him close to 24 hours to recover)...

Halle and Averi came up with a song, made up a dance and baked a delicious cake... all for me!!

Drew and Mimi doing "row row row your boat" on the balcony one morning...

Family beach pic...

Taking a walk...

Taking a break...

Hanging out with The Emerson and Brightwell crew... Drew let us take him all the way in to the ocean that afternoon!

Checking out the Pelican at Fudpuckers...

And a live alligator...

Now for the overall pictures. I just couldn't resist!

Weathering a quick storm...

The last night...

Thank you to Mimi and Poppy for taking us on such a great trip!!

We had such an amazing time and made so many great memories! It was truly the best vacation!!