97

Hey Henry, come here!'Yeeeesss?'


I want to tell you something GREAT!

'Really??'


Daddy comes home in 97 days!

'YEA!!!'

97 days and counting!

Funny!

Today I picked Henry up from Mom's with the intention to go to the zoo (we ended up at the Botanical Gardens) and while I was driving off with him in the back seat he said "Gammy! Ere are you?" It was so funny! And clear! He must have said it ten times before switching to "Dada! Ere are you?"
He's getting so big!

Silly!

Henry today during snack time!

Sock Hop!

This weekend we celebrated 50 years of Aunt Nita with a party in the park! It was so much fun! Here are a few pictures I caught.

Gigi and Peep's girls! So cute!

Kendall rockin' her skirt on her belly! She was so funny!

Sweet Gracie hanging out waiting for her Gigi.

Our girls! These two are so cute!

The older Henry is getting the harder it is to get a good picture of the three of them! He does NOT like to sit still!

In fact, he spent the entire 4 hours walking the park...

and more walking....


And more walking! Henry was nonstop. We finally changed into jammies around 8:45 and I said "Are you ready for bed?" and he picked his paci off the ground and just walked straight to his bed! When I picked him up and put him in there he said "Nigh. nigh Ollie!" It was so funny! He cried out at around 2 and got in my bed and then not another word until 9:30 this morning! He is ALWAYS up by 7. It was a great way to start off Mother's Day!!
Nita, we had a great time at your party and hope you did too! It's too bad you can't turn 50 every year! We love you!

YEA!!!!!

Today marks the halfway point in Rob's deployment!! We are so excited! In 121 days Rob will be out of the sandbox and preparing to come home and we can't wait!
As you can tell, the kids are thrilled :)

Thanks Dada!

This is Henry's super cool new map. It's huge! Grammy came over last night and helped pin it up while Henry was sleeping. These pictures were taken when he woke up this morning.

The map is fabric and has all of these little velcro pieces to teach your child (or yourself) where things like the Alamo or Liberty Bell are. It's so cool!


Henry kept bringing me the pieces saying 'here go.' and then immediately taking it from me saying 'tank ew' and running back to stick it on the map!




Good choice Dada! He's having a blast and will be a super genius in no time! We love and miss you!!

A day in the bluebonnets

Scanning the sky for airplanes- his latest thing!

It was not so much a fun day like I had hoped. It was crazy windy, pretty noisey, and kind of sticky. Henry liked it ok, Lorelai tolerated it, and Maelie full on hated it. Over all sweet Gracie was my best baby model by far! I usually let the mom post pictures first, but this one is so cute, and hey I have the rights :)

Petting Zoo

Today at school Henry got to go to the petting zoo!

He really liked getting to see all of the animals walking around together.

In this little separate pen they had a mini horse, mini cow, and ducks. Henry LOVED the ducks!

He had a great time and I had a great time watching! I think the best part was watching him walk around with all of his friends. He's getting SO big!!

Thanks Fireman Dave!

Today Dave invited us to the fire house to check out the big 'tucks'! Henry was a little skiddish at first, but he wouldn't be Henry if he wasn't!

Do we see a career in his future?!

Henry's new hat!

Dave was showing him all the cool knobs and buttons on the truck (Henry's favorite thing!)

Henry got braver as the minutes passed!

We had such a good time! Thank you so much Dave and the guys at Fire Station 2 for letting us come and see all of your neat stuff!

Easter at Nita and Mikes!

Saturday night we celebrated Easter at Aunt Nita and Uncle Mike's house.
This was Henry's first ever egg hunt!

He was much more interested in just walking around in Uncle Mike's yard than picking up any eggs so Uncle Drew had to step in and help out.

Nice work Uncle Drew!

The egg hunters

It was so exciting Lorelai had to get in on the action too.
Here is her with her own prize egg!

Henry's Easter Basket

This is the basket Henry got from Mom and Dad this morning!
He was very excited!

Our little boy. He can always find maracas!

He thought that pulling the grass out was the best part!

Having a Teddy Graham snack out of one of his eggs.

More from the trip

Crazy, Wanda (Henry's new Nana), and Mr. James

These two are now best friends. Henry spent this entire trip, both at Wanda's and in the car yelling "DANE!" to get her attention. It's so funny! He just likes for her to talk to him and he smiles and smiles for her.

Roll Tide. Or just Roll. Henry prefers the latter.

"This is so good."

And this is Mammy! We took a detour to Nachez, MS to eat at this restaurant I saw online. She's a giant black woman (she is definitely darker in person) and the diner is in her skirt! It was pretty funny, and the sandwiches and pie were good too!