My Son Is One

River turns 1 today. River I have so enjoyed your smiles, your giggles and your sweet heart this your first year of life. May the rest of your life be filled with blessings, with love, with friends and with Christ. Mama and Daddy love you!

Simone at Stanley Clark

One thing I loved about Stanley Clark School was that they did daily blogs of the class' activities. They took daily pictures and it was wonderful to see what they did during their day as Simone's usual response when asked....What did you do today? was....I don't know? One day, at home, Simone wrote a story about building her elephant "Tapee" at Build a Bear. She dictated the story and I wrote it down. The kids had been practicing being "authors" at school and she wanted to continue at home. Well, she took her story and Tapee to school to share and she was the focus of the blog for the day. This was extra special as it was one of the last days of school. She had a tremendous year!!

Something old

We found Simone's baby blocks the other day. We brought them upstairs for River to play with. Low and behold, Simone has found a new love of them. Here is the "Moose" that she made this afternoon. She loves creative play.

I just love this picture!

I took this picture of Simone the other day and I absolutely love it.

Memorial Day fun?

Michael and I had planned to go to Potowatomi Zoo today for memorial day. The butterfly exhibit is open now and we thought simone would enjoy the train and pony rides. This morning Simone asked if we could go to the beach instead. Michael and I thought about it and decided....alright, we can go to the beach. So we packed up 2 bottles, food for river...changes of clothes for both kids, diapers, drinks, towels and suntan lotion. We drove to New Buffalo and it was about 10 degrees cooler there...or so it felt. The water was really too cold to swim in, but we did wade in it. Simone and I also played in the sand a little. Michael and River sat up on the beach and Michael was mostly busy keeping sand out of River's mouth. We stayed about an hour and then went to find someplace to eat. The restaurant was crowded, but it was by the beach. When we went to pay our bill the waitress said they only took cash or check.....didn't know restaurants did that anymore. Michael went to the atm....$3 surcharge. We ended up leaving one of Simone's cutest hats in the bathroom. DRAT! Well we were all together on Memorial day and we did have an adventure......

River eats everything.......everything but green beans.

River is going through the "I'm going to put everything in my mouth" phase. Simone NEVER did that so we are enjoying this for the 1st time. When we go outside we are constantly pulling grass, twigs, dirt and other assorted outside things out of his mouth. Inside we have to hide the catfood and he tries to find anything and everything else to try. Oddly enough he doesn't like green beans.....go figure. I want so much to say to him....it's so much better than dirt sweetheart. We have him on oatmeal, squash, bananas and peas. We don't start finger foods until 1 year....so he has 3 weeks more to wait.

Beautiful Day

This is the tree in our backyard. It has just bloomed this past week. It just blows me away at how beautiful it is. We are so enjoying our garden. The garden is one of the reasons why I wanted to buy this house. The lady who owned the house before us did a wonderful job of planting things that constantly bloom all spring and summer...no sooner does one flower die away and new and different flowers are blooming

Tonight the weather was so good that we walked to the library to drop off some videos. (8-9 blocks) It rained yesterday and there were many puddles for Simone to jump in on our way there. Needless to say we had to have a quick shower before bed.