Cousins

4th of July Celebration(s)

This year Bentwater held fireworks on the 3rd, so we got 2 celebrations! Will and Miler had a great time playing, but Will still is not a fan of fireworks....the kid is fearless usually, but loud noises totally freak him out. He kept saying, "Fireworks berry, berry woud! Too woud!" We tried again on the 4th watching Walden's and he chose watching a DVD in the Tahoe and peering out instead of sitting in the front yard with everyone else. Hopefully next year he will be over this fear!

Taking a snack break

Waiting for the parade to start

Good family friends, Pam and Donnie with their grandchildren

The boys playing YaYa and Pa's

Baby Stewart News....

Yesterday I was lucky enough to get to be at my sister's BIG ultrasound for baby #2! We are super excited to be welcoming a little girl in December .... and you better believe she is going to be spoiled rotten!
It had been so long (when I was in labor with Will) since I had heard that sweet sound of a baby's heartbeat in the womb. She was moving around like crazy, so she may turn out to be the wild one of two Stewart kiddos! Baby girl Stewart is measuring right on track to be due December 3. We will have a new baby at Christmas time! Congratulations on the news of a baby girl on the way Josh, Amy, and Miler (who I know will be a great big brother!)

I'll keep everyone updated!

Just Like Daddy...

Patrick had his bicycle in the house making some adjustments last night (I told him to bring it in because it is SO HOT in the garage) and Will thought he needed to do the same. Priceless!





Please excuse all the pictures of Will in his underwear/diaper/pull-up lately ... we are really working hard on potty training and getting undressed quickly helps!

Busy Summer Days...

Last day of swim lessons - we got to play today!

He is a great kicker - lots of splashes!!


Practicing Reach n Pull with Ms. Darcy



Reading books in his new "reading corner" in his bedroom

Cleaning his animals

Playing the "horn" ... such a great imagination!

This is what happens when he dresses himself



And my favorite thing about summer days...

Will's Latest Sayings...

And the majority of them are questions ... gotta love an inquisitive child!

*What's (insert name/object) doing? -- This is usually repeated over and over.
*Where's (insert name/object) going? -- Again repeated over and over.
*Hey, what's that noise?
*Where are we?
*Look at that! -- sounds more like wook at dat!
*Watch out!

Other cute things he is doing:
*When he wakes up, he comes stumbling out of his room, still half asleep saying, "Good morning." Doesn't matter if it is in the middles of the afternoon!
AND if we are not up when he wakes up in the morning, he comes in our room and says, "I wake, I hungy, I firsty!"
*He is constantly hungry ... he walks around saying, "I'm hungy!" and rubs his tummy.

And sadly there are some not-so-cute things happening in the McLendon house - Will screams LOUD for no reason sometimes, other times when he is mad. If I thought we had entered the terrible 2's eariler I was very wrong....hopefully this will pass quickly (right!).

On another note we have started potty training. It is going okay, sometimes he is ready to sit on the potty, and other times you'd think we were asking him to torture himself in some way. It is an interesting experience to say the least, and very time consuming. He does not like to be wet or dirty and lets us know right away - for example in the middle of the night if he has a wet diaper, he will stand at the end of his hall, and yell across the house, "POOPOO, POOPOO!" until one of us gets to him. He has also removed a few dirty diapers in the last 2 weeks - gross. We need to knock out this potty training thing quick....

Galveston

We spent this past week in Galveston with my parents, and sister's family. We had a great time ... went to the beach, the Strand, ate at Rainforest Cafe, and rode the ferry. Will loved it all! He thought the ocean was great, loved playing in the sand, and all around enjoyed himself!
We ended our trip driving through Crystal Beach/Bolivar which was very sad. A year later the place still looks like a ghost town, and the homes that are being rebuilt are so high they have porches underneath them. Although there are very few atually being rebuilt.

Here are some pictures from the week:
Playing at the beach


Rainforest Cafe

He LOVED dessert...

Miler

New sunglasses

The boys playing

At the ferry







This is a pier on the Sea Wall ... it was crazy! Apparently 2 people rode out the storm on top of that building, scary.

Fun with Friends

This weekend our very dear friends, The Lloyds (they have a blog link on our page) came and spent the entire weekend with us! They currently live in Austin, and we do not get to see them as often as we'd like. Their little girl, Peyton, is about 10 months younger than Will, and they played great together. We were also blessed with the Novosads presence Saturday evening ... they brought their 2 sweet girls, and I got to give their newborn Parker her very first bottle!! Once Malley settled in the 3 kids had a blast (as did the adults!!!) We fed the ducks, played, and enjoyed great company.
Here are some pictures from the weekend ... in no particular order!

Big Boy

This is not a great picture (taken from Patrick's cell) ... but here is Will's new big boy haircut! He looks SO cute, and SO big! We had it done at Snip It's in The Woodlands Mall, and then rode the carousel afterwards.