"Auntie" Kim and Jr playing the piano
Jr really getting into it
A closet musician?
Jr and the famous "Uke"
Mr. Duke...
Showing posts with label vacations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vacations. Show all posts
October 28, 2009
House Hunting/Vacation Photos Johnson Space Center
Junior and Daddy trying on Austronaut Helmets at the Johnson space center
Playing with the wind tunnel at the Space Center
Waiting for the tram tour to start. Junior was a ball of laughs
Jr couldn't wait to get back to the stroller at the Space center Museum, he fell asleep mid-tour on Daddy.
What's Going On
I know, I know. It's been quite a long time since I update this. In my defense... I have felt like poo and we have been busy busy busy!
Lets start with the fun stuff... the Junior Updates!
Almost two weeks ago he had his 15month check up. Boy where does the time go?! He is still in the top 90% overall, 96% for both height and weight and his head circ was 91%. Since then he seems to be developing a larger vocabulary, in the past couple days saying "Mama" much more (which makes me happy :) ) as well as "all done", "bath" (on occasion but he signs it regularly through out the day). After visiting our wonderful friends, the Laz family (more to come on this) he has been walking around saying "uke" (aka Duke - their beloved male golden retriever). The way he pronounces Duke is actually pretty comical because he has not seemed to have a problem pronouncing the D sound. Tonight we had chinese for dinner and he got to sit in an actual booster seat! This after doing wonderful on our trip sitting at the table of family on a phone book or a box. Overall he's a very happy kid who is learning things left and right and never ceases to amaze his father and I.
Chris finally recieved his orders last week. We are finally go for our move to FL! We will be leaving Corpus on Nov 11th. Both Chris and I are extreamly excited and can't wait to get this move over with! WeChris decided to move ourselves this time as opposed to having the Navy move us. The theory being that half our junk stuff is still in boxes in storage anyway, it shouldn't be that hard (can anyone hear my insane laughter???)
The Friday before last we left to go house hunting in Pensacola. It was a whirlwind of a trip and we managed to get a house all set up. This will be the first time we will be living off base the entire time we are there. After getting the house taken care of we took off to visit Aunt Claire, Uncle Bill, Cousins Will, Connie and little William in Louisiana. We had a wonderful time meeting up with them and it was all the first time our "southern" cousins got to meet Junior. William and Junior got along famously after both of them learning to "share". ;)
After visiting all our Louisiana family we ventured to points northward in Little Rock. Auntie Kim (as she choose to be called) and "Uncky John" (as Auntie Kim called him to Junior) have been long time family friends. (At one point both Chris and I worked for them, you could say they helped us grow up ;) ) We had a lovely visit with them, and it was also the first time they got to meet Junior as well. Junior loved on all three of John and Kim's four legged children, developing a very good relationship with Duke. (Pictures to follow in the next post) Junior also got to play the piano for the first time as well. That was pretty entertaining. Junior also attempted to "feed" our camera to Duke... there are no pictures of this however.
Overall, a week in the car went much better then we expected and Junior traveled quite well. Despite the total and complete upheaval of having no schedule (so to speak) and being in a different place every couple of nights. Chris and I didn't do too bad about freaking out over little things. Junior's first real road trip vacation (of sorts) went over well!
Lets start with the fun stuff... the Junior Updates!
Almost two weeks ago he had his 15month check up. Boy where does the time go?! He is still in the top 90% overall, 96% for both height and weight and his head circ was 91%. Since then he seems to be developing a larger vocabulary, in the past couple days saying "Mama" much more (which makes me happy :) ) as well as "all done", "bath" (on occasion but he signs it regularly through out the day). After visiting our wonderful friends, the Laz family (more to come on this) he has been walking around saying "uke" (aka Duke - their beloved male golden retriever). The way he pronounces Duke is actually pretty comical because he has not seemed to have a problem pronouncing the D sound. Tonight we had chinese for dinner and he got to sit in an actual booster seat! This after doing wonderful on our trip sitting at the table of family on a phone book or a box. Overall he's a very happy kid who is learning things left and right and never ceases to amaze his father and I.
Chris finally recieved his orders last week. We are finally go for our move to FL! We will be leaving Corpus on Nov 11th. Both Chris and I are extreamly excited and can't wait to get this move over with! We
The Friday before last we left to go house hunting in Pensacola. It was a whirlwind of a trip and we managed to get a house all set up. This will be the first time we will be living off base the entire time we are there. After getting the house taken care of we took off to visit Aunt Claire, Uncle Bill, Cousins Will, Connie and little William in Louisiana. We had a wonderful time meeting up with them and it was all the first time our "southern" cousins got to meet Junior. William and Junior got along famously after both of them learning to "share". ;)
After visiting all our Louisiana family we ventured to points northward in Little Rock. Auntie Kim (as she choose to be called) and "Uncky John" (as Auntie Kim called him to Junior) have been long time family friends. (At one point both Chris and I worked for them, you could say they helped us grow up ;) ) We had a lovely visit with them, and it was also the first time they got to meet Junior as well. Junior loved on all three of John and Kim's four legged children, developing a very good relationship with Duke. (Pictures to follow in the next post) Junior also got to play the piano for the first time as well. That was pretty entertaining. Junior also attempted to "feed" our camera to Duke... there are no pictures of this however.
Overall, a week in the car went much better then we expected and Junior traveled quite well. Despite the total and complete upheaval of having no schedule (so to speak) and being in a different place every couple of nights. Chris and I didn't do too bad about freaking out over little things. Junior's first real road trip vacation (of sorts) went over well!
July 01, 2009
Photo Blog - Our trip to LA (part 2)
Checking out the crowd at the Aquarium
Another attempting a jail break picture... it was just TOO cute to not post :)
March 20, 2009
Home Once Again
Junior and I had a wonderful time in Florida. Thank You to Jess, Ronnie, Jess' Aunt Robin & Uncle Kevin as well as her Mom and Dad, and Ronnie's dad, Ronald for letting us stay/hang out at their houses!
Pictures from our trip:
Jr in his first swing ride - that wasn't a baby sing made by Fisher-Price
Jr Sitting at the bottom of the slide - after his first ride. (shortly after this, Colten came sliding down)
Jr being worn by Jess prior to the start of the Whale show. (Shamu)
There were two different groups during the whale show...
The Non-splash group:
And the SPLASH group:
Other fun activites:
This picture, labels and all literally says it all:
(left to right: Drummer: Trace, Roadie: Colten, seated guitar: Haley, Rock'n out on the guitar: Chase, Laying down Band manager: Jr (bottle in hand), Lead Singer: Ceanna)
March 12, 2009
Florida... Oh Florida....
Vacation here I come!!! Jr and I leave in a few hours for the airport!
Not that posts here haven't been sporadic as of late, but if they become even more so for the next 7 days you understand why ;). Stay tuned for pictures of Jr in Sunny, Warm Florida! :) (maybe even some of me too)
Not that posts here haven't been sporadic as of late, but if they become even more so for the next 7 days you understand why ;). Stay tuned for pictures of Jr in Sunny, Warm Florida! :) (maybe even some of me too)
February 26, 2009
Florida - Here We Come!
No, we aren't moving yet. Just coming for a visit! As luck would have it - there was a free frequent flyer round trip ticket floating around the family (Thank You Grandpa! - or Great Grandpa to Jr) and no one else wanted to take advantage of it... so Jr and I snapped it up!
Who would pass up the opportunity to go visit some of our Navy Family - only in their own "natural habitat" this time? Yep. That's right - we are going to go see the legendary home(s) of one Ronnie & Jess!!! Central Florida better becareful... I don't think that they can handle this many fun loving people in one area. It could be dangerous... you know me and Jess shopping agian together (oh my!) or you know like invading a place that houses many diffrent species at the same time.... Has anyone (besides Jess who is reading this and laughing) guessed where else we might be going?! We are going to Seaworld Orlando!!!
This obviously will be Jr's first trip - and despite Daddy not being able to be in attendance, he has given the go-ahead. Mostly with the thought that Jr won't remember this trip and since we are moving to Florida later this year and will be there for roughly three years there is plenty of time to take him agian. We plan on taking LOTS of pictures and thourghly enjoying ourselves.
Despite all the planned fun that I'm sure we will experiance as our hosts never lack for planning entertainment - it will be fun to see Jess & Ron's boys, Trace & Colten. I know I have missed both their parents alot since moving to California in December, but I've missed my two guys too. It will also be fun to get someone else's view on how much Jr has changed. It's different when you see him everyday as opposed to someone who doesn't.
Alright - now that I'm done sharing my happy news with everyone I suppose I should get back to writing a paper that's due... oh tomorrow. Nothing like a little procrastination to inspire genius I say ;)
Who would pass up the opportunity to go visit some of our Navy Family - only in their own "natural habitat" this time? Yep. That's right - we are going to go see the legendary home(s) of one Ronnie & Jess!!! Central Florida better becareful... I don't think that they can handle this many fun loving people in one area. It could be dangerous... you know me and Jess shopping agian together (oh my!) or you know like invading a place that houses many diffrent species at the same time.... Has anyone (besides Jess who is reading this and laughing) guessed where else we might be going?! We are going to Seaworld Orlando!!!
This obviously will be Jr's first trip - and despite Daddy not being able to be in attendance, he has given the go-ahead. Mostly with the thought that Jr won't remember this trip and since we are moving to Florida later this year and will be there for roughly three years there is plenty of time to take him agian. We plan on taking LOTS of pictures and thourghly enjoying ourselves.
Despite all the planned fun that I'm sure we will experiance as our hosts never lack for planning entertainment - it will be fun to see Jess & Ron's boys, Trace & Colten. I know I have missed both their parents alot since moving to California in December, but I've missed my two guys too. It will also be fun to get someone else's view on how much Jr has changed. It's different when you see him everyday as opposed to someone who doesn't.
Alright - now that I'm done sharing my happy news with everyone I suppose I should get back to writing a paper that's due... oh tomorrow. Nothing like a little procrastination to inspire genius I say ;)
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