Spring Fever!

This weekend was GORGEOUS!! We decided to take Clay to a playground at a nearby school to enjoy the "spring-like" weather. The last time I took pictures at this park Clay looked like this!

He was almost a year old! He was bald and chubby and absolutely adorable! He couldn't do a whole lot - not even really able to walk on his own, but he had a blast!
And look at how much he's changed!!

He loved the merry-go-round...

And now... he's all over the playground!

He's definitely not afraid of anything and insisted on climbing up everything!

But thankfully, daddy was there to help him up to where he wanted to go!

He got to cool down with a green apple slush from Sonic!

He had slide races with daddy...

He loved hanging on the monkey bars!

And he liked going up the slides the wrong way!

I'm so glad we got to get out and enjoy this beautiful weather!!

I know I've posted a video of Clay dancing to his favorite dance song, "I Like To Move It", but he's added some new dance moves to his repertoire. He does some cute little gallop-spin thing now that's hilarious! So please enjoy his official "I Like To Move It" video:

29 Months Old!

My sweet Clay... you are now 29 months old! So what are you up to nowadays?

Your obsession has now moved from Thomas the Train to Toy Story. You still like to play with your choo-choo's, but you L-O-V-E anything Toy Story! You've had your first bout with strep this week, so you've been home sick since Wednesday. You were going a little stir crazy, so we gave you your Valentine's Day presents a little early...

I think it's safe to say you like your gift!

You still have a weird obsession with hats and I love how you always put it on backwards...

You've gotten very opinionated regarding your wardrobe. It's usually a struggle to get you to pick out a shirt in the mornings because you only want to wear your Buzz t-shirt. If it's not the Buzz t-shirt, then it's got to be something with a character on it - Cookie Monster, Thomas, Mickey...

You are doing so much better with your eating. You will now eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (thank goodness!) - I have to cut them up in the shape of Mickey Mouse, but at least you'll eat them. You'll even eat lunchables which has made it much easier for me to pack your lunch for school. You LOVE raisins and would eat the entire box if I let you. I still make you "Elmo Cupcakes" - which are basically muffins in the Elmo cupcake wrappers.

Since you know pretty much all of your ABC's, we've been working on what words start with certain letters. You know "apple" and "Auburn" start with "A". Your words for "E" are "elephant" and "egg". You can sing the entire alphabet song and are very boisterous with the "Next time won't you sing with Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" part.

We've started a new bedtime routine recently... we've always read you books before bedtime, but now you like for me to tell you stories after we turn out the lights and I rock you. It usually consists of you going to Mickey's clubhouse or going on an adventure with the Toy Story characters. I'm running out of story material, though.

We've had a fun month and I'm sure the next month will be a blast!

Inspired

So, my husband called me out on the fact that I REALLY needed to give my blog layout an update. He pointed out that under the "About Me" section I had that I had been married for almost 11 years... and we're actually going on 13! That's how long it's been since I've updated my blog layout! He inspired me to completely rework my blog and bring it more up-to-date. So I did a little research and since I now have a fancy editing program (Photoshop Elements), I whipped out a new layout and header! I'm not sure if I'm giddy about it, but now that I know how to do it, there's no end to what I might come up with!

I'm also hoping my pictures will start to look better because I got me a new toy...

Oh, yes! That's my new DSLR camera!! I'm VERY excited about it! I have absolutely NO idea how to use it except to put it on auto and hit the button. I've got about 5 different CD's it came with that are supposed to make me an expert photograper. I'm sure I'll one day get around to watching them (hopefully it won't take as long as it took me to update my blog layout!). I did try to take some decent pics of Clay last weekend when it was nice outside. (Was it last weekend, or the weekend before last?? They are all running together for me.) Anyways... here's my attempt at "nice" pictures with the new toy!

At least it takes pictures REALLY fast so I can get action shots like this one... (he was jumping up and down in our fire pit - such a good mama)

Hopefully some photographer will take pity on me and give me some tips on how to use my camera... Until then, I'll just shoot on auto until I get around to watching the CD's.