"Our" Day at the Museum

Recently, Andrew and I had the luxury of spending "our" day at the Mayborn Museum here in Waco. (Once again... another perk of living here...maybe I need to rethink my position on Waco?)

The Mayborn truly is a wonderful museum with tons of exhibits for adults but it has the most AMAZING discovery museum for kids. A lot of the pictures didn't turn out for other rooms we played in...but below are some fun samplings of our recent day at the Museum....

Andrew as a "cowboy" on a real saddle in the "Old West" area....





















Just like his Daddy, "cooking" breakfast for Mommy! My Sweetheart :) Luckily, modern day appliances have made cooking breakfast MUCH easier :)

In the "Bubble Room"... such a cool place. The kids can put themselves in a bubble, make walls of bubbles and just go nutty with bubbles...

There is also a water table filled with rubber ducks, boats and slats. With this, kids can figure out how to work with and against water currents and pressure.. there's lots of fun stuff to do here! It's a great place where kids can spend hours!

Easter 2010

Easter 2010 was kind of muggy/raingy but seemed to make for decent pictures. Andrew collected eggs before church and thought he hit the big time loot! (And we REALLY found out just how much he loves chocolate!!!)

Movie Position

Andrew, you are a lover of film and chocolate...(I strongly suspect Auntie Mame had something to do with this ;0) )

Below is a picture of you in one of your many favorite movie watching positions...

Next is what I would consider near heaven for you. You're in your movie position and have your Easter chocolate in reach. I guess for a 3 year old.. life doesn't get much better than this!! :)

My Guitar Hero

My sweet Andrew... you have always loved music. And instruments. And dancing. In fact, when Mommy was about 8 months pregnant with you - I went to see the Rockette's perform with Aunt Taboo, Aunt Diana and Ms. Sheri. And during the performances, you decided you wanted to "rock & roll" with them! You were EXTREMELY active that evening! :)

Sometimes I think you are even picturing yourself on stage in the middle of a huge rock concert. Recently you were shaking your "groove thang" and rocking out on the guitar that Uncle Jeff gave you for Christmas...

I think here you were getting "down" and "groovy" :o)

You always, always make me smile!!! I love you!!!

A Day at the Zoo...

The same weekend of the first Spring fishing - we also went to the Cameron Park Zoo. I'll admit - I am not the fondest person of Waco (I'd rather live somewhere with FOUR seasons! :) ) but we ARE Blessed to have such wonderful amenities within a few minutes drive and without the hassle of a bazillion others trying to get into the same place.


Cameron Park Zoo is really fabulous and we have all thoroughly enjoyed it... case in point...

Fishing with Daddy....

So this was a few weeks ago (March 13th or so...) It was our first pretty Spring weekend so we went down to the lake which we are Blessed to live so near to!

Andrew is very much like David in SOOOOO many ways... and one of those is a love for fishing...

10 1/2 Week Pregnant Belly Shot...

Here it is... more than 1/4 of the way through....

Still a long way to go...but here's the first official belly shot of Baby #2!

Davlin Style Bluebonnet Pics

O.k., so apparently we are horrible parents according to anyone who resides in the state of Texas. We have never taken pics of Andrew in the bluebonnets.

Yup. You read that right. We live in Texas, my husband is a proud Texan, we are parents and we have NEVER taken pics of our Andrew in the bluebonnets.

Well, last Sunday, David decided it was past time to do so. While he reassures me that there are some great pics in the bunch... these were his 2 faves...































Yup. That's our boy!! LOL!

I promise to post some of the good ones soon...but for now, I had to put these out there for anyone else needing a good laugh!!!

10 Week Checkup & the "Pregnant Freshman 15"

So I've been horrible at posting lately but promise to post lots of pictures taken of Andrew the past few weeks very soon...

But before too much time got away from me - I wanted to post that we had our 10 week checkup for Baby #2 today. Great checkup - the heartbeat was @ 130, Dr. wasn't concerned about my HORRIBLE college freshman style diet :) and we're set to have a sonogram on May 11th to check for birth defects.

I do have to share a funny story about my experience with one of Dr. Becker's interns. Sweet girl - but definitely new in the patient relationship field. She was a little nervous asking questions and muddled through the paperwork. She reviewed my last lab results, blood pressure and weight over the past few visits. When she got to the weight - she looked up "OH! You've put on weight!"...to which I wanted to remark "DUH - I'm pregnant" but withheld. So I asked her how much weight I had gained - fearing that my many horribly fattening indulgences had caused me to gain "The Pregnant Freshman 15"... Nope. Not 15. Just 3. To which I started to breathe a sigh of relief until she stopped me with, "Most women lose weight their first trimester." I once again pondered a retort but thought I'd let it pass.... lucky for her I'm not emotional right now!!! :)

News...

We've already tried to call/email/text as many folks as we could... but I figured that it was time to add this onto our blog for the future memory book I intend to make out of this thing one day.

I figure that I will let Andrew "explain' what the big news is....













































































So...just in case the t-shirt wasn't obvious :) We are expecting a little brother or sister for Andrew the first part of November. My due date is November 12th (or 13th?) but since I have to have another c-section, it will be sometime the week before.

Welp - that's all for now! :)

Good Luck with the Nightmares....

So tonight I was craving some yummy portabello stuffed ravioli from Olive Garden to which my loving husband and sweet boy obliged. As our luck would have it, we were sat with a not too attentive waiter and his "trainee". Usually when we go out to eat, it seems they have the entree out the same time as you get your salad and/or appetizer. Tonight... 1 hr and 15 mins later we still didn't have our food... sigh. But patience prevailed and we got our food.

Now where this came from...I'm not sure because these words did not come out of the mouth of David or me. And we really didn't bad mouth the service either (suprisingly)...but as we're leaving Olive Garden, Andrew hollers out "Good bye, Restaurant! Good luck with the nightmares!!" I guess that's another word for poor waitstaff?

Kids, Kids, Kids....what they can come up with.... :)