Picnic with my Andrew

Today David picked Andrew up a little early from daycare and brought him home for some "hang time" with me. Andrew wanted to have a picnic in "Uncle Jeff's" room (aka: the front living room / media room )...

I thought it would be fun to let Andrew take the reins on our picnic. We first had to fill 3 tupperware storage bowls with water to make "wishing wells" (I didn't ask... I just went with it!). Andrew then picked a blanket and a throw to place our picnic on Then we placed the wishing wells at three of the corners of our picnic blankets.

For our actual picnic, Andrew chose what we would be eating. Leave it to an almost 4 year old...we snacked on 1 string cheese stick, some Lays potato chips, marshmallows and Fruitable juice boxes (not pictured).

That was probably the best picnic I ever had...particularly because my sweet Andrew & I got to share about 30 minutes together talking and being silly together. What a perfect time!

Sweet girl...

Today, Alyssa is 7.5 weeks old. It still takes until noon for both me and her to get dressed (and that's on a GOOD day...)

I thought today we would attempt to go to HEB. We get dressed, then she has a meltdown of colicky madness. But this is the result after 30 minutes of screaming....too cute!


(And note...we didn't make it to HEB by ourselves...luckily David had to go to which was a Blessing because 5 minutes into HEB and Alyssa had a meltdown and only wanted me to hold her...the carseat wouldn't do the job for her...sigh....)

Talking with her friends...

While doing some dishes yesterday, I heard Alyssa cooing and talking away in the family room. I looked and found her visiting with her good friends, Giraffe & Ele-phant...

Such a cute sight and wonderful sounds!

Mat time

It's times like these that I'm going to miss so much when I go back to work...just hanging out with Alyssa while she plays on her mat while making silly faces and cooing noises...

7.5 weeks

Big Brother Skills

I just love this progression of pics with Andrew holding Alyssa the other night... she is just over 7 weeks old here and he is 3 years, 10 months... too precious!

Playing peek-a-boo with her!

PRECIOUS

Sleeping Angel - almost 7 weeks

Armed and Ready to Play

Remember those Nerf guns from Christmas? Well, here is the fun...not pictured is David who also was armed with a third gun... let the rubber Nerf bullet shooting begin!

Andrew is ready for battle!

He is serious about this Nerf game...

Trying to run past Daddy without getting blasted...

The guys have so much fun playing with the guns...that is one of the best things about David is his love to play and get into the games with Andrew. They really have a blast together!