Lawn Mower Men

Like father, like son.

My favorite part about them mowing the lawn together is if Chris has to stop the mower for some reason, Tommy asks him, "Does your mower need more bubbles?"

Boy or Girl?

We found out this past week we will be having another boy. We are ecstatic that Tommy will have a brother to grow up with. The baby is doing well and is right on schedule!

Tommy and the Princesses!

This will the last Disney post! We had a blast on vacation and created great family memories. One of the highlights for Tommy was meeting the princesses. He wasn't too familiar with any of them, but the first night we were there, we caught the SpectroMagic parade. Cinderella is in this parade, Tommy immediately fell in love and requested to meet her. We found out that there is a whole building dedicated to meeting the princesses and fairies. As you can see from previous posts, Tommy was not shy at all with the characters, however, when it came to the pretty princesses, he became Prince Bashful, as Cinderella called him! Chris, however, noticed that Tommy was the only boy waiting in line to meet the princesses and was not happy about it. I had to promise him we would seek out Captain Hook to balance this out! Here are some pictures.

Tommy and Tinkerbell

Tommy and Belle

Tommy and Cinderella

Tommy and Ariel

Tommy and his kisses! He wouldn't let me wipe them off. Needless to say, all the princesses want to keep him too!

Swimming!

While in Florida, we took advantage of the swimming pool at our hotel. We went for a couple evening swims with Tommy. He loves the water and has started doing the doggy paddle with the help of floaties. Here's a video of him swimming.

The many faces of Disney

Here are some nice and not so nice pictures of Tommy while on vacation.

Pirate Tommy

We told Tommy to make a face and this is what he came up with.

A typical afternoon meltdown

Lounging at the hotel!

Disney overload! This was taken at the airport on the way home.

Character Dinner

We took Tommy to a character dinner at Epcot one night. He LOVED it! He always wanted the characters to sit down and eat with him. The highlight of the evening though was dessert. They served Tommy "dirt." This consisted of chocolate pudding with crushed up oreos and gummy worms on top. Now, Tommy loves all these ingredients alone, however, I kept telling him it was dirt and he really thought it was real dirt. He was laughing hysterically and ended up spitting most of the pudding out, quite a mess! Oh well, he had fun and we were amused!

Hotel Toy Story

On vacation, we brought some of Tommy's stuffed animals from home. To our surprise, everyday, the cleaning lady would put Tommy's guys in different situations in our room. For instance, one day we came back to see them all in cuddled on the bed, holding the TV remote and watching the Disney channel! Tommy loved coming back to see where his guys would be, in fact, Chris and I would get excited too to see where they would be placed. Here are some pictures of how we found them.

Goofy reading to all of his guys.

Watching TV

The last day!

Meeting Donald Duck!

Here is a video of Tommy meeting Donald Duck.

Disney World Characters!

We just got back from our first family vacation to Disney World! Tommy had a blast, in fact, we all had a blast. His favorite thing to do was to meet all the characters and get their autographs. I am posting 3 entries dedicated to pictures with the characters. I will then post a new entry from Disney each day. Enjoy the pictures and as the staff at Disney would say, have a magical day!

Disney World Character Pictures Part 2

Nothing like hugging a big plastic Buzz Lightyear!

Disney World Character Pictures Part 3

Characters from the new movie, UP!

The family with Mickey

Tommy loved Buzz Lightyear!

Handy Manny!

Shake Ya Tailfeathers!

The other day, we were downstairs playing and I put on some music from our computer. We have quite a collection on the computer. Tommy didn't pay much attention to the music until the Nelly song Shake Ya Tailfeathers came on. He went nuts. He loves to dance to it! So, I made a CD for him with the music he liked, it included this song, Born in the USA, and Good Vibrations. What a collection of songs! Anyways, here Tommy is showing off his latest dance moves. Oh and excuse the laundry in the background....never ending pile!

Summer has Arrived!

It's been hard to keep up with the blog lately, it seems like time flies in the summer! Finally warm temperatures have hit Michigan. We spent part of Father's Day weekend at the beach. We had perfect weather! Tommy even went into the lake...it's still a little cold, but he didn't seem to mind too much! Enjoy the pictures and happy summer!



Ready for the Beach!


Filling the bulldozer


Digging a big hole with Daddy


"It's cold, Daddy!"


Crazy Tommy

Strawberry Picking

It's strawberry season! Tommy and his friend, Siena, had a great time picking strawberries. I think more strawberries ended up in Tommy's mouth than our basket! Here are a few pictures from the day.




Picking strawberries!


Finding some "big ones" with Siena and Ms. Kelly.



Sampling the berries.



Holding hands in the fields!



Even though they are not looking, they are so cute together!

Fire House Visit!

Today we went to visit the local Fire Station. Tommy was a bit nervous at first around the big trucks. He kept thinking they were going to turn on and make loud noise. After being there for awhile though, he started to warm up and actually got onto a fire truck for a few seconds! He was more comfortable sitting in the little jeep! He had fun anyways.




This is as close as we could get at first!



In the fire truck!



Holding the fire hose.



Complaining about being on the fire truck.



Happy in the jeep!