Random Friday

1) Hello Random Friday....it has been awhile. Welcome back. :)

2) Drew and I were so excited to take Paw Paw out for lunch today. Not that we wouldn't be normally excited, but getting to take him out today is a really big deal!! He had his last appointment with his transplant doctor here in Jackson this morning and they released him! Since his bone marrow transplant, he has been unable to eat at restaurants and has to be very cautious about being in public due to germ exposure. He has been looking forward to his 100th day just before Labor Day, but he was released five days early.

3) Mother's Morning Out went really well this week. When I dropped him off on Thursday, he took his teacher's hand and walked right in without any tears! I was able to get a lot of errands done. Both days I spent some time at a coffee place with my Bible and my journal. It was nice to be able to sit for as long as I wanted!

4) Look a this big boy sitting in the swing all by himself. The last few afternoons have been a little cooler and it has been nice to get back outside and enjoy his play set.

5) I have start couponing this summer and I am finally starting to see the results. Our grocery bill has really gone down and I am saving big money on personal care and household items. Last week I got over $60 worth of items at Walgreens for $20. We will see how long I can keep it going.

Have a great weekend!

Girls, Painting, and Potato Head

Drew and I have had a busy couple of weeks! Grammy and Aunt K came to visit for a few days. I didn't manage to get a picture of them together. It was great to have them here. We spent time cooking, shopping, laughing, and playing with Drew! Thanks to the help of Aunt K, my freezer is stocked with meatballs, Chicken Spaghetti, and Gumbo. I think I could get used to the idea of paying for the groceries and someone else cooking. :) Last Tuesday night we had a full house! My friend Christi and her girls came up from Florida to spend a few days with us. Mom and Kathy left on Wednesday morning. It was fun to see the girls and Drew play together and it was great to spend some QT with Christi.

Drew and his girlfriends

This has also been a busy week! Drew started Mother's Morning Out yesterday. I have talked about it non-stop since I enrolled him in the spring and have been SO excited about it....until yesterday. I had serious trouble leaving him, but felt better after I picked up and looked back on all I had accomplished in my morning. He seemed to do great as well. He will go on Tuesday and Thursdays. I will have Tuesday for me and Thursday I will go to BSF.

Monday we decided to do a little finger painting. He is pretty funny about having things on his hands, but I think he enjoyed it.

You want me to do what?

This is pretty fun!

But really, get this off my fingers!!

We decided to head outside to get cleaned up. :)

We bought a Mr. Potato Head at Disney when we went in February. He hasn't played with it since the Spring. It was fun to watch him with it this morning. You can really see how much he has changed. This spring, he played with the pieces and didn't really mess with the body. You should have seen some of the creations he came up with today!

Almost 21 Months

Forgive this video. It isn't really full of anything exciting, but I thought the grandparents would like it. :) I love toys that they play with for a long time and aren't just for one stage. He has played with this basketball goal since last summer. I also love to see how his play changes. At first he just played with the basketballs at the bottom and now he has to wait until he hears just the right song and then takes off dancing! It seems like a good number of the pictures I have taken lately have just been in his diaper. Forgive us, but it has been HOT. ;)

One of these days I am going to print out my blog in a book since this is the only scrapbook I will probably ever finish! Mom bought me digital scrapbooking software which I really need to use again! Anyway, I wanted to put up a few milestones for Drew so I will have them for whatever becomes the scrapbook. :)

Drew-

At almost 21 months here are a few things you have been up to:

- To say you love Elmo is the understatement of the century! You say the word "Elmo" about 500 times a day. You can pick Elmo out from a long way away in a store and you let everyone know when you do.

- You are quite the dancer. You and momma have a dance party to praise music almost every day in your room.

- You are wearing 24 month/2T clothes and a size 5 diaper. I am not sure about your height or weight, but I know you are growing. Before we left for Arkansas in June you could easily walk underneath the bar in the kitchen. We quickly learned when we got home in July that you could not walk underneath it and you have learned to run WAY around it so not to bump your head.

- You love to color. Including the wall in the hall that mama managed to clean up.

- Lately you have loved playing with Mega Blocks. You can sit in the floor and put them together and take them apart for almost 10 minutes. That is a long time for you to play with one toy!

-We were happy to drop you off at Sunday School last week with NO TEARS! You have had a difficult time adjusting to new surroundings at church, but are doing much better.

-You love to hold momma and da's hand when we pray and you always give us a good AMEN.

You are fully of energy and are learning something new everyday. Da and I can't wait to see how God is going to use your energy and desire to learn in the future!

Mickey Mouse

August '09 9 months

February '09 15 months

August '10 21 months