My First Children's Book!!: Thank you, Brandermill Church!

My First Children's Book!!: Thank you, Brandermill Church!: "Thank you, Brandermill Church for hosting such an amazing 'Dare to Dream' event! The event was centered around local Christian authors of al..."

Tumble Time!

I really wanted to sign Tristan up for tumbling. The YMCA offers this little class for 2-3 year olds. We decided that he would probably like it so we gave it a shot. His first class was this past Thursday night for 30 minutes. We were right... he LOVED it! I mean, really, it was just a few kids running around like maniacs, but I think that kids need that! It was so fun to watch, minus the bullies..... But that is a totally different story!

 BUMMER- I can't get it to let me rotate..... sorry!

I think his favorite past was the bar :) Maybe one day he will be into gymnastics like I was! He has the right height!!

Birthday Post #3

 My attempt at making a Thomas the Train cake... Tristan said, "Mommy, Thomas out of tunnel!!" I was excited that he understood what was supposed to be happening on the cake! :)

 Rock Star in the making :)My

 You can never be too careful!

Tristan was excited that he got to eat some of the candy off of the cake. He liked the gumdrops!

For Tristan's birthday, we had his grandparents over for lunch and cake on Saturday. Ryan's dad and Pat were not able to make it because they were snowed -in in PA. We missed them!

Tristan had a great time. He did really well with all of the attention, too! We are so blessed to have family who loves us so much. We love them, too!!!

Birthday Post #2

January 28, 2011
The Day you were born!!!

Tristan, you are SUCH a blessing to our lives. We love you SO much!

Yesterday, on Tristan's real birthday, I got some good news! I had a 2 hour delay for school so I got to spend a few minutes with Tristan on his birthday before I went to work. He is usually not awake when I leave for work so this was a real treat for me. I went in to get him out of bed at.... my goodness... 8:25 am and he said, "Happy Birthday, Mommy!!! Eat pancakes!!!" Needless to say, even though I only had 15-20 minutes before I HAD to be in my car or I would be late, I HAD to make my son pancakes! So we worked in the kitchen together and whipped up some chocolate pancakes. YUMMMMY. The were SO good!

When I got home, the three of us enjoyed some good family time. When T woke up from his nap, he opened presents first because we wanted some day light hours outside with the big present. More on the later....

After Tristan opened his presents, we told him he had one more big present that was waiting outside for him. We got all dressed and out we went!!

Now you can imagine what we did the rest of the evening!!! Although he was a little uncertain, he did really well! We had so much fun watching him in his new Jeep :)

After the outside and present fun, we went in for dinner and cake. Tristan loves tortellini so we had that for his meal. He devoured it!!

Our precious boy getting ready to dig into his cupcake! I think he was even more excited that I let him eat the candy that was on top :)

Tristan, Mommy and Daddy love you SOOOO much. Happy 2nd Birthday, Buddy!!

Tristan is TWO!!! Post #1

I can't believe my tiny baby is growing up and is now a big TWO year old!!! Wow! It seems so cliche but boy does time fly!

I will start first with his doctors appointment last week for his two year check up. First I was nervous because Ryan was not going with us. No big deal but he had one more shot to get left (more on that later) and a full of life toddler can be a lot in the doctors office. I mean, who wants their doctor to think they are bad parents? So I always seem to be more particular about things there... anywho....

SO Tristan stood on the big person scale. No more tiny baby scale to sit on. He weighed in at 29 lbs but that was fully clothed and diapered. He is 33 1/2 inches tall. They measured his head too but I have no idea what that was! :) Percentage wise, I had to look it up when I got home. I am thinking if I read the scale thingie right, that weight is about 60% and height is about 20%

My boy is growing! I asked how he was doing developmentally and Tristan then preceded to tell the doctor that she needed a papertowel because she has washed her hands. She look at me and said that based on the fact that he says full 5 and 6 word sentences there is no need to worry about anything! Praise God.

Back to his last shot... I had told Tristan a head of time that he was going to be getting a shot in his leg. He has to get the last of his Hep-A shots. I tried to prep him for what would happen and how it would feel etc, but I was sure to tell him it will be all better very quickly. He just kinda said OK. So when the nurse walked in with all of the stuff, he literally layed down on the table, stuck out his leg, and then asked, "All done, now??" HAHA That's my boy!!!

Happy Birthday Tristan. You are the best answered prayer ever. Your daddy and I love you so much. You make us proud in new ways everyday!

Cookie Time!

 I LOVE this one! (above)

Tristan and I LOVE to make cookies. I mean, lets face, who doesn't like to? Well, maybe some people. I will confess that we do it the extra easy way. When we make them together, we usually make just the slice and bake or the ones you literally take from the package and put them on the pan. I like them because they have the seasonal shape in the middle and he likes that. So when I say that we make cookies, usually that means that Tristan put sprinkles all over them. This past time, I was home on a snow day and we got a package out to make some. It was so funny to me how precise Tristan was with how he was putting the sprinkles on. Usually he just shakes them EVERYWHERE and sprinkle balls roll across the kitchen floor. Not this time. This time he was so careful! He was also very particular as to which cookie got sprinkles and which didn't.

Tristan, you crack me up. There is never a dull moment. I love that you know exactly what you want. I hope that you always go after what you in life and never back down! I love you!

A bit out of order....

I know now that I am not exactly going in order but I wanted to post on this anyway!

This year I have really REALLY enjoyed being out on snow/ice days. Don't get me wrong, I love being out of work regardless, but Tristan is at such a fun age! We have been able to play, bake, sing etc. So much fun!!!! I wanted to post some pictures of the times we get to spend together on these days. I love it!!!