Preschool

T is now a big preschooler!

He is loving it! 

He has made new friends like Malaki and Frankie.

He is learning new things that excited him everyday like letters, numbers, songs, books and more.

He has definitely surprised me on what he picks up.  By the second week he had memorized the whole "Brown Bear Brown Bear" book.

He loves learning knew things and sharing what he has learned with people.

For Mama, the first day of preschool was a little more emotional than expected.

It is the first time (besides church) that he spends time on his own away from me.

It is only just the beginning.

He goes Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9-12.

It is at Shoreline Children's Center and is run by the Shoreline School District.

It is set up just like a school with 16 different classrooms, a library, a gym, a music room and a cafeteria.

So when I dropped him off the first day, it felt like my little boy had grow up.

He is changing so much it's a little hard to handle.

I am so proud of him but I tell him everyday that he needs to stop growing.

And I make him pinkie swear with me that he won't ever leave me.

Despite that he has a whole plan that when he turns 18 he is going to move out and live with

his Uncle DJ and be a doctor or a race care driver (depending on the day).

I wish I could bottle these years up and relive them when ever I want.

Vacation and a Wedding

D and I spent last week here...NYC!

We went because of these two wonderful people.  They were married in the Manhattan temple.  

We were so excited to be there for them. It was beautiful!  

Congrats my Brother and his new bride!

Since I had never been to New York City and my whole family with us:

all my brothers, sister in law and my parents,

we made it into a wonderful, busy, sightseeing vacation.

8 day, 7 nights...the kiddos stayed home with Grandma.

We did things like...

Took my first subway ride.

Probably looked like the biggest idiot trying to figure out the ticket machine and where we needed to go,

but we survived and best of all there were no muggings...yay!

We saw an amazing view from the Top of the Rock.

I only had my phone so no amazing pictures were taken...but I thought this was a funny view.

The weather was 90 degrees and almost 100% humidity and being 6 months prego, I spent as much time sitting where I could.

We paid our respects to Lady Liberty via a water taxi. 

She is amazing to see!

Checked out Wall street.  

On a Saturday this place is dead...the whole financial district was a ghost town expect for the tourists.

We also took a quick 5 hour drive with my parents and brother down to the capital.

Good to know about the east coast...it costs money to drive on the highway.  

We probably paid $40 in tolls from NYC to Washington DC.

Jeez...next time we'll take a train.

We took a wonderful bus tour of DC. 

Still a lot of walking but a least I could have a little a/c break once in a while.

First stop...

The Capital Building.

Next...World War II Memorial.

I heard this is beautiful at night.  

When we come back we'll have to check out all these sites at night.

The Washington Monument. 

Interesting..this is the tallest building in DC.

It is beautiful. 

And I love how it is the center of all the important monuments and buildings.

Then we stopped and saw this guy

Thomas Jefferson.

D and I sat and talked about the architecture.  Are those columns Ionic or Doric?

It brought me back to my art history days...loved it.

President Lincoln.

Bigger in real life.

I enjoyed how most people are real quiet around these memorials,
lets you really be able to take it in.

Ended the day at the White house.

This was way smaller than I thought. 

Who would of thought that 55,000 sq. ft. would be smaller in person.

I think the Obama's were out of town.

By the end my feet were ready to fall off.  

And we had only just begun to see DC...so we will definitely be going back again.

There are many favorite things about this trip,

but the top of the list by far was spending time with my hubby.

Life is busy and we don't have much alone time anymore.

Eight whole days was awesome!

 I am so excited for my brother Jake! I hope that he can have that in his life now.

Nothing beats a vacation with your best friend.

Amazing trip!

4 years old!

My little four year old.

He is a boy threw and threw and has been from the day he was born.

He is hilarious, smart, super friendly, sensitive and makes everything fun!

He is a great big brother to G.

They are like two peas in a pod and he is always concerned about her when they are apart.

(which is not very often at all)

His favorite thing is (still after three years) Cars. 

He has three different types that he likes to play with, "eyes car" (which are character cars from Cars the movie), Hotwheels and Nascars.  Sometimes they race together but most of the time he rotates through his collections. Yesterday for his birthday we went to the Disney Store and he got to pick out a toy (new Lightning Mcqueens of course).  They also put on Cars for him and gave him a mini celebration he was in heaven.

He is very excited to be four!

 When is party was coming to an end on Saturday he looked at me with complete excited and said,

"Mom now I get to go to preschool!" 

Because when your four you get to go to preschool.  He is so excited!

He loves to play with his friends.  And often plays pretend with them when they are not around.

G and T play really well together and makes my heart swell with joy when I see them having fun.

He is all boy but will play babies with G and do the girly stuff that him and his cousin Hadley like to play.

He loves to have his toenails painted and likes the color pink.  Two things that makes me laugh but some men in my family give me a hard time about.

One of his favorite new activities...riding his bike! 

He still loves to play with my shoes when I am getting ready.

It's hard to believe he is four.

I don't know how I got so blessed to have such an amazing kid.

I thank the Lord everyday for the blessing he is and that I get to be his Mom.

He is my world and my heart.

Love you T-man!