Sweet Summer Time

Family Trip to SeaWorld

Sweet Bill Snuggles

I love that I work at such an amazing place where I can make and share so many great memories with my family. I am so thankful for the life Brandon and I have built in Florida and the amazing friends and family we have that love and support us on a daily basis! :) The picture below is probably my all time favorite to date. :) My love Baby, my little Baby and one of my Fur Babies!!

Graham is rather busy these days learning all sorts of new tricks. With the assistance of his 'learning walker' he snoozes all over this house! He started on his knees and has since learned to stand on his own aaaannnddd he's off! It's so precious to watch him scoot around and the pride in his face as he rushes past us.

Today we put him in his crib for a nap. Sometimes he doesn't make it all the way to a nap, but instad just sits in there and 'reads' and chats to himself. It's a nice chance for him to unwind and relax by himself since everyother moment of his little life he's surrounded by people and interacting with us. So today we heard him busy in there just chatting it up and we peeked in to check on him. Well, his cloth diaper was on the floor outside his crib and he was standing there naked as can be. Fortunately, he didn't have any accidents before we were able to fix this little wardrobe malfunction.

Besides being silly he is such a sweet boy. He loves to just crawl over and kiss us. If we are on the floor he'll just come over and plant on our cheek or if we are in a chair he'll come over and kisses our legs, it's so sweet. When he's on his way to bed he will kiss us, then blow kisses and then say 'bbbyyyyeeeeee' real soft and sweet.

Night night. :)

5 year Anniversary

Now that Graham can crawl he is very busy exploring the entire house. His favorite exploration sites are the kitchen, more specifically the pantry and the pots/pans draw under the oven. He also thoroughly enjoys our master bathroom and the 'treats' he finds under the cabinet.

He absolutely LOVES to watch baseball with his Daddy and the two of them will sit on the living room floor and play catch for hours. Graham has an incredible arm already and no doubt he will be a baseball player one day. Everything is a 'bbbaaallllll' including, but not limited to wrapped up dirty diapers (we keep the pitching of these to a minimum), balled up junk mail, and watermelons (yes, we have a watermelon rolling around our living room as we speak).

His favorite things to say right now are:

HI DUDE

Hi Kitty

Bird

Fish

Daddy

Looovveee ddewww (my favorite sound in the entire world!!)

Some of his favorite foods right now are goldfish crackers (LOVE when they are 10 for $10 at Publix!), blueberries which he will eat by the pint if we let him, turkey dogs, anything that resembles a carbohydrate, spaghetti ABC's, eggs, peanut butter sandiwches, oatmeal and yogurt. He is a wonderful eater and is a lot like his mommy and tends to get grouchy if we don't feed him the second he decides hes hungry.

Graham and Brandon are really enjoying spending their summer together. Brandon is such a great Daddy and takes such wonderful care of him so I can go into work a little more. I am still putting in some hours from home, but we are able to enjoy family time together often too and it's so wonderful.

In fact, last weekend we went to Treasure Island (West FL) for the weekend and had a big beach day/volunteer for Surfers for Autism event and trip to the Florida Aquarim. It was a wonderful little getaway for us and very much needed.

Today is a very special day. It is our 5 year Anniversary. I can't believe that it was 5 years ago that we got married! Such a special day to have all of our family together as we started our new life. Thank you to everyone reading this for being a part of this awesome journey with us! (Yes, Brandon is crazy...see photo below).