The Children's Museum

For President's Day weekend Grandma and Grandpa Fleischman came to town and Andrew got spoiled rotten of course. He went to the park 3 times in one day with Grandma. Talk about heaven!
We also went to the Austin Children's Museum with them and although a lot of the stuff is a bit more grown up than Andrew he had fun watching all of the big kids and trying to do some of it on his own.
One of the exhibits is about different types of construction - house construction and then the type that requires big machinery on wheels. You can see what Andrew loved.
Daddy was helping at first.

Then he just climbed right in and started playing on his own.


There was a little section for the younger kids with a little frog pond and a little maze of golf balls which Andrew liked to throw, and a vacuum that blew air on his face, and a little slide.

There was this little toy that if you pulled the lever side to side it would move the frogs up and down and made noise. He really liked this little noicemaker.


Then we went to the fish tank. I think he could have stayed there all day. He loved watching the fish swim around and kept trying to bang on the tank. I tried to tell him the word fish and get SHuHHSH so I guess that was close enough.


And they had a little dairy farm station that showed how the milk got from the cow to the store and it has a little grocery store that you can stock the shelves on and sell stuff to the restaurant too. I'm sure that will be more entertaining when he gets older but this time he was just pretty interested in the big cow.



And riding the cow was lots of fun too.

The train that made all sorts of noise when he pushed buttons was a huge hit too. He makes the choo-choo sound pretty regularly now when he has his train at home.
Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Fleischman for the fun weekend!

Feeding Myself Mom!

I am trying to let Andrew feed himself more so that he can learn how to do it and give me a break. :-) We are making some progress but slowly. He does manage to make a huge mess with very little to no practice at all lol.
He has the idea that the spoon somehow gets the food into his mouth but note the angle and you can imagine why the majority of it is already on his whole face and head.

Oops! Did you take a picture of that?

Wonder if I can get this granola bar in my mouth or if the dogs will get the majority of this yummy treat....

Kind of embarrassed that I'm covered in this applesauce.

But oh what a fun time we had!

Look Mom I Can Climb!

My little monkey always manages to climb on everything but it has always been incremental until he figured out the coffee table and the couch. Here are some cute pics of him climbing on the coffee table and showing off. Just pretend he has pants on and hasn't ditched them in the corner lol.
The progression of getting on the table.



Working up his smile for the camera.



What a ham! He loves to get right up in the camera lens and make these goofy faces. And it makes me laugh every time. I love this cute little man!

Playground Discovery

Now that Andrew is getting a little bigger I am trying to make sure he gets lots of exercise to burn off all of that crazy ENERGY that he has. And luckily our neighborhood has a great park with lots of slides which Andrew can't get enough of. He still won't walk but he will crawl all over this park, up the stairs and down the slides. He even goes up big playscape and has no fear of the big kids slides. He turns around and slides down on his tummy and giggles and laughs the whole way down.




This is one of my favorite thing to do with him because he is so darn cute and happy. And he sleeps great when we get home which is a big time mommy bonus. :-)

Snowmageddon 2011

For those of you who live in places it actually snows regularly this will certainly be wimpy but for those of us in South Texas this was a rare occurence. It is pretty funny because the whole town shuts down when it snows. I don't even think we own a snow plow to clean up when it does snow.



He thought it was pretty cool until daddy tried to toss the snow at him and hit him right in the face.
Andrew hasn't actually seen real snow. So we took him out to check it out.

Cute Bath Pictures

Andrew loves bathtime and looks forward to it every night. He splashes around and plays in the water and the bubbles and eats the bubbles and has a good old time. These are some cute pics of my favorite little man.

My New Dishwasher

Not that exciting a post except for myself of course, but I won a dishwasher at one of my clients open houses in December. I finally got it at the end of January and was sooo excited. Our old dishwasher had to have everything prewashed and even then sometimes washed a second time to get it clean. Pain in the butt!

James working hard to install the new dishwasher for me.


Finally installed. Isn't it pretty and shiny and nice?


The fully loaded dishwasher ready to go for the first time. And it worked marvelously!