Sprinkler fun!!

Tonight our sweet friends Rebecca, Margaret, and Julie came over to play. We all ended up in the sprinkler! Oh what fun!

Fun was had by all!

I was cleaning up the house earlier and left my laptop in the den playing music and came back to find this! Isn’t he so precious!?

I’m heading to Ashburn tomorrow and will be at the beach with the family all week. Unfortunately, I will be on yet another blogging hiatus! I hope everyone has a great 4th of July and stays safe!!

Sprinkler Park!

Yesterday after school we went to the Splash Park in Roswell! It was so fun and totally worth the $1 admission to get in! Nate loved splashing around in the water and as long as he walked and watched where he was going it was virtually hurt free! He played in the water for about 45 minutes or so and decided he was done. That was fine with me. Like I said $1 admission, plus only a 15 minute drive! We got our $1 of fun! Right behind the sprinklers, as Nate calls them, there were two HUGE playgrounds with toys for older kids and younger kids. Nate enjoyed playing on the playground for a good 45 minutes or so and we headed home. Of course we had to ride with the top down! This is his newest obsession. I posted before that he loved his first ride. After the first ride he was afraid, no terrified! He would cry if I TALKED about putting the top down. After I started letting him sit in my lap when I put it down, or stand outside of the car he is fine. Maybe it is just when he’s strapped in his carseat that he is scared. I don’t know. But I do know that he’s asked me the past three days to put the top down when I picked him up from school! He pushes the button when we get home to put it up and he says “I didn’t cry!”. That’s my sweet boy! Here are some pictures of the sprinklers from yesterday!

He looks like, “Cheese, now can I play?!”

Off he goes!

Catch-up as usual!

So I have been so engulfed in my book in my spare time that I have been slacking on my blog post .Tisk Tisk! I shall get better soon as I am on the final book in my series!

Tuesday we went to the Bike store to get Nate a new helmet! He enjoyed looking at the bikes while Mama got the low down on all of the features and how to fit his new helmet! He found this thingamajig that allows you to ride your bike indoors in the comfort of your home! This bike store was for big time bikers. The bikes boasted $2000 and $3000 plus price tags! YIKES!!!

Here he is modeling the new helmet! We have “Bike Day” at school tomorrow!

He even wore it while watering the grass!!

Such a sweet boy!

Caught this video during lunch yesterday! I love his videos!

Playing catch-up

I am behind on my blog. I was being lazy Thursday night and was exhausted from our long day. It takes a lot of time to email myself the pictures then arrange them on here so I am including some pictures from Thursday night of my sweet boy!

Friday was pajama day at school. I let Nate pick out his jammies. Here he is right before bed with Teddy. He is so sweet!

Here was our dinner conversation Thursday night. It was just the two of us. Sorry for the bad orientation. Obviously I need to learn how to take videos!

Today after school and nap we went to HippoHopp. He loves it there. It’s a building full of inflatable bounce houses! He really enjoyed this ride on train and the crocodile(hard to tell that’s what it is) rocker behind him! He kept saying, “See you later alligator. After while crocodile!”

When we got home he and Julia played trains and built a new track with the new pieces they got Friday after I left! That boy loves his mama and she loves him!

A day late!

Yesterday after school we came home to grab a quick bite to eat and a short nap and headed out to swim lessons with Mrs. Linsey. Nate enjoyed swimming and we got ice cream afterwards.

We ate at a place I have never been before but it was good! It was like almost every other froyo place I’ve been to!

Here is our yummy combinations. He got cookies and cream (he calls it chocolate) froyo with iced animal crackers, sprinkles, and sour gummy worms. I got dulce de leche froyo with strawberries and strawberry and passion fruit “beads”. I don’t know the true name for the beads lol.

Here is my handsome date!

We played in the yard with my top down. He is so smart! He recognizes convertibles even without the top down now. We always point them out to each other. I’ll even catch myself when I’m alone pointing out the convertibles only to realize that he’s not there lol.

He made me so proud when he said my last name tonight! I love my smart baby boy!

I probably won't be posting tonight. I've not been feeling well so as soon as I get my little man all tucked in for the night I'll probably hit the sack to! 

Calling all elephants!!

Nate and I went to the zoo today! Couldn’t wait to share pictures and a few videos!

He liked petting the goats and sheep!

I even managed to get him to take a picture in the face-in-hole at the Meercat exhibit!

He kept telling me these were baby giraffes!

We had to see the zebras for my sake!!

His favorite exhibit was the elephants! He loved them and we kept going back to see them again and again!

Here is my sweet boy calling the elephants

I’d really like to go back sometime next week! Since Julia has a membership we can go as often as we like. I love the relaxing feeling of going and seeing a little bit at a time with the option of always coming back again to look at more. It’s not as overwhelming of a trip and Nate LOVES it! He woke up so perky this afternoon from nap. All I had to say was zoo and that booger bounced out of bed and headed downstairs for his shoes!

Here is our conversation on the way home! His brain is like a sponge soaking up ever bit of knowledge he can!

The “broken” tire.

After nap today Nate and I decided to go to the library to look at books and check some new ones out. That is always fun and now that he is older he can appreciate books more. On our way to the library we had a tire  blow out.

Well y’all know as well as I that when it comes to cars my Daddy spoils me. He is always the first person I call and he will ALWAYS come to the rescue to fix whatever is wrong. Being an hour away in Valdosta is hard but 2 1/2 hours away in Marietta is even harder for him to rescue me. So I decided to “man up” and change my tire myself. I have seen it done a million times it can’t be that hard! Just kidding.

After a few hours (okay maybe it was seconds- but it felt like hours) of trying to get the lug nuts unscrewed a sweet gentleman drove up behind me and said that he saw me hit the storm drain and wanted to check on me and he offered to change the tire. This man was dressed in nice clothes. I would hate for him to get his khakis and nice button up shirt dirty so I told him I would call AAA and get them to come help. He refused and got to work on my tire. He had an electric ratchet and had the old tire off and new one on in ten minutes! I was greatly impressed! Nate was so sweet and told the man “Thanks for fixing Miss Suzi’s tire!” before he left! I am so thankful for nice people!

Nate kept talking about my broken tire all afternoon. He couldn’t wait to show Julia my broken tire after we got home. I am thankful that we were safe and for people who do good deeds!