Summer, Summer, Summertime!

Greetings!

It is summer here in Nashville and we have been loving every minute of it.  We had a very seasonal spring and once the humidity set in, it got hot fast. It is hard to believe it is July already.

At the beginning of May we went to the circus!  It was a very small show but very cool.  I loved watching all of the performers.  We also made a trip to Lucky Ladd farms for a construction expo and it was so cool to get up on the big tractors! At the end of May we met Aunt Shelley and cousins Finley and Harper in Chattanooga for a weekend get away.  We stayed at the historic Chattanooga Choo-Choo hotel in our very own train car.  The hotel was huge and we had so much fun.  We visited Ruby Falls and the aquarium while we were there, too.  The caves were so neat and the waterfall was magnificent.

June has been tons of fun as I started a gymnastics class at school and we have water play once a week, too.  I love to play in the water and have been learning how to frog-jump and forward roll.  We have made a few trips to the zoo and we have been hanging out at our friends' swimming pools quite a bit. We also took a trip to the local water park, Nashville Shores, and had a great time.  We went down the Big Kahuna slide, played on the slides, floated in the lazy river and rode the waves in the wave pool!

Mama took me to go see my first movie and it was so much fun!  We saw "Home" and I loved watching the movie on the big screen and eating my popcorn snack.

Here are some photos from the last month or so.  Enjoy!

Wishing you all a safe and happy 4th of July!

camels, zebras, and ponies at the circus

a performer balancing on multiple chairs

The sword Mama bought for me at the circus

Lucky Ladd Construction Expo

Mama and me in the tractor at the expo

me on the green tractor

playing in the bubbles at Lucky Ladd

In the cave at Ruby Falls

Harper, Mama, and me at Ruby's Waterfall

Our train car room

Me, Harper, and Finley - stair steps

Funny faces

All of us at the hotel by the train

At the aquarium with a big turtle behind me

 

me and Mama at the aquarium

swimming with rings

After my fun filled day at Nashville Shores.  I didn't even wake up for dinner that evening.

In the train car at the zoo

At the movie with my snack

Me and my bestie, Harlow, in her swimming pool

Happy 4th of July

April and May Happenings

Greetings!  It looks like I didn't make it three months without abandoning my one blog entry a month new year's goal so here is April and May combined.

Over the past couple of months we have stayed very busy.  Mama turned 30 something on April 3rd and this will be the last year of her celebrating turning 30 something. I tell her how pretty she is and that I love her every day so I think that helps.

We colored Easter eggs for Easter and I got to hunt eggs a whole bunch.  We had an egg hunt at my school, another one at the Zoo, and Mama hid eggs around the house for me to find..so much fun!

This spring has been very nice, not too hot so we have been spending tons of time outdoors.  Mama bought me a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle kite and we have been flying it over the past week.  We went to the Buttercup Festival in Nolensville, have been to the Zoo, went and checked out the new baseball stadium, and played at the Maverick parks a lot.

Potty update - I am officially wearing underwear and have been using the potty with minimal accidents since the middle of April.  Mama is so proud of me and I am so proud of me, too.  No more pull ups, yay!

Here are a few photos from the past couple of months.  Also, when we visited Atlanta we took photos of all of the cousins, enjoy!

Me with the Easter Bunny, Miss Erin, at school.

My best friend, Harlow, and me after we hunted for eggs.

Zoo egg hunt, lots of people.

Here I an with my basket of eggs from the Zoo hunt.

I got to color 18 eggs at home!

Riding a pony at the Buttercup Festival.

A much needed haircut!

Showing off my new underoos and muscles!

Ollie boy, Mama wondered why her couch cushion was sinking in the middle.

Friday night pizza and popcorn party, picnic style.

Me and Mom being silly!

More silliness, me in my clothes hamper.

And even more silliness...me playing with my play mat from when I was a baby.

Me and Ollieboo.

Me and mom at the new Nashville Sounds stadium, very cool!

My friend, Sebastian, and me.

Cousin photos, March 2015.

 

Spring Has Sprung!

Greetings all.

What a fantastic month we have had.  We had another fun filled round of that white stuff and got to go out a play in it this time since the temperatures were a bit warmer than the previous ice storm. We went sledding, made snow angels, and built a snow girl.  Our upstairs neighbor had never seen a real live snow girl, so she enjoyed it very much.

We had visitors come all the way from Iowa, Aunt Stephanie and Cousins Amy and Grant.  We all traveled to Roswell to visit all of our other cousins, aunts, and uncles.  The weather was beautiful so we spent a ton of time outdoors jumping on the trampoline, playing t-ball, swinging and sliding in Aunt Shelley and Uncle Matt's backyard.   I had so much fun playing with all of my cousins and was sad to see them go.  We can't wait until we can all be together again.

I love to tell the story of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf and am using the potty on a pretty normal basis as of the past few weeks or so. I have become quite the chatterbox lately as well. Soon I will be wearing big boy underwear all the time.

Our snow girl

mama and me with our snow girl

Getting ready to sled down the hill

making a snow angel

 our snow angels

busy building with my blocks, it looks like I had some chocolate too

I got new rain boots for the season and I love them

Me and my bestie, Harlow, at our friend, Topher's birthday party

Playing on the slide at the party

Benihana with Cousin Grant, celebrating Cousin Finley's birthday

The birthday girl, she turned 7

Finely and Harper getting ready to eat

Cousin Teddy going down the slide

my turn, we had so much fun playing in the back yard at Uncle Shae and Aunt Lisette's house

Amy pretending Barbie is a phone

Playing outside

Baby Charlie smiles, he is getting so big

Happy St. Patty's Day

I wrapped myself up in the swing at Aunt Shelley and Uncle Matt's, ouch

Picture day - three pretty girls

Four handsome boys

Rub a dub, dub, three cousins in a tub, so fun

Trampoline Fun

puddle jumping

Happy spring!

Maverick James