Drew and Great Grandma Grundish

Well, here are a couple pictures of us at Grammy's house getting ready for our little party - a birthday party for Drew's 1st BIRTHDAY!!

Drew figuring out how he is going to get to Shelby! And Shelby is laughing at him saying "not a chance buddy!"

Just a couple more pictures of my day at home with Drew. This was way more fun then being at work!!

Here is Drew sliding down his kangaroo climber. He LOVES to slide! The slide at the park we like to go to is way too slippery and he scares me going down it. He ends up face first and I am holding my breath that he is ok and he is just laughing hysterically at himself!

Drew and I got to stay home and spend the day together. We had a pretty good day, we went to the mall to get his ONE year pictures taken and also paid a visit to the easter bunny while we were there. He was so funny, he got out of his stoller and ran - arms wide open - straight into the easter bunny's arms!! He took two good naps, here he is - so sweet - of course he woke up from the flash, but oh well that was my fault.

One more Drew picture for the night. He just was cute running around with his bat...

I'm probably not supposed to post this picture to the internet, but Drew is just so darn funny. His new thing is that he thinks it is hilarious for him to run around naked. As soon as you take him out of the bathtub and try to put a diaper and pajamas on him, he takes off laughing hysterically!!

Oh, and by the way - the red dot in the middle of his forehead is a rug burn from the tantrum he threw at my parent's house when my dad told him "no" to something.

Sorry we haven't posted pictures in a while, I'm sure everyone understands why. I do have some pictures that I needed to clear off of my camera for Drew's big ONE year birthday next week!! One night we were hanging out with Drew while he played with his new kangaroo climber he got as one of his birthday presents...

As I was uploading the other pictures, Drew decided to join me in the computer room and try on a couple of dad's umpire caps.

Well, my baby is 11 months old today - one more month and he is 1 So this is what he looks like as an 11 month old. Amazing how they change in the first year! He has quite the personality too. He loves to show off his clapping, high-fives, and waving bye-bye. We just bought our 5th wardrobe - 18 month clothes already!! He is walking almost perfectly, eating "people" food, talking (babbling) non-stop, passing the ball back and forth and of course (all ready) challenging my authority - and I LOVE every minute of it!!

If anyone knows RJ - I mean really knows RJ - you will be shocked to see these pictures of our house...

As you can probably notice, we had to remove one of our couches to make room for all of Drew's toys - priorities - hmmm.. keep Drew occupied or have somewhere to sit?!

I didn't realize that it had been so long since I have been on here. We have been SO busy!! Baseball season started a couple weeks ago so RJ is gone umpiring a lot. Drew and I stay busy, I joined Varsity gym and have been going after work. Drew has not adjusted to the childcare there yet, I guess since he doesn't know anyone and the surroundings are unfamiliar, he screams most of the time he is in there. Hopefully it will get better soon, I have only been able to spend about 45 minutes there, I'd like to stay a little longer and get some extra cardio in.

I have been really busy at work. I received a performance excellence award, along with a $750 bonus for putting together a software tool for planning and scheduling work. Now I am busy putting together some training and then I wil begin training the 100 users next week.

Drew finally had his 6th tooth cut through. He is busy and walking all over the place. He climbs on everything so I got him an early birthday present - a Kangaroo Climber. He LOVES to slide and he opens and closes the door over and over. He is not climbing on it yet, but he'll get there. We try to make it to the park on the weekends, and have considered getting a swingset for home, but I think the kangaroo climber works for now.

Let's see, what else do I need to catch up on? RJ and I did manage to make it to Mardi Gras in Cocoa Village Saturday night. They had a parade and carnival, it was so much fun. We met some friends I work with down there. It was an awful drive home though! Oh and we had a yummy Valentine's dinner at the Garlic. I've been on a diet so the Italian bread dipped in roasted garlic, oil and vinegar was excellent! Life is crazy busy right now!!

Here is my little baby einstein teaching himself to put the clue circle in the right hole! I looked over and he was totally doing it on his own!

Well, Drew turned 10 months old Saturday! I can't believe it, time is flying by so fast. Here are a couple pictures, Drew is dressed and ready to go to Target, beating RJ out the door now that he walking so good. He also is trying to get his mittens off - I wouldn't have kept them on either. Then right before bedtime, we tried to get a picture to document turning 10 months. I feel like he has this expression in every picture I take, but oh well, he has more hair and more teeth in this month!

We had a false alarm tonight. I noticed Drew tugging at his ears last night. Then when I picked him up from the babysitter today she said he pulled on his ears all day. He felt kind of warm so I took his temp when we got home - it was 102 - but I called the doctor since it was Friday, with my luck he'd end up feeling awful tomorrow. Since we live right around the corner from the office, she told us to come in and she would check him out. Turns out he is just teething - AGAIN! So by the end of the weekend, he will have 6 teeth! So we gave him some motrin and it was lights out. I hope he feels better for the Little Gym in the morning!!

We had a great weekend!! Saturday morning Drew and I went to this place in Port Orange called My Little Gym. It was a 45 minute kind of exercise / mommie & me type class. The whole room was filled with gymnastics mats and hrawled around, walked around, rolled around, played ball, saw bubbles for the first time and tons more. He literally laughed for 45 minutes non-stop. I am so glad that I took him there, we are now signed up to go every Saturday morning until June! I can't wait! RJ went golfing Saturday morning (which I almost blew off the little gym to go with him, but decided to stick to my original plans) and then took Drew for the afternoon while I went to the new high school and volunteered - serving spaghetti for NSBCAPS fundraiser. I actually had fun. We relaxed all day on Sunday, we wanted to go to the park but it ended up being too cold so we pushed all the furniture out of the living room and let Drew have a big play area. Now it's almost Monday again - too soon to go back to work!!

Drew took more steps tonight!!