End of Summer and More Swingset Pictures

A long over due update... Blake is walking, running, talking and into EVERYTHING!!! I am totally exhausted by the end of the day because he is full force from the beginning to end and is such a boy, which I am glad about!!! He will be 17 months old this week and that is hard to believe!!

Word list: truck, car, light, dog, sun, shoes, boat, ball, book, tree, stick, bye-bye

Sounds: train (choo, choo) lion (roar), monkey (ooo,aaa) airplane (swoosh) car (vroom) truck (vroom, vroom) dog (who,who), and the newest clock (tick-tock)

He loves to sing the itsy bitsy spider and does the motions, as well as If your Happy and You Know it (he claps and stomps at the right times) and loves The Wheels on the Bus (prefers the shhh shhh shhh part of the song)

Blake's a big dancer loves to dance to the music, so we have music time at our house daily!! It gets all the excess energy out, you know:)

Believe it or not Blake can correctly identify letters of the alphabet: D, T, M,G,C and Z are our mastered letters, needless to say GiGi and Blake have one-on-one school time during the week.
GiGi and Blake have a wonderful relationship, she is wonderful with him and I am so lucky and blessed that she has given so much time and love to Blake. We love you GiGi!!

Josh and I spent 5 days away from Blake in September, this was the first time we have ever been away from him. I think I about had a nervous breakdown before we left, but in the end it was good for us but I don't want to do that again for a while!! Blake stayed with GiGi and Gmax and they had a great time.

All in all we are doing well, finally starting to settle in at our new house, finally putting some things on the wall and relaxing a little. We love it here, we miss our old neighbors but the house and the yard are wonderful!!

P.S. Heather, I hope your are enjoying the pictures!!

Gigi and Blake taking a swing on the glider together.


Enjoying a snack

Underneath there is this really cool sandbox and picnic table

Daddy really caught the moment here, in swinging motion!!

I just love this picture!!

Pushing around his truck in the backyard.

SOooooo big, I can't believe how much he has grown, at his 15 month check up he was 35 inches long and 27 pounds 12.8 ounces!!

Blake and Berkley enjoying the pool in the hot summer day:)

Blake also loves to get in the laundry basket, here he is just awaken from his nap and in the laundry basket.

Blake loves to play in the dirt and he loves his Berkley!!

Blake's New Swingset

We finally have Blake's swing set up and useable and he absolutely loves it, we spend a lot of time outside to say the least!! Enjoy a few pictures of Blake and his new "playground" as we call it:)


Here he is on the glider.


Going down the slide like a big boy and all by himself!!

G-max, Blake and daddy on the day they put the last board in, whew! thank goodness!! Josh and his dad spent about 2 and 1/2 weekends putting this thing together, it was a BIG job but totally worth it once they saw the look on Blake's face when he figured out what it was. THANKS G-max and daddy!!!

I absolutely love this picture, it totally captures the moment, G-max and Blake enjoying the afternon in the swings.

Here it is......Blake's new playground!