Blake's New Wheels

Blake got "new wheels" for his 3rd birthday! Josh and I debated wether or not to spend the money on such a toy but it has been great. As you can see Blake loves to cart Marley around with him, although I do not think Marley likes it as much as he does!

Summer Fun

Blake loves water...he is perfectly content with a garden hose and splashing in the puddles. Here he is after one of his "splash downs" in the mud.

Blake and Marley after a dip in the pool.

Pictures in forgot to include in the last post:

Blake playing on daddy's rehab equipment.

Resting with daddy during his 8-hour long rehab, yes he had to be in this machine 8 hours a day for a week.

Blake checking out the machine.

What a week it has been!

Blake turned 3 a week ago Sunday! It is crazy to think he is already 3 and becoming such a big boy. We had a great birthday party with family and close friends, thanks to everyone who came and made for a great day. At 3 Blake is very independent, he wants to do everything "by myself," he is very smart and VERY active! He absolutely hates to have his haircut and go to the doctor. He loves being outside, being barefoot, playing with his trains and chuggers and his puppy dogs. We are in the middle of potty training (one thing I have dreaded for a long time) and it is going well, hopefully the day will come soon that it will "just click." In addition to Blake's birthday, Friday (the day before Blake's birthday party) Josh had surgery to fix his knee, he torn his ACL, MCL and both meniscus, and pretty much put him out for just about a week and a half. The recovery has been very intense and not as fast as either of us would like but Blake has enjoyed the machine that Josh had to be in for 8 hours a day during the first week. As for me, I am now 19 weeks pregnant, at last visit our due date is Halloween and I have gained 2 and 1/2 pounds. This pregnancy has been totally different than my pregnancy with Blake. I was very nauseated the whole first trimester and continue to be nauseated every so often. I am very tired, I guess the difference here is I am chasing after a 3 year old instead of sleeping anytime I want (like I did with Blake). We will find out on the 15th if we are having a boy or a girl, my instinct is a girl and Blake has called it his "baby sister" since we told him about the baby. We are looking forward to vacation to Ono in a few weeks, something about the sand and salt water that does the soul good.

Blake loves to put his feet (and everything else, obviously) in the sand.

Giving DeeDee some love, we are so thankful that DeeDee was able to stay for a week to help with Blake while Josh was recovering.

Enjoying his birthday lunch, I think he enjoyed the chocolate icing the best!

These two have become great friends, they look like two old men with the lawn mowers.

Loving his new wheels.

An annual water fight at Blake's party.

Gotta love the wonder pets, thanks Grandma Metcalf.

Baby Will came to visit Blake the day before the party, Blake loved having him here and really wanted him to play with all his toys.

Hanging out with DeeDee.

Uncle John with Blake going down the slide.

Blake loves to splash in the puddles here he with the kids in the neighborhood enjoying the rain.

Stopping to smell the flowers.

Having breakfast on the patio with DeeDee

T-daddy and Blake.

Flying High....well, Almost!

A few weekends ago we are a fun opportunity to get up close and personal with a "real" airplane. G-max has a friend from work that owns his on plane and he was kind enough to meet us at the downtown airport in Greenville to let Blake see a real airplane. Blake was very hesitant at first but very quickly warmed up and as you can see from the pictures truly enjoyed touching and feeling all the things about the airplane. Thanks Mr. Randy for a wonderful opportunity, we had a blast!

Blake hanging out by the airplane.

Blake standing on the wing of the airplane.

Daddy and Blake in the cockpit.

Mr. Randy showing Blake all the cool computer stuff inside the plane.

Blake taking a turn with the steering wheel/stick.

Mr. Randy telling Blake what all the different wings do.

What we have been up to......

We are in full swing of soccer season, which means there is little time for anything else but the day in and day out functions of family life! However, we have managed a little time for other fun things. Here are some pictures of the past few weeks....

Reynolds (Blake's cousin) and Blake at the soccer field.

Blake painting Easter eggs

We joined the Pittman's for the Shriner's Circus at Furman. Here is Kate and Blake having a great time together. We were very nervous about how Blake would react (he is not a big fan of loud noises) but he did fantastic and had a great time.

Over spring break Blake and daddy went and purchased a new lawn mower and Blake loves to sit on it.

We FINALLY got a haircut.....here is Blake sporting his new hair do.

Here is Blake and Harker playing at our house, they had a great time together.

Here is Blake at Harker's birthday at Chucky Cheese, needless to say we are NOT a big fan of Chucky Cheese!!

One of Blake's favorite things to do is get in laundry baskets and let his daddy swing him around. Here is how we found him one afternoon...you think he wants to go for a spin??