To Cute, Not to Post

It may look like an early start to celebrating the Forth of July, but we were actually heading out for a "Mad Hatter" play date. Everyone was required to wear some sort of silly hat. I must say I was really not looking forward to this one, but once I found our hats and we saw all the other "crazy" mommies and kiddo's it was really fun.  Hunter is just like his mama and doesn't like to keep his hats on, but this crazy hat stayed on the entire play date. 

A few weeks ago, we made a weekend trip to Houston for a Birthday party and our much needed dose of Houston. It's crazy to think about how much we talked about always wanting to get out of Houston, and now we can't wait for our weekend trips back. Although, we have settled into life in San Antonio, we still miss what we had in Houston. The picture above was taken at the Birthday party which was outside on a very hot afternoon. They had a swimming pool and huge water slide to help keep everyone cool, but it was still really hot and humid.

this is how we usually find him....

One of Hunter's new tricks is, dumping out a bucket and climbing into it. This picture was taken after he struggled for about 10 minutes pulling out all of his books from the bucket, and then figured out how to climb in it, all while holding his favorite book.

We recently got a new camera, and it seems the only place we can get a good shot is while sitting in his high chair. So we've been doing alot of playing around with it during meal times.  Above and below are a few of the really good ones that we got tonight during dinner.

Oh my, life is tough when your little

This is what we call the "Texas Tornado"

So Hunter has had several nicknames in his short little life. We started with Peanut, then we had Bubba and Hunter Bear, moving onto to Monkey and now the best one yet. Texas Tornado. In a matter of about 5 minutes this is the damage our little Tornado can do.

this is one of my favorite pictures of Hunter so far. Devilish, but super cute. You can almost see the wheels turning in his head. "What can I get into next?"

Hunter found and was in "Love" with this poor little kitty. He was so sweet and loving to this kitty. Nothing else mattered ... Different toys, food, the other kids. Nope just the kitty, and when it was time to leave we had a major melt down.

Mr. Independent

15 months old, and so very independent..... Seems like as soon as he figured out the walking thing, he also figured out that being independent is much cooler than having help. So it's been a struggle, finding a happy medium for all us when it comes to feeding, playing (especially play group activities) and just plane old basic survival.  As you can see in the picture above, that our little boy likes to eat his sandwiches whole, cut up pieces are for babies, I guess....  He loves to use his spoon or fork to eat as well, but only if he is able to hold onto them.  It's just not cool to have Mommy and
Daddy feeding me anymore. He would rather climb up the stairs then being carried up. Closing doors and turning off and on light switches, yep you guessed it... those are his jobs. He's also starting to figure out how to climb on things to get to something else. Makes for interesting days now, chasing this little monkey around. Never a dull moment. There are times each day when I think about how "easy" life was "back then" before we had a crawler/walker, but then I think how fun it is to watch him explore and learn.  Below are just a few photo's of our very independent little Peanut.



Pretty sure the spaghetti won this battle



Looking Cool and ready to go swimming



chillin by the pool, after a morning of swimming with friends



Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My......

A Morning at the Zoo....

 Thursday morning was time to see our extended family "at the Zoo".. We bought season passes a while back, which Hunter and I have put to good use. We can get in an hour and half before the Zoo opens to the public and before it gets too hot. So several of the Mom's got together for a fun morning at the Zoo.



Jamie and Isaac, Me and Hunter and Ru and Bridger



 Jamie introduced us to a cool little part of the Zoo that we hadn't found yet. It's a little river for the kiddo's to splash around in. As you can see we weren't really prepared for it, but we made do with a swim diaper and lot's of sun screen.







Testing the water, to see if he wanted to sit down or not.




Thank Goodness for play area's with water for the kiddo's.



A Day At the River

Baby it's getting hot out here !!!!!

 Over the past few months we've been blessed with the opportunity to meet  lots of new people and their families, it's amazingly  finally starting to feel like "home". So today we headed to the Guadalupe State Park we two other families from our Play Group. What a beautiful place, we've heard so much about floating the river, and how we need to go do it. But we just haven't had the chance in the 8 years that we've been here in Texas. Even though we didn't actually float the river today, we still had a great time hanging out and playing with the kiddo's. With the temperatures already reaching the 100's, the water felt so good.  We played in the water, ate a picnic lunch, and  played in the water some more. We were all exhausted by the time we got home. Hunter was asleep in the car before we even got out of the park, then slept for 2 more hours when we got home. I was a little worried going into this adventure with him, not knowing how he would handle the water and not being able to just crawl around. But he did so good. He sat close to us the whole time, tossing little rocks, splashing, and playing with his buckets. So now I'm already planning our trip to Corpus Christi in the fall.



Playing in the deeper water

 Chillin in the water



Isaac and Hunter playing in the water

 Looking down the river, from where we were camped out

Exhausted from a day in the sun and water !!!!!

This past week was a busy one for us. We spent a day at the Zoo, another day swimming with Isaac and Bridger, a morning at the Library for there Summer Reading Program, and had a morning play date. So I've got lots of pictures to post, but really wanted to get the pictures of the River up first.