Nana and Papa visit

Once we returned from Ky my parents (nana and Papa) got here to spend a week with us. It's been a fun week. They bought finger paints for Tyler, he had fun just getting messy. Papa has gotten Tyler spoiled with 2-3 walks everyday. We have been having fun going to play grounds, flying the helicopter, and reading lots of books. Tyler has a thomas the train video now that he loves to watch. Trains have been added to his favorites list now. He is developing quite a vocabulary and repeats words contstantly. Nana and Papa bought him a little football which he carries around with him everywhere. We know that we have a sports boy on our hands. If there is any type of ball game on tv (soccer, baseball, football, etc) he stops and watches for a while. Chad is so excited for football season now. Mom and dad have to leave to go home on Thursday but we have more visitors coming into town on Sunday. Summer is just a busy time.

Time on the farm

Tyler got to spend a whole week on Granny and Granddad's farm. He kept us busy all day long. By the end of the week Granny and Granddad had broke down and pulled out all three tractors for Tyler to ride. He helped feed Rawhide (the horse) every day. He had daily trips out to the barn to see the cows and try to get a peek at the "barn cat". He had so much fun feeding the geese, and going down to the pond to see the fish. He never showed a bit of fear with any of the animals. In fact we had to make him keep his distance with some of them, he wanted to get up close enough to touch them. He even went out in the boat to fish with daddy and Papaw. Chad, Granny, Uncle Steven, Aunt Kara, and myself took Tyler to his first amusement park. We had the expectation of staying only a few hours, thinking Tyler would get bored quickly. We ended up staying until 4:30 and even then he really wasn't ready. He had one expression on all the rides, which seemed to us that he wasn't really enjoying himself. Then we went to take him off, he would cry and hold on to the rides. Once we got to the water section Tyler was in heaven. We couldn't get him to leave. He had so much fun. We started him off on the little slides, but that really didn't do it for him so before long he was going down the big slides and loving every minute. It was a blast. On Friday (the 4th) we had a big cook out and had a baby shower for Chad's younger brother and his wife (Steven and Kara). By Christmas Tyler is going to have two cousins on Chad's side to play with. We had a great week and will be leaving again for Ky in August. This time Ty gets to spend two weeks up there, one week all by himself since mommy and daddy are taking a little get away.

Rewind to Father's day

First let me apologize for being so behind in our updates. We have been traveling so much it's been hard to keep up with our blogs. Tyler and I gave Chad a wonderful father's day. We brought him his cards and chocolate milk in bed. Daddy gave Ty a sip of his chocolate milk and that was about the last he saw of his father's day milk. We came down stairs and made daddy's biscuits and gravy, eggs, and bacon. After church we took him out to lunch. When we got home daddy's and Ty went out to enjoy Chad's father's day present (a remote control hellicopter). On the Friday following father's day we had friends come to visit from Atlanta. Melissa, Jennifer, Reese, Peighton, Jacob, and Eli all came to spend the weekend. We had so much fun. We stayed busy going the park, the splash pad, taking a ride on a choo choo train, just to name a few things. The kids had a blast. Chad was a trooper with a house full of women and kids. The very next week Tyler and I made a trip to Atlanta to hang out with friends and help Lawson celebrate his big 1st birthday. Tyler got to play with all his friends in the park, and eat some yummy birthday cake. We got home Saturday night, took Sunday to unpack -wash clothes - then repack to fly out to Ky.