Category — Picture Pefect

Yesterday, I had a doctor’s appointment for the baby. And I am now officially in the 2nd trimester! (I also officially have swimmer’s ear. Ah, so that is why my ear has been hurting for weeks!) The doctor couldn’t find the baby’s heartbeat so we got to have another ultrasound I was secretly happy that we got to see the baby again – even though it was scary for 1/2 a second when she couldn’t find the heartbeat. Plus, Bill was there and he was able to see the baby wiggling around for the first time.

I took a picture of the ultrasound picture – not the best quality but if you look close you can see the baby.

We had a fun, relaxing day today. Bill got up with Will and let me take an afternoon nap! We laid around this morning, ate lunch at McDonald’s and perused Lowe’s for our next home improvement project. This afternoon we played, played, played. Will was such a busy boy. This morning he collected several important things in the empty clothes basket: Disney World book, toothbrush holder, thermometer case, soap dish, and hairbrush. He pushed these things around in the basket all day. While Bill was grilling dinner Will pushed the basket to the middle of the yard, dump all his “treasures” out, push the basket back to the house then turn around collect the “treasures” and then repeat.

This past week/weekend we headed to Pigeon Forge with Nonny and PawPaw for a few days of  fun and relaxation. The week started off on a nasty note with both me and Will having a stomach virus but thankfully we were all better by time to leave on Thursday.  We had a lot of fun and here are the pictures(all but one taken by Gayle) to prove it!

Will is ready to get this vacation started!

The condo we stayed at was really nice and had a great pool.

Swimming with PawPaw.

The condo even had a lazy river!

On Saturday we went to Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies. It was a lot of fun and Will really enjoyed looking at all the fish.

PawPaw, Will, Nonny and the diver. Can you see the diver in the water?

Will touched a horseshoe crab. He’s such a boy – not grossed out by anything!

Mommy, Will & Daddy in front of the shark jaw.

On Saturday we went to DollyWood’s Splash Country. We all loved it!

Will LOVED the water slides and went down them about 100 times.

We all had to take turns taking him down all day long.

More water slide fun.

The condo had a huge jacuzzi tub and Will enjoyed swimming in it too.

The view from our condo. Thank you for a great time PawPaw and Nonny!

We had a fun morning around our house. We started the day with cinnamon rolls and then while I got ready Will watched “his show,” Dinosaur Train. Ok, seriously this show has the catchiest tunes and I can’t get them out of my head. Then we headed down to church for “Mom and Me Splash Day.” The only problem with that plan was that splash day is JULY 29th. Oh well. Will played on the playground for a little while and had a pop ice that was leftover from Playcation. We ate lunch at Taco Bell and then browsed Lowe’s for a few minutes before heading home for our naps!

This afternoon we played on the slip n slide that Dana thought Will just had to have. She was right – he pretty much loved it! He was so funny running through the sprinklers and splashing in the pool area. Please disregard the fact that he lost his swim trunks before water play commenced. Enjoy!

Baby Dixon 2 Estimated Arrival: January 29, 2011

Day’s 2 & 3 of Playcation were just as fun as the first. On day 2 we had a moon bounce which the 2 year old’s LOVED. I am not sure if Will’s class got to play in it or not. And today was water day. I saw Will’s class playing and Will was soaking wet! He was running through the sprinklers and everything. Our class overlapped with his for a few minutes but he didn’t want to play when I was out there. Silly boy! And of course there were lots of fun crafts.

Will made a picture frame for Father’s Day.

This was the best picture I could get of the two of them. Cute!

Today Will made a puppet. The puppet has a face drawn on it and a few scribbles.

Will made this “God made me. I am very special to Him” picture frame. His finger prints are in red.

This is his favorite craft of the week. He loves his “Friends are Special” book and has been looking at it all afternoon. It has pictures of all his friends from his class in it.

I love my friends!

I had a great time in the 2 year old class this week! They were a lot of fun but also a lot of work. I made every craft 11 times or at least closely supervised The only thing I didn’t think about beforehand with this age group was that they would be potty-training so that was interesting.

Next week Will is off to “Camp Honey” and I’ll be chillaxin’!

P.S. Make sure to come back tomorrow afternoon for a great post!

Today  Will and I had a great time at Playcation today! It was a packed day full of games, crafts and music. Will’s teachers said that he was a good boy and he even ate all of the food I packed in his pink lunch box.

This is how Will posed this morning for his first day of camp.

At Playcation he went on a scavenger hunt and found grass, flowers, rocks & sticks.

He made a belt because he learned about David & Jonathan and their special friendship.

A close up of his belt – he has been wearing it ever since we got home.

He also made a “friendship mix” snack one to eat and one to share with a friend.

This morning we went over to the McDaniel’s house. They are such a fun family and Diane is a very fun mom – she always has good play ideas for the boys. Today was painting!

They look like such big boys sitting at the table and painting.

Will’s favorite thing to paint was his face, silly boy!

Liam watched the shenanigans from a safe distance.

Then it was time to swim! Will put his feet in and that was about it. But this afternoon we went over to another friend’s house (no pictures, sorry) to swim in their little pool and he was sitting in it, splashing and crawling around. It was such a huge difference.

After (before and in between)  swimming Javen and Will ran around in the grass. After all this FUN can you believe that neither of these boys took good naps today! We can’t wait to play again next week

Just a few more beach pictures. This is one of Will’s favorite things to do – swing between us while we’re walking. We count to 3 and then swing but sometimes Will picks his legs up too early – it’s funny.

Bill flying the eagle kite on the beach. This was when he first started – it got much higher

On our last day we stayed at the beach all day! Will even took 2 naps in his stroller, under the tent. Look at those crossed legs – precious!

When Will wasn’t chilling in his stroller he was relaxing in his beach chair.

One night after dinner we went to a park near downtown St. Augustine. There was a carousel and a pretty cool playground. Will and Honey were going to ride the carousel 5 times but…….

Will decided he was a scaredy cat so they only rode once.

But he wasn’t afraid of the slide – he rode it over and over