Ah....Springtime

Ahh...the nice warm air, bright sun, and faint smell of poo outside (from the farms down the street). Elliot and I just love being outside. Elliot is quite the adventurer (as if that should come as any big surprise to anyone). All he wants to do is hang with me and Mason, but we're too fast and he just can't keep up. He still has a good ole time playing with his "car" and on his swing.

Arizona 2010

We took our second family trip to AZ last weekend to visit Grandpa JT and Grandma Mary. It was fun, well, except for the weather.... it was nicer in Michigan than it was in Arizona! What!? We did have one nice 80 degree day but got rained out the rest of our trip. And by rained out, I mean RAINED out!!! But we still had a good time. We visited a train park and a wild animal zoo where I got to take a ride on a ski lift above all the animals.

Another Brother for Me and Elliot

Well, I was completely speechless when Mumma and Daddy told me that I wasn't going to have a baby sister. Really....I had nothing to say. I wanted a baby sister so bad, but I guess another brother will be okay too. He better not take my toys like Elliot does though! :)

Another K Wings Hockey Game

We all got to go to another K Wings hockey game - and I just LOVE going!!! I'm not so crazy about the loud siren when we get a goal, but watching the game (and Slappy - the mascot) is awesome!!! I totally have my game face on. Elliot really likes going too - he will sit and watch almost the entire game. Although I think the popcorn kept him in his seat too. :) This time I got an autographed hockey puck from Slappy - dude....that was the bomb. Next to my Thomas the Train ride of course.

Snow, Beautiful Snow!!

Finally, we got some more snow!!! I could play in this stuff all day long!!! Elliot likes to come outside with us, but I don't think he likes the snow as much as I do.... probably because he can't really walk around in it. :) Although this time, Daddy put me to work shoveling. They even bought me a kid-sized snow shovel. Whassup with that!? ... aaahhhh, people.., I do not come outside to work in the snow, I come out to play!!! :)

This is an art project from preschool - a snowflake sun catcher

Happy Valentine's Day

I had a valentines party at preschool and Mumma and Elliot came to help. Well. honestly, Elliot didn't really "help" much, but he had fun. We played "Kiss the Frog", decorated cookies, and made some kewl tic tac toe crafts.

Here we are...

Well, here are some recent pictures of me and Elliot people... You would think that after Mumma and Daddy spent all that money on that fancy-schmancy camera that they just HAD to have there would be tons of new pictures, wouldn't you??? :)

Elliot is 18 Months

Holy cow.....where does the time go!? I know it's been a while since we have updated our blog, but I'm busy ya know. Places to go, people to see......

Elliot had is 18 month check up and I thought I would pass along his stats. Well, as you could guess, he's just like me, a shrimp. The doctor said he is "barely hanging onto the 3rd percentile for weight" at 21.06 pounds and is in the 10 percentile for height at 31 1/2 ". So he's a shrimp, but a healthy one. He did have an ear infection in his right ear (so much for the ear tubes he had put in not even 6 months ago!) and is getting over a cold.

I am doing great! I still love preschool and am learning a lot of different things. I will start a whiffleball class in a couple of weeks, and I am really looking forward to that!

Mumma is feeling great - she is now 4 months pregnant and we will get to find out the gender of the baby in just a few weeks!! .....and it better be a girl!!! I already have a name picked out for her, Super Girl. It's hard for me to wait to see the baby and I ask Mumma just about every day if the baby will come today. :)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to All!

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Well, as Mumma suspected, Elliot was (totally!) freaked out by Santa so she had to be in our picture with the big man this year. Not me, I wasn't scared.... I hopped right up on his lap and was sure to tell him just exactly what I wanted for Christmas.... "Hot Wheels and everything else". Now all I have to do is convince the man that I have been a good boy. :)

The Nativity

My preschool class acted out the nativity and each of us had a very special part. I was a wiseman that brought frankencense.

Macklin/Bates Christmas

We got together with the Macklins and Bates for our Christmas party over the weekend. It was so nice to see everyone!! Elliot and I both had a lot of fun with my cousins and got some very nice things.

Gramma Annie, Pappa James, Aunt Jen, Uncle Eric, Kate, Jack, and Claire

Great Grandma & Grandpa Bates and my cousins

Our Macklin Annual matching jammies photo

Blizzard of 2009

Well, "they" (who ever that actually is) said it was going to be a tough winter, and so far, "they" have been right! We had a good old fashion Michigan blizzard for three days! ....it was GREAT!!!! Who cares if the wind chill was below zero, and wind gusts of 40 MPH, look at all of this snow!!! We got overall about 14-15" of the fluffy white stuff. Elliot even had his first trip out in the snow. He wasn't so sure about that cold wet stuff at first and pretty much just stood there and watched me and Daddy, but then after a while he didn't want to come inside. I don't think it's so much that he didn't like the snow, it's just that he couldn't actually move in all of his winter gear. :)

Hey Dad.... you missed a spot, and you know how Mumma can't stand a snowy driveway..... :)

Gingerbread House

Mumma and I made our first gingerbread house together. It was so much fun putting all of the candy on the house! And if you can believe it, I didn't eat any of it!!! :) Mumma put some icing "lines" on the roof for me and I placed each and every little piece of candy.

O Christmas Tree V

This year we found the perfect Christmas tree. It's a lot smaller than the one I really wanted to get, but Daddy said something about making sure we can get it through the door.... It was a fun trip to the tree farm. We all rode in the big hillbilly truck (and I got to ride in the front seat) and then on the way home Daddy treated us to some gas station snack (junk) food and kid juice.

Later I got to help Daddy put all of the decorations on the tree - I even put the Angel on top.