That John Denver... Part 1

We went to the cabin in Colorado last week with Pop, Grammy, Julie, Halle and the boys.
Things I learned:
1. You need a minimum of 2 adults per child over 15 months on a plane OR a marathon of SpongeBob for distraction.
2. It's not appropriate to nurse your 2 year old in public and then immediately hand him potato chip. (Julie- that's for you.)
3. Never, I mean, never sit next to the guy at the bar in cut off wranglers and a flannel shirt. He will tell you his whole life story- in incoherent fragments- including the fact that Animal is responsible for Tommy's overdose. The question the rest of the night was, "Who's Animal?" However, the bartender might feel bad for you and just keep topping off your drinks so you can deal with the weirdo...(Can you tell what Brandon and I had to deal with on our date night?)


Here we are the first time we went to the Frasier river. I'm prepared for the 60 degree weather and so is T. Brandon on the other hand thought it was 90 and wore shorts and t-shirts the whole time. I think there's still a little Wyoming left in my husband.

We pretty much got rained on every afternoon. On Friday, we got a nasty hail storm. Here's Halle and T watching it from the window.

We went to the YMCA camp down the road one day. Halle couldn't stop talking about going on a horse ride. She did awesome and rode Ghost all around the arena...

Thomas on the other hand wanted nothing to do with his horse. Afterward, he proceeded to stand outside the corral and yell, not speak, to the horses in "baa." We've been trying to explain to him that horses say, "neigh" but he looks at us every time and says, "No. Baa." Clearly, we have some work to do.
"Dad, get me off this horse. NOW."

Here they are on the swing at the camp.

And Thomas found the tetherball. He thought it was really funny when B and I were playing. Looks like we're going to have to install one before next year's crawfish boil. I can only imagine Team Taylor on the tetherball court.

T and Halle played tag on the porch anytime we would let them outside. Did I mention that Thomas thinks Halle can do no wrong? He followed her almost everywhere the whole time. He thinks she's super funny. We think they both are.

Man vs. Wild might have a new host soon. (Yes, that's a toy snake. And yes, that's the first thing he did with it.)


Okay, that's it for now. I don't even know if my family in Alvin can check this yet. They still don't all have power. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

Sushi wars

I'm not sure what the California roll did to Thomas, but he attacked it with fury at dinner tonight. He separated each component and then smeared it EVERYWHERE. Those are the remnants on his high chair tray.
After watching me eat, he's now infatuated with my chop sticks.

This is him trying to feed himself with the chopsticks. He would pick up the sticky rice, put it on one of the sticks and try to get it in his mouth.

Future in Fly Fishing

Can you say Daddy's boy?

Great Balls of Thomas

This is our new fun game. Get in the laundry basket full of balls, cover ourself up with the balls, throw the balls, and get Dad to shake the basket so the balls go everywhere. Loads of fun for everyone except the one who gets to clean up the balls. I'll give you three guesses who that is.:)

15 months and counting

So I thought I would show you some of Thomas' favorite things right now.
1. Animals. Of all kinds. We went to the zoo last Monday and he was zoned most of the time. I was a little worried that he was overwhelmed by the whole expereince, but he woke up the next morning saying,"zoo." This is him looking at the cheetahs prowling around. Of course this the only picture I got at the zoo...

2. He loves to read. And he definitely has his favorites. Nat- we've read "5 little ducklings" about 100 times in the last week. We have a set rotation between his Tiger, Texas Rangers baseball and the duck book. Last Monday when Pop sat down to read Halle a book, Thomas did not want to be left out. I think Pop might have his hands full next summer if all 5 of the grandkids want to sit in his lap at once.

3. The kid's vocabulary is through the roof. He pretty much learns a new word each day. Here are his words right now- Mama, Da, book, bird, shoes, toes, nose, spoon, zoo, quack, ball, baby, go-g0-go, keys, car, more, up, down, please (which sounds more like p-p-p), Kipsy, Phoebe, wuff, and throw. And for the grand finally, he announces "Cool" when he puts on his shades. (Sorry for the blur. We were have some camera issues...)

4. I forgot "bath" is one of his words. Here he is putting on a show for the camera.

5. And here's the man in his 12th Man jersey. Too cute. Now I must go. He's got the duck book out...