Celebrating The Last Year in My 20's!

Wow, only one year left before the BIG 3-0! Luckily my birthday fell on a Sunday this year so Darrin had the day off. He, Reagan and I headed out early this morning for breakfast before heading to the beach. We left Grayson at home with Maria since we would be outside all day. It would be to hot for him and there would be no wear comfortable for him to sleep.

We ate breakfast at a little Cafe' called Colatte, it was delicious. One of the best breakfast places I've ever eaten at, so so good.

Then we drove about 30 minutes to Juan Dolio to spend the day at the beach. The weather was beautiful, the sun was shining and not a cloud in the sky.

Finally I got some pictures of me at the beach with my sweet, sweet girl.

She is so funny about her sunglasses. She insists on wearing them. Might be the best 7 dollars I've ever spent!

Sunglasses, floaties, sand toys and swimming. What more does a girl need? (besides a bow)

I had a wonderful day 29th birthday today. And just as I was thinking 29 couldn't be near as good as 28, I might have already been proven wrong! I can't wait to see what else this year holds, my last year in my 20's.

And just so I don't leave G man out, when we got home, he said he missed us, sang happy birthday to me and said he had a great day!

Letter M

My friend Marla posted a blog a while ago with all sorts of letter activities. They began doing a letter of the week and each week was a new letter. When I saw that blog I immediately wanted to do it with Reagan, but I decided to wait until we were all moved and settled in.

Last week I decided I was ready to start our letter of the week and since she (Marla) started with the letter M, I figured why not! She did M for Mommy and followed with D for Daddy.

We colored a Mouse and a Monkey.

I cut them out for her and she helped glue them together in the right spot.

Then we glued them to a toilet paper roll.

Next we did some M&M activities with 2 sorting pages.

Of course she was more interested in eating them then sorting them.

Then she sorted the capitol M and the lowercase m.

Then I gave up for about a week. We all got sick and I was frustrated with her. We would practice and go over the letter M over and over and I would say, "what letter is this?" And she would say...."mmmmm, B!!"

But once we got to feeling better and I was refreshed we got back on track with the letter M. I decided to work on the same letter for 2 weeks instead of just one. She was getting more interested in her "school," and it was going much smoother. We now have school everyday around 10 o'clock and when I say are you ready for your school she says, "YAY!!"

We colored a lowercase m and glued Marshmallows on it.

And did the same with a capitol M.

We watched lots of Mickey Mouse. (like always)

And we had a scavenger hut. The original activity says to put things in your box that start with the letter M. Since I am not really teaching her the sounds, but more letter recognition, I changed the activity. Instead we looked all over for things that had the letter m or M on them. She would look for it, point to the M and we would put in the box.

She loved this part. She would say, "did you find one?" "Reagan found one!" And run to put it in her box.

We also made Muffins but for some reason I didn't take any pictures and we repeated the exercises. She worked with Darrin on Sunday with her letter M and of course he added addition and subtraction. (typical) But I am happy to report she now knows the letter M!!

She already knows R and S because of Reagan Snider, and she knows B from her gymnastics class. Next week we will start D and hopefully continue on throughout the alphabet.

Grayson's 5 Months Already!

How has it already been almost a 1/2 a year since this little guy was born? Crazy how fast 5 months can go by. We are getting to a fun stage now. The newborn baby stage isn't that fun to me. I don't think I am one of those mom's who will say, "awww I miss them being so little." Infants are a lot of work and honestly, not that much fun. (To me)

But now we are past that stage now, and G daddy is getting to be so much more fun. He got a new toy and he loves to be pushed around in his new car.

Poor baby was tired.

He is so alert and just smiles and coo's all the time. He is still not sleeping through the night, he is down around 8, up around 2 and then up again around 6. If we could get him sleeping though the night, things would be even better.

He is almost sitting up by himself now. He does pretty good, but he is still a little wobbly. He can also almost hold his bottle by himself, but he would still rather not.

And he is such a cutie. Look at those big blue eyes!

Here is a video I took of him laughing today. He is so ticklish!