Ever Expanding Vocabulary

Kase is growing up so fast... he is now 15 months old. He has his 15 month check up next week so I'll get you his stats then! He is growing and learning every day!

We are up to quite an extensive vocabulary. Not only is he learning new words, he's learning new ways to use those words. As you know his first word was Ball.... That is still his favorite word. He loves balls and walks abound the house constantly with a ball in his hand. He makes it a point to show you and say "ball" ever second that he can. However he is learning to associate ball with alot of different things. "My Ball" has started happening. The other day we were watching Star Wars and the second the Death Star came on the TV he ran up and said... "BALL!!" Very true! That is a ball. My favorite and also most embarrassing use of Ball was yesterday in the swimming pool. Kase and I were swimming around the pull, he points down my shirt and announces to every one in the pool "BALL!!!" Kids are too funny!

Some new additions to the vocabulary are Hello... its sounds more like hiyo. He will grab the phone and put it up to his ear and say Hiyo! He also says, Juice, Dog, Shoe, Sock, more and Tickle Tickle. The newest two words that started over the weekend are Water and Bubble. Bubble actually comes out pretty clear. Water needs more work. Its more like Wa-ao. He hasn't quite mastered the T sound in the middle of words yet.

I just look forward to every day experiencing new things and watching him learn and grow. I am so proud.

Mother's Day weekend at Port A

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We decided to take a few days off of work and head to the coast. This was Kase's first trip to the beach! We had a great time at Port Aransas. We stayed at condo called the Mayan Princess. We found this place on a referral from a friend of mine at work. It was great. The condos are for sure the way to go with a baby. We were able to save some money by cooking at the condo. We did go out to dinner though.

The first night after we got checked into the condo we went to the Port A brewery which was great fun! Kase got a BIG cookie for dessert.

The second day we went to the Texas State Aquarium it was so much fun to watch Kase chase the dolphins back and forth by the big viewing window. Kase was also very fascinated by the jelly fish. I loved the sea turtles... too cute! That night we went to dinner at a place called Moby Dicks. Was a lot of fun, Kase slept through alot of it.

Saturday we hit the beach and then the pool for most of the day! We had so much fun playing! We got all cleaned up and then went to a nice dinner at Virginia's by the bay, had steaks and watched the water as we ate in the open air by the bay.

It was a wonderful mother's day weekend! I think we will plan to do this every summer.

Spring Fest

Every year our company puts on an awesome event called Spring Fest. It is great. They have different areas set up with booths for food, drinks and fun. This year the areas were by country. They had an Asian area with egg rolls, fried rice and Tai Chi demos. They had Italian area with meatball subs, sausage on a stick and also a demo on pizza dough making and tossing. Fun stuff. Kase loved the egg rolls I think that was his favorite event of the day. Next year I'm sure it will be the boucny houses. I really want to help Kase into a bouncy house and bounce a little myself.

They also had a petting zoo. They even had a petting zoo. Kase had a great time with the Zebu. Mommy decided that she needs one to go with the mini horse in the back yard. Who dosen't need a mini cow?

They also had military demos and we were able to see a Black hawk helecopter. Kase thought it was pretty cool... Chris wanted to shoot the gun :)

That was a great weekend and a wonderful event at work!

We have a walker

The last week or so Kase has been trying to walk. He would take a step or two between me and Chris, or from holding on to something to one of us. Today he was pulled up and decided to just walk all the way across the room. He is still doing most of his traveling through crawling but any day now he will just take off and start running. (Help us!!) It was a nice suprise and a much needed reward after a very trying week at work.

Easter Bunny

Happy Easter Everyone! The day care was closed on Good Friday. So Chris and I took of the day to have some family time. We woke up and headed to San Antonio and met the Easter Bunny. I don't know why parents feel it necessary to torture their children about 75% of the kids were screaming and crying but I had to do it at least once. I was looking back at pictures of me with the Easter bunny at about Kase's Age and I Loved it, even though the Easter Bunny looked truly evil (see below). Kase did really well with the Easter Bunny and even smiled and shook hands with him. However once I put him in his arms for the picture he tried to quickly escape. We almost bought the picture of him escaping but decided to go with the one were he looked slightly like he was having a good time.

After our Easter Bunny visit we went to Bravo and had a nice lunch with a couple of Friends Christina and Anu from work. Then we did a little shopping and got Kase a swimsuit and sandals for the summer. We finally headed home and Kase had a really long and much needed nap.

I wish every one a blessed Easter weekend!

Me with the REALLY SCARY Easter Bunny at 15 months of Age. (Golly mom is a miracle I'm not scared for life)

Blue Bonnets 2010

This year the bluebonnets are amazing. We have had a lot of great rain and a good freeze right before they bloomed. The wild flowers are out in force. Now that the weather is better we wanted to take some pictures while they were in major bloom. It was a little windy so in some of the pictures he looks like he has a Mohawk!

Blogger was giving me a hard time and I could only get it to post one picture. Please click the picture to see the rest of the picture! Enjoy!

A few of my favorite things!

COOKIES!!!

What cookie!! I don't see a cookie!

(Chris had made Chocolate Chip cookies today, I thought the plate was empty but apparently not. Kase had 2 cookies one in each hand chowing down.)

My new play room mommy and daddy are building me! I can't wait for it to be finished!

The Wii Nunchucks!
(Why out of all the toys we have for the boy, he goes straight for the nunchucks. He then hangs them around his neck and crawls around the house. Why?)


Blocks!
Would you like a block?

Wheel of fortune! My favorite TV show.

At 6:30 every night Kase crawls over to the TV and makes sure Wheel of Fortune is on. What an internal clock the boy has.