Jack's First Petting Zoo

After lunch on Saturday, we were driving back when we noticed a petting zoo in front of the local T-Mobile. Since we had decided Jack was probably too young for the real zoo right now, we pulled in T-Mobile and stopped by!

 

All of the animals were really friendly. Me being the fearful first time mom was hesitant about letting Aren put him any closer than absolutely necessary!

 

I was more okay with Jack being closer to this little one-

 

We stayed until they rounded them up to head home. Jack really enjoyed it and we're hoping to venture out to the real zoo maybe later this year!

May 12

So we kicked off this Saturday like we do every Saturday at Little Gym! On the agenda, flips...

 

Parachutes...

And exploration....

 

Jack hadn't taken off walking just yet so I snapped some pictures of his attempts to stand getting bubbles :)

 

 

Saturday

Saturday morning, my dad treated us to breakfast. We met up before Little Gym at Snooty Pig. Jack's main attention was focused on Daddy's pancakes.

I got a group shot of the guys from breakfast, it was a great way to start the day.

Probably Jack's favorite part of Little Gym is playing with the bells. I finally snagged a little action shot....

Jack had a really great day in class. Here he's learning about numbers!

At Little Gym on Saturday, Jack played on the air mat. During Jack's time going to Little Gym, the air mat has been a love/hate experience. This day was a pretty good day where he didn't take a lot of coaching to stay on.

One of the things that makes the kids his age a little unsure of is the actual deflation of the air mat.

For lunch Saturday, we braved the mall to meet Aunt Kay at Carraba's. Jack really enjoyed eating asparagus. He is a total veggie kid but is not much of a fruit eater.

Yesterday we had the opportunity to attend the Texas Libertarian Presidential Debate. It was a really interesting experience as this was my first Libertarian experience. The moderator Sharon Harris did an excellent job asking good questions that also kept the audience engaged. I actually came into the event a Gary Johnson supporter but found myself equally impressed with him, RJ Harris and R Lee Wrights. I highly recommend attending a Libertarian event if you have the chance, I feel we desperately need a third party option. One thing that has most impressed me with the Libertarian party is that they are entirely self funded. You can get more info at http://www.lp.org/

 

 

 

Weekends!

Well one thing I've learned over the past year is weekends with a baby are crazy! Aren was busy Saturday at a marriage seminar so me and my parents were Jack's Little Gym buddies.

 

This picture was about a minute before a major meltdown before he said grandma I think for the first time. We went to McDonalds afterwards and Jack enjoyed his first oatmeal raisin cookie.

We had lunch at McAllisters with Alex, Mom and Aunt Kay. During our shopping at Krogers, Aren was finally able to meet up with us. We enjoyed dinner at Panchitas with my parents and grandfather. Jack used a crayon for the first time appropriately!

 

And then they went back in his mouth! Oh well, at least I'm thankful for some progress! Sunday, we had church and today it was back to DARS. I had a nice surprise waiting for me at home- the new MOG iPad app. Which so far looks killer! Well that's about it for me- off to cheer on my favs in the Voice.

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

So we started off this morning going to Little Gym. Jack was super excited to get back to class and to see Miss Stephanie again. We are still working on getting Jack to hold the bars during free time but he voluntarily scaled this obstacle course this morning!

 

Jack also had fun chasing a new girl in his class. She was a walker so he had a hard time keeping up! We came home and Jack played with both of us and took a nap around lunchtime. He is still on Augmentin for his ear infection and it's definitely been upsetting his stomach.

We joined Aunt Kay for lunch at Casa Rita's and did some shopping at Target. Later we joined Grandma, Grandpa, Paw Paw and Uncle Alex for dinner at Golden Corral. After dinner, he got behind the wheel of Paw Paw's truck.