My new playground

I've got my very own playground now! The park that's across the street from my house just got a fantastic, age-specific playground. I'm so excited. All we have to do is walk over to the other side of the park to get there. It's awesome! My friend, Luke, came over on Tuesday and we took our mommies over there to play.

Quality Time

Topher and I spent some quality time together at the lake on Valentine's Day. The temperature was in the 70s and it was awesome...

Topher is ONE!!!

I can not believe my sweet little angel boy is already a year old. How did that happen so fast? It seems that I was just cradling him in my arms yesterday and now he's walking! He's becoming quite the little man. We are so proud.

We threw a really fun birthday party on Saturday, February 2nd. And since it was the day before the Super Bowl, we made it a Super Bowl theme with a football cake and decorations. Here are some pictures of his big day and a video of him devouring his first cake. Pretty funny.

Ring around the sofa...

Topher's new favorite game since he started walking is being chased around the sofa. He absolutely loves it. I can't tell who loves it more though, him or Padg. :)

He's gettin' good!!

Didn't take him long to get comfortable with walking. He's getting really good and is moving faster now. He just looks so darn cute... ;)

Topher's first Christmas

We had some great times over the Christmas holidays this year. We spent the weekend before Christmas in Houston with my family and headed back home on Christmas Eve to meet the Padgham's who spent the rest of the holidays with us. Of course, we just can't have the Padgham's visit us without giving them a project and wouldn't you know it, the week before Christmas our bathroom decided (all on it's own) that it needed a complete renovation! We were planning on doing that renovation at some point in the future but not this soon. But as luck would have it, the floor finally gave in causing the toilet to leak and, well...just see pictures below for further information. We'll start with Christmas pictures, though...

Houston pics (unfortunately, we hardly got any Houston pics) :(...

Pics at home in Dallas...

And the bathroom demolition and construction. Since this is our one and only bathroom, we had to rent a port-o-potty (kept in the backyard) and a hotel room for showers. Padg and Bruce got a ton of stuff done over the holidays, but now Padg is back to work so we'll have to finish the rest during the weekends. We've still got electrical, a window installation, floor tile, bath tile, drywall, wainscotting, and medicine cabinets to do. We'll be lucky if we get done by this summer. ;)

And he's off...!

Topher started walking on January 1st! He's still in that "drunk-walking" phase, but he's getting stronger and better balance every day. It's so fun to watch him...

Thanksgiving in Kansas

We loaded up and headed north to Kansas for Topher's first Thanksgiving and ended up experiencing Topher's first snow as well. It was beautiful and we had a great time playing in it. It didn't last long, though. It was pretty much all melted by the end of the day. Kind of like it does when it snows in Dallas. ;)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Topher's first Halloween was so much fun. We went to a party at Luke's house and got to see all our friends. Thanks, Allison and Luke, for inviting us to such a great party. :)

It takes so little to amuse our little guy. He's gonna be pretty ticked off at me when he's a teen because he's naked in this video, but I think the room is dark enough to hide private items. I just had to share this. It's greatness...

Priceless

More of Padg's handiwork...

Pumpkin Patch

We went to the pumpkin patch at the Dallas Arboretum last week with my friend Allison and Topher's friend Luke. We had a great time...

Busy weekend...

Topher learned 3 new things this weekend and all are pretty big milestones. We're so proud of him...

1) On Thursday, the 27th, he learned to sit himself up all by himself...



2) On Saturday, the 29th, he learned to pull himself up to a standing position (only have pic, no video)...3) And we knew he would be doing this very soon and we were right. He crawled for the first time this morning. YEA!!...



Way to go Topher! Daddy and I are so proud...and a little scared that you're mobile now. ;)

TBG Family Picnic in Austin

Geez mom...

...do you have to kiss me a million times a day?

Seven months old

Gettin' places...

Well he's mobile. Not quite crawling, yet, but scootin' all over the place. I'm guessing it won't be long now. :)

Labor Day Weekend with Grandma & Grandpa

Daddy's fired!

Padg's first time to feed Topher solids was a real treat. I think daddy might need a little more training. Sure made for some funny video, though. Sorry about the shaky camera action, but I just couldn't stop laughing. :) Aftermath photos follow the video.

Another Houston trip

Took another trip to Houston last weekend for my niece's "Off to College" party. Had a great time visiting with family. Here's some pics...