May 30, 2010 – 1st Trip to Sedona

  

Traffic Jam!

    
We drove Grandma Karen up to Sedona so she could see the pretty rocks. I was a really good boy in the car. I took a nap for most of the trip up there and even slept a little way on the back. I got sick all over on the way home. Mommy thinks I just got car sick because it was a winding part of the road and I Daddy had just started trying to let me watch a movie on Mommy’s I-Touch. There was a lot of traffic because it was a holiday weekend.

It was very pretty up there and I kept saying, “Look! Look!” I liked the mountains and driving up high. I pointed out a bunch of airplanes and helicopters. Mommy and Daddy say I have GREAT eyesight. Sometimes the plane was barely a speck in the sky. The first time I saw a helicopter I was just saying, “Look up high…Cop” “It’s a cop” “Cop up there”. Mommy didn’t know what I was saying and then she saw it. I’m putting together more and more words and I really like pointing and naming everything I know. The car ride consisted of lots of: “tree, bird, helicopter, plane, up high, car, truck, bike, motorcycle, walking, dog, baby, water, pretty, look, fast, orange (my favorite color apparently), what’s that? where going?”

Mommy actually got out from behind the camera for a couple of pictures.          

That’s my Mommy and Daddy. I don’t remember this and don’t know why I wasn’t in the picture. I must have been napping in the car when they took this picture. 

May 29, 2010- South Mountain

 
     
We  took Grandma Karen up to South Mountain today. We tried taking her last time she was here but it was closed. The view was neat and I looked pointing everything out during the drive…”tree, car, truck, bus, orange, blue, cactus, airplane, up high, walking, motorcycle, dog, bicycle, etc. etc.”

Mommy forgot about this until today but yesterday at her school’s last staff breakfast Cathy Jackson gave Mommy this shirt. It is a Powell Patriot shirt and it’s even a 2T. It was another one of those goodbye things that made Mommy cry. Plus it was kind of sentimental since I was born one month early when hit with a football by one of Mommy’s students. Mommy always joked that I wanted to get out to play football so it was cool that I can be a honorary Patriot.

May 28, 2010 – Grandma Ferry

 

I was sick all last weekend with a high fever. This is a picture of me crashed out on Mommy. My fever finally went away but then I had a runny nose and a cough all week. I still have a cough but I’m feeling a little better.

Here I am playing on my giraffe. I don’t just rock on it anymore. My favorite thing to do is rock really hard forward and fly off the front. Mommy took some pictures of me while I was doing that the other day.

    
We’ve been learning about animals at school. These were some of the pictures we made recently.  This is one of my teachers Miss Krista. Since today was really my last official day (I will go back next Wednesday and then maybe once or twice during the summer if Mommy has to go to the doctor or something) Mommy took my picture. Miss Krista won’t be there when I go back in the fall because she’ll be doing her student teaching. She was a great teacher and I’m going to miss her! Thank you Krista for taking such good care of me.
 

Have a safe Memorial Day weekend!


 
Grandma Ferry arrived today and I get to spend the weekend playing with her. I’m still acting a little shy but it has been almost a year since I’ve seen her. She brought my birthday presents. I got some new clothes, a cool Dr. Seuss book and a Cars bouncing ball.
   
Mommy brought home this hat from school. It’s a little big for me but it was still a lot of fun.
 
Mommy had her last day of school this week…and her last day at Powell (it is now officially closed). It was a very sad goodbye. This is a picture of Mommy with her 3rd period class. They next picture is Miss Amy (a teaching assistant) and Lavincia (Mommy’s pregnant 9th grader).

Mommy let the kids all sign the back of ceiling tile (so they could still leave a mark from Powell) and then she replaced it so no one was the wiser. Shhhh!

The first picture is Miss Amy, Mommy, Katie, and Miss Chris and the second picture is Mommy and most of her special ed. department.

Here is Mommy and Katie again and then Katie, Mommy, Terry, and Larissa. Mommy is pretty sad and is going to miss her coworkers  friends.
 
This was Mommy’s class before and after. So sad huh? Our garage is no packed full of classroom stuff and she got rid of and gave away quite a few things.