** MS Children's Museum & Robert's Birthday **

While we were visiting family in MS, we were able to go to the Children's Museum for the first time. Jeremiah had a great time playing with his cousin, Nate, at the museum. I think he favorite part was the musical instrument room, but I don't have a picture from that room. He liked some of the other exhibits too, but a lot of it was just too big for him to enjoy by himself. Oh, I almost forgot, he also loved milking the cow!!

Robert celebrated his 30th birthday on August 1st. We had a cake for him at church, so Jeremiah and I got him a fruit arrangement to celebrate at home.

Driving the Tractor

Dressed as an Engineer

Nate & Jeremiah on the Scrabble board

Nate & Jeremiah

Happy birthday, Robert!!

It was so good!!

Happy Birthday Jeremiah!!!

Wow, time has really flown by and now my little boy is now three. We took the train home to Mississippi in late July and celebrated his birthday with family a little early. He actually turned 3 on Monday, August 15. At his party, we had cake, balloons, and presents, but his favorite part this year was blowing out the light (candles). Whenever you ask him about his birthday, all he will say is, "I blow out lights". We lit the candles twice at my parents house, so he could blow out the lights. We had two birthday parties while in Mississippi, one at my parents' house and one with Robert's family.

I will have to say that I really love this age. Jeremiah gets so excited over the little things and has learned how to be funny to make you laugh. He is like a sponge and wants to soak up anything that you are willing to teach him. He already know his letters, numbers and colors. We are still working on shapes. He loves to sing songs. I am looking forward to working with him more at home and seeing what we can accomplish by his fourth birthday.

Paw-paw lighting the candles

Maw-maw and Jeremiah blowing out the candles

I love that smile!!

He loved his Mr. Potato Head!

Birthday train cookie at Nan's

Still loving blowing out the candles

Opening his card

Train trip to Mississippi

Jeremiah and I were able to ride the Amtrak train home to Mississippi in July. It was the first train trip for both of us. He was pretty excited about riding the train because he is really into Thomas the Train now. He thought when we went to the train station we were going to ride Thomas, Percy and Salty. We got on the train around 1:00am, so he was asleep and never saw the actual train. He still thinks we rode Thomas!

He slept until  about 6:00am and was so excited when he woke up that morning and looked out the window. He was so good on the train and sat in his seat the whole time. I packed plenty of things to do and snack on, so he stayed pretty entertained. He has now figured out the train takes us to paw-paw's house, so whenever he wants to see paw-paw he says, "Mommy let's ride the train to paw-paw's". I think another train ride is in our future, but I just don't know when it will happen.

Asleep at train station

Looking out window

Jeremiah & Mommy

Coloring on train

Marine Homecoming & Bowling

We lived in a little town, Marine, before moving to our apartment in Highland. They have a homecoming each year that involves a parade, mini carnival and other events. We went on Saturday afternoon to catch the parade and this would be Jeremiah's first parade. He wore ear plugs since he does not tolerate loud sounds, so he enjoyed each part of it. It was a neat experience and we are looking forward to attending more of the homecoming parades next year.

We were able to go bowling one night as a family. We had a great time even though Robert beat us. They had a ramp for children to use, so they could push their ball down the lane. Jeremiah liked that he was able to bowl by himself. He had a great time and still talks about bowling. I think we will have to go back again soon.

Daddy and Jeremiah waiting on the parade to begin.

Everyone lined up for the parade.

Presenting the flags

Jeremiah loved the Shriner cars.

They did all types of tricks as they drove in the parade.

It was quite amazing they never hit each other.

Jeremiah got a balloon animal from a clown at the carnival.

Jeremiah & Daddy bowling

I like how he kicked his foot out each time.

Celebrating knocking down pins

Boys & Baseball



Jeremiah loves baseball! He loves to play and he will watch an entire game on the television without getting bored. I think you'll see from this clip that he is starting to imitate what he sees the professionals do during a game. This is how we entertained ourselves while Robert was without a job and we had nothing else better to do with our time. This is an old video, so I will have to say Jeremiah has gotten better on hitting. You can now pitch it to him and he will hit the ball. We no longer have to bounce the ball to him. I hope you enjoy it!