Train Ride & Presents From MS

As I explained in the previous post, my son (&husband) loves trains. Jeremiah loves train shirts, toys, pictures, or anything involving trains. We were able to travel to Greenville, IL to see their Christmas display and ride a miniature train setup by a local train club. Since moving to the IL area, I have noticed there are a lot of train clubs, so Jeremiah is getting plenty of opportunities to see trains and train displays. It was very cold that night, so we only looked at the Christmas lights briefly and rode the train.

Robert & Jeremiah in front of the blue Christmas tree

Robert & Jeremiah on the train

This was our first Christmas since moving away from our families in Mississippi, so Jeremiah got lots of boxes this year from the UPS man and our mail man. He began to love the sound of the doorbell before nap time each day because he knew he was getting another package. We made him wait to open his boxes until Christmas day after church, so here are a few pictures from that day.

A box from my Nat

This boy loves him some batteries!!

A truck from Aunt Judy

Goodies from Jamey

A little behind....Christmas at home

Yes, I've gotten a little behind on blogging, so I am going to try to catch up today. We were able to stay home this year and have Christmas at our apartment. We opened presents on Christmas eve morning, since Christmas was on Sunday. Jeremiah didn't know the difference and it gave him all day to play with his presents. His big present this year was a Melissa & Doug wooden train set and he has played with it everyday since opening it. We found it at Borders during their going out of business sale, so we got it for a good price too. Jeremiah had lots of fun opening presents this year and I love all of his facial expressions. He has a lot of them! Here are a few snapshots from that day....

Robert & Jeremiah waiting to open gifts

Jeremiah in front of the Christmas tree

Excited about his train set

Stocking goodies

Played with his train set all morning

Mini Vacation to Nashville

Robert had off this past Friday, so we took a mini vacation to Nashville, TN for a little fun. We wanted to go on one fun trip with Jeremiah before the baby arrives in March. We stayed in a Holiday Inn across from the Gaylord Opryland hotel. For the past two/three years, we had been wanting to go to the ICE! exhibit put on by the Opryland hotel and it never worked out. We were very happy that it worked out this year. The exhibit was great and Jeremiah loved seeing all the animals made from ice. He got cold about halfway through and was ready to go so he could warm back up. Here are some pictures from the exhibit:

I have included this link to the rest of the pictures that I uploaded to facebook. You can see a lot more pictures by clicking on this link.
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As you can see from the pictures, we had a great time and enjoyed our family time together. We went to eat at the Cock of the Walk on Friday night and Jeremiah loved eating off the tin plates and drinking from tin cups. The lady came out to toss the cornbread and catch it...he loved watching that and told her, "wow...good job". We ended the night by walking around the Gaylord Opryland hotel and viewing the beautiful decorations.

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Jeremiah had a great time this year helping fluff and decorate the Christmas tree. He really loves the tree this year and looks forward to Robert getting home so we can light it up. If he had his way, the lights would be on all day long. I hope you enjoy the pictures!

Daddy and Jeremiah fluffing the tree

Still working on the tree

Excited about being done

The finished product

Baby Adam #2 Update

We went for a doctor visit for my 20 week checkup on Thursday and everything went great. They did an ultrasound of the baby and the baby had a strong heartbeat. As of now, the baby is measuring  15 cm and weighing around 13 oz. We didn't find out the gender of the baby, because we want it to be a surprise on our delivery day. I have included two of the ultrasound pictures for people that we won't see this next week. We had a nice ultrasound tech. that did some in 4D for us and you can see lots of the baby's facial features. We go back to my specialist at the end of December, so we should have more ultrasound pictures to upload at that time.

4D Ultrasound Picture

Looks just like Jeremiah to me in this picture

***Jeremiah's BIG Secret***

Jeremiah has a secret he would like to share with you.....

You'll have to read the back of his shirt to find out...



Yes, we are expecting our second child in March 2012. We are very excited about having another baby and Jeremiah is excited about being a big brother. I am 15 weeks right now and the baby is doing very well. We've been able to hear the heartbeat a couple of times and saw the baby twice in sonogram pictures. Yes, we are waiting to find out whether this baby will be a boy or girl until the delivery day. We did this with Jeremiah and it was so much fun not knowing until that day. We are very thankful the Lord has blessed us with another child and looking forward to meeting him/her in March.

We took Jeremiah to the movies this weekend for the first time to see Lion King. They are showing it in 3D and 2D in our area, so we chose to just take him to the 2D version. He had a great time and loved the movie. It was his first time to see Lion King too. My parents came to visit this weekend and Jeremiah had a great time visiting with them. He played, played and played some more with his paw-paw and maw-maw.

Jeremiah & Daddy by the Lion King movie poster

Jeremiah & Daddy waiting on the movie to start



*** First LPA Meeting & Incredible Pizza Company ***

Hi! I know it has been a while since our last post, but there has been alot going on around the Adam household. We were able to attend our first LPA (Little People of America) meeting in August and met some wonderful people. In this chapter, they have a lot of children in Jeremiah's age range and he had a great time playing with other children just like him. They had the social at Lone Elk Park in St. Louis and there was a family of elk that rested in the shade beside our pavilion. It is a free range park, so they are able to roam freely. They also had buffalo/bison at this park, but they were in a different area. They kept the animals separate with cattle gaps and fences.

After the social, our family went to the Incredible Pizza company in St. Louis for fun and pizza. It is very similar to Ghatti Town in MS, but has a few more attractions indoor. Jeremiah loves to bowl and they have a miniature bowling alley that he had a blast playing. The balls are much smaller than a regular bowling ball, so he was able to hold and throw it by himself. Of course, he spotted the arcade game, Deal or No Deal, and had to play. He loves that game. Robert and Jeremiah played the Nascar arcade car and all Jeremiah kept telling Robert was slow down. It's a new phrase that he likes to use alot.

We were able to travel home to Mississippi in September for a quick visit. It was Jeremiah's and I first time to travel by ourselves and he did a great job. I didn't get any pictures from that week. Our family has been to two associations the past two weekends. We had a great time at each one and are enjoying meeting new people in our area. I forgot to take my camera both weekends, so no pictures. I'm going to have to do a better job at taking the camera with us.

Elk - Jeremiah kept calling them cows

Jeremiah & Daddy in front of the elk

Jeremiah bowling

Celebrating knocking down pins

Playing deal or no deal

Driving Nascar car

Jeremiah's in deep concentration - see tongue