Valentine's Day

We had a fun day, or shall I say week, celebrating the day of love. 

Fulton exchanged Valentine's with his sweet girlfriend up the street, Avery. She gave him his very first bottle of bubble bath. He loved it! He carried that bottle around all afternoon.

In anticipation of this... his very first bubble bath. He wasn't sure what to think at first. He kept trying to get the bubbles off his hands.

Later in the week we enjoyed opening Valentine's prizes from Aunt Keri and KK. He loved his goodies.

On Valentine's morning I arrived to school with this little gem on my desk. My sweet friend at work got it for me. A heart shaped biscuit from Chick-fil-A. How fun?!

That afternoon daddy and Fulton played outside while I made us a fun Valentine's meal.

Matt brought me a beautiful bouquet of flowers and Fulton helped me smell them. He actually kept trying to eat them and then wondered why it didn't taste good.

We had a little gift opening time. Fulton made me a sweet card, complete with a bite out of the corner and everything. His special touch.

Here's my Valentine. Little stud muffin. We had a fun day celebrating together. 

Second Party Of The Day

Saturday afternoon we headed to our second birthday bash of the day. This time is was my uncle Greg's 50th surprise party held at my parents new house. 

The theme was Alabama football of course. Who would want anything other than that? My mom did a great job on the table.

Ham was in full blown cheese mode and had a blast running around playing with everyone. He was definitely the youngest member of the crowd, but that didn't stop him from having fun.

He gave in and let me have a quick picture for him then it was time to get down and get going again. Let's just say the fruit tray was at just the right height and location for him to reach his hand up there and grab a few. I just hope he doesn't ever do this at another person's house.

He also enjoyed sticking his hands in the ice chest. Lovely. For many reasons, but I am sure the people getting their ice after him appreciated it too.

Look at this awesome cake. Too too cute.. and it's from Publix. They did a great job and it was delicious too. There was another cake, an ice cream cake and it was precious too.

Pops is starting early. Fulton just bats his eyes and Pops pulls out his wallet and gave him some money. Seriously. Why doesn't this work for me anymore?

Oh yeah, back to the party... the birthday boy finally arrived (with his own snacks in hand). He thought they were coming to a house warming party for mom and dad. Surprise!!!

Look at me. I am back in the photo shoot chair. Who's next?? KK ready for a picture. Aunt Keri and Uncle Pete must have been busy and missed out on the photo chair.

Sneaky was eyeing the fruit tray again at this point. He simply loves fruit... and cheese. Which was right next to the fruit and he tried to grab a few pieces of that too.

Don't judge. We have never given Fulton anything but milk and water, but he found the drinks and knew exactly what to do with it. Thankfully he doesn't know how to open them yet.

And he carried that Dr. Pepper around like a lovey the rest of the night. Here's Mema, Fulton, the Dr. , and Scottie. Fun day celebrating another birthday!

Partying With Farm Animals

Saturday  morning we headed to the Oak Mountain Petting Zoo for Ellie's 3rd birthday party. 

This is William (Ellie's brother) and his dad Eric. They are sweet friends of ours. Eric and Matt became friends several years ago when we moved to Birmingham and they both started teaching at Hoover.

We have actually never taken F to the petting zoo (deprived, I know) so this was a new experience. He loved the goats and laughed everytime he tried to pet them.

This goat was a little anti-social, but we forced him to be friendly.

I finally caved and let Fulton walk around by himself despite the mounds of goat droppings everywhere. Gag. I think I went through a whole package of wipes trying to thoroughly sanitize him after we went inside. A little obsessive, yes I know. But he had a ball.

Nothing like a good ole family photo shot in front of the horses. Which by the way little buddy was scared of. Matt kept holding him up there trying to get him to pet them... not having any part of it.

After a small bath with germex and wipes we headed inside for lunch and cake. This is sweet Ellie with her 3rd birthday cupcake. Hooray!!

A quick Happy Birthday Cheese for the camera.

They were trying to get a picture of the kiddos all lined up with the birthday girl. Fulton did surprisingly well standing still for the picture.

He did so well that when the picture was over he just kept standing there. I don't think he knew what to do so he was waiting for direction. After lunch we went for a quick hay ride. It was a fun morning celebrating a birthday and visiting the animals.

Refreshing

Saturday  night I had a date night with this man. 

It was a good night spent with the man I love. See this adult (because we aren't adults right) small group class at church offered to watch all the couple's kids from out class for us to have date nights. Too too nice. And they gave us 5 hours. Woohoo. So we decided to make the most of it and started off with some ice skating.

I was laced up and ready to go in no time. 

 Somebody else took it a little more serious. Had to make sure they were on just right.

 I honestly couldn't remember the last time I had been ice skating. Had to be at least 10+ years ago. But we did like all love birds do and skated holding hands, until Matt nearly fell and then I had to let go and save myself.

 Matt had to stick by the wall at first, but he loosened up and was doing figure eights in no time. Plus the 4 little girl birthday parties encouraged him to venture out into the ice or he would be in the follow the leader line of 5 year old girlies.

We had a blast being together and just plain ole focusing on each other. From there we went to one of my all time favorites... J Alexander's. Love it. We were having so much fun I forgot to take any pictures after we thawed out from the rink. We made a quick trip to the mall and back to pick up our little bambino...who by the way was having so much fun that he didn't even care that we were there. Nothing like 15+  adults for 8 kids. Lots of attention. It was a refreshing night with my soul mate. Love this guy.

Thrill Seeker

We have quite the adventurous one on our hands these days. 

Not that it comes to a surprise to anyone, but he uses his toys for other purposes sometimes. Fulton got this tricycle from his sweet babysitter and doesn't always use it to ride on. Recently we caught him in the act.

 He is concentrating hard to see if he can stand all the way up and still reach the handle bars.

 Nah, I think I can do it without holding on. Little stinker.

And now he realizes we are watching him and he is quite proud of himself. Makes me a little nervous. He is a climber for sure... and doesn't seem to have a lot of fear. Maybe this is just a boy thing?! Obviously I am a first timer here so I don't know, but I know we have to keep our eye on this guy at all times or I am afraid he may climb on top of the entertainment center.

The Move

Last weekend mom and dad, or also known as KK and Pops, moved. Crazy thing... their house wasn't even on the market. Really? How does that happen? Anyways, someone wanted to buy their house.... they loved their home, weren't attached to it, so adios... start looking for a new one. Hooray for them. 

They were set to move on Saturday, so Friday night we went over to help pack some last minute boxes. Help is a strong word to use... we, as in Fulton and myself, didn't do much helping. He did enjoy playing in the boxes though.

 Aunt Keri and Uncle Pete came too and Fulton was pumped to have lots of people to entertain.

The highlight of his night was probably attempting to escape from me and making a beeline to the ramp going up in the truck. Talk about mad... he sure was when I pulled him back down. 

He stole Pop's gloves and was determined to help... and to keep me out of this picture too. He succeeded at one of those things. 

 Saturday morning we were back up and ready to help unload at the new house. Pops had a little shadow trailing behind him most of the day.

But again... we weren't much help. Someone was more interested in having lunch. It was a successful weekend of moving and we love their new house.

Little Helper

Our little buddy is growing too too fast and has become quite the helper these days. 

Matt was busy trying to put a piece back on the bottom of our fridge (one that Fulton had actually managed to pull off) and someone decided he would get down there and see what he could do to help.

 He is looking intently to see what the problem is.

Then he gave up and decided to make a game out of it. Once Matt finished and got up, Fulton got back down to the spot and made sure he fixed it right. We need to get him his own tool belt.

In other happenings, we were in Target the other day and Fulton was talking very loud. I put my finger up to my mouth and said shhh. Now he likes to do it too. It's funny, unless he is telling us to shhh.

 But sometimes his finger misses and this happens.

I could just eat him up. We love this guy to pieces!! He is so much fun.

Lunch Date

We had nothing on the schedule for today and it was glorious. Fulton and I headed south for some good company for a lunch date. 

We went out to Matt's school to meet him for lunch. After some good ole fixins at Papaw's Fine Dining, we went back to Matt's office to see what we could get in to. After woohing all the office ladies, we played at daddy's desk.

Not many toys to play with, but he found a few things that kept him entertained. At least these were better than trying to turn on the shredder machine which he kept doing.

Look at this stud standing next to all his hard work. So proud of my man. And to make the day complete, we stopped by Sonic on the way home for an ice cream cone. I guess I shouldn't say "we"-- more of just me. I was probably the only person getting a vanilla cone when it was 39 degrees outside. So much for eating healthier in 2013, I have already failed. Oh well, fun day anyways!