Father's Day, Beach & Zoo

This past week has been a whirl wind of events. Last Saturday we had over our dads for dinner. The next day, Father's Day, we had a full day of church and packing.

This year Walker did not like the sand. We stayed at the beach maybe a total of 30 minutes the whole week. These two pictures were from the first day. After that, it was all pool all the time! Walker loves to swim in a pool!

Walker had to have his "gobbles" on all the time, even to watch X-Men, but didn't know how to use them. He never would put his eyes down in the water. We tried to explain but forget reasoning with the unreasonable.

Walker wanted to stay on the balcony most of the time to look at the beach.

I forgot my tripod, so we took turns taking pictures with Walker.

The scorching hot Birmingham Zoo is not a place for pregnant women... but I thought it would be fun to take Walker as we came back from the beach. We went to stay with Uncle Blake in B'ham to visit and go to the zoo so Walker and Beka's niece Virginia Kate could meet. They are one month apart in age. It was so funny watching them together. They were precious.

Walker and Virginia Kate

We disguised our anger very well in this pic... We were burning up and ill as pills. Walker had just finished a major temper tantrum, but we survived. LOL!

The kids enjoyed the water area at the zoo. The problem was... we went there before we saw all the animals and they didn't want to leave it. Walker made a scene which led to us leaving early...no big African animals. LOL!

We did get to go to the petting zoo, which the kids loved.


Here was the funny train ride, if you can tell what I mean. That's Beka, her sister Kristan, Blake, and Zac. Oh, I had to change Walker's poopy diaper on the train as well. People probably thought I was crazy.

We did see one big animal.. Here's Uncle Blake and Walker in front of "Tina." We watched Napoleon Dynamite that night. Thanks Beka. It was Hilarious!

This was so sweet. The monkey kept putting his hand up to the glass to touch their hands.

And then we went home!!!! We had a great time. It took us a day to lay around and relax. I'm glad we had a fun last family vacation with Walker before the baby comes.

Life With A Superhero

How my life has changed in three short years. These days consist of trying to potty train and entertain a superhero. If we are not watching Batman, we are running around the house pretending to be Batman. All it takes is a baby towel. He has yet to take a bath without yelling, "Where is my Batman!" Will we ever retire these towels? LOL!


As I said before, we are doing everything we can to get him out of diapers. This chart is a fun and good idea but don't let the "2 week" period fool you. We have been placing stickers on this chart for a couple of months, I think. Since I've been out for summer break, We've been adding a lot more stickers in a shorter period of time, and I definitely see progress. After he puts a sticker on the chart, he gets to get a piece of candy (sugar free, but he doesn't know that... HA) out of his treat jar.

Cheesy...but it makes Batman happy!

After VBS one day, Walker and his cousins went swimming. Don't let all the floatation devices kid you. LOL! He was hilarious jumping in that pool with those flippers on. I can't wait to go to the beach next week to do a lot of swimming with him.

I was planning on taking pictures at his first dentist visit but this was all I could get... pictures of him playing in their indoor playground. Once we went back, Walker had the death grip on me and that was that. No pictures.

It's 100% Girl!

I had my ultrasound again this week and thankfully, it is what we thought it was... a healthy girl. She gave us a perfect peek this time. Wow! Cute dresses, bows, and shoes, here I come!!! Walker definitely knows there is a baby in mommy's belly and often gives her a kiss. I've watched a few episodes of A Baby Story on TLC so he has seen a few births LOL. Based on several of my friends advise I need to get him ready as much as possible. I talk about her all the time like she is already a part of our family so maybe I can lessen the shock for him. No matter how hard I prepare him I feel he will still be a little jealous. He only wants his mommy when it's time to be comforted.
Today I am taking Walker to his first dentist appointment. It's a wonderful pediatric dentist and I've heard it's like Disney World. LOL. I am going to try to take some pictures while there but we'll see. I think I'm more nervous for his appointment than I've ever been for one of mine.

A little potty training update: My plans were to have him trained and out of diapers by the end of my summer break. So far, we are making some head way but I feel like we need to do better if I'm going to accomplish this goal. We have a sticker chart and a treat jar for rewards. Honestly, it's not that important to him. Sometimes if he wants a piece of candy he'll drop his pants and run into his bathroom to sit on the potty. Then I hear, "Mommy, I need a treat!" So that shows you he understands the process, but why doesn't he want to do it everytime? Any ideas out there? I'm open to anything. In my next post, I'll try to add pictures.