A Big Boy Haircut

I have been avoiding the "Big Boy" hair cut long enough. Last week, while swimming, Hunter would go under the water to swim and every time he came up he had to wipe his hair out of his eyes. I knew it was time. The curls have slowly gone away. I had hoped that the Florida humidity would bring them back to life. As I was cutting, Hunter looked around the floor and continually asked what was all of that stuff on the floor. I cut a few inches off. I was a nervous wreck and told Adam it might be the last time I tackle his hair, but after it was over I was proud of my stylist job. Maybe this will be my new career ;)

A Family Visit

A night on the town!

Hunter, EJ, and Oliva having fun in the water. Oliva looks like she is trying to control the little guys. Cute!

Building a fort with army men


EJ is working on the mote around the fort.

Enjoying the cool ocean water and breeze

The ladies

One of the perks of living in Florida is whenever we have visitors in the area, we take a break from "every day stress" and join in on the vacation fun. Uncle Dave's boss owns a condo on Naples beach. We went and visited a few times and enjoyed the pool and beach with the family. Above you can see Hunter and EJ working on building forts with army men. Lindsay and Nick had bought some army men and brought them along. Everyone had a blast with building forts and playing with the army men. There were red, blue, and green army men and they were all protecting different parts of the fort. Lots of fun! During the week we joined them for dinner a few nights. Friday night, Adam, Nick, Lindsay, and myself joined a few of our friends for a late dinner. It was fun showing them a little of the Naples night life. Thank you Ioana for keeping Hunter. Adam and I very rarely get out by ourselves and it was a nice change of pace. We hope they will come back again soon.

Hunter's Jobs

Getting Hunter to get ready in the morning has been a little difficult and time consuming. Once I go back to work in October, I want the mornings to go as smoothly as possible so I came up with "Hunter's Job Chart". He has 5 jobs in the morning and 5 jobs in the evening before bed. He can distinguish the jobs (morning vs. night) by the background of each card. The morning jobs have a background of yellow and the evening jobs have a background of blue. As he completes each job, which is represented by a picture, he moves it to the "Things That Are Done" row. Once he is finished with all of his jobs he gets a sticker for each on his sticker chart located at the bottom. So far it has gone great. We are rewarding him with stickers and 5 coins to put in his Froggy Bank, that was a gift from Great Aunt Sally and Great Uncle George. Once the excitement wears off we will be doing something different for his reward, but for now it is working. I had a lot of fun putting this together and explaining it to him. He is growing up so fast. I can't believe that he is almost 4 and will be going to PreSchool with me at Sabal Palm next year (2011). Time flies!

Helping Daddy Around The House

We have been really blessed to come home to a house that was well taken care of by our renters this past winter. However, having a house there are always things that need to be done. With Adam not having much work at the moment he is busy around the house tackling different projects. One of the projects was to clean the gutters and overhang. Hunter loves to clean things, especially outside with the hose. He had all of his outside toys out and cleaning them. Just give him a bucket, a sponge, a little soap, and the hose and he has fun for hours.

4th of July on the Beach

Our favorite place to watch the 4th of July fireworks are on the beach. Last year, at this time, we didn't know where to watch the fireworks in Bristol and ended up in our neighbors driveway on top of the car roof trying to see the surrounding shows. It was fun, but nothing like the beach fireworks. The show didn't start until 9pm so it was a late beach night. We had Hunter dressed in his beach gear just in case he got into the water. The show was fantastic and the weather was wonderful. We are enjoying every moment together and taking advantage of the benefits of living in Naples.

Working Out

Throughout the pregnancy I have tried to keep up with my workout. It has been difficult since the move to Florida, but Hunter has become my coach. He loves to watch me workout. So instead of working out while he is asleep, I have been working out after his nap. I have some smaller weights that he uses to imitate what I'm doing. Whenever he sees that I stop for a minute he begins coaching, "Mom, your not doing it." (He is referring to the video and how I'm not following along.). I do miss pushing myself, but being pregnant I listen to my body and take frequent breaks. I'm trying really hard to stay on track this pregnancy, but it is getting harder. Mackenzie is going to be a big baby, just like her big brother (born @ 9lbs1oz).

A Visit from Annmother

Annmother popped down for a quick visit recently. Hunter was so excited that she was coming he could hardly control himself. We went to the airport and watched her plane fly in. He loves spending time at the airport. I don't think he remembers a whole lot of us flying on the airplane, but he has flown more in his short life than most of us ever have ever flown.

While Annmother was here we went to the beach, pool, the water park, and did a little shopping. We love having visitors down. It gives us a chance to take a mini-vacation from "life" and enjoy SW Florida and the company.

Adam and I celebrated our 7th anniversary while she was here. We were grateful for a night out just the two of us. When we came home Hunter and Annmother had little hearts cut out and put on our bed saying "Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad". We enjoyed her visit and look forward to her and Pops coming down in 8 weeks for Mackenzie's birth.