Summer Fun With Friends

Will's fun in the sun day w/ Kellen & Caroline.

Playing Basketball...

Staking ownership in the basketball... Kellen: "Oh don't you take my ball!!!"

Watching Kellen fly down the slide. (Will wasn't so sure about all that, but thought it was funny to watch)

Tons of laughing

And having all sorts of a good time mixing the sand & water together on the sand/water table.

You just can't beat a fun day w/ your buddies in a backyard full of kid stuff to do.

A Boy And His Dog

Will & Duke relaxing in the garage.

Looking for a lot of mischief.

Will figuring out what life's like behind bars. He did this to himself, I just documented the experience!

Duke basking in his new pool...that lasted 1 day and then he ate it! He's got a new pool now. Lesson learned, don't let the water disappear, he gets tick off!

Full Body Laugh

Will just started this new laugh which makes me laugh everytime he does it. There is nothing more reassuring than a childs laughter. Guess we are doing something right.

Proud Aunt Ang

Little Man and My first cuddle.

I can't believe he's finally here or that my sister is a Mom. Evan, Trac & Jason got to go home today, hopefully to get some good rest this afternoon. I can't wait to see his precious face again. Will doesn't quite get all the hype around Mr. Evan, but as they get older and into mischief together like he and Grace, he'll be so excited to have Evan around.

I See's You

Excuse the nakedness, Mr. Will (as stated many times) is very anti clothes when at home.

Introducing......

Evan Miles Dickinson

Evan was born yesterday at 5:23 pm weighing in at 7 lbs. 14 oz. and 20 in. long. After 10 hours of trying to deliver naturally (w/ an epidural) Traci never would progress past a 5 & a wiggle (a scosh past 5). Her doctor decided at 4:30 pm yesterday it was time for Evan to be born so he was taken by c-section.

Evan and Mommy are healthy happy and beyond amazing. Jason is a proud Daddy and a very supportive husband. I am so proud of all 3 of them.

I spent all day with them yesterday then a little time after Evan was born, but my most cherished time was this morning when I spent a couple of hours with Trac and Evan while Jason ran home and took care of Deacon Dog and before people started to come visit. The picture above was our cuddle time. Will gets to go meet Evan after school and though I know I won't get to hold Evan again this afternoon because Will is a bit possessive of his Mommy, I can't wait to show him his new cousin.

Sorry for the picture quality, I'll post a ton of good ones soon. These were from my phone, I left my camera memory card w/ Trac that has all the good ones on it.

Kissy Face

Well, it happened, the 1st time in 22 months that I truly w/out a shadow of a doubt kicked myself for missing a photoperfect moment in Will's life. Missing this event is almost as bad as if we'd missed taking pictures of Will when he was first born. Okay, a bit overdoing it there, but a big moment nonetheless.

All I have from this moment is the mental picture that yes I can describe, but won't do it anywhere near the justice it deserves. I'll do my best to replay and hope that you have a good mental picture of Will to get the gist of the preciousness I experienced this morning.

Okay, most mornings it takes me a good 30 minutes to get out of school. I like to play too and it's very hard to leave because the kids use me as a jungle gym or play w/ my hair and I get tons of hugs everyday. It's like heaven every morning. I feel like I get jipped if I don't take Will to school everyday; which is rarely so lucky me! I keep telling them I'm just going to start working there.

Well this wonderful morning a very adorable sweet sweet girl named Gabby came over to sit on my lap w/ Will. The two of them were minding their own business on my lap, then all of a sudden Gabby reaches over and puts her arm around Will and he lays his head on her shoulder and looks up at her w/ adoring eyes and a precious smile. Then Gabby leans over a plants a HUGE smooch right on Will's lips. Just big as life right there on my lap. WILL GOT HIS FIRST KISS TODAY. Well, actually Will got about 5 first kisses today from Gabby. And when Gabby had enough w/ the affection stuff she start pushing him away like a teenager flirting and laughing, but Will wanted more so he kept trying to hug her again and put his face up to her level for more smooches, but Gabby is a classy girl so she dismissed him and went to playing w/ her doll again.

I was crushed I didn't even have my phone on me to snap this moment. Will's first kiss...on his Mommy's lap...and I have nothing to capture it w/ except my mind and quite frankly that's no good, I forget stuff all the time. So I'm writing it down so I'll always remember how precious it was and so later on when I embarrass him w/ this story, I can refer back to this for some sort of proof.

Will's First Play Date Sleepover

Will had his first sleepover w/ Grace over the weekend. And though I worried we'd put too much on Corry & Wendy having them keep Will, it turned out to be a very fun and easy couple of days.

Will and Grace had so much fun together. They colored, played & entertained each other very well.

I told Wendy they needed to let us keep Grace next time and let the kids play together at Will's house so Michael and I could experience how fun the two of them are. Quite honestly, I'm very jealous of Wendy and Corry that they got to spend the weekend watching the two of them. And very grateful, because it allowed Michael and I to relax and enjoy our trip knowing Will was in good hands. We went to Dallas for a wedding.

When it was time to wind down and relax, it didn't take the kids long to cuddle up to each other and snuggle w/ their blankets and watch Cars.

I am soooo glad Uncle Corry took these pictures; these two are so sweet to each other...for now anyway. ; )

It was a great weekend in Texas and a beautiful wedding, but I was sooo glad to get home to my Bear. And to have him run out of the house and give me a big hug was the icing on the cake.

Memorial Weekend 2010

Perfect weather for Memorial Weekend....when has that ever happened? Even the water was perfect. I personally think it was a payback for the brutal winter we had. Thanks Mother Nature, keep them coming!

On that note, to add to the perfect weather, we had a perfect weekend. Will was Mr. Independence...when he wanted to be. He was a bit Momma's boy all weekend which I usually love, but my arms are very sore from carrying him. He wasn't a big fan of the sand texture, picture above he's coming to be held.

We went for boat rides which other than the life jacket, he loved.

He had no problem relaxing.

Even Duke enjoyed his weekend. Let me rephrase that Duke LOVED his weekend. He got to roam free most of the time. After the first day of constantly yelling for him to get back here, we let him explore and come back on his own...unless he went too far which was rarely. He followed Will around giving us a glimpse of what it's going to be like for them as they grow. 2 best friends, it was precious. At one point, I even said "Follow Will, Duke" and he turned around and stayed on his trail. I think Duke is still recovering from all the playing, after all he is only 5 1/2 months old.

Will and Bennett played together too, Bennett is our next door neighbor, he's a little older than Will, but he loves Will and likes to come up to Will and say "Baby Will, you want to come play in the water with me" Will doesn't respond w/ words but gets up and heads to the beach.

Sunday evening we had dinner w/ our friends....and Will took off his clothes. Okay, he didn't take them off, he asked me too AND I figured we were at the lake in a relaxing environment, why should anyone have to wear clothes if they chose not too? Truly that should only apply for babies, adults don't get any ideas.

Our friends dog Basha was Will's entertainment for awhile, he walked her around the patio.

THEN, Monday is was clean up time. Papa & Grammy had a bathroom renovated in they garage and the tile people trashed the entire garage and contents w/ dust. Not happy campers to have to clean all that up, but it's all back to normal now and the bathroom is beautiful. Will helped his Daddy mop, until I came in w/ the camera and he ran over excited that I was there. Oh how he melts my heart.

He broomed a little too.

Can't wait for our next trip down, Will and Duke enjoyed their freedom so much. We hope everyone had a safe and wonderful Memorial Weekend.