Play-dough and painting

Sunday, Andrew wanted to get out his 'Coco-Nutty Monkey' play dough set. He loves it, thanks Aunt Angie!! You push down on his head with play-dough inside and it grows hair and dough comes out for the tongue. You can push down on his tail to clap his hands together to make shapes. And Andrew loves to make bananas with one of the little toys.

He said we were making Cheetos....but then we put it on the monkey's nose for a trunk....

and on our noses! :)

Silly boy!

The Zoo

Last Friday was probably the nicest day we've had all year so we decided to go to Point Defiance Zoo. So did everyone else. Boy was it busy!!

I was proud of Andrew he went to the top of the big staircase by himself and went down 3 or 4 times.

We went to feed the goats and Andrew thought it was pretty funny and that it tickled when the goat licked his hand to get the pellets.


Are you hungry too?

Daddy and Andrew having a picnic lunch

My silly cute little boy

We watch the beluga whale play with this ring toy for a while and loop it over his neck

Reindeer

The monkeys put on quite a show

No visit is complete without riding the carousel at least once.....

or usually twice :)

More random fun!

We made brownies this afternoon and Andrew got to stir them and lick the batter.

And yes, he isn't wearing pants, just underwear.

Scraping chocolate out of the bowl.

Chocolate, yum!

Then he went out after dinner and played in the yard with the dogs.

The grass and the weeds really need to be mowed down but he's having fun anyway. :)

Playing with Zoe

Andrew brushing his teeth

Andrew loves to turn the water on and off (he just gets in trouble sometimes for not turning it off)

He's trying to wash the chocolate off of his face.

Gardening with daddy and the park

The weather was very nice while I was sick with bronchitis, so Andrew went outside and did 'gardening' with daddy while daddy thatched the yard. (4/20/09)

He helped daddy plant the flowers he had picked out for mommy for Easter :)

Then he had a lot of fun using his little shovel to transfer dirt back and forth between his 2 pots

The two gardeners

Andrew was very happy to be outside in the sunshine, he loves it!!

These pictures are from another nice day at the park.

Walking across the bridge very gingerly

A picture from underneath one of the bridges, silly daddy :)

He loves this slide

He's always so excited to be at the park, he's very much an outside boy.

Doin the Puyallup....the Puyallup Spring Fair

On Sunday afternoon, April 19th we called up the grandparents and asked if they wanted to go to the Spring Fair with us. I decided since it was so sunny out we should go do something fun, even though all I wanted was a nap because I couldn't sleep the night before from coughing. Probably not such a great idea, I found out I had bronchitis the next day and was feeling worse. We did have fun though. :)

There was a kids' area but he wasn't interested for too long. He did make that green hat and planted a pumpkin seed which has now sprouted.


The petting zoo

He wasn't quite as shy with the animals this time.

Petting a baby bunny and baby chicks.

Grumpa, Andrew, and Muh

You can tell they were all thrilled that I took this picture

Me and my boys

Andrew loved riding the trucks (he said cars), there weren't a lot of other rides for small children

Book 'em Dan-o! Checking out the police car

Riding on the jump seat of the little fire truck

I didn't realize this was a full working fire station, I just thought they were here for display.

He was a little scared about standing up on the front of the fire truck

They had this cool display of all kinds of metal things with sticks for banging and making 'music'