Connor and Garrett's First Trip to Disney

Wow, look at the castle!

Trying on Woody's hat for size!

"Hey Baby Brother, guess what cool stuff we are going to see today!!"

I am Captain Hook!!

I will take one of everything, please!

Acting like Donald Duck

Where should we go next?

Me and my daddy waiting in line

We had to trade in our double stroller for two separate ones. Each boy got their own chariot that day!

So tired after my first trip to Disney!

On our way home from Jensen Beach, we stopped in Orlando to take the boys to Magic Kingdom for the day. It was an awesome experience! We got there around 9:30 and stayed until 11:30. Although it was a little too hot, both of the boys had a blast! We pretty much did everything that we wanted to do and even saw the Main Street Electrical Parade twice! Connor is on a Peter Pan kick and enjoyed Peter Pan's Flight and Pirates of the Caribbean. Garrett was able to go on most of the rides with us as well. I am not sure of his favorite one, but I do believe that he enjoyed being out of the heat for a while. The lines were not to terribly long, and we used the Fast Pass for just about everything that we could. The highlight of our day was getting to meet Micky and Minnie!!! The look on Connor's face was priceless, and he had a nervous giggle the whole time we were in the room. We had the Disney photographer take our picture with them, so we are waiting to get those back. Connor daily will talk about things that we did and that he wants to go back. He is obsessed with looking at pictures from the trip and a map of the Magic Kingdom that we brought home with us. Connor keeps saying, "Maybe if we are good we can go back there some day!" Yes, Connor, we hope to take you back there some day!!

Florida 2011

I love my baby brother!

My first happy hour in Florida

So cute dressed in blue!

Let's go DAWGS!!!!

My boys cheering on Butler

Brothers

Hanging out at the Beer Bust!

What is this sand stuff? Get me out of here!!!

Love from my daddy!

Get in the hole!!

I did it!!!

Love swimming with the ducky!

Hanging out in the lobster!

Now it is baby brother's turn!

Our family

Mommy and her baby boy!

The Smith family had another successful pilgrimage to sunny Florida over Spring Break this year. I say successful because we had fun and made it back in one piece. The drive both there and back was a bit hairy! Garrett was not the model car rider, and at night refused to fall asleep in his car seat. He would nap just fine in the day, but at night he wanted OUT! He pretty much cried off and on for 8 hours straight. Needless to say once we were actually at Jensen Beach, we had a great time! Connor loved swimming in the pool, playing in the sandbox, watching his dad and Great-Grandpa play tennis, and playing putt-putt golf. Garrett enjoyed playing outside during our daily happy hour and taking his first dip in the pool. We watched both Final Four games down there as well. We celebrated another Butler trip to the championship game. We were disappointed they didn't win it all but had fun during the ride yet again. We had a wonderful time with Grandma and Grandpa Biery in Florida. Connor keeps asking to go back, but NONE of us are eager to spend that much time in the car any time soon!!! Give it a little time though.

Spring in the Smith House

All my boys together!!!

I am ready for the beach, but Mom, can you get me a hat that fits???

Butler Pride!!!

Let's GO DAWGS!!!! Sweet 16 Bound, Baby!!!

Brothers

It is about time that it was nice outside, so I can ride my new Schwinn Trike!

Catch me if you can!!!

Ahh Spring!!! How I love it so! Here is a brief look at what my boys have been up to this month.

Garrett - He is just as cute and smiley as ever! The funny thing is that he is not crawling yet, and he is almost 10 months old. Right now he just rolls from place to place. He can almost push himself up onto all fours, but most of the time when he is excited on his tummy he just kicks his arms and legs. He just has not learned to put it all together. Maybe he will just skip crawling all together and just walk. He has two bottom teeth, but is working on two more on the top. Unfortunately, not the middle two, but the ones next to the middle ones are coming in. I guess we will look like some redneck old guy for a while until the middle ones come in. He is over 20 pounds and enjoys his new big boy car seat. He is my chunk-a-monk!

Connor - After a two night stay at the hospital for a nasty stomach virus, Connor is home and feeling much better. He enjoyed riding his new trike that Grandpa Mac got him for his birthday yesterday. He is still my hoot and a handful. He loves to play the Wii with us. He likes to play Wii sports with Jason, and to dance with me. His favorites on Just Dance 2 are the Austin Powers theme song, and Ke$ha. His favorites on the Michael Jackson Experience are Thriller (The Halloween One) and Beat It! He knows the words to these songs as well as a lot of the moves. It is a hoot to watch him dance with me, and I have to say that I love to dance with him.

Jason - He is SUPER excited about the Bulldogs trip to the Sweet 16 again. We are hoping that they can pull out a win over Wisconsin on Thursday. He is also training for his 14th mini marathon in May. He is also counting down the days until we all pack up the "Mule" aka his Pathfinder and head south to Florida. It is less than 2 weeks away!!!!

Brothers

I hope that I raise these boys to understand how special it is to have a brother. I hope that they continue to have the unshakable bond that they do now. I hope that they always watch out and care for each other. Finally, I hope that they are always there for each other no matter what.

8 months goes by too fast!!!

I love Ernie!

Should I knock this down?

I love those beautiful baby blues!

All giggles, all the time!

I cannot believe that Garrett David is 8 months old! It just all goes by way to fast! Here are some of the fun things that he is doing now.

* He can sit up unassisted for long periods of time. He has been doing this four a couple of weeks now. This is a big switch from his older brother, who sat up and crawled in the same week.

* He has his two front bottom teeth. This is also way different from Connor. Connor did not get his first tooth until he was 10 months old.

* He is not really crawling yet, but that is fine with me! I am enjoying this sit up and play stage.

* He really is this giggly and happy all of the time. He is such a calm, happy baby. This is much needed in a house with a boisterous 3 year old.

* He adores his older brother. No matter how hard Connor yanks, tugs, hugs, or tackles Garrett smiles and laughs at him. Connor can make him belly laugh like no body else can.

* He is a pretty good eater but is now refusing to eat his baby food cereal. He won't even eat it if I mix in the fruit. He clamps his lips shut and shakes his head. It is pretty funny!

Oh how I love this baby boy!

Whoopee!! Connor is three!!!

Checking out his very own leaptop!

More Toy Story stuff!!

Blowing out my candles, or should I say spitting out my candles.

Now you see why we took his sweater off of him. At least he is not as messy as he was on his first birthday.

Round two for blowing out the candles. Every time we ate a piece of cake, we had to light candles and sing.

At Red Robin eating my ice cream on my actual birthday.

One last birthday gift...a remote control race car.

It is so hard for me to imaging that my little guy is three. We had a wonderful time celebrating his birthday. We had friends and family over to celebrate on Sunday, and then had fun with just the 4 of us on his actual birthday on Tuesday. Connor is a HUGE Toy Story fan, so his 3rd birthday was a Toy Story theme. He received many fun Toy Story items during his party. On his actual birthday, our family headed to Red Robin for a birthday dinner. This is a tradition that we began last year. The funniest thing that happened was that when the wait staff came over to sing their Happy Birthday song, Connor slunk into Jason, then stood up and screamed, "Stooooooooop!" before diving under the table. It was priceless!!! I wish we would have video taped it. I do believe that Connor had a great birthday!!