Chattanooga Aquarium

Our cousin Dylan got a job at the Aquarium in Chattanooga and let us know that he had some tickets for us if we wanted to bring Liam down.  We thought it would be fun so we took him up on that offer.  We asked Aunt Maggie to go with us.  We stopped and ate at Sticky Fingers before we went.  Maggie and Ryan had never eaten there before and they loved it! Liam loves fish so he had a blast!  Us adults had a blast too :)

My favorite part of the Aquarium! I love birds, especially ones with a personality!

After the Aquarium we decided to go see an IMAX movie.  We watched a movie about Elephants and Monkeys.  Liam wouldn't wear the glasses but he sat through the whole movie!

Picking Strawberries

A few weeks ago we traveled to Pott's Farm in Wartrace to pick strawberries and blueberries.  When we got there we loaded up on bug spray and grabbed our baskets to start picking.  We read our instructions on which strawberries to pick and headed to the field.  Little did we know we were going to have to walk forever to get to where the strawberries were.  We of course went the wrong way around.  If we would have paid more attention we would have noticed that in the beginning.  But who can pay attention when you are chasing around an 18 month old?  Once we got there we quickly noticed that there wasn't much to choose from.  We obviously came at the wrong time.  They had been picked through and wasn't much there.  We did find a few but we all expected our baskets to fill up a little quicker.  After what seemed like we had been picking forever, there wasn't much in our baskets.  It was hot and the bugs were getting the best of us.  We wanted to pick blueberries too.  After the strawberry ordeal and 2 hot, hungry, unhappy children we opted to buy already picked strawberries in addition to what we had picked, skip the blueberries for another day and grab a snack.  Katy, Alex and Maggie picked strawberry ice cream.  Liam and I chose a strawberry honey popsicle.  We hung out under the carport until we were all done and then headed back to Manchester!

Liam's strawberries.  His job was to carry the basket and leave them in there.  As you can see, we lost a few along the way!

What's a hot day without a meltdown?

Playing with Alex

 Alex is such a sweet boy!

 Liam had to stop for a game break.  That boy loves his technology.  Alex was making sure he was doing it right :)

Summer Day with Alex

I am once again behind in blogging (Sigh!) About a month ago we went to my friend Katy's house to play with her son, Alex.  Katy and I have been friends for a long time and it is nice to have a friend who has someone to play with "baby Liam" as Alex calls him.  Katy called us one day and said they were playing outside in the sprinklers and wanted to know if we wanted to join. So I packed up a lunch, put Liams bathing suit on him and we picked up Aunt Maggie and headed her way!  Liam wasn't so sure about running through the sprinklers by himself.  He would run around them instead.

I had to intervene and run him through the sprinklers....

This was his reaction afterwards ....

"Look at me!!!"

Aunt Maggie ran me through them too! This time it was more fun!...

He would much rather play with the gator ...

We tried playing with water in the little tub...

Then we moved into the big tub! ...

Alex liked to drive him around.  Liam didn't mind a bit! ...

"HIIIIII" as he says.  And sometimes it's "HIDEE" :) ...

Little Gardener

For the past two days Maggie and I have been working on a garden.  Maggie did all of the work getting started on it.  She tilled up the dirt and planted the first two rows of veggies.  I came over late yesterday afternoon and helped some.  This morning I got up early and ran.  After breakfast we met Maggie, Katy and Alex and went to CO-OP to get some more plants.  We made a stop at Wal-Mart to pick up some Liquid-Feed to fertilize the plants once a week.  When we got back to Maggie's house Katy and I put our kiddos down for a nap.  It was about to rain so we figured we needed to hurry up and plant so that we could get it all done today.  We planted all of our favorite things.  We planted jalapeños, cayenne peppers, bell peppers, banana peppers, tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchini squash, okra and cucumbers.  We plan on doing a few more things but thats all we have so far.  After nap time Liam decided he wanted to help water the plants.  Here are some pictures of our little gardener.

This is Liam's poor little (dead) plant.  He accidentally fell on him and broke him in half.  We tried to save him but it doesn't look like his is going to make it.

He liked playing in the mud puddles that Maggie made when she was watering the plants.

They found another plant that was on its last leg.  We think one of Maggie's dogs ran over it.

Washing off our muddy hands.

Aunt Maggie acting like she is going to spray him.  He thought it was hilarious!

Our semi finished garden.

I will be sure to update when they start growing and are ready to pick!!!

The Chicken or the Egg?

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?  For us, it was the chicken.  A day later, the egg came.  We decided that Liam should get to eat the first egg!  I had to work that morning, so I told Ryan that he better take pictures.  This is what I got :)

This boy sure does love his eggs!!!