Monkey Fun!

On Friday we took Anderson to Monkey Bizness.  This is a fun place in Houston that is essentially a huge space with a bunch of inflatable bounce houses and slides.  It is a lot of fun, but it was insane!  There were a bunch of kids there on Friday and a lot of them were much bigger than Anderson, which made me really nervous.  Anderson had an awesome time and really loved the slides.  One slide is about 20 feet high, and I swear kids were just flying down.  I went down with Anderson, and it was awesome! 

Here is a video of us on the big slide.  It is not a really clear video, but Anderson's face at the end says it all.  He loved it. 

Anderson's Big Ride

For Anderson's birthday he got the coolest car in the world.  It is a Radio Flyer car that has a handle for us to push him in, and it has just about every bell and whistle in the world.  It is awesome, and Anderson loves it.  He is always getting in and out of it, pushing it around and requesting that we push him around in it.  Here is clip of him cruising around.  He will be driving before we know it.

Fun in the Sun

The weather here has been awesome lately.  We have taken full advantage of the great weather and have spent a ton of time outside and have fully gotten the return on our sandbox investment. 

Here are some pictures of Anderson having fun in the back yard.

Happy Easter!

Easter was a lot of fun this year!  While this is Anderson's second Easter (he was exactly one week old last Easter), he was much more excited and much more aware of everything this time.  He did not really get the concept of finding the eggs and putting them in the basket, but he definitely loved rocking out with his eggs!  Here is the video clip:

Happy Birthday Anderson!

It has been a week long birthday celebration for Anderson's birthday that culminated with a party yesterday.  It was a great time!  Here are some of the highlights of the week...

Anderson's rockin' airplane!  Grandpa Mike and Grandma Sandy gave Anderson this great airplane rocker that sings and makes all kinds of awesome noises.  Anderson loves the noises and rocking on it.  However, he has not quite mastered the dismount.  

Anderson's new sand box! Whenever we go to the park or Lupe Tortilla, Anderson gravitates to the sand box.  He just loves it and apparently loves the taste of sand too! For his birthday, we got him a little sandbox and picnic table.  He has really enjoyed it so far, and it was a huge hit for his birthday party guests.

 

Anderson's new ride!  Anderson got a Radio Flyer car from the Staples, Uncle Bubs, and Honey and Pop.  It is awesome!  It is all decked out with a radio, turn signals, the works!  Anderson looks awersome in it cruising around Huntwick.  He loves riding in it, but he really loves just pushing it around.

Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo

It's rodeo time in Houston, which is a huge deal!  There are tons of big performers and events.  Today, we took Anderson to the Livestock Show.  There were tons of animals and events for the kids. Anderson was not a fan at all of the pigs and goats or really any of the petting zoo animals, but he LOVED the chickens and rabbits.  It was pretty fun to also watch all of the people going to the rodeo tonight.  The Jonas Brothers are the rodeo performer tonight, so there were tons of "Future Mrs. Jonas" and "I love Joe" t-shirt wearers and signs.  

Anderson's Hip Issue

A few weeks ago, Anderson's teacher at school noticed that Anderson was not putting weight on his right leg.  We had not noticed it at home, and he definitely did not seem affected by this at all.  He was still running around and playing like normal.  Then over the weekend, we noticed that Anderson would not put weight on his right leg when we would put him down from being held, but once he was down, he would pull himself up and walk around again.  Weird, right?  So I called the doctor on Monday, fully expecting them to tell us not to worry about it, but they wanted us to bring him in.  In two seconds, Dr. Killinger knew that it was "irritable hip syndrome." Apparently, it is fairly common when a kid has recently been sick (Anderson had an ear infection about 3 weeks earlier).  The virus will migrate to the joints and cause inflammation.  So the cure was no walking for 3 days, which is not an easy task for a highly active 11-month old boy! But within three days, Anderson was back to being 100%.  It was a rough couple of days for all of us, but we are all doing great now.