Ho, Ho, Ho

Christmas 2009 will always be remembered spent with all of our wonderful family and friends!! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday and wish ALL OF YOU a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope you enjoy all of our fun:):) Watching Walker and seeing the excitement in his eyes is something I will look forward to each and every year!

When you ask Walker what Santa says, he will say, "Ho Ho Ho". It is soooo cute. We had such a wonderful Christmas spent at Moppy and Papa's house. We were able to see lots of family and friends and eat lots of yummy food, especially the desserts. We spent most of the week just hanging around the house spending time together. Walker wasn't quite sure what to think of all of his presents. It definitely took a lot longer than I thought to open presents. Walker would stay focused on the present he just opened making it very hard to move on to the next.

He is all boy climbing on the box before opening it. Our present to Walker this year was a basketball goal. We taught him to say, "Slam Dunk". He loves his horse that Moppy and Papa gave him. The big smile on his face is priceless.

Santa brought Walker a harmonica and a kazoo in his stocking. I couldn't believe he knew exactly what to do with them. It's hysterical listening to him play the harmonica. I tell you what....he can rock out with it. I keep telling him he's going to play in a blues band:)

Check out Walker's booties from Moppy and Papa:) Look at those chubby legs...are they not irresistible or what?? He enjoyed wearing his booties around the house.

Don't you like our matching candy cane PJ's?

We always enjoy spending time with Uncle Ben, Aunt Mandy and Cousin Logan. It is so fun to watch the boys play together. They are one year apart and love each other so much. Aunt Mandy and Walker enjoyed opening one of his presents with all the barnyard animals inside.

We always love catching up with old and new friends:) Walker's friends Zuri and Mason stopped by to see us. It's amazing how fast they all are growing up. Zuri is almost walking and turns 1 at the end of January. We can't wait to help celebrate her first birthday. Mason will turn 2 in January and will be a BIG brother in March. Mason enjoyed showing us a few tricks with the football and basketball.

A few more of our favorite people stopped by to see us, "The Walkers". Megan and Brian are expecting their first Baby Girl in April and we couldn't be more excited for them. We hope before April, Megan will learn the proper way to hold a baby:):) Megan, you must not be reading the books I sent you...LOL!! Walker was so excited to see his Godparents:) and he loves his new baseball tee set. We love you guys and can't wait to visit Charlotte and see the nursery.

I'm telling you he would not put his harmonica down even for a picture:) Here are my favorite Thrasher's in the WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD:) I love them more than they will ever ever know. They helped me become the "old lady" that I am today and it makes me so happy to see Walker feel the same LOVE I have always received from them. We love you Uncle Doug, Aunt Patsy and Cody!!

Not Much Lately......

Yes, that's what we have been doing lately...not much! It's always amazing when you have so many plans for the weekend and it changes in a second. Walker started feeling under the weather on Saturday and continued to get worse through the weekend. We spent most of Sunday morning in our weekend pediatrician's office. Walker has an ear infection. He is finally feeling better today with NO fever. I'm so glad he is feeling better, because I'm not sure if we can stay couped up in the house another weekend. I will admit is was fun staying in our pj's all weekend and spending quality time together, but it's hard to stay inside with a 18 month old:)

On Tuesday, Walker had his 18 month check up. He weighs 29 pounds and 33 inches tall. He is growing like a weed and taking in everything. He is so much fun and its getting easier communicating with him. He says everything lately...most of the time when you ask him to say a word he will repeat you. It doesn't always sound like it should, but it's so sweet to hear him try to say it. The funniest lately is the word, "Wow". He also is very good at saying, "Snowman" and for Santa he says, "Ho, Ho".

He loves to play with the snowmen that sing from Hallmark. He turns them on one by one and dances to the music. I've already had to change the batteries:) He has done very well with the Christmas tree. We decided this year to go with a smaller tree with less ornaments. He goes over and looks, but doesn't show any interest in messing with the ornaments. I hope next year he can have his very own tree to decorate.

It's that time a year again when Dairy Queen makes Patrick's favorite blizzard...."Candy Cane Chill". This is actually very terrible, but Patrick has gone there every night this week. His excuse is....Walker loves it too:) Walker definitely takes after his Daddy and LOVES eating ice cream.

Check out my shirt......Mom's favorite gift. I recently celebrated my birthday and both my boys made my day extra special. Patrick and Walker gave me a really cool camera for my birthday/X-Mas and I'm enjoying taking photos with it. I can't wait to get to Moppy and Papa's this weekend to practice more.

Back in the Day

Back in the day Patrick and I wore these same clothes and I'm totally loving it. Both of our moms saved clothes that we wore when we were little. I think my mom saved a lot more than Patrick's mom, but I'm glad Walker gets to wear clothes that his mommy and daddy wore.

This is a sweatshirt that says, "Patrick" on the front. Patrick's grandmother, Beck had this made for Patrick when he was little. He looks so stinkin' cute in it.

This Clemson tiger sweatsuit was worn by both my brother and I and now Walker:) He looked so cute in it. As you can tell its a little small, but I think we can get one more wear out of it. I'm hoping that both Moppy and Jules can find picture of us wearing these outfits.

We are so THANKFUL!!

This was our second Thanksgiving with Walker and I tell you what it can't get any better than this. We have been so blessed and we are so thankful for all of our family and friends and especially our little boy. Every day is a new day with Walker and each day he brings sunshine to my face. He is so stinkin' cute and so funny its unbelievable. I might say he gets his looks from his dad and his little personality from me:)

Sorry, its taken me so long to blog, but we have been very busy. The weekend before Thanksgiving we headed to Kentucky to drop off Walker at Jules and Pops house for his first weekend by himself with them. Then Patrick and I headed to see our dear friends in Oxford, Mississippi and to go to the Ole Miss/LSU football game. We had so much fun and enjoyed seeing everyone. I especially enjoyed seeing my dear friend Lauriebeth's little boy, Carson and my other dear friend Shawn's little girl, Kaitlyn. They are both 3 months old and after spending time with them I miss the little baby stuff. What I would do if Walker would be that still again:):)

After spending the weekend in Mississippi we headed back to Kentucky to spend the week with Pops, Jules, Uncle Matt, Moke and Beck. We had so much fun and Walker especially loved all of the attention. Jules and Pops had our week planned while we were there, but we were also able to relax.

We were able to catch a few basketball games while visiting. CCU was playing in a preseason NIT tournament and they played at WKU. We ended up getting to see CCU play and WKU. Walker wasn't too sure about being so close to Big Red. CCU pulled out 1 W and 1 L. Go Chants and Go Tops!!

We went to the playground almost everyday. We had to adjust to the cooler temps, but Walker didn't seem to mind at all. He loved the slides and climbing up and down the steps. He truly has NO FEAR. He didn't hesitate to go down head first on either slide. I was a little nervous about the circular slide, but he LOVED it:)

Mooo Mooo- has Walker makes the cow sound:) Pops took us to the university farm and we were able to meet Baby Gary and see the diary cows. The students named this Jersey bull after Pops, "Gary". Baby Gary has turned into a very popular calf. Pops and Jules arrived at the farm just before Baby Gary was born and the students thought it would be perfect to name him "Gary". We watched the diary cows being milked and even got to see a baby calf drink two bottles. Walker wouldn't stop saying.......Mooo Mooo Mooo Mooo.

We enjoyed visiting with Moke and Beck, Walker's great grandparents for a few days. They couldn't believe how much he had changed since they last saw him. Walker loved giving Beck kisses and reading books. Thanksgiving would not have been the same without seeing them. They are two very special people and we love you two lots!! Walker also enjoyed his Uncle Matt or as Walker says, "Matt Matt". It's very cute. He loved reading his favorite books with Uncle Matt Matt. We may not see Uncle Matt Matt in person very much, but we do get to see him and talk to him every night on Skype.

Walker had so much fun playing in the leaves and riding in the wheelbarrow. He loved Patrick throwing him in the middle of the leaves.

Thanksgiving at The Ransdell's was one we will never forget and we look forward to many more memories together! We love all of you and we are so lucky to be able to share our happy, beautiful little boy with you!!

Happy Halloween!!

This weekend we traveled to my parents house or Moppy and Papa's to go to the football game and to trick-or-treat. We had a great time visiting with them and seeing all of our family and friends. We don't get the opportunity to visit there often, so we take FULL advantage of our time. Mommy and Daddy even got to have a night alone thanks to Moppy and Papa. On Saturday we were so excited to go trick-or-treating.

This year Walker was a giraffe. He did keep making the "horsey" sound. He was so darn cute in his costume and absolutely hysterical from the back. He doesn't quite understand the concept of trick-or-treating, but I'm sure next year he will be ready to go:)

Walker also got to see his girlfriend Zuri and play with his cousin Logan. Zuri was Pebbles for Halloween. Logan enjoyed pushing Walker around the house on the race car. We had such a great time and can't wait to see everybody again really soon.

Halloween Celebrations

This week at Walker's school they are celebrating Halloween. All this week they will be exploring different Halloween activities. Today they carved a GIANT pumpkin. Some of his classmates were afraid, but Walker jumped right in and helped hollow out the pumpkin. I'm sure it was very messy when they pulled out the seeds. I can only imagine what they all must have looked like. I can't wait to see the pictures his teachers took today. They will also be toasting and tasting the pumpkin seeds. They are reading books, singing songs and learning finger plays all about pumpkins!!! Walker will miss the Halloween party on Friday, so he helped me last night decorate chocolate eyeball cupcakes to share with his friends today. He decorated them so well.

Last week to kick off pumpkins in his class they were each given a small pumpkin to paint. We brought his home from school today to enjoy. As you can see he was trying to launch it off the couch. He was successful, bouncing the pumpkin on the hardwoods and hitting the wall making a huge orange mark on the wall:)

We can't wait to go trick-or-treating this weekend at Moppy's house. Walker is going to be very short giraffe:) Happy Halloween Week!!