Cody, Cody, Cody

One of my favorite things to do during the summer is go swimming. The parents took Cody and me to the pool 3 weeks ago and Cody wanted nothing to do with getting in. He preferred playing football instead. I asked him to come swimming and the only way he would get in was in the boat with me.
I got out of the boat and showed Cody how simple it was just to splash around in the pool.

He said ok, but of course either mama or daddy had to hold him.
He saw me jump off the edge into the pool, so he tried it to.
That was a lot of progress on the first pool outting of the summer.

The next weekend we had our friends Maggie and Olivia come visit. We all were invited to the Pierce's pool and had so much fun together! Here we are at one of our breaks having popsicles!

Cody REALLY learned to love the pool that day. In fact he floated around by himself most of the time.
Having shallow steps to sit on was helpful to him so he could rest.
After using all our energy swimming, we sat down together for some hamburgers and hotdogs.
Cody sure is growing up fast and I'm enjoying teaching him tons of fun new things. Just the other day, I was teaching him how to steer the gator.

Wonderful teachers!!

Now that the end of the school year is over. I'd like to share with you mine and Cody's wonderful teachers! We made sure to give them some presents for being so good to us all year.

Cody of course had to give Mrs. Felecia and Mrs. Faith their presents with his shades on.

and I wore my glasses when I gave Mrs. Kacie and Mrs. Sharol their presents.

Thank you to all our teachers for making us smart!!

Happy Birthday Cody!

Cody and I were invited to Andrew's birthday party a couple weeks ago. We played and played on the playground and then made our way to the table to sit and rest before we got cake! After cake, Andrew opened his presents. Cody was not interested in watching. He was more interested in eating more, so he climbed on the picnic table and helped himself to some cheese puffs and grapes.

After Andrew opened presents, we made our way back to the playground to play.

May must be a big month for birthdays! May 8, Cody turned 2! He had a party at school with his friends. It was a Toy Story party and here is his cake.

Cody was surprised to walk in the kitchen to see mama and daddy during "snack time"

Cody really enjoyed his birthday cake with Buzz and Woody.

Then he opened his present full of Toy Story stuff.

He saw a puzzle, book....

and Buzz sunglasses that he just loves!!

In fact, the day of his birthday, Nanaw, Pawpaw and Austin came over and he wore his glasses while opening his presents outside.

He got a Toy Story bat and ball...

Then he asked me to help him open the other present

We have really loved playing baseball and watching it on tv with daddy. So it just made sense that Cody got a new batting tee after breaking the last one.

Nanaw, Pawpaw and Austin gave him some money in a card, so he made his way over to give em all hugs.

If you notice in this picture with Cody hugging Austin, the computer is on the chair next to him. That's because Grandy and JuJu got to watch the whole party experience on Skype!

My school ran an eye screening test a few weeks ago that came back and said I should see an eye doctor, so that's what I did. My exam room was sports! and it was cool! See me here getting my eyes dialated? That stuff was warm!

Then I had to hold these funny glasses and tell the doctor what shapes were on the screen. There were a couple pictures I couldn't recognize such as an old school telephone (because I've never seen one) and a birthday cake that I thought was a ship!

Finally the doctor looked at my eyes thru this funny looking machine. He said I cooperated well!

The results of my exam were: I'm far sighed. I can see just fine, but I have to work at seeing up close, so the doctor prescribed some glasses to help strengthen my eyes. So here I am wearing them (which I don't like) but of course I'm cute! Don't ya think??!!

Happy Easter!

The week before Easter, Cody and I were in a very special performance at church. While we were waiting for the service to start, daddy and I sat together and waited patiently. Then Cody found us and sat to!

Right before our performance, we got a huge surprise! JuJu showed up to watch!!!

So then Cody and I found our way to the stage, where I made sure I stepped up to the mic and belted out "God is so Good!" and "Jesus Loves the Little Children".

I must say that my performance was awesome!

But brother Cody of course stole the show! He decided not to sing along with all of us and ran up in the seats where the choir would sit, while a couple of adults chased him. Once they caught him and got him to stand and sing with us, I had to remind him of the motions that go along with the song.

JuJu stayed with us a couple nights then had to head home, but it didn't damper our mood too much because we were invited to Cole's 4th birthday party at Chuck E Cheese! There I got to ride a horse!

and Cody drove a car with a mouse!

and then I drove a car with a mouse!

Then Cody drove a race car!

and I went bowling!

I got the ball in the slot and the machine made noise so I was excited!!! Cody made his way over to feed this mean looking dog with a big mouth

As we made our way to sit down and eat pizza, I found this monster truck to take a ride in!

Once we finished eating, Chuck E Cheese came out to play with all of us! Cody ran away and cried - I'm guessing he was scared of Chuck E Cheese, but I loved him!!

That Saturday, we went to church for a big party and Easter Egg hunt! They had baby chick there that Cody and I sat down to pet. I held the baby chick so Cody wouldn't hurt it.

I think the baby chick was getting tired, so we put him back in his basket.

But mama never got a picture with both of us looking at her, so she said if we would both look then I could hold the baby chick again. Of course we cooperated for that!

Soon after playing with the baby chick, we lined up with our buddy Major to hunt eggs!

Daddy walked with Cody

I ran down the hill and found eggs all by myself

Cody reached down to pick one up and found the golden egg! We had a great time hunting eggs, but the next morning was even more exciting when we woke up and saw that the Easter Bunny brought us some goodies! This was Cody's basket and goodies

and this was mine!

Cody's favorite at first was the bubbles

and mine was my new Batman pj!

I did like getting the Sandlot II also!

After going thru our new goodies, we got dressed for church. We tried to take a good picture, but it was more fun playing with the bush behind us.

and we also tried a family picture, but with the sun in our eyes, Cody and I would not look at the camera.

Hope everyone had a Happy Easter! Cody and I sure did!!