Christmas

Drew reading to Clinton!


Micky "noseman!" Drew's two favorite things!!


Tummy time together!

Drew picked up on my favorite part of cookie decorating quickly!

She did great!

Bath time for Clint=Bath time for Drew!

He didn't love this bath because it was more of a sponge bath, but he didn't mind his next one where we could add more water! :)

Drew likes her new toy from Opa... especially when she is naked! :)

Besties!

Cheese!!!

Drew was a LITTLE excited about her jumper toy from Benji, Dit-do, Ali, Charlie and "exie"!!

Making cookies!

Cute videos...

The one of the playground is pretty impressive.. When I was there with her a few weeks ago mom and I tried to get Drew to climb the whole way on her knees.. it didn't work well. Jon found a better way to show her so now she can climb the big kids toy all by herself!

The second video.. Let's not tell Jon that I posted it.. I just love it too much not to share it, sorry Jon! As he says...he and Drew are "like peas and carrots."

Mom, the first video is from Drew saying thank you for the pictures of the frog! :)

I would like to point out perhaps my favorite part of the video... Jon's feet being in it. Notice them at the end-you can really see the pretty pink nail polish on them! We painted Drew's toe nails but she wanted Jon's painted, too! Such a good sport! :) I think he liked it...

The second video is Drew...being Drew. Clearly she didn't get these cleaning genes from me! She LOVES playing with spray bottles and LOVES cleaning up water but she came up with cleaning the fireplace all on her own! (Pretty certain she hasn't seen us do it, let's be honest!)

Videos

Apparently this is how I look when I sit down.. thanks Drew! :)

Drew likes to fake sneeze.. :) and, she is an AMAZING dancer! :)

End of Summer!

Whoops, this one got out of order.. Drew driving the boat! I don't know how to move these around!

Drew is helping me crush Special K (forgot to buy corn flakes) ...this is her CHEESE face! So excited to smile she closed her eyes!


Jon taught Drew to hold a pen correctly...it is hilarious! She holds crayons like this too! She LOVES to draw and color all over everything! Especially herself! :)

One of my favorite pictures ever. She kept saying "Jake!" and then patting her lap, so we got him up there and she thought it was hilarious!

I took a picture of a picture. These two were from the cruise when I got to play with dolphins!

That's right.. we kissed! :)

Drew doing her "cute" face wearing Jon's shorts and his belt as suspenders! She looks like a clown!

Drew got ahold of Olivia's lipstick (Olivia is the new person watching Drew... Who Drew absolutely LOVES!!!). She loved putting it on, but mostly just on her chin as you can see!

Her trick to play hide and seek from her daddy when I am wering a skirt! :)

It is too dark, but this is Drew and Faith at the Braves game... view from an AMAZING suite! I like that it is a shadow of her cute piggies!

Drew LOVES Bri...Poor Bri gets a work out whenever we are together because Drew always wants Bri to carry her! :)

Here are Drew, Bri and Drew! :) Getting them ready for THEIR baby! :)

Cutie pie.. SUCH a big smile!!

Jon and Drew in the water at lake Lanier last weekend. It was cold in the morning because of the wind but when the sun came out it was nice because the water was warm! Not everyone went in the water, but when you have a toddler who sees water and wants in, and doesn't understand that it is cold.. you do what you have to do! Jon took one for the team first, and I went in later :)

This was in the morning, when it was cool and windy! Felt AMAZING to this preggo lady! :)

Drew didn't love wearing her life jacket but hugs from dad made it all better!

No free rides at the House of Howell

Drew works for her keep! :)

Drew and I at half time of the Michigan/Notre Dame game. They weren't looking great so we had to take drastic measures (aka.. the tutu's). It worked.


She loved her MI outfit!

Drew had her face painted for the first time! She didn't want to do it at first but the lady painted that line on my face and then did a smiley face on Drew's hand and she sat there nice and still and let her draw a butterfly on it! It was at the relay for life event we went to! So fun!

Drew and I went out this weekend to support the Atlanta Harlequins womens rugby team. Drew wanted to look the part so we put on her soccer outfit my friend brought us from India. It is a little big, but she worked it!

Daddy and Drew took a nap on Friday. I came upstairs to find Jon passed out with Drew, with bird stickers on his face! The best part? The way they harmonize their snoring.! Turn up your volume for this video. Jon is the louder snoring, Drew's is at least a little softer. We were reading a book yesterday and there was a person sleeping so I started making snoring noises and she pointed to Jon and said "Dadda!"

Play Date

Jon's softball team had a party last night and between just a few families there were 4 girls and a boy at there are 3 more on the way! Drew had SUCH a good time playing there because everything is so kid friendly. She could NOT get enough of her friends and their fun toys and their awesome swing set outside! Plus, they had a dog which is always a bonus for Drew!

Drew and Bri were having a very serious conversation! We think they were talking about Bri's baby girl that is on the way :) You can see her cute little baby bump in this picture!

Jon was the hit of the night.. all of the kids LOVED HIM because he was playing dress up with them!

We didn't even pose this picture, the kids just loved sitting by each other!

Clearly, Jon wasn't going to let a perfectly good swing that we were PRETTY sure could hold him, go to waste!

These two are 2 weeks apart in age!

Lily, in the pink stripped dress, knows ALL of the words to these songs we were listening to. It was absolutely HILARIOUS because the songs aren't exactly kid friendly... She doesn't know what she is saying but hearing her say things like "Brushed my teeth with a bottle of Jack" was making us roll on the floor!

Sum Sum Summertime

Drew likes to play with my glasses and has pretty much ruined them so Jon got her some to play with on her own! :) She looks very smart if I do say so myself! :)


Couldn't be cuter.. let's be honest. :)

Cruise Part 2

We got matching bracelets!!


Someone got ahold of a pen.. :)


The toilets had really weird flat seats that Drew liked to go potty in! :)

They changed the plates on the elevators every day so that you had a little bit of reality that your week was slowly passing you by! :)

Daddy and Drew bug waiting for a boat in Aruba

One of our towel animals

Drew is taking after her mom...she loves taking pictures! :) Above and below are her first shots with the new camera. She did great. :)

Our favorite water slide! (well, the only one, but we went down it more than anyone else on the whole ship, I am certain!)

Cruise Preview

Dipping Drew after our dance!


Drew's new dress, on our balcony. She looks like a little island-girl!

My favorite place-the Dolphin Academy! I got to meet/kiss one of the dolphins! :)

My favorite picture EVER. Drew doesn't care how big the fish are, she just likes that this tank had a LOT of fish. She got SO excited all she could say was "OOOOOOHHHHHhhhhhhh!!!!!! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Daddy daughter bonding.

My second favorite picture. She loves our glasses and couldn't stop saying "Cheese!!!"