Cash Plays while we were gone

We live in Houston and its HOT! Really hot right now. A couple of weeks ago when Toby and I went to New Olreans Cash was at my parents house, and mom and dad took him to the mall for a day of entertainment. Cash loves going to the mall, but not to shop. He loves all the things that he gets to do at the mall. He gets to go to the indoor playground and run around. Its pretty cool and he always has a blast.

Another thing is the pet shop. He loves getting to go and look at all the pets in the pet store.

Of course a kid can not go to the mall with out going to the Great American Cookie company! The best high priced cookies around. I grew up on these things. They are great. Usually then he gets to go to the food court and eat at Sonic. He thinks its pretty neat that there are Sonic's inside the mall.

Last you have to take a ride with Grandma on the carasouel. He used to go and just look at it and never want to get on. But now he does and look how much fun he is having! So, now I need to tell Toby it is possible to go to the mall and NOT go shopping! (if you take Cash)!

I have lots of posts to catch up, we had another wedding this weekend!

Lacy's Wedding

This past weekend was my cousin Lacy's wedding. We drove up to Oklahoma on Thursday, and the wedding was on Friday. Cash got to wear a tux and looked so cute and grown up.

He looks like such a little man. He was really excited to get to wear a suit as he called it. He even bought new black shoes to wear with it.

Cash and my cousin's son Harry, are only 4 days apart and at the reception were assigned the task of walking around and handing out party favors to the guests. I told my cousin that I did not think that Cash would do it. But he DID!! and he loved it. He walked around the the tables and handed them out and even when he ran out he wanted more so we refilled his basket and off he went.

Little did I know that was just the beginning of him coming out of his shell. The musicwas going on the dance floor and off Cash went. He spent at least 2 hours dancing on the dance floor. He had a blast and was not shy at all. He did not want anyone dancing wiht him, he wanted to dance alone.

You should have seen it in person, I could not stop laughing, it was the funniest thing that I have seen.

After all the dancing was over we were headed back to the car to go back to our hotel and my dad fell walking to the car and broke his foot and ankle. He spent the rest of the night at the ER. The next morning was his brithday so since he could not get around much we celebrated in our hotel room. My aunt was having a cake for him later in the day. More on that later....

He will be having surgery on it on Thursday or Friday this week to fix and then will be in a cast for a few weeks! What a way to celebrate a wedding and a birthday!

Is that my baby?

So I have to start this post by saying that Cash wants to do everything by hiself! EVERYTHING. Now when we go shopping Cash has to walk... He will not ride in the cart and if you have ever been shopping with an almost 3 year old it takes 5 times as long as he walks slow and watches every person.

So we were at Walmart get some basics, shampoo, hairspray, and deodrant for me and Toby, I had put ours in the cart and was moving on to the next isle and he layed down on the floor in Walmart and started screaming. For the life of me I could not figure out what was wrong, he kept saying something, about mine.. shdfkjlsdhfkjshl! Thats what it sounded like, I could not make it out. So finally I told him to show mommy and he took me to the deodrant isle and picked some up and said "Mine Mommy" and put some in the cart. When he was not looking I took it out, and put it back on the shelf, but he still thought that mine was his. We finished our shopping and went home.

Fast foward about a week. I could not find him in the house, and I called his name and went into my bathroom and he had taken his stool in there, and this is what I found!

I quickly ran and got my camera and took this picture. This is when I realized a couple of things...
1. He is not a baby
2. He copies everything
3. He observes everything even if you do not think that he is...

New Orleans

I had to go to New Orleans for the weekend for work and put on a training session, Todd our friend and one that I work with also was helping to hold the training. It was on Saturday so we decided that we would make a mini vacation of it since our good friend Marcus lives there and none of us had ever been to New Orleans. We left Houston late Friday morning and made the 6 hour drive to New Orleans. Once we arrived we checked into our hotel and waited for Marcus to arrive to go to dinner.
We went to a local resturant called Drago's. It was a seafood resturant and everyone thought that it was really good. I had steak fingers, so not really sure how great the seafood was! Ha! The desserts were huge. We ordered the brownie and icecream and it took up an entire plate!

Here were all were on Friday night. After dinner we went to a little bar called New Orleans Daiquiris. It was a fun place that we all just hung out for the evening. The next morning Todd and I got up early and were off for a day of training. Toby slept in and then spent the rest of the afternoon with Marcus. It was great that they got to spend some time together.

That evening Marcus, Toby and I went back to New Orleans Daiquiris bar, and are an appetizer and then headed to meet Todd and Dana for dinner and a night on Bourbon street. For some reason I thought that it would be like Vegas.. . I was a little wrong! It was nuts! Nothing that I pictured!

It was a really skinny street and there were people all over!! There was bar after bar after bar! We spent most of the evening just walking around and people watching. Toby even got to make some friends.

We were walking down the street and there was a bachelorette party and she had to find someone to propose to her. So who better than Toby?? It was pretty funny! He felt pretty special! Look at the smile on his face! Sunday morning it was up and to breakfast at Brennans and then home! It was a fun work weekend!!

** By the way, the hair on Friday was a wig, I am pondering cutting and coloring, but wanted to see if I liked it before I did it one day!! So it was a great way to test it!

New Kids on the Block!

I still need to post my actual birthday pictures from last Thursday. But this is what I have from our girls night to the New Kids on the Block concert! Me, Julie, Dana and Suzy all went and had the time of our lives!

We started the night off by going to cheesecake factory and eating dinner, and then a rainstorm blew in so we went to do some shopping to kill some time. We arrived at the concert just in time for New Kids.

We were able to park right across the street from the concert. We had great parking. We arrived at the concert just in time to see them, as the opening act had already played. We had great seats on the lawn and made ourselves comfortable for the concert.

They started playing right around 9pm, and played till a little after 11pm. It was awesome. We scream and danced and yelled and acted like kids again!

Notice the 80's ponytail I was wearing for the picture below. It made it more dramatic! Ha!

The people that sat behind us had the new kids sheet from back in the day and used it as a back drop for us. We had a great night having a girls night out, and have to make plans to do it again soon! We had a lot of laughs and made a lot of memories!!! :) Thanks for going with me girls!

4th Of July

On the 4th of July we got up early and headed to the 4th of July parade in Kingwood. This was Cash's first parade and he had a blast. We got there early and got a great shaded spot.
Cash loved watching what was coming down the road. He really liked getting to see all the fire trucks in the parade. This was the LONGEST parade ever! It was two hours long!

Cash would wave his American Flag when the floats would go by waving at him.

The Kingwood Tea Party Organization had a float in it and this guy was walking behind it carrying this sign! I loved it! There were some other funny ones, but this is the only one that I caught on camera! Only in Kingwood would this work without people saying something about it!

That afternoon after Toby got off work, the Schultz's came over to my parents and we all swam and cooked out! it was a lot of fun and we all had a blast!

Watching Cash and Cole together is so much fun! Cash loves getting to have a buddy to play with. I think that he gets bored with me!

Trip To Dublin

I am a little behind in the blogging, so I will try and catch up. The last weekend in June, we went to Toby's parents house for the weekend. Anyone who is in Texas knows how hot it has been. Cash wanted to be outside while we were there, but it was so hot. Toby's mom, had a big tub that we filled with water and let him put his suit on and go swimming. He thought that it was the best. You can see his facial expressions as he was sitting in the water since it was cold.
He loved playing and splashing in it. It was just his size. We gave him some bath toys to play with while he was in it and he was set!

Toby's dad made ayummy cake while we were there. Cash normally does not eat sweets unless its a cookie. But he ate two pieces of the cake!

I know why he had to eat two pieces as most of it ended up on his face!

We had a blast up there and enjoyed getting away for the weekend.