Day at the Fair

McKinley went to the fair yesterday. He was so excited and loved watching all the rides. He rode the Merry Go Round twice! Once with Mommy, Baby Kate and Aunt TT and once with Daddy!

The only game he could play was the duck game.....he did win a little rubber ducky for the tub!

Elmo Makes Music

We took McKinley to see "Elmo Makes Music" this morning. We had awesome seats! We were in the 3rd row. We were right by the stairs on the stage. All the characters kept stopping by the chairs to wave and see the kids! We had a great time!

It's a bird.......It's a plane.....It's SUPER MCKINLEY!!

(McKinley has been scared of the dark and scared to go to sleep at night....I thought "Super Hero" PJ's would make it better! I think Andy is mad that I could not get him matching ones! )

Back to School

Today was McKinley's first day of school. He was really excited when he woke up this morning. We packed his new school bag and packed his lunch in his new lunchbox. He was especially excited because he got to take his Thomas cup with him to school. Andy got to take and pick him up today. He said that he was a big boy and went right to his teachers and started playing this morning. (no tears.....yeah!) They said that he had a great day. I cannot wait to pick him up today and hear all about it!

McKinley and the Troublesome Trucks

For those of you that do not know......McKinley is obsessed with trains!

He wakes up in the morning asking to play trains, all we do is watch Thomas videos. We sing Thomas songs and we can name EVERY Thomas and friends character and train!

Well, for you non Thomas watchers, some of the trains on Thomas is the Troublesome Trucks. Last week McKinley and his Daddy went on a field trip to see the "Troublesome Trucks". He had a great time. I could not go because I had to work, but Andy sent me the pictures at work as a surprise. I printed the pictures for McKinley and made him a poster. He loved it so much that he slept with the poster that night!

Rhino and Horses

This is one of our favorite past times. We ride the rhino and pet the horses. McKinley especially likes to drive!

A Quick Update.....

It has been a while since our last update so I thought I would post some of my favorite pictures from the last few weeks.

Trevor was not very excited about this ride. He would only ride for a few seconds before he would jump out!

Here is McKinley playing ball with his two dogs, Trevor and Pooker (cooper...thank goodness we have a speech therapist in the family! )

Look at our little David Beckham in training!

Groucho Marx!!!!

Meet our newest family member.....

Meet Dorothy the fish!

We went to PetSmart and McKinley decided that he needed a red fish named Dorothy. (Dorothy is named after Elmo's goldfish!) He is into this stage where he needs everything. He whines and cries " I need it Mommy!".
He really really wanted one so we made a deal. We have been working on potty training all summer and we told him that if he would use the potty he could get a fish. He has done really good with this whole potty thing and so we thought he deserved his fish!

He could not wait to show Dorothy his trains. He got mad at mommy when she told him that he could not take them for a ride on the trains or his dump truck!

McKinley the Grouch

We have watched way to much Sesame Street this summer. We bought a new trash can today for outside and McKinley thought it would be fun to play Oscar the Grouch!

I scream...You scream...We all scream for ice cream....sandwiches!!!

McKinley and I thought we would experiment with my new ice cream scoop and ice cream sandwich maker! He is an expert ice cream sandwich maker as you can tell. Watch out Rachel Ray and Emerill, I think I have a future chef in the making.

First you take some scoops of ice cream.....

then press......... and press.......

then roll.......

eat a few sprinkles......

and ta da.....you have yummy ice cream sandwiches.....

just a little taste before supper!

Road Trip to Kentucky

We just got back from our trip to Kentucky. The whole point of the trip was to see Thomas the Tank Engine, but as you can tell from the pictures we kept busy with other stuff as well. One of our first stops was the Louisville Zoo. McKinley was very excited when he saw the train that went around the park.

Here is Cousin Kate and her daddy. They liked the train ride too!

McKinley took Elmo for a quick spin in the yellow convertible!

A Day Out with Thomas

McKinley was so excited when he finally saw Thomas. We told him that Thomas came just to see him. Everytime that Thomas would blow his whistle McKinley would go crazy!

Daddy and McKinley got to climb up into a old L&N engine and ring the bell.

It was so sweet when McKinley finally got to see Sir Topham Hatt. He walked up to him and shook his hand and then just started jabbering to him. I have no idea what he was telling him, but he had lots to say!

On our way home we stopped at "Dinosaur World". It was pretty cheesy, but McKinley really likes dinosaurs and he liked it!

We have been trying to get McKinley to give up his "boppy". We have been talking for weeks about him giving the t-rex his boppy. We didn't think that he would do it, but he did!

He threw it in the grass and said "Boppy gone gone" . He has asked for it a few times, but we keep telling him that he gave it to the t-rex. We have a back-up boppy if we need it, but hopefully not!

Our final stop, was in Nashville, Tennesse. We stopped in at Ernest Tubb Record Shop. We had to get a picture of McKinley in the "Green Hornet" for Uncle Brian!