Wyatt & April's day-of-fun!

Note: This is a waaaay overdue post. And you have to say the title like Janice from Friends :)

On Monday March 8th I was "sick" from school. The best way to get better from being "sick" from school is to spend a day with adorable little Wyatt! I really wasn't sick at all (I wouldn't be around Wy if I was sick for fear I'd get him sick) but Emily needed some extra help that week because Jacob was in College Station all week for training and a class for work. It actually worked out perfectly because she and I had run a 1/2 marathon the day before and so it was nice to have a relaxing Monday (sorry Emily)! It was so relaxing, in fact, that by the time Emily got home from school I still hadn't gotten a chance to change Wyatt out of his pjs! Oops! We just hung around the Hoffart's house and here are a few pics of what we did:

Here's the happy wake-up boy from his morning nap! He did a good job of taking naps on this particular day. I napped while he took his morning nap and then during his afternoon nap I showered and got dressed for the day...so what it if was in the afternoon!


Checking on things out his bedroom windows. He knocked and knocked...there wasn't anyone outside, but he still did some knocking and posed for a picture!



Time to work on Max's hair. Max isn't really supposed to be on the furniture, but he was at the perfect height for Wy to work on him. I love the concentration on Wy's face as he's working on his hair. Max and Wy sure do love each other.



A boy and his dog!


Up next - breakfast. Wyatt ate some apple sauce and cereal and then I scrambled an egg for him. He loved it. As you can see it started off nice and neat...


...and then soon turned into quite a mess! Luckily Max was on standby for clean-up duty.


Did I mention he liked his egg? I turned around and saw him doing this and about cracked up laughing! Seriously, Wyatt?!


Too cute. And egg was everywhere.


We then played in the living room and watched one of Wyatt's "movies." He sure loves his "movies." For some reason when I took this the screen was full of flowers and Wyatt is intently watching...not very masculine...oops.


We were still playing in the living room when all of a sudden Emily pulled into the driveway! I couldn't believe she was home so early and thought about running Wyatt into his room to change him into some clothes but thought what the heck. He was happy as could be and Emily didn't seem to mind!


I absolutely love spending time with Wyatt. He's so funny and is getting funnier and smarter every day. Some of my favorites are his waving (he waves and waves and waves at people) and his sign language - more and please. His sign for please is absolutely the most adorable thing ever. I'll try to work on taking a video of it and either posting it here or on Emily's blog.

Little league baseball and cousin love

On Sunday April 11th we (Emily, Wyatt, April, James) drove down to Pearland to watch Hayden's machine pitch baseball game. I must say I was quite impressed. I was impressed with how well Hayden (and other players, of course) played and moved on the field, how well they hit, ran on the bases, slid, threw, caught, etc. Huge difference between t-ball and MP. And I couldn't believe how much bigger Hayden looks on the field! He's taller and has filled out more - what happened to my little boy Hayden?!?! As always he was super sweaty afterwards and smelled something terrible after eating his post-game snack and trying to rub his dirty fingers all over me!

Here are a couple pics of the H-man:






If you're noticing that the images appear to be a little "smokey," it may have something to do with the fact that this crazy girl:



had my camera and was taking all sorts of pictures. Unfortunately they didn't exactly come out. Most of them were of her hand. She also tried to take some of Hayden but those were a little too blurry. She also took some of the fence and dugout. She was working really hard, but during her photo shoot she managed to rub her Frito fingers all over my camera. My old camera (I needed a new one before, but now I really need a new one!) wasn't quite prepared to be worked over by Riley. That girl is hilarious. She makes me laugh so much. She was decked out in Red Sox gear - including her 3 necklaces, baseball hair bow and had some super shoes and socks. She was sooooo excited that "her brother" Wyatt came to the game. Holy cow that girl LOVES Wyatt. Here is Ri loving on Wy - lots of hugs and kisses for her COUSIN!!!

For shame

I'm that blog that has dropped to the bottom of peoples' lists because it hasn't been updated in for-e-ver. Time to get back in the swing of things. If you follow Emily's blog then you've already seen this picture. This is my family from Wyatt's birthday party. Sammy is finally not out-numbered by women! I love this picture (obviously because of the people in it, duh) because it reminds me of how much fun we had on the day we celebrated Wyatt turning a year old. It was a great day - lots of great food, fun, friends and family. Good times had by all. As my mom says - God is good. God is good every day.

Things we love

Riley loves playing with Jonathan's hat...Brooke was the same way! She also loves snow, as her shirt tells us.


Sammy loves playing games such as jacks, pixie sticks (is that what that's called?) and also juggling. He dropped the sticks in this perfect design and is giving a voila hand motion!

Riley loves milk. She had milk in 3 different containers at the table at T-Rex in Downtown Disney. She counted several times...sometimes she counted 4 milks and sometimes "seben" and then would say "take my picture with my milks!" We call her a milk guzzler but she says "I not a milk guzzler!" Oh yes she is!



Max loves to get on furniture. He's not supposed to, but he does. He doesn't even really fit on this couch with a pillow and boppy already on it, but that didn't seem to stop him!

Wyatt loves to take his socks off. He chews on them or does silly things like this:

Wyatt loves his new blocks!

Emily and I LOVE to ski. I also love to take self-portraits!

I love this picture of the boots lined up at the cabin. How cute are those tiny little ones? Wyatt got those as a gift from one of Jacob's friends when they were still at the hospital. It took a few months for Wy to be big enough to wear them!




Wyatt loves playing with some of Granddad's satsumas! He wasn't thrilled about sitting in his high chair or eating while he was sick in Colorado, but all you had to do was hand him a couple of these suckers and he was good to go! He still wasn't thrilled about eating...which may have led to him losing a pound over Christmas :(

Wyatt loves his great-aunt Mel! Their super cute brown/red Christmas outfits matched!


LOVE love love Riley's boots. This was right before we took our group cousin picture with Santa (Anna Claus is what she calls him) and she was rather nervous. She tried to smile but it didn't quite work out...


I love these A&M pjs on Wyatt and he loves his Baby Einstein video and his Busy Bee!

Deer deer and more deer

Like I said in a previous post, the deer are everywhere. They're out of control. They literally just lay up on the mountain behind the cabin and wait for someone to come outside and feed them. They are pitiful. At any given moment, you can easily look out any window (towards the back, the side, or the front) and spot deer. I counted 13 laying up on the mountain. Emily and dad were out earlier taking some laundry to Nicki's and there were 5 bucks down eating. Dad and I took all the dogs for a walk around the entire loop and there were deer all throughout the neighborhood. Here are some deer pics from today:







Maxwell and Mikey have both had encounters with a deer - Max got scolded by a doe after he wouldn't leave her alone. She firmly placed her hoof on his body, he hit the deck and then slowly walked back to the cabin. He wasn't physically hurt but it definitely hurt his pride. Mikey almost didn't live to see Christmas day thanks to a buck he decided to go after. He has a small injury on the inside of his left eye. Thank goodness the horn (or hoof - not sure which one it was - it all happened so fast) barely missed his eye or else he would possibly be without a left eye.

SMART Santa

Warning: This is an extremely dorky teacher post.

The second to last week of school for the semester, Santa visited my classroom (as well as every other classroom at my school) and his workers installed this:



My district has had a huge technology boost! All classrooms on all campuses now have SMARTboards...the high school was the last campus for each classroom to get one. Some classrooms on the high school campus already had one, and others (like mine) just got one! I have played around with it a little bit but still have a lot of learning to do because it has a lot of bells and whistles. It's like a big touch screen. Very fancy, very helpful, and very expensive! It is displaying my desktop, and in case you're wondering what in the heck that is - it's a picture of a banana field right along the border of Costa Rica and Panama...taken from a small airplane from a few years back when Emily and I were traveling.

Curry cousin picture with Santa Claus

Curry cousins got together Tuesday December 22nd to decorate gingerbread houses and visit Santa Claus at Bass Pro Shops near Pearland. Here are the older cousins, the middles, and the littles - Jonathan, Brooke, Emily, Wyatt (on Santa's lap), Matthew, April, Riley, Zachary, and Hayden. Don't "the middles" just look SO THRILLED to have their picture taken?!?! We should have spread ourselves out a little better but oh well. It would have been super cute to have Riley and Wyatt both sitting on Santa's lap but Riley is NOT a fan of "Anna Claus." In fact, she will gladly tell you that she loves Christmas but does not like Anna Claus. It's too cute. She's definitely afraid of him because as I was holding her and walking near him to get in position for the photo she tucked her legs really high and squeezed my arms with her hands. Cousin day continued to Gringo's for some Tex-Mex and then ice skating later that evening, but Emily, Wyatt and I had to head back to The Woodlands to pack up the last minute things and head to Willis to meet Jacob and then get on the road to Colorado!

A few Christmases ago (I think it was Christmas 2005?) Emily and I hosted Cousin Night in The Woodlands. It was great fun - we ate at Johnny Rockets in The Woodlands, took a picture with Santa, and then went to the ice skating rink but only stook on the sidelines and watched...the kids weren't all that in to it so we adjusted our itinerary and went bowling instead. We had a blast bowling, especially once the lights went out and it was glow bowl! Afterwards we went to Emily's house and had popcorn, ice cream, a movie, and a sleep over! Like I said, it was great fun. It's crazy looking back at that Santa picture because Hayden was only three at the time and he was the little cousin back then! The Merrills have grown up so much and Emily's life sure has changed since then. Mine on the other hand..........................we won't go there. But here's the Curry Cousin 2009 Christmas/Santa picture!