January fun in the sun!

• Bear Cub loves his new sand table and asks to play in it every day!  After church yesterday (yes, I'm sticking with my New Year's resolution and really enjoying it.  BC continues to do great in his nursery room, too!) he played for a long time in the sand.  I decided to get brave and try the water part of the table.  He did great and loved cruising his boats along the "river" as he called it.  What a great toy!  It's really cute to watch him play because he squats down low next to it and whispers whatever he's playing and pretending.  He's off in his own sand table world out there!
  

• Here we are at Animal Kingdom on Saturday!  My awesome Mama gave us passes to the Disney parks...wow, talk about the gift that keeps on giving!  :)  So we got our passes activated and enjoyed the day out at the park.  It was pretty crowded, but it was so nice to know that we didn't have to do and see it all while we were there.  We'll just go back another time!!  I know that we'll get great use out of the passes - we're only about 40 minutes away and Bear Cub has so far loved the theme parks.  Thanks again, Mimi Bear!

• Potty Training 101 & the multi-tasking Mama!  Here you can catch a glimpse of what a good chunk of my day looks like!  Bear Cub is doing pretty well with his potty training and I've actually discovered that he does better when we are out in public!  That was the one thing I was SO worried about and here it is, turning out to be the easy part!  Yesterday at Target, he told me had to go, so of course, we rushed into the bathroom.  Now that he's standing up some and going, I don't have that "Ewww!!  Sitting on the public potty" fear so much, so it's all good!  We're really working on it and I'm proud of how far he has come along.  It's a big task, this potty training job!

• Here he is, caught in motion!  He is usually zipping and zooming somewhere around the house at all times!  He has so much energy and he is non-stop.  The quietest and most still times we have with him are at night when he will sit with us to listen to his books and drink his milk.  I guess he realizes that he has to slow down eventually!  I wish I had that much energy!

• The life of one Miss Zoe Belle:  Here she is, completely comfortable after her little brother finally went to bed the other night.  She is wiped out after a day of running, chasing, and barking!  BC and Zoe have really been playing hard together after his bath.  He likes to play the "pulling game" with her.  He'll grab one of her toys and get her to grab hold of it too.  Then they pull back and forth and run up and down our entryway.  It's no wonder she konks out like this at night!!

• BC at Animal Kingdom - we had just done a walking tour and he saw a woman stand between these bamboo shoots to get her photo taken.  As soon as she and her friend were gone, he ran up there and said, "Want do dat too!"  So here is the result - Bear Cub with bamboo!

• Animal Kingdom has an awesome petting area where the goats and sheep just sort of mill about.  Bear Cub loved petting the goats and was so gentle!  I was just happy that there was a nice big hand-washing station available on our way out!

• Oh my!  He's good-looking AND he cooks!  Where did I find this man?!?!?  :)  Here he is, trying out one of his new Christmas gifts...an Ebelskiver pan from William Sonoma.  These tasty breakfast treats were sort of like a donut and filled with strawberry jam.  They were delicious!  And perfectly cooked, considering this was his first attempt!