Trey's writting!

Trey has actually been writing his name for a few months now, but just recently he has started writing it completely by memory (he doesn't need to see any of the letters to know how to write them). I am so proud! He loves to write his name and also loves to write Ty's name also...pretty easy for him since Ty's name is 2 of the 4 letters in his own name! 'e" is his favorite letter to write for some reason and he does a great job at it! Now we are working on writing the first 3 letters of the alphabet by memory! I know he can write and copy all his letters, but I really want him to know how to do it from memory! (I am also trying to get Tucker to do this, but he really doesn't like to sit down and work on writing for more than a minute or two).

Discovery Tour!!!

The second tour we took was the Discovery Tour. Because there has been so much rain lately, they had to modify the tour a bit because the lowest section of the cavern was filled completely up with water. So we were only able to go down 150 ft. This tour was about 75 minutes long, but only about 30 stairs. The first tour was amazing, but this one was breathtaking. It was so incredible!!! These cavern rooms were HUGE and the formations were beautiful. Bats used to live in these caverns about 5,000 years ago. There is this one passage way("Jane's Passage")is only about 11 inches tall in places. All the men explores were to big to crawl through it, so one of the wives crawled through it for them and she made them name it after her! I don't know I would have done that for Vinny if he had asked :P Ty hung out in the front pack again, but actually fell asleep for awhile, so that was good, but man this little guy is getting big and after over 2 hours of carrying him I was tired!!! It was so fun and I didn't realize that there are actually a bunch of these caverns in the Texas Hill Country, so I think we might explore a couple more, but that is only if Ty doesn't get to heavy first!

Illumination Tour!

The Illumination tour was the first tour we took. It lasted about 70 minutes and we walked down 185 steps then back up those 185 steps...We were approximately 185 ft below the surface. They kept it kind of dark in the cavern and through the passage ways, only lighting up certain areas or formations. They said it was about 70 degrees, but 99.9% humidity, so it wasn't very pleasant and by the time we were done with this tour we were pretty sweaty, (or as Tucker would say "I am a sweat"). When we first got into the first passage way Tucker kept saying "I want to get out, I want to leave" and Trey just stood there holding my hand. We thought it was going to be the other way around...(After we were done with the tour, Tucker kept talking about how Trey was scared and asking to leave...I think he was a little embarrassed about being scared at first, trying to make us confused on who actually was scared..) Ty just hung out in the front pack the whole time and surprised us and stayed awake the entire time. Once we got to the bottom of the cavern, we all sat down and they turned every single light off. It was pitch black...we couldn't see anything, not even your hand in front of your face. It was crazy. I couldn't imagine exploring these caves back in the day with just a small light.

Natural Bridge Caverns!!!!

I have been wanting to go to these caverns ever since we were driving down the highway one time and I saw the bilboard when we first moved here! It took us nearly 4 years to get here, but we finally made it! We all had such a great time and I just loved it! It was absolutely amazing and the pictures don't do it any justice.

Tucker and Trey in front of the Natural Bridge

Vinny and the big boys in the cavern

Me and my boys!

Family shot at the bottom of the cavern 185 ft. down

San Antonio weekend!!!

Vinny was off and we decided to take a mini vacation over to San Antonio. On Friday we headed over to his parents house and spent the night with them, then on Saturday we wanted to try something new. So we headed to the Natural Bridge Caverns..more on that in another post. But anyways Saturday night we headed to a hotel and took the boys swimming! We all had a blast and even brought Ty in the pool for a little bit. He seemed to like it a bit! He looked so cute in his little swim trunks. Good thing he is a "good sized" boy, because those trunks were size 6-12 months. They were a little big, but not so much that it made them unwearable! Vinny was working with Tucker on swimming without a floaty, which Tucker was a bit scared about, but it is something he needs to learn. He worked with Trey a bit too, but Trey likes it even less than Tucker does! After swimming we went back to the room and all got some much needed rest. On Sunday the plan was to visit some family friend who live in San Antonio, but they weren't feeling well, so we decided to drive up to these outlet malls I have heard about, but never actually been to. They were pretty cool and we had fun walking around. After that we drove back home and relaxed from our busy weekend! It was such a good weekend and just the break I needed!

Ty about to get in the pool for the first time

Vinny and the big boys

Trey hanging on to the side

Trying to swim without a floaty

Ty in the pool

New fun thing for Ty

Ty has recently decided that he no longer wants to lay on the floor anymore. He thinks he is bigger than he actually is and wants to sit up, not just be propped up, but sitting all the way up like a big boy. So I put together his little exersaucer thing and he loves it!!! He likes being up and he seems to really enjoy playing with the toys.

zoo

We have been wanting to take the boys to the zoo for the longest time now, but the weather was not cooperating. Finally last week we had a break in the crappy weather and headed to the zoo. Ty slept for the majority of the time, but woke up towards the end and enjoyed looking at some of the animals, especially the tropical fish aquarium! Tucker's favorite thing this time was this little baby monkey, he was actually younger than Ty, but was already jumping and running around. Both boys thought that was pretty crazy that a baby could do all those things. Trey said his favorite animal was the girrafe. It was a fun family day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope it was a great day spent with the ones you love! We love all of you!!!

Just hamming it up for the camera!
Ty was too busy looking at his shoes to look at the camera.
He sure did steal mommy's heart. He's so handsome!!!!

3 months old!!!!!

My little baby Ty is already 3 months old! He of course is growing so fast and doing lots of new things. I'm so sad because he still hasn't laughed yet..he is getting so close, a half laugh and half giggle here and there, but no full laugh yet...I seriously can't wait. He is talking and coo-ing up a storm. It is so dang cute. He loves use his voice. I love it. He is a strong little guy. I will lean him back on a couple of pillows (at about a 45 degree angle) he can pull himself all the way up off the pillow, last night he pulled himself so far up that he fell forward into the bed. While we were at Target, we decided to get him a little toy. I held up one and he just stared, but I held up another and he smiled at it, I took it away and showed him another and he just stared again, but as soon as I held up the toy(the one in the picture) he smiled at it again. So we got it and he loves that toy. He holds it all the time. The thing that really cracks me up is, like in the picture, he holds the toy in one hand and sucks on the other hand. he

Tucker's birthday party!

We finally had Tucker's birthday party last Tuesday with his closest friends at Chuck E. Cheese. He loved it and had such a good time!

Playing one of the games.

5 years old!

Trey with frosting all over his face! I really don't know how he managed to get so dirty..but that always has been Trey's speciality!