Summer vacation ends

Vacation ended with a well deserved nap during the car ride
home from national airport





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Ice cream to celebrate our first movie

Cars 2 - maybe not the best first movie in the theatre; was a bit violent. We managed to make it all the way through but we did almost leave twice, JT didn't like it when Mater was tied up. After themocie we had a victory ice cream








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Location:Paike Dr,Sarasota,United States

JT at the Westfield mall

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Location:Sarasota Square Blvd,Sarasota,United States

Deep sea updates

No fish stop one





No fish stop two





Stop 3 and 4 nada



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Location:Fishery Rd,Placida,United States

JT with the grandma's @ the beach

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Location:Shores of Eden,Englewood,United States

JT with his new friend Cyan

JT has his first official play date with his friend Cyan from the little gym




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Happy ice cream face

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JT tries to "end" the iphone

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Dinner at sweet water tavern

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JT's Big Little Gym show

JTs final class at the Little Gym is on June 13th, 10:15AM to 11:15AM. The "Funny Bugs" will be putting on a little show demonstrating all the things which they have learned during the class. Balance beams, rolls and the likes will be on display for all in attendance. Stop by and see the little guy in action and if you're good you might get taken to Tony's Pizza!!!




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JT at the Reston petting zoo

We had a nice day at the petting zoo and we even had a chance to do the pony ride, very fun.








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Sunny day at frying pan park

After class and the toy run we spent the rest of the afternoon at frying pan park. They have a new carousel; new as in a restored 1918 model. Energy was sapped from everyone in the noon day sun.

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Birthday wishes

We recently stopped by toys-r-us to buy a present for one of JTs classmate So it was a good time to scout out Some birthday presents of our own. There is a new Cars movie coming out which means new Cars toys!










The most random thing asked for was a remote controlled boat

Getting ready for bed

Here is JT getting ready for bed; he is happy because he just had a bath!














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Testing a new iPhone app for JT blog updates


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Random Summer Photos

Here is a collection of random photos I just got around to downloading from my camera from September and August of last year. They are, in no special order:

• JT's trip to Thomas Town (a thirty foot section of Six Flags a.k.a. Wild World
• JT's trip to Great Country Farms a nice farm with activities in Bluemont Va.
• Isabella's visit from PA
• A few picks of JT and myself as we got ready for the first day of school.

Click over to the web album here to get a better look at the pictures in the slide show.

Christmas Ideas

Taking a page out of Max Perkins playbook I've created an Amazon wish list for JT. In my morning internet checks I was able to come by a good deal on some Thomas stuff at Walmart; they have a Thomas playset from the new movie for $10 bucks check it out at the shorten URL bellow:

Walmart Deal http://bit.ly/gVwpJN

JT's Christmas List http://amzn.to/e1xRqX

Max's Christmas List http://amzn.to/hPlXfa

JT's First School Pictures

Here is what a professional photog can get out of the little man





Ironically enough JT's buddies are mostly the back-row'ers as he tends to gravitate towards the older kids. Samantha and Jacob on the ends of the back row get mentioned the most when we talk to him about what he did at school that day.

JT and Ice skating lessons

JT lasted about four minutes before having a total melt down at his first ice skating lesson. It was the perfect storm of getting over being sick, not sleeping enough, not eating enough and cold hands. We are going to see how he feels about going back and if he is still not interested this weekend then we will pack it in (and perhaps be more realistic when a 3 year old tells us he wants to learn to skate).

On the plus side he has also been setup at the little gym finally with the gift certificate Uncle Bill and Aunt Mary got him for his birthday. We just missed enrollement when we originally got the gift; kind of forgot about it until we were recently there for a birthday party.

Sorry for no pictures at this time; add to the list of the "Disappeared":

Dad's Keys (although I think this was "Mommy")
Dad's Cell Phone
The Digital Camera
The Flip Camera
(i.e. anything that costs over $60 dollars to replace)

JT's First field trip

JT's first field trip at MSO was to Ticonderoga Farm in Chantilly. JT loved farm had a great time hanging out with his friends Maddy and John Patrick.



Click on any of the pictures and it should take you right over to a bigger version at Picasa; Where you can actually see his first black eye. He climbed up on a chair knocked it over and took quite a tumble. When he is asked about it he'll state "I was on the chair and then it moved".

2 Aunts and 2 Cousins

Katie, Summer, Aunt Kathy and Aunt Mary were all in town last weekend which was an excellent time to try out the new pizzaque pizza stone on the Grill.

In a word pizzaque was a disaster, with all the pizzas coming off the grill in various forms of under done. I will have to do some field testing before attempting to BBQ pizza's again. Mary was nice enough to send me some pictures from the event which are included here for you viewing pleasure.

The National Zoo

JT and I went to the National Zoo a while back but I neglected to post the pictures; here they are.

JT ended up getting too hot so most of the Zoo was enjoyed from the comfort of a stroller; no walking hills for JT. JT liked the mini farm they have setup a the bottom of the zoo (with cows, donkeys and goats) and was less interested in the more exotic animals. He probably would have enjoyed Frying Pan Park just as much as the Zoo, but I like t give him new experiences from time to time;

From Circus/Zoo

From Circus/Zoo

From Circus/Zoo

From Circus/Zoo

From Circus/Zoo

From Circus/Zoo

From Circus/Zoo

From Circus/Zoo

JT's birthday

Attention birthday shoppers JT has requested the following birthday items:


1. Anything Thomas the Tank Engine (however he has about all the trains). He is looking for wooden railways "Cranky the Crane"

2. Anything related to Cars; the Pixar movie. He has requested on several occasions that I play the songs from Cars while driving and additionally any of the actual toys would be a safe bet. Also the Step into Reading books would be a nice addition to the night time library.

3. A truck with a button that talks (his words not mine).

4. A real dog.

5. Dodoo; which is the answer to all questions lately since we have completed potty training.

6. A big cake that is shaped like a race car (this seems to be one of the more important requests, as it is repeated over and over again.

Please do your part; we don't want the 19th to end up like this:

From Thomas day out

JT at Day out with Thomas

JT really enjoyed "Day out with Thomas" at the Baltimore Railroad Museum; although we ended up skipping the actual ride on the Thomas Train. We were too busy playing with the trains setup around the grounds that we missed our train. If you need to kill a day with a two to four year old that loves trains this is the spot. Here are some pictures of the museum which is quite expansive:

From Thomas day out

From Thomas day out

From Thomas day out

From Thomas day out

From Thomas day out

From Thomas day out