Journey with the Lee Family

David Turned 2!

Can someone please slow down time???

This precious bundle of joy has turned 2. David is so sweet, compassionate, mostly compliant, active, can be a bully to all ages, loves trains, trucks, race cars and balls along with his sissy, mama, and daddy :) We love you, Day Day!!!

At 2, he is still in the 25% for height and weight, but 75th for head circumference. Smart little cookie! He has had a language explosion in the last couple of months saying any and everything, sentences, etc. He is a picky eater (i.e. boycotts most veggies) which we are not used to as Alex has always been a great eater. Thankfully, they take Juice Plus Chewables :) David is super coordinated and tries anything Alex/big kiddos do...that can be scary. David (and Alex) are so fun to watch. We are so thankful!

David LOVES his "new bike" as he calls it.

On David's birthday, the four of us split an oversized cupcake.

...Then we enjoyed train cupcakes at his party :)

And yes, he blew out the candle all by himself!

Priceless faces in this pic...ha!

This was our first time to have a family only party since we now live closer to family.

Cousins, Anna Cate and Hunter, came to celebrate with us

Cuz Hunter helping Day Day open presents

Mimi and Grandaddy celebrated with us, too. David and Grandaddy have a special bond. David prefers being with him over the kiddos!

Anna Cate and Alex chilling with popsicles the next day

Sister Helping Brother

I couldn't resist posting this sweet video of Alex helping David up some huge steps at a recent visit to the Children's Museum. Alex loves to be needed while David loves her help. Precious! I can tell already that Alex is going to be such a big helper this go around with the new baby and David will be my compassionate one who will want to rush to the baby first with any peep of a cry.

Sleeping Pics

Gotta capture the rare sweet and/or awkward sleep moments :)

So exhausted she fell asleep watching a show. That's rare!

Notice she is parallel to her pillows :)

I think this was one of the days following David's surgery...so sweet

Dance Recital 2011

My "baby" girl completed her second year of dance and did so good in her dance recital.

Ballet

Tap

Posing....oops skirt is falling down

MMO, Swim, Grad Party

The last day of MMO was filled with Field Day Fun!

Alex had a great MMO class with Mrs. Laura and Mrs. Kristina. Her sweet friend, Reece, jumped in the pic.

A peek into swim lessons with Lu Lee (precious amazing lady!)

Alex did great! David did well, too, but I'll spare you his video footage as he cries when Lu Lee works with him even though he does so well. Some may think it looks torturous.

Celebrating cousin Amy's high school graduation with a special family graduation luncheon!

Congrats to Amy for graduating and making the MSU cheerleading squad!

Sweet cousins and babysitters, Amy and Kelly

April was a BIG month!

April started with David getting his adenoids out. This pic was before surgery...notice all smiles initially. Overall, the surgery went great. It took a full 3 weeks for me to notice him back to normal especially in his eating. Maybe his age coincided with the surgery, but he is much pickier with food now :( However, no more constant runny nose and no more struggling to breath while sleeping!!! Yea!!!

Got bored and started pushing cart around for entertainment and dashed for the door a few times, too.

Needing some love from mommy as he was getting tired and impatient before surgery.

THE NEXT BIG EVENT IN APRIL WAS FINDING OUT THE GENDER OF BABY LEE #3.

HE'S A BOY!!!

We are very excited to know even though it didn't matter what the gender was. Alex was a little disappointed as she wanted a baby sister, but she said she'll keep him :) She is precious about it now and talks about how there will be 3 boys and only us 2 girls now.
We're about 95% sure of his official name and will post when we are 100% sure :)
(Sorry I don't have a great ultrasound pic to post)

Thanks to my sister, Robin, for the Easter pics as I forgot to take any pics.
Cousin Amber and Alex dying eggs at Grandmother's house.

Playing hide and seek with Grandmother

Alex and Amber playing at Children's Museum

Amber and Alex at the annual family Easter egg hunt

Me, Mom and Robin

Papaw, Mom and Mary

When we returned home from Vicksburg on Easter, I remembered to take pics. ha!
No glam, just getting filthy in the dirt and sand with Easter outfits on...ha!

Chris had put sand on top of some grassless areas in the front yard. The kids thought it was the best thing ever. So recently, daddy made them a sandbox in the backyard that they LOVE and play in forever!

All done and ready for his hands to be cleaned! David likes his hands clean after eating, playing in dirt, etc. He'll come to us and say "hands, hands" or "wipe hands."

The last big event of April was flying to Chicago with both kiddos. Mimi came along to help out, but of course, I have no pics of us all. After the airport/airplane pics, I forgot to take any pics while there except for the train ride below. Daddy got Rainforest pic.

The kids did GREAT overall flying and even endured the delays we experienced in route to Chicago causing us to arrive about 6 hours later than planned. Along with running around and playing with all toys and books we brought, the kiddos (and daddy) passed the time by watching a movie.

Some random train ride at the Navy Pier. The good pic of them was deleted from my phone :( This is the problem when your children know how to operate an iphone, but just enough to cause some problems, too!

Rainforest Cafe in Chicago

Alex and cuz, Anna Cate, at zoo while visiting Mimi and Grandaddy in Hattiesburg

Sweet Siblings

Alex and David LOVE to play together. They are precious! They can fight good, too :) I'm so thankful they have each other as baby bro will be here soon!