The month of March was fairly low-key, spending time waiting for the lovely winter to end. We did get together with Laurie's mom's family for a going away party held for Laurie's cousin Jesse (he moved to California for a new job). It was nice to see everyone as they had never met Andrew yet! We also attended a birthday party for Laurie's cousins Ben & Sara. Andrew had lots of fun running around playing for everyone and we were even able to bribe him with M&M's to perform "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and his "ABCs" :)
April brought more parties and lots of rain. We had Nini's (Laurie's grandmother) surprise 80th birthday party. We rented out a room at Springfield Grille and surprised her with a big family dinner (that was her requested birthday activity). It was really nice and as a gift to her, a photographer came to take family photos.
April ended with Andrew's first Gotcha Day (the anniversary of when we took him out of the orphanage) on April 27. John took the day off work and we surprised Andrew by giving him a Mickey Mouse "doll" and a battery operated Jeep for him to drive. We took him to a special breakfast, gymnastics class and then closed the day with a pizza party for friends and family - it was a truly special day!
In May we celebrated Mother's Day, took Andrew to the zoo for our adoption agency's 18th annual reunion, had Andrew's first gymnastics show and took a road trip to Chicago to celebrate John's birthday with his family. It was a really fun and busy month! Andrew had an awesome time showing off his gymnastics skills at his show and earning his first medal. He had a great time in Chicago too and loved playing with his cousins! :)
June started off with the 6th Annual Wil Morrow Memorial Bowling event and Andrew had a blast. Maybe he will grow up to be an awesome bowler like his uncle :) We had our first traumatic injury on June 5 playing outside. Andrew was wearing his Mickey Mouse sunglasses when he tripped running out of the garage. The sunglasses slammed up into his forehead requiring 7 stitches in the ER. The doctor numbed his forehead, they strapped him down in a papoose restraint, Laurie layed over top of him while he screamed & cried and John sat in the waiting room (didn't think he could handle watching his baby get fixed up). Laurie took Andrew to a plastic surgeon the following day who said the stitches looked great and to come back in 5 days for them to be taken out. Andrew now has his first scars (that are fading nicely thanks to Mederma cream) and mommy & daddy are only still slightly scarred by the experience :)
July began with a weekend of birthday parties - a surprise 50th for Laurie's Aunt Deb and first birthday parties for Andrew's friends Carson, Nick & Ben. Andrew had his 2 1/2 year check-up at the pediatrician's office where we found out he grew 6 inches since his last visit in December! We attended the Relay for Life in honor of our family members who died of cancer and for Laurie's uncle who is currently battling it. We also hosted our 4th annual summer picnic with the Maschak family - it was fun as usual! John's sisters Jen & Chris made a couple of visits to our house before and after their vacation to New Jersey. It was so great to see them and for Andrew to spend time playing with his cousins!
Our summer ended with a fun filled month of August. We had Laurie's cousin Courtney's birthday party and then we went on our first family vacation (just the 3 of us)! Our vacation took us to Duck, North Carolina and Andrew loved the beach. He was quite afraid of the ocean at first (which we were thankful for since he is usually fearless) but got a little bit more used to it as the week went on. Even though he was afraid of the ocean, he LOVED the pool at our condo (we had a pool pass for the community pool over the summer which he and Laurie went to every chance they had - so he became quite the little fish). We were having a really great trip until good ol' hurricane Irene got us kicked out 2 days earlier (at least we bought trip insurance).
So, since we were home Thursday night instead of Saturday night we made the most of it and planned some fun activities. Friday we took Andrew to Living Treasures - an animal petting zoo near our house which he LOVED! Saturday we went to Idlewild park with Laurie's parents. We all had a really fun day and Andrew was a champ riding all the rides! We were guided into September with the start of another year of gymnastics. It's the same "mommy & me" class that Laurie & Andrew did last year (same teacher too) so Andrew is a "master" of all the stunts :)
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