Playing the drums

Here is a picture of Asher playing some "drums" i made up for him with some mixing bowls. However, today we went to the home and garden show and Asher got to see some real drums. They were kind enough to let him band around on them and he was quite good. He was using both drum sticks and he tested out all the symbols and the cool noises they make too. Of course, he was not happy when he had to give the drum sticks back.

Reading Elmo with Daddy

Asher loves pretty much anything to do with Elmo (La La) as he calls it. For those of you that don't know, Elmo starts his program with "La La La La, La La La La, Elmo's World....". He also loves books and especially the ones that have the flaps where stuff is hidden behind him. Matt is reading Asher his elmo flap book in this picture. He happens to prefer to have daddy read him this one as opposed to anyone else. I think Matt makes the animal noises better.

New hairdo?

What do you think about the hair do that his dad gave him during bath time? Of course, I came up with the camera to take the pictures upon prompting!

Vacuuming and Dancing

Asher loves the vacuum and he has his own which he is playing with in this video and then he decides to dance a little for you as well. I hope you all can't get enough of this dancing too.

Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes

I hope everyone can see this video b/c the last one I posted the blog site was having problems and video's were not working! It is some cute video of Asher doing Head, Shoulders...... he cannot quite go as fast as the song but he has the head and toes down!

Safety First

not the best picture - took it with my phone but you might wonder what in the world he is wearing!
Uncle Drew bought Asher a work table with screws/screwdrivers/ saw and the likes. It also included safety goggles. Some days - things just stick and I have tried to put them on him in the past and he would wear them for a few seconds. Today - he rather enjoyed wearing them b/c every time he took them off he wanted them back on! It was very cute indeed. He loves his workbench. Thanks Uncle Drew & Donetta.

In the front of the picture is Elmo with his "stand-up" stool on his head. He is convinced it should be a hat instead.

Happy Birthday Grannie

We love you and miss you! I hope you are out doing something fun and fantastic for your birthday. Asher says "hi deer"... he loves to say high to everything. Lady bugs, etc. I can always tell when the deer are in the backyard in the evenings b/c I hear in a very sweet higher inflection tone - "Hi deer". Love you!

2 feet of snow in 24 hours

this is the view from our front porch. Normally, you see a road straight below but you would be hard pressed to tell where the bottom of the hill really is in this picture. It really was beautiful and i must say - still is. more snow today. I would guess we have had 30-34 inches total the past week.


Asher sitting on a pile of snow after Matt finished shoveling.
It took a lot of hours to finish that driveway!
he is showing us how far the snow comes up on his shovel. We had a neighbor come by and offer Matt his snow blower which he kindly refused. This was his way to exercise.
Here is matt as he begins to find our driveway. You could not even see where there was a street before in some of these pictures. Notice the snow comes up to his knees. We woke up to no power this morning and had no power for 3 1/2 days. We were really grateful to whomever was working out there at 3 Am who finally got our power back on. Of course, Asher really never knew the difference other than he did not have to sleep in his crib. We had no heat in his room.

Eating snacks

Here is a picture of a daily occurrence - snacks in his chair while catching a show he loves. His favorites are Elmo, Mickey Mouse clubhouse and Yo Gabba Gabba. Notice the sly little smile on his lips in this one. We were watching a small part of the hockey game that DaDa was attending. Go Penguins as long as they don't play the Dallas Stars.