Alphabet Weeks: Letter B

Perfect timing for out letter B week. Our little family took a trip to Corpus to visit family and friends! Enjoy...

Axel was able to discover the letter B while digging through the sand at Maggie Beach in Corpus with cousin Caitlin!! Lots of things were found including his buried FOOT!










The letter B was tasted this time with Banana's and toasted Bread (for the first time). Anyone who knows Axel is aware that the kid loves banana's!!

A new finding in our home was an empty Box that hadn't been recycled yet. Let's just say Axel had a fun time with that one including a brief game of peek-a-Boo!!





We continued our bath time foam words including Bat, Box, Band, and Bar.

Axel was given a Noah's Ark Little People set by his Aunt Susan for his birthday. What a perfect gift for the letter B. A couple of Bears and panda Bears! Axel is loving categorizing his animals and shapes into different containers. His 'big new task' in play is sorting. 

Lastly, as I said earlier our little family was able to visit some of our BEST friends and BEST family members including Cody, Allison, Madelyn, Ryan, Nanny, PawPaw, Aunt Nancy, Caitlin, and Chelsea in Corpus!!

What a bountiful, beautiful, and blessed week we had!!

Alphabet Weeks: Letter A

It's time! That's right...LeArNiNg TiMe!!!!

Axel is picking up so much information and developing so quickly...what better of a time to introduce the little kiddo to the alphabet. It is so much fun to be able to do exciting new things with Axel and also feel like he's being introduced to new information.

This week we started with the letter A. We explored the letter A through foods including apples and apricots. 

With those foods we experienced the letter A while working with our senses. PaInTiNg with apples!!!

We found the letter A in words with bathtub foam letters including Axel, Apple, At, Am, Ate ect.  

We also explored the letter A at different places including the Houston Zoo with the Amphibians and the Aquarium. 

Lot of fun was to be had with the letter A!!!!

Axel's 1st Birthday

Well here were are! Our little bean has turned 1 years old. Normally I would say I can't believe it, but I can! He has grown and developed so much. The changes just in the past month are remarkable.

I chose The Very Hungry Caterpillar as his birthday party theme, simply because I love the book. Axel enjoys listening and pointing to pictures as I read it to him. The colors and pictures are simply great. We were able to celebrate with family and friends.  He had a blast and slept very well that night. Fortunately, we found out that Axel does not like cake and sugar! YAY for his parents!!!!

Here are some pictures that capture the day!

Life As We Know It...

As you can tell, it has been a while since I updated the blog. Lot's of exciting things have happened in the past year. For a quick run down we'll do this in a list format:

-I changed jobs to working with Abuse survivors; primarily children.
-Kyle and I bought a house in Sugar Land.
-Kyle and I celebrated 3 amazing years of marriage!
-Axel went through 2 helmits and then completed his therapy.
-I changed jobs again and am going back to Small Steps working with at risk preschool children.
-Axel turned 1 year old!!

Kyle and I were recently talking about all that has happened in our life this past year. I jokingly said we would fail the stress assessment due to us having almost every major stressor on the list!!

The Tillman family is very blessed!!!