Toothless Drew!

I'm sure that most of you out there reading this who have younger children have gone through the whole loose tooth experience rather recently. We experienced our own "first lost tooth" this past week...well we sort of experienced it. This is how it went...

Drew has been fiddling with a loose tooth for about the last 2 weeks on and off and really has not been all that concerned about it. Some of our friends who have had children with loose teeth have had a completely different experience. Everything from crying to fussing to laughing. Drew really didn't exhibit any of these "symptoms." His treatment of the loose tooth was more of something to fool around with when he was bored.

So on Friday we were sitting down to eat lunch and Drew was fiddling around with it a bit more than usual. I had been on TDY the whole previous week and was remarking how much looser the tooth was than when I left. So about halfway through lunch, Kristin stopped eating and asked Drew where his tooth was! So he sprung-up and went to the mirror and sure enough, this is what he looked like...


We can only surmise that it was lost in the piece of cantaloupe he was chowing-down on at the time I informed him he would be revisiting his tooth in a day or two to which he gave me a weird look and went about eating the rest of his lunch. So much for the Tooth Fairy...

Go Tribe!!

Despite how bad the Tribe have been performing this year, we went to a Cleveland Indians game on Memorial Weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Spurlock. We had an absolute blast and this was the first time Drew had been to Jacobs Field (now technically called Progressive Field).

Typical of their season, the Tribe lost to the Rangers, but we had a great time just being at the ballpark and watching the players take batting practice...

A view of the "jumbotron" from our seats in upper left field.


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Drew, Daddy and Grandpa before the game...

This is Drew's cousin Gregory who lives in Ohio and is a Tribe game veteran!

Prepping for Luke part 1 "Pimping Drew's Room"

In an effort to post something different than just places we go and things we do, I'm starting a "Prepping for Luke" series to highlight some of things we are doing to prepare for the arrival of our second child. For those of you in the know, you already know we have named him Luke Michael Spurlock.

Part of the preparation process has been to close down "Hotel Spurlock" otherwise known as the spare bedroom and move the big bed from there into Drew's room. So, Drew's bedroom got pimped on Thursday...complete with queen bed, reorganized toy shelves and just a general polishing. He is very happy with it mainly because he get s to "snuggle" at night with both Mommy and Daddy for book reading time.

Part 2 of the Prepping for Luke series will be a before section of the spare room, soon to be Luke's room...in the meantime here are some photos of Drew's pimped room...

Space Farm Zoo

In early May as the school year was winding-down, Drew and his Kindergarten class went to a neat place in northern New Jersey called Space Farm Zoo. The zoo started out as a family farm that began as one of the family members bringing home strays and eventually it became a zoo and museum. The museum portion included old farm machinery, antique cars, toys and all sorts of interesting stuff.

The strays being brought home eventually added-up and the pictures below tell the story as to all the things that Drew saw and did there...


Drew's kindergarten class from Trinity Christian School



Mr. Bear...we actually don't need to go to a zoo to see these. we can stay in our house and watch the bears on Picatinny!



Drew's class in the original Deckertown Jail!


This is Mrs. Prohl, Drews Kindergarten teacher after the class escaped and locked-up the teacher!

Drew and his friend Jon-Luke




Some sort of bison-like creature...




This picture really captures Drew in his element! Such a ham having a blast all the time!! That's why we love him so much!!

Hilton Head 2008

We took our family vacation this year as we did last year in the Spring to Hilton Head Island, SC. As we typically do in Hilton Head, we had a BLAST!

We stayed at the Marriott's Surfwatch Resort and loved the resort. I can't really remember all that we did that week since I was so lazy in posting anything since April...I just finished perusing our friends' blogs and felt really lousy. So I'll let the pictures tell the story for me...

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This was the view of the rest of the resort from our room





Drew and I built a circular castle and had a "battle with his Army men (look real close). I think the good guys won!


A nice picture of "the man" sitting on the porch of the main building just before our fishing tournament!

This is the winning fish caught by Drew (well, as the war story is told by him). A nice size catfish caught in the lake at our resort. I think Drew was more afraid of the fish than excited that he caught it based off of the look on his face!

Daddy and Drew on the beach

We traditionally go to a restaurant called Hudson's on the Calibogue Sound for dinner when we are at Hilton Head. It's on eof the best places for seafood on the island and has cool fishing boats to explore!

Mommy and Drew flying his Dragon kite on the beach at our resort

One of the days while we were there we took a morning kayak trip on Broad Creek which runs East/West. We didn't see any dolphins but saw plenty of other wildlife such as crabs, egrets and a giant sea ray!

Playing shuffleboard at the resort turned out to be one of Drew'
s favorite things to do! We played more games of shuffleboard than I can count! He got pretty good by weeks end!

Storm Troopers!

We were in Philadelphia for a family members wedding this past weekend and were going to head back to Picatinny on Sunday morning after the wedding...that was until we saw the sign for the Star Wars exhibit at the Frankin Museum in downtown Phila!

It was a cool museum and a good Star Wars exhibit! Here's some pics...

Who's Your Candidate?

This is the only time I have gotten into politics on this bog. One of my friends from college sent me this link:

www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html

Take the quiz and see who it spits out. It pretty much hit the nail on the head as far as who I plan on voting for...but we'll not discuss that for now!

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