Cindy's birthday, Spring Break

Since I have the time, I'm going to go ahead and just keep posting more pictures...this is a rare opportunity that I have to be able to use the internet, have pictures downloaded, and not have to keep Sterling happy (his dad is watching him right now!)
Some of these pictures are from Luke's mom's surprise birthday party we had for her. It was so much fun to be there with her and Luke's family to celebrate. The other pictures were taken in the last week when my family was on spring break and we all played outside with Sterling every day!

Sterling at his Best

ok, so my pictures did come up, I'm just having some technical difficulties, please excuse me!! :)
I can't actually see my pictures when I'm doing this post for SOME reason that I don't understand, so I can't write comments under them, but what I can tell you is that these are all just pictures from the last couple of weeks. Sterling has enjoyed the warm weather SOOO much and is now depressed that it's so cold out again. He got to go visit his cousin Blake and they had fun taking a walk in the strollers together. Sterling also gets to lead his grandad around everywhere on the farm-- he's done a lot of exploring over the last couple of weeks! I think the picture of him in his hat looks like he's doing some dance move or something- it cracks me up :)

Well, I don't know what's going on but I can't get any of my pictures to come up...sorry!

A Lot of Different Things

A group of girlfriends and I went to San Diego a couple of weeks ago and had a great time. I actually didn't have any pictures of the entire group on this computer, so this is just a picture of my friend Carolyn and I. We all enjoyed the beautiful weather, the beach, shopping, eating and the movies!

These are all of Sterling's girlfriends :) This was taken back in February when Kayla and Kara's friends came over to spend the night at our house. It was quite a party for Sterling! He loved all the attention.

This is Sterling and his cousin Blake. I tried and tried to get a good picture of them together but couldn't ever get one that both of them were looking at the same time. (hopefully we can get one this weekend when we come to Iowa). Sterling is chewing on a plastic pig--we think he has a thing for pigs.

This is Sterling and his Papa Tom. They always have a great time together because Sterling thinks Tom is a lot of fun!

Well, I know I've been bad about not posting very many pictures, and even these are really old, but I will keep trying to do the best I can. I have new pictures on my camera, but they just haven't gotten on the computer yet. I promise to get new pics soon!

Sterling's birthdays

Here is Sterling on the actual day of his birthday (wearing his b-day shirt from his friend Carolyn:) He was really sick though, and didn't have too much fun celebrating that day.

We left the day after his birthday and headed west to visit some churches and some of Sterling's cousins. In the top picture is Sidney and Emma, the bottom picture is Skyler and Sterling fighting over the John Deere.

Here is the breathing treatment that Sterling had to do all week because he was sick. It was a pretty pathetic sight, but he's done with them now and he's feeling a lot better. We usually put his video on while he had to do them so that he could have a distraction.

And here he is celebrating his birthday for the second time in St. Louis. He was feeling a lot better by this time.

Luke and Kacie

I meant to put this picture on my last post but I didn't get it on there, so here it is.

Icy Indiana

We went ice skating on Friday night with our friends Brad and Heather. While we were there "cupid" showed up in a swim suit, curly wig, bike helmet and a scarf....and that's it! He had never skated before and was evidently at the skating rink for some sort of TV show or publicity stunt. It was pretty hilarious.

The weather has been FREEZING lately and we just got about a foot of snow and ice. School has been out and we've been going out and having my dad pull us on a sled behind the truck. It's been fun but very very cold :) Sterling rode in the truck with my dad and had a lot of fun watching us. He wore old carhartts that probably belonged to me when I was little!

Cold Weather!

It has been SO cold here in Indiana for the last week or so. The schools have had 2 hour delays every day this week because every morning it is below zero and the wind chill is usually about -15. It also snowed a lot on Tuesday so Luke and my sister Kayla took Sterling outside to experience snow for the first time! He actually loved it and didn't want to come back inside even though he was freezing. We put socks on his hands because we don't have any mittens :)
Sterling's most favorite thing to do right now is walk around with someone (anyone!) holding his hand. Here he is with his aunt Kayla making laps around our house. Last night he made laps around the basketball court with my dad while Luke was playing. He thinks he's pretty big stuff.

Just Playing

Sterling has been a little bit sick lately. He's had a fever and now a runny nose. So he's been lounging in his little chair, cuddling with his pig. When he's sick he really likes to just chill and watch his baby einstein video :)

I just think this picture is kind of cute. He looks really grown up. He can walk all over the place now, although he still prefers to have someone hold his hand!

Here he is supporting the Colts! We had to wear Colts blue a whole lot lately and luckily Sterling got this little shirt for Christmas. In the picture he's holding the new tractor that Luke bought him. It's got soft tires so he loves to drive it all over the place.

The Children's Museum

Sterling and I went to the Indianapolis Children's Museum on Tuesday and he had tons of fun. He loved playing in the water, seeing the Clifford exhibit , climbing around on everything and riding on the carousel.

Fun Times in January

Sterling has started to walk! He has taken up to 6-7 steps at a time, but he still prefers crawling. He's still pretty wobbly. Aren't his little cow slippers so cute??

Here is Sterling at the middle school basketball game. We've been going to a LOT of basketball games- middle school, high school, church league, Depauw University games...Luke is trying to make up for lost time not watching any games over in Thailand! :) Sterling usually gets pretty bored at the games, but snacks are always a good distraction.

And here is Sterling's first "official" hair cut! We actually went to the salon and got it done. They gave him a sucker in hopes that he would sit still for the cutting, but as you can see, he still wasn't really about letting them get to close to his head. They didn't take too much off, he still pretty much looks the same.

And here he is watching his movie in the chair his grandma and grandad got him for Christmas. He looks like such a big kid sitting up there like that :)

Sterling over the last month

Here is Sterling in his carseat- something he definitely had to get used to. In Thailand he didn't have to ride in one at all, so it took him a while to be okay with so much restriction.
This is Sterling with his buddies Nathan Rector, Neal Woollard and his future girlfriend (ha ha) Cameryn Rector.

We took these two pictures while we were traveling from Thailand. The top pic was a stop in Taipei, Taiwan, and the bottom is still in Bangkok. After riding in a taxi, his stroller, on a plane, and waiting forever in lines, Sterling was always ready to get down and crawl around when he had the chance. (by the way, why don't we have nice play areas like that in American airports??)

Random X-mas pics

Here are a few random pictures from our Christmas in Iowa, plus one of Sterling at Luke's uncle Tim and aunt Rhonda's house playing with their dog, Skittles. Sterling LOVED Skittles and pretty much loves any other animals as well. The other two pics are just cute ones of Sterling and his girl cousins, Paige and Ava.

Parsons' Visit

Well, since I'm SO far behind, and there's no way I could get all my pictures on here from Christmas and everything, I think I'm just going to skip them...maybe I'll put on a few here and there over the next few days, but it is going to be very difficult to keep up with this like I used to because now that we're in America we don't have internet at our house! Anyways, our teammates came to visit last weekend and we had such a great time with them. We went to Marvins, saw all the animals at the farms and the kids all had fun playing together.