St Pattys Day

We had a good St Patricks day, hope you did too!  The leprechan brought Joey some green candy ; )

Finding his Pot'o Luck basket

Pixie "helping" him go through his basket

First Disney Trip for March with the Gallman Clan :)

We met my awesome family for a day at Disneyworld in March, we went all day long until our legs just about fell off, but it was great fun!!  Unfortunately, I did not (very strange) take a lot of pics...in fact somehow I managed to get no pics of Jeff, Molly, Parker or Rick....go figure we must have been moving too fast ; )

Joey and his lady of the moment, Meghan

Mad Hatter...who is giving me the sad face because he had to be with me and not "his Martha"

Joey and Martha Hula Hooping

The REAL Mad Hatter...I should know I sleep with him!

Bill's girlfriend aka my Aunt Martha

Moose-man

Cutie Pie

Valentines Day 2011

 We had a fun Valentine's Day.  The Cupid came a filled up Joey's Cupid box with lots of legos and fun stuff.  Joey and Da made their delicious sugar cookies in all kinds of shapes: hearts, x's and o's, lips

Rolling the cookie dough



Yummy Buttercream icing!!!!!



Joey and all his Valentines



With his Cupid Box

With his Ninjago Lego, woohoo

Ringling Bros Circus

In January, we went with some of our best pals here in Jax to see the Ringling Bros Barnum and Bailey Circus.  It was Joey's first time ever...and he could not WAIT to see the Tigers!!  The kid is Tiger crazy...did I ever mention he thinks he is part Tiger...he will even show you his Tiger stripe (a birthmark on his belly) to prove it!

(PS - trying a new blogger update format, so if it looks crazy please bear with me ; )



Joey and his best pal (and future wife) Alexis




Ready for the Big Top

This guy was way tall...look closely Joey is at his feet ; )

Joey's favorite, the Tigers.  He was so excited that the Tigers were shaking hands and kissing the trainer, he had his heart set on getting himself a kissing Tiger

Joey, Alexis and the only Tiger we took home, a stuffed one that Joey named Snowball

My favorite the elephants

My favorite clown

Joey has a thing for this trapeze artist

Christmas 2010

As mentioned below I am going to start with Christmas 2010 and work my way forward, hopefully catching up by Joey's 6th bday ; )

Joey with Santa this year! I just cried when I saw how BIG Joey looked next to Santa. BUT he was so super excited, maybe the most excited ever! He told us that WAS THE REAL SANTA!!!

Here is Joey on Christmas Eve night filling out his Christmas plate to Santa

It says red ride-on, science kit, microscope, little Star Wars Lego

This year before bedtime, Joey INSISTED on reading The Night Before Christmas to US!! He did a great job, my how fast time flies!!

Coming down the stairs Christmas morning...so excited!!!

He got his red ride-on

and microscope
and science kit

He also got an awesome razor he had been wanting

Some more random pics of the season:

Joey Rudolph

Joey's tree
Enjoying his red ride-on


Making cookies with Da

Pixie's first Christmas

WORST.BLOGGER.EVER.

Okay so, I guess everyone now knows I am officially the WORST Mama blogger EVER! I am very sorry, most of all to Joey. BUT I am going to get back into it! SO, what I am going to do is start right were I left off, December 2010 and move forward ; P


BUT since it may be a week or so before I get current I wanted to just give a quick update of our year so far:


Well in December we were pretty sure that the future had us moving to Huntsville, Alabama. We were excited! Not only does a lot of my close family live there but it seemed to be a glimmer of hope for us of some stability since Bill's previous employers shut their doors.

In January, Bill's Mom passed away from Pancreatic cancer, the loss rocked us to the core.


About the same time, Joey began having some issues at school and began begging to stay home everyday. He was just supremely bored. Since Joey was tested as what they call in Kindergarten, an Academically Talented student and and tested at a 3rd Grade Level in reading he was placed at an "independent" table. This meant he did his work without much interaction at all, and on the days I volunteered in his classroom it would take him about 5 minutes to complete each "center" BUT he had to sit there quietly while the other kids finished, it WAS a challenge and he definately was bored.

There were also some hygenic issues in Joey's class. Some of the kids were not potty trained and some had some definate "life" issues that caused hygenic problems in the class. Believe me, I could elaborate in a way that would gross us all out, but I won't, trust me when I say it was BAD! This was very troublesome to Joey....he is very Type A clean boy.

Bill and I began the discussion of pulling Joey out of school to homeschool (we considered this before we enrolled him in Kindergaten anyway), after all, we are moving soon and he more than likely wouldn't finish the year in Jax anyway.



Joey has now finished the First Grade Homeschool curriculum we chose and will be starting 2nd grade in Sept. It is HARD work but it is working all around for all of us right now. It is very rewarding to watch him blossom and absorb as much as he can at his own pace.

BUT then it turns out, our move to Huntsville was not to be, once again, we end up with a bankrupt employer. All of us are devistated to say the least.

But we have rebounded and are determined to once again find some stability for our little family.

Joey play Brahms and Tchaikovsky in his spring Piano recital.

Joey lost his first tooth in May and has another one that is very loose!

Bill has launched a webpage for his consulting http://www.zanonids.com/ and now has several clients.

Last week, we went to Star Wars Weekends at Disney and have been several times with friends. We have a great birthday trip lined up for Joey and are looking forward to a great summer. Florida is super hot this year! More coming soon, I promise!!!!