Cha-Cha Slide

During one of the media timeouts at the basketball games, the kids are invited out onto the floor to dance with Eli (the mascot) and the ORU cheerleaders. I've never taken Beckett down there to dance, mainly due to laziness and not wanting to search for him in a crowd of 70+ kids when the buzzer sounds and they all scatter off the court. But, at the end of the season, I finally let him try it out. He loved it and caught on right away. You've probably seen the video of the Beckett dancing to the Cha-Cha Slide on Facebook, but here are some more of the photos taken by photographer Shane Bevel. Thanks again, Shane, for capturing this fun moment! 

  

  

Tulsa Zoo

Beckett and I took advantage of an unseasonably warm day in January and took a trip to the zoo. It was a little cloudy and cool when we arrived at the zoo which helped keep the big crowds away. Once the sun came out, it warmed up to about 70 degrees and was the perfect zoo weather! I can't wait for warmer weather! 

"Hi Billie Goat"

Beckett's favorite part was the zoo was the petting zoo. His
second favorite part was sharing his Goldfish with the squirrel. 

New Park

While Sarah was in town, we decided to visit a park by our house. It's a park that we had never been to, so it was exciting. Daddy even took time out of his busy schedule to come play with us! 

A Visitor!

At the end of January, our friend Sarah visited from South Carolina. We got to open a few Christmas presents, attend a few basketball games, eat lunch with Grandma, Grandpa, and Pa, and spend some time just hanging out at the house. We had a great time and were sorry to see her go!

Christmas, Part III

My mom came to visit in January and we decided to give Beckett another one of his gifts. We were trying to wait to give him his big gifts until both of my parents could come, but we weren't sure when that would happen. For some reason, he insisted on wearing his hat inside. 

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He was a lot more interested in the stickers than he was the blocks: 

Christmas, Part II

This was Christmas with just Blake, Beckett and me at our house. Blake and I try to keep Christmas presents a little low-key at our house. Beckett has been blessed with two sets of grandparents who spoil him tremendously, so we decided that we would get him a few small toys (puzzles, books, clothes, etc) since he would be getting showered with gifts from his grandparents. I haven't really ever been one to buy him a lot of toys, although this became a little more difficult this year with all of the cool toys out. I kind of feel that if he has too many toys that the majority of them get abandoned anyways, and we end up just wasting money and space. Blake and I did get him two bigger gifts (Legos and a basketball goal) that we gave him later. We spaced his gifts out because I didn't want him getting all of the big gifts at once. I'd rather spread them out and have Christmas (and the silence of him playing alone) last longer. Crazy? Maybe, but it's what works for us. 

He would have been a happy camper with just his stocking stuffers.
Goldfish and cookies, what more could a kid want? :) 

Our friend, Sarah, mailed us gifts from SC.

His Curious George shirt from Sarah. He loved it! 

My Carolina shirt from Sarah :) 

This is his concentration face. Not sure why his cheeks look 10
 times bigger while concentrating :)  He wanted to trash each small
piece of paper as he tore it off. Opening presents became more time
consuming that we had planned! 

Puzzles and books

Elmo pajamas!

Heritage Hall

On New Year's Eve, Blake, Beckett and I, along with our friends Rob and Krystle, spent the day in Stillwater and attended the Oklahoma State basketball game vs. Gonzaga. After the game, we took Rob and Krystle to see the sports museum (Heritage Hall) inside of the arena. We took a few quick pictures before they closed for the night. 

Grandpa, Beckett, and Grandma posing with the Big 12
Championship football trophy from last year

Daddy and Beckett posing with the trophy

Daddy and Beckett posing on the game benches

Wooden Stool

Blake's grandpa built him a wooden stool when he was growing up. His parents have kept it all of these years and Beckett's grandpa (Blake's dad) decided to make a tradition of building all of the grandkids a stool and giving it to them on the Christmas after their first birthday. Not only did Grandpa make Beckett a stool, but he re-did Blake's old stool and gave it to him on the same day. It was a special moment for the both of them.

Trying out the new stool

Thanking Grandpa for his stool

Grandpa giving Daddy his old stool

Beckett and Daddy sitting on their stools

Daddy showing Beckett how to use the stool as a table