It's A Girl!

Most of everyone who reads this blog already knows but Bryce and I are having a GIRL!!! We are so excited. Her name is going to be Gillian Kay Gandy and we'll call her Gigi. I think that Tucker has known that I was having a girl because everytime we asked him if mommy was having Ty (our boy name) or Gigi he always said Gigi. Anyway, I am feeling good I have Bryce very busy trying to make space for another baby in our house. We feel so blessed to have a little boy and be having a little girl!

School!

Tucker started a Mother's Morning Out program this fall and it's been very exciting and fun to watch him grow and learn outside of the home! He goes to school 2 days a week for 3 hours and he loves it (and so do I)! I did the Halloween party for his class and I got to his classroom a little early and they were all outside playing, I must have watched him out on the payground for 20 minutes--it was so neat to see him interact in a setting without me or Bryce. He's so independent. I'm going to attach some pictures of some fun things that he's done at school.

This was picture day, doesn't he look cute!!

This was Halloween, Tucker is in the dragon costume to the very left. They had a little parade around the fellowship hall and Tucker chased a little boy dressed like Spider Man--when I say "chase" I mean he was totally obsessed with this poor child--it was hilarious!

This was at Farm Day, we all went out to a farm and had a nature walk and the kids picked pumpkins, it was fun. This is Tucker and his friend Wes on the tractor.

This is one of the best pictures I've got of him in a while, he's actually looking at the camera and smiling!

These two pictures are at the Thanksgiving Feast. They went around with a microphone and asked each child what they were thankful for. When they got to Tucker, there was a long pause and he got his face right up to the microphone and said "TUCKER". Of course, he's thankful for himself!

Big News!

Hello! It's been awhile since I have updated the blog and honestly it's been awhile since I've done much of anything because...WE'RE EXPECTING A BABY!!!!! I'm due on April 14th and I'm 14 weeks today. We are so excited and feel so blessed to be pregnant again. It's been a rocky 1st trimester but the fog is starting to lift and I'm feeling much better. Tucker is doing well and has had a busy couple of weeks--I'll post pictures of all his new activities soon. We hope that everyone is doing well!

Love, Lindsey

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

Well to kick off Tucker's Birthday weekend Bryce wanted to take him to his first baseball game. Thanks to Jacob Giles, who works with the Charlotte Knights, we were able to have seats right above the dug out. At the beginning of the fourth ending Bryce arranged with Jacob to walk on top of the dugout and have the crowd sing happy birthday to Tucker! It was awesome! They even put Tucker's name on the jumbo screen!

Isn't this the sweetest picture!

This was when they got on top of the dugout and everyone sang happy birthday.

And, of course Lady and Poppy couldn't miss Tucker's first ball game. They loaded him up with all kinds of Charlotte Knights stuff.

The Knights mascots are Homer and Caroline (they're dragons) and Tucker fell in love with Homer, oh excuse me, Honner is what Tucker refers to him as! We had a great time at the ball game and feel very fortunate that it was able to such a special 1st game for Tucker!

:) Lindsey

Trip to the Zoo

We took Tucker to the zoo in Columbia SC for the 1st time on Father's Day and if we lived in Columbia I would have season passes to the zoo, we all had so much fun. I will just narrate through some of the best pics.

This was on the way to the zoo.

The first animals we saw were the monkeys and Tucker started immediately doing his best monkey impersonation!

This is a random pic of a the lion, doesn't he just look like the king of the jungle?

Then Tucker rode a tiger.

Leave it to our child to run to the drink machine and start talking to the animals!
This is Bryce and Tucker feeding the birds, which was really neat until a little girl next to us got pooped on--we ended the bird feeding session at that point.
Oh--this was my favorite part--Tucker got to take his first pony ride!!! The only stipulation was that he had to keep his hands on the horn of the saddle--uhmm as you can see that didn't really happen. Every time the girl that was leading us around would turn and look at us I would very quickly throw Tucker's hands on the saddle and hold them there!


Of course we had to go to the gift shop and let him pick out an animal, he picked out a baby giraffe but he also got this weird tiger head thing that he LOVED and played with for weeks.

They have this viewing room where you can go in and look at the gorillas--basically your only a piece of glass away from the gorillas and one just happen to be laying out when we went by.
Can I just say that this gorilla could have been a part of our family--look at this drama queen she would have fit right in!

This in on the way home--you can see the weird tiger head toy in his hand. We had so much fun and will definitely go back!

:) Lindsey

A Normal Summer Day Around the Gandy House

Here are some random pics of a normal summer day around our house:

We typically start the day off with some laundry.

We imagine we're big and going off to school (nice outfit).

We bring the outdoors indoors. This was Simon the turtle that we found one morning outside by our trash can. He's kind of hard to make out in the pic because I put so much bark in his container--I went a litle overboard trying to make him feel at home! We kept him for a few hours and then sent him back on his way at a creek near our house.

Do I need to say anything about this? Typical grocery shopping excursion!

Tucker found this digging my beach bag!

We play outside, ALOT!

We always have time to stop and draw a picture!

And finally we end the day cleaning up!! (This is probably Tucker's favorite thing to do--he loves to vacuum--no complaints here! )

:) Lindsey

Our First Post!

Well, I have been wanting to start a blog for a while but my laziness has gotten the best of me. We have been having so much fun this summer that I want to share it with our friends and family and have a way to chronicle Tucker's life. So here goes...enjoy!

:) Lindsey