15 months

15 months already!  Can you believe it?  Like I could actually get a picture of him sitting down this time.  I decided I wasn't even going to attempt it.  He loves his "new" toy he inherited from his buddy Ashton!

He's pretty much mastered the spoon now.  This was a couple weeks ago!

Again, he loves to dance!  In my opinion, he's the cutest little dancing 15 month old there ever was...but that's just my opinion :)

Jeremy's vocabulary:
hot, oatmeal, apple, shoes, car, ball, Mom, Dad, cracker, all done.  Hot is the only word he can really say on command.  The rest of the words he just says when he sees the object, not when we tell him to say it.

Jeremy LOVES:
Cuddling his Dad
Playing catch
Holding our finger everywhere he goes (he's in a VERY clingy stage)
Blowing kisses (took him long enough to figure that one out)
Giving cheesy grins
Talking
Playing in his bed
The water of course (beach, pool, baths, puddles, anything with water really)
Dancing

Jeremy HATES;
When we don't give in to his demands (the life of a 1 year old is rough).  These demands consist of:
 Wanting to be held (again, very clingy stage)
Wanting us to hold his hand so he can show us something

Jeremy is working on his 4th molar.  The last one in this set is a beast and I think this may be contributing to his clingy-ness.  If that's even a word.

We love this little guy so much!  He makes us so happy and we can't believe how fast he is growing up and how much he is learning everyday!

Time to play

Shane is just finishing his last final as I type this post.  I can't believe he is already finished with his first year of medical school!  He did so well in all of his classes and I am so proud of him.  Congrats babe!  We are so excited to be able to play for about a week before we head back to the states on Thursday.  I am just more excited that Shane gets to be done with studying for 6 weeks.  It will be so nice to be able to spend so much time with him and Jeremy this summer.  I can't wait to do all the fun things we have planned!  Shane did manage to take a break from studying last Friday to come to the SO (significant others) closing social.  We had BBQ ribs with salad and french fries and played in a pool and on the playground with Jeremy.  It was a lot of fun and this resort was a really cool place to have the social!  Here's Jeremy braving the slide with his Dad.

Did I mention that Jeremy loves anything to do with being in the kitchen?  Real or fake apparently.  He is always wanting to watch me cook dinner and help stir things and his favorite word right now is "hot".  He loved this play kitchen so we are excited to take him to Grandma and Grandpa Ahlstrom's for some fun in the kitchen!

Family photo in front of the jungle backdrop

Jeremy hanging out on the lawn decor!  Let's just say that Jeremy and I pretty much live in our swimsuits!

With his buddies

So Jeremy has a new love.  French Cashew apples.  They are everywhere here on the island and extremely inexpensive.  They are perfect for him because when we give him a regular apples he chews and sucks all the juice out and then spits out the skin.  These apples are so juicy and soft and so is the skin.  He actually eats the whole apple including the skin, so we decided that buying (or picking them for free) will definitely be a money saver for us!

At the playground

Shane's been wanting to do a lot of this lately!  Every morning after I go get Jeremy out of his bed he crawls up and cuddles his Daddy.  It is the cutest thing so I just had to take a picture when he did it one afternoon while Shane was just lying down exhausted from studying!

"Helping" Shane study!  He loves to copy everything we do!

At the beach with my buddy!  He loves the water and loves finding cool rocks to play with!

We are so excited to just play for the next week on the island and then head back to the states!  I am so proud of Shane and all his hard work.  And of course we just love our little Jer-bear!

3rd Anniversary

For our anniversary this year, Shane was in the middle of studying for finals (still is) and we didn't have a lot of options since it was a Grenadian national holiday and almost everything closed down. We decided we didn't want to get each other anything here since it's all so expensive, so we are planning on celebrating our anniversary a little bit more once we get back to the states.  I mean Shane did make me breakfast and I did leave him a nice letter in his lunch so that was fun!  Anyway, lucky for us, Umbrellas stayed open for the holiday so we could at least go on a date that night!  We've been wanting to eat at Umbrellas for awhile but every time we decided to go something came up.  This is one of the more "Americanized" restaurants serving things like burgers, fries, sandwhiches and salads and the prices are very good (comparable to the states)!

We sat on the roof which overlooked the ocean.  It was so beautiful as always.

Shane came to the conclusion that they probably had the umbrellas and then named the restaurant instead of the other way around...haha so funny Shane!

The food was delicious!

So was the Strawberry Daiquiri and Chocolate Milkshake!  After dinner, we walked on the beach and watched the sunset, sounds like something from a movie huh?!  Who would've thought we'd spend not only one but TWO anniversaries on a caribbean island?   

When we came home we played with our little guy for a little while (thanks Kensi for watching him), put him to bed, and then had dessert.  Homemade blackberry cheesecake with some sparkling cider! 

It was a great anniversary!  Thanks for being married to me Shane and for an amazing 3 years!

Fish Friday

Two weeks ago Shane and I left Jeremy with our friends and went on a "date" with our other friends and their kids :)  I am so glad we were able to go with the Reece's since they are leaving the island soon and they are our favorites!  Fish Friday is up in a little parish closer to the north end of the island.  People set up tents in the streets every Friday night and sell their fresh fish.  There were so many different kinds of fish.  And the best part?  It was all fried!  Reminded me of the good ol' US of A.  Anyway, I think my favorite was the Mahi Mahi, YUM!  We tried the fish kabobs, a fish ball, Mahi Mahi, fried plantains, a fish roti, with guava and cherry smoothies to wash it all down!  The fish was delicious, especially since I normally don't like trying fish because I can't stand shrimp.  We saw a beautiful sunset so we couldn't help but to stop and take a quick picture (and the picture never does it justice)!  Thanks for a fun trip to Fish Friday Shane and thanks Reece family for coming with us!