Is Spring here yet??

Even though we are ready for spring Andre has enjoyed himself this winter. He got to have a playdate with Sierra and his girlfriend Canaan and they made edible snowmen! The snowmen survived just long enough for a picture before they were dismantled and eaten. :)

Here is Canaan proudly showing off her snowman masterpiece. (I'm pretty sure there is dried mango in her mouth already preventing her from smiling bigger)

On sunny and not-quite-so-dang-cold days Andre enjoys going to the neighborhood park. He loves the swing and has recently discovered the sand volleyball court where he will sit down and try to bury himself in sand.

On special occasions Daddy comes with us! Andre had fun swinging on the "big" swing with Daddy. yippee!!!

This year Andre was invited to his buddy Preston's "annual" Valentine party. He was super excited to play with his friends and make his own cupcake! In the end he opted for his peanut butter sandwich instead of the cupcake. (Daddy would have been proud) And Mommy sacrificially ate his cupcake for him. :)

Here is his I'm having-a-blast-but-trying-to-stay-cool look....."I wish these kids would get out of my way so I can color"...

At last! Andre loves to color and had fun at this big table all by himself coloring a picture. His favorite color is orange apparently- I think its from a sesame street episode where we watched an orange crayon being made from start to finish. I have to watch him though...he WILL try to eat them!

Unfortunately, Andre came down with a cold not long after V-day...but we snuggled up and got to enjoy the beautiful view of the snow from our house. This is the backyard...

...the front yard....

He didn't get to make a snowman this year since he didn't feel well, but I reminded him about the marshmallow snowman and that seemed to cheer him up....and make him hungry! :)

Most recently we took Andre to get his FIRST HAIRCUT!!!!! Great Clips was busy so we took him to Clark Salon where his Daddy cut it!! :) He loved the attention and the tootsie roll pop mommy gave him while he sat very still.

Even baby Selah was there for this important milestone in her brother's life. Don't worry-his hair is still curly, its just not hanging in his eyes anymore. I will admit he looks a bit older now. (sniff, sniff)

Here is the hair we saved for the baby book!

Of course Paw-Paw was there to witness the blessed event and to take pictures and video. Three generations of Clark boys. We are teaching Andre to say, "Thank you for calling Clark Salon, this is Andre how may I may help you?" So far its just "cuk".

Well it won't be much longer until we have another blogger in the family! Baby Selah is due in two weeks and her room is ready and waiting.


Can't wait to meet you baby Selah!!

We love you already...




Andre is ready to show you his dance moves...

Christmas 2009

Well it was Andre's 2nd Christmas and he was ready for it... First, we discovered that Santa lives in Canton! He and Mrs. Claus decorated their house and yard with a bazillion lights and decorations and Andre was mesmerized.














He wasn't so sure about sitting on Santa's lap until he gave him a candy cane. mmmmmmmm. It turns out that during Santa's off season he works at Ace Hardware in Woodstock, Ga. who knew?? :)



Christmas Day started early in The Clark house (every day starts early actually) but this day Andre was wearing his special red flannel Christmas pajamas. He and Mr. Froggie were ready to see what was under the tree.



oops. mommy's belly got in the shot! :)




















Yay! Exactly what he asked Santa for: a "cha-chain" (choo choo train )

Santa didn't go overboard this year because he knew there would be many Christmas' to come at the Clark house...
















Christmas #2

Christmas with Mimi, Cha-Cha and Auntie Amy. Andre got a Monster Bowling game, some cool educational puzzles and tickle me Elmo hands.

Even baby Selah got presents!














Andre soon figured out how much fun opening presents can be. "Keep 'em coming!", he thought to himself.

















Christmas # 2

Christmas with GiGi, Poppy & Karen, Uncle Bryant, Erin & Reese (aka "eese")

Woo hoo! More Presents! Is there any end to this madness???














Andre & Reese exchanged gifts and then decided they would both prefer the gifts they brought. :) But they shared and "played nice".















The favorite git of '09 was the talking magnetic alphabet from Poppy and Karen. It tells you what each letter is and what sound it makes while keeping a toddler occupied and not directly under mommy's feet in the kitchen. A Win/Win.

Andre tried to put the letters just out of Reese's reach...





And he was quite proud of himself when he succeeded. Reese did not appreciate it at all.
That is not nice Andre!























Christmas #3

Christmas with Nanny and Paw-Paw. Christmas with The Clark Crew is a fabulous fiasco. No one takes turns opening gifts (like Mommy's family)Its a free-for-all!

Ok- now Andre's gift tally is getting a little rediculous. :)





The favorite gift of the night was his Handy Manny tool belt which he wears almost daily. The tools dance and sing when in the tool box (en espanol tambien!) "Can we fix it?" "Si, podemos!" (yes we can!)


He's going to be handy just like Daddy. :)











Here Andre and Daddy are partaking in their nightly wrestling ritual. He gets smooched on all day by Mommy and then roughed up at night by Dad. We think this will make him well-rounded.






Can't you see how much he adores his DA-DA?





Below Andre "enjoys" the blizzard of 2010. He's not sure what to think of wintry mix..but he sure is cute!






Coming soon...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ujGVIf1xI

Halloween, The Move & Thanksgiving...

Wow! Andre had been a very busy 17 month old!

So much has happened since our last blog...here are the highlights...

You can't live in Canton, GA and not go to The Cagle's Dairy Farm Maize. Andre had a blast jumping on this enormous "haystack" with Mimi. He even wore his creamed-corn-colored sweatshirt to blend in with his surroundings.

Andre has takin' a likin' (what? we're in the country folks!) to driving anything with a steering wheel but he especially got a kick out of "driving" this tractor at the farm.

Yippee Yee Haw!

Back at the Ranch, Andre had to play it cool in front of Canaan. The last time he recklessly drove her Barbie Jeep around he got an ear full!

They even have their pink seatbelts on. Way to be safe kids!

Halloween this year was not near as fun as last year. First of all it was raining, second Canaan was out of town and third Andre was sick. But we had to wear the adorable Elmo costume at least once to get some pictures. Andre was not in the best of moods so we call this Not-Feeling-So-Good- Elmo. We only took him to one house this year (Nanny & Paw-Paw's) and as if the day couldn't get any worse-NO ONE WAS HOME! He quickly turned in to What-The-Heck?-Elmo. &%#$!

Daddy saved the day by staging Trick-or-Treat and giving Andre some beef jerky. Just kidding! THAT would definitely be a trick...its an organic fruit snack.

Seriously thats all we have of Halloween 2009. Shortly after this picture we all got sick. Yuck.

On a happier note-

We are all moved into our new house!! and Andre LOVES it! He especially likes the park just a short walk from our front door.

Here he is enjoying the beautiful fall weather and one of his all-time favorites: the swing!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

We've moved on from dead leaves (aka "flowers") to sticks! Give this little boy two sticks and he goes crazy wacking everything in sight. Which reminds me to ask Santa for a drum set for Andre this year....

And yes he will even try to wack his mother. Here he is chasing me with a stick!

STOP IT ANDRE!!

He's lucky to have snuck in here before I could catch him and "teach" him that it is not ok to hit your mom. My ever-growing belly prevents me from getting in this tower. :)

He knows he got one on me.....this time...

The neighborhood tennis courts are pretty much in our backyard so Daddy is excited about giving Andre lessons. You can't be named Andre, live next to a tennis court and NOT know how to swing a racquet.

Although he needs one that is more his size....another request for Santa...

In other exciting news, Andre was invited to a reptile birthday party for his buddy Jacob. He actually touched a real live snake!

Mimi nervously "helped" him touch the instead of squueezing it to death.

He tried to act like he didn't know these women but yes they are related. Its Auntie Amy and Cha-Cha!

It was a fun party!

Thanksgiving was a lot more fun Halloween. Auntie Kami got him this cute and appropriate "Feed Me" shirt and thats what we did!
We ate lunch at Nanny & Paw Paw's (they were home this time) and dinner at Mimi's.

Andre was excited to not be seated at the kids table as Mimi offered to be his high chair. Next year Andre-next year!

And this is what happens when you eat the whole turkey! :) Actually this is one of the only pictures of my belly this pregnancy. I figured we better take at least one so little "Sprite" doesn't think she's adopted!

See you at Christmas!

our lives are changing.....

There is so much going on with The Crazy Clark Crew these days...the most exciting is that Andre will be a big brother to a little SISTER! Here are the kids posing for their first picture together..He's already teasing her about being able to see her ribs... ;)

The other exciting news is that The Clarks are moving to The White House! Well- not exactly-but we are thrilled to be moving to THIS white house the 1st of November. (we just pray our house sells quickly...)

Andre and baby "Sprite" will have a huge yard to play in with lots of trees and we'll be right across the street form the playground, pool and tennis courts. Yippee!

The downside to this move is that Andre and Canaan will have to see if their love can withstand a long-distance relationship. At first Canaan didn't even want to talk about it, "talk to the bubble Andre, 'cuz I don't wanna hear it!"

They finally talked it out at the swing. If there love was meant to be-it would last. Plus their parents will be friends forever...

and there will always be playdates!

Andre wanted to go back and give her this "flower" as a gesture of his commitment to Canaan but I told him it was just a dead leaf and maybe not a good move-symbolically speaking.

Side note- Andre is loving the fall and all of the leaves on the ground. He can't pass one without picking it up and smelling it. ;)

Semi-exciting news was that Andre visited Tanglewood Farms and got to see real live animals! He wasn't abig fan of the sheep though- and neither were we-sheep are gross, folks. Take it from us. They are NOT cute, or white or soft, and their eyes are milky and disgusting. Disappointing for sure.

Yeah- Andre was ready to walk after seeing the yucky sheep, "What else have you lied to me about MOM?"

In retrospect, we could have saved the $30 and let him walk around the pumpkins. That was his favorite thing to do...

But we convinced him to go back and see the baby goats. Here, Keenan is feeding the goats (which are pretty cute by the way).

Andre is just taking it all in...

And then they attacked! Just kidding. He actually got a kick out of the baby goats. They were more his size and not ugly like the sheep.

Andre had a pretty good time at Tanglewood Farms after all. This is when we realized that his apple cider might have had a little alcohol in it...just kidding this was mid-blink. ;)

This is Andre telling his mom and dad wants to be for Halloween...

Keenan was disappointed when we went to go "meet Elmo". Upon seeing him he said, "thats not a REAL Elmo". I'm not sure if he realizes that Elmo's are extinct...anyway...







Here's a little preview of Halloween 2009...

The End of Summer!

Summer has come and (almost) gone, so Andre reflects back on "the good 'ol days" which were actually last week...



Taking a morning walk with mommy is definitely Andre's favorite way to start the day. We pick flowers from neighbor's yards when they're not looking and smell them. sniff. sniff. ah.

Sometimes Andre's Mimi comes over with new books to read. This one was hilarious! Toes! Ha! I can't stand it! hahahaha!






What better way to spend the last days of summer than with Summer herself! Andre and his friend Summer sit on the sidewalk soaking up the sunshine and selling sea shells by the shore...








My hunka-burnin-love and my chunka-burnin-love! (I'll let you decide who is who.) Andre and daddy played in the fountain at the pool!










Andre realized after a few minutes that the cement was scraping his knees so he decided that 14 months old was a good time to start walking.



Thats right folks-Andre is walking!!






Here is the proof! These turtle pants are made for walking...and thats just what they'll do...)

Super exciting news this summer was the birth of Andre's newest friend Bryce Floyd! Here is daddy and "uncle" Wendell (he's really not his uncle) and daddy holding Bryce. He hasn't held many babies so this was kind of a big deal.

And speaking of births...did you catch Andre on the news for his birthday?! He signs "more" and we rewind it over and over and over...

So now that he's famous and walking Andre has a new attitude. Here he is on his "vroom vroom" with real engine sounds, putting out the vibe.


"Hellllloooooooo Ladies!"

So to keep him in check.....

We decided to have another baby. Move over Andre there's a new kid coming to town! (in March)

Here's our little peanut in this flattering shot of my uterus. (the only picture of me in this blog I just realized)

Now he/she is the size of a lime or lemon. So we've named him Sprite. :)