A Fun Weekend...

...whether he's sick or not!

A cheap plastic pool provides some easy entertainment.

Bite that ball!

Nice teeth shot here.

It's a little cooler than my bath!

Saggy bottoms!

A good belly laugh in the ball pit.

We finally converted the old exersaucer into the walker toy. Good for a one-way trip anyway!

Just a little pool time.

Washington DC

We visited Washington, DC on May 22, 2010. What a cool city! We found a reasonably priced, massive suite to stay in in Arlington, VA for the weekend. This was about a 4 hour drive for us. Seeing all the monuments and memorials and general historical stuff made me feel both proud and respectful. Not necessarily proud of what the country is today, but proud of what got us here anyway. :)


Noah did pretty well with the traveling and all the sightseeing, only getting impatient with us when he was really tired. It's funny how adaptable he is in terms of visiting new places and enjoying the changes but how totally unadaptable (is that a word?) he is about sleeping well enough in any place unfamiliar. But I guess he has been that way all along.

Let the walking begin! And strolling. Lots of walking and strolling.

Watch me climb this, Mom.

Run, Forrest, Run! (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)

Glad to cross DC off my list of places to see!

We have some walking taking place now! A few nights ago Jeremy observed him take 3 or 4 steps all on his own and he has repeated this remarkable feat a few times since then. He is standing for longer periods of time too. We also gave up the morning nap last week, which was helpful while touring DC. Well, sort of. He refused to take the nap one morning, so I gave up after all my rearranging of the schedule to try to hold on to it. Lately, the morning nap seemed to be the cause of disturbing all his other sleep, so I thought I'd try dropping it. But since being sick, he has picked it back up again. Hopefully we'll get him all sorted out after he feels better and he'll start getting closer to a "normal" amount of zzz's each day.

I took him to the FNP on Tuesday suespecting that the ear infection had returned and it had. Same old left ear. The FNP also thinks his molars are making their way in too. Wow! He doesn't even have all of his front teeth yet. So the poor guy has had some serious teething, ear infection, fever, coughing, and another great snotty nose to deal with. What a champ. We are on technically our 5th round of antibiotics (3rd kind) after 2 trips to the doctor to this week!

So Happy Memorial Day weekend and Welcome Summer! Thank you to all those who served and died making our lives today possible.

Have a Ball!

We finally got the new ball pit set up. It only needs about 300 more balls or so, but you get the idea! The first time we put Noah in, he was scared and cried. Now he is getting used to the idea. :) Thanks, Pop, for the fun birthday present!

Have a great weekend everyone; it's off to Washington, DC for the Barclays!

Mother's Day & Springtime

This was the best I could get out of him! I took pictures with a balloon that came in a yummy little bouquet from our friends who joined us for Mother's Day lunch. Keith and Marissa will be celebrating Mother's Day themselves next year. :)

Mother's Day was very nice. Jeremy let me sleep in and made his famous fried chicken for lunch! I seem to have made a Mother's Day tradition out of requesting he make that for me. He and Noah got a sweet card for me, plus a purse from one of our local shops that I have been eyeing since we moved here. And a pretty necklace. Mother's Day is a nice deal! I even had fun shopping for pottery for our moms from our local downtown shops one day.

I can't tell you how A-MAY-ZING spring has been here! Heehee. After the terrible winter, all the trees and shrubs went crazy! I have never seen so many blooms and they occur in stages, so that once the first set of blooms is finished, another set begins. They might not have bluebonnets here, but WV does it up right.

I haven't taken nearly enough pictures but here are a few:

Tree in front of my house that I hated all winter and wanted to remove!

Blossoms from my rhododendron.

Some wildflowers I picked off the side of the road and an iris from nearby.

Hope your Mom's Day was beautiful!

Master Bed & Bath

Yes, the walls are a grayish-purple and I like how they turned out!

She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy...

I completely forgot to post about the other new addition to our home:

Oh, yes. The hubby bought a John Deere riding lawn mower. Because we soooo needed the green and gold name brand. Oh, well. Maybe he'll take me for a ride on his big, green tractor! Heehee...

*Special thanks to Kenny Chesney and Jason Aldean for inspiring the comedic material for this post.

Living Room

I picked up all the baby toys and baby-proofing contraptions today while Noah was gone so I could take these pictures finally! We didn't make any changes to this room other than re-painting the beige walls with our new shade of beige. We kept the eggplant color around the fireplace because it ties in with the granite in the kitchen. In fact this is the view of the living room from the kitchen, since it is all one wide open space. This is the room most used in the house!