Sean and I had a great day today! Sean woke up at 8am and then woke up Dada (his favorite thing to do). We sat on the couch with Kitty and Sean’s blanket for awhile and watched tv and snuggled, then had breakfast. Sean played with his puzzle while I got ready, and we headed out to the toy store around 10am. I got him 2 new puzzles, since he’s already mastered the one he has, and when we got home, he was ready for a nap. We had some lunch, then went out and played with the ball in the yard. He walked around back, and asked to play on the slide. He went down the slide about 40 times, and then I had to come in to get the camera. I cant’ believe what he’s doing…he’s climbing up the slide and going down ALL by himself! Is he really big enough to be doing that?? It doesn’t seem like it! We got all dirty and sweaty outside, so we came in for a drink and a popsicle (which Sean LOVED). We played with Megabyte for awhile, did our new puzzles, went for a walk outside and then came in to cool down and have a snack. Sean fed his whole snack to Megabyte, who was very happy to help out! Sean had another nap around 3:30, then we played some more! It was a long but fun day. Hopefully the weather continues to be nice so we always have the option of going outdoors. Getting out of the house if definitely a nice break!
Check out the video of Sean doing the slide all by himself. Man, he’s so big!
Sean had his first ever big boy sleepover at UmBri and SheShe’s house (Brian and Ashley) last night. Ash had been talking about wanting to keep him overnight, so they did! Paul and I went to Brio’s for dinner, then to see The Hangover, which btw was a hilarious movie, and then got a really great night’s sleep!
We got a call late this morning to pick up Sean; he had slept perfectly through the night; from 7:45-7:30am. He had fun with Ash last night playing, and had breakfast with her and Brian this morning. They are just smitten with him 🙂
He had a really good time, and I’m sure will want to do it again! He wanted to be sure that he was the ruler of their house too, before little cousins get there someday. What a big boy!
Family portraits rarely turn out perfect, and if they don’t – and you have them online somewhere – the may end up here: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com
There are some REALLY bad ones on here. Some are just kind of bad, but you know these guys regret this photo today:
Here are a few pictures we’ve taken recently. We’ve been slacking on the photo taking as well…sorry! I’ve been crazy busy with end of the year stuff that I barely have time to do anything these days. Oh well. Enjoy these…there are some videos too, but I have to find some time to edit them.
Emily and I have been keeping really busy lately – she is finishing up the school year and I’ve been busy at work with a new release. 3 Day weekend coming up and Mom is driving down from St. Louis for some Sean time. I’ll be heading to Seattle in July to visit Sean and go to a Mighty Mighty Bosstones show. Man I haven’t been to one in … 7 or 8 years (they broke up for a while)!
I’ll try to get some updates later. I’ve got some photos of Sean to put online too.
Emily surprised me on Friday night with a date night. She got Ashley to watch Sean for the night and we had a nice dinner at Brios (awesome Italian place at the Newport on the Levee) and then we went and saw the movie “I Love You Man”. Great food, good movie, first night out we’ve hads ince my mom ‘rescued’ us last time she was here 😉
Was a bit of a rough night with Sean Friday/Saturday. and we all slept in a little bit or had a nap. I managed to get the grass cut and weed-whacked and trimmed some evergreens that aren’t fairing so well since the drought a few years ago. Sean got to play outside quite a bit. Emily had some photos she is editing and they should be up in a day or so – some really cute ones!
Sunday we went to church and to the newcomers welcome after (I’m on the committee that sponsors it). After church and , Emily and Sean took a nap and I decided to try to finish the retaining wall and garden we started a couple weeks ago. Three hours later, Emily and Sean woke up – but Sean had a fever. Emily took his temp and the poor guy was up to about 102 degrees. He hasn’t had a fever like that since his last ear infection in November. Last week was his first full week back at daycare in nearly two weeks so he probably caught something there. He threw up twice this evening but seemed to get a little better later in the night. He snuggled Emily until we put him to bed around 10pm.
While Emily took care of Sean, I went back to Lowe’s to buy the rest of of their blocks for the wall and to the grocery store to get some Pedialyte for Sean. When I got back, I checked on Sean and mom – they were snuggling on the couch watching Baby Einstein movies. I went back out and unloaded the the last 30 blocks out of the Jetta and resumed my work on the wall. About 30 minutes into it, I heard a very loud BANG. It took me a while to figure it out- but apparently the front driver’s tire exploded. I couldn’t find a hole until I removed the wheel. There was a two and a half inch gash that opened up on the inside of the tire! Very glad it happened while the car was sitting in the drive way and now while I was driving around with a couple hundred pounds of cement blocks in the trunk.
I did get the wall mostly done and some weed barrier down. I still have to tweak the wall to get it completely level and the ends flush.
The Wall:
Emily and I have been really busy lately with work and family and just haven’t really had much of a chance to post lately. What have we been up to?
– We took a 4 day vacation to Sanibel Island, Florida. It was Sean’s first time in the ocean! Of course there are pics! Emily, Sean, and I shared a cabin with my mom and sister. It was their first time there and I don’t think it will be the last. Megan and Mom got to spend a lot of time with Sean and they were there for his first time in the ocean 🙂 It was a ton of fun – just wish it could have been longer! I’m sure my sister will post the links to her photos in the comments.
– Emily’s dad and step-mom came to visit the week after. Oma and Opa got plenty of Sean time – Oma took him every day! No daycare that week! She must have been exhausted!
– Philip had his senior prom last weekend and I worked the after-prom pool party, hosted at Phil and Diana’s house.
– I sold my motorcycle! I’ve been putting it on the Craigslist off and on for a year or so and finally had a taker! I pretty much got what I was asking for it too. I think in the last two years, I only put around 800 miles on it so I really didn’t feel it was worth keeping around. I’ll eventually get another bike – when I have time to ride .. when Sean is older. So what’s next? Probably something with four wheels and two doors. Another DSM? maybe…its hard to find a good quality one. Maybe I’ll go some other route with a miata, 240sx, or…?
This Link on computerworld.com is a nicely written article about the author’s adventure of switching from a PC to a Apple Macbook Air for two weeks. I’ve got a “Mac” at home and have often contemplated trying to switch to it as my primary machine in my home-office. However, I don’t use my home office pc as much as my HP laptop with Ubuntu installed on it. Albeit, after I installed ubuntu on the laptop, I found a well written article that showed how to convert it to feel like a Mac. I think I’m starting to lean in that direction – if the hardware wasn’t so dang expensive!
