Out on the Field

Remember the cotton field pictures from last Christmas?  If you don't, then hit that link and you will see them.  Well, this year the cotton field was a corn field.  It's neat to see a years growth (both in the boy and the field)!  Here are a few selects josh took while at Grandma's.  If I can, I will post some more later.

These Next two are from this past week, He was happy and then sad cause he wanted Josh's camera so badly.



Another NC Christmas



Our Tree



Yep. Christmas came and went as expected.  I didn't feel a lot of Christmas spirit this year AND I even listened to Christmas music during work BY CHOICE!  I dunno, it just comes and goes so quickly. Maybe when the boy is older it will be more Christmasy.  NC was great though.  As always I had a wonderful time with Josh's family.  There were a lot of cousins for Sonny to play with and he loved it.  We all loved it.

Josh's Mom planned a live nativity with all the cousins, it was hilarious:

Every little girl needs a round brush stuck in their hair at least once

What's Christmas without a fruit cake?

Grandma's famous bicuits

Summer Vacation

I'm a month late with these pictures.  You didn't even know we went on vacation, because I didn't want to tell you when we would be gone, that way you can't sneak into my house while we were in North Carolina.  So now that we have been back for a while, I will tell you all about it.

Josh's sister and her family (4 kids - 9, 5, 2, & 2) rented a beach house for a week and we were able to stay there for a few days.   Josh's mom and youngest brother also stayed the night and his other brother's family (one 2 year old)  joined us during the days (they only live 15 min from the rented house).

We had a lot of fun.  The babe loved playing in the ocean, there were tide pools that were perfect for holding the right amount of water for a baby.  Although he loved the water, I think he loved playing with his cousins more.  There were such good influences on him that he started to walk!  For real.  He would watch these three two year old kids run circles around him and he wanted in on the action.   We were eating at a Mexican restaurant one night and he just got up and started walking around. From then on it has been non stop walking and climbing.

We went on Josh's brothers boat, Sonny was NOT thrilled. I think it was because his teething was really bad that day, not because he doesn't like being on open water with the wind blowing through his hair (the little he has).  Although, I am positive the anger could have stemmed from wearing a life vest. The boy HATES to be strapped into anything.

Oh we also went swimming, and Sonny liked that too.

biting a balloon.

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I have a post 90% complete. I have been working on it for over a week but haven't had the time to finish and post it. It is a follow up to my I'm not Expert BUT post I wrote in February, so it is very comprehensive and takes a long time.  I try to be very thorough and thoughtful when I post this type of list.  A lot of research and trial and error goes into the products and theories I buy into.  I want to make sure I am giving you the best information I have.  I hope to finish it this week.

In the meantime, my sister posted a catch-up the other day and I liked it.  In the little sister's pattern of being a copycat, here is mine:

Currently-

watching: nothing - last thing I watched was Toy Story 3 last night
listening: Traffic on Broadway
reading: Middlesex (don't love it)
enjoying: Cooler summer days, days and nights with josh and the babe, friends and a quiet still apartment
feeling: Tired-  My eyeballs feel like they are burning holes through my eyelids. Content- Had a nice three day weekend and glad I like the job I get to go back to in the morning
not enjoying: Mosquitoes, end of Summer Friday's
missing: Sleeping in and working out

I was looking through photos on my phone just now and saw this picture:

I was reminded of the delicious lunch I had last week.  Why I never went to the Oyster Bar before, I have no clue (maybe I didn't even realize it was there?  Never had a reason?  Thought it was going to be too expensive - it really wasn't...).   It might be one of my new special occasion favorite restaurants.  I work just across from Grand Central Terminal and my boss had been telling me about the Manhattan Clam Chowder for two months, so one rainy day I decided to treat myself to a nice lunch. I sat at the counter and ordered the Manhattan Clam Chowder and Creamed Spinach.  Both were very good and I thought I was satisfied - but then the guy sitting at the counter next to me ordered dessert and it looked so good.  It was contagious- I ended up ordering the Thai Basil Cinnamon Ice-Cream (pictured above).  For the 5 minutes I sat and nibbled on it-  the rest of the world stood still.  It was that good.

Now that Sonny can walk, he is finding himself all sorts of adventures:

He has become very good at taking things out of the recycling bag

And very good at going in places he shouldn't be

Going Back in Time

	Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Time Is Here [Instrumental]
	Found at Christmas Time Is Here [Instrumental] on KOhit.net

Let us pretend it is January 2nd. All the holiday festivities are over. But we still have the Christmas spirit. We can still taste the candy canes and hot chocolate. Still smell the Fresh Pine candle (fake trees everywhere i look) and still finding bits of wrapping paper on the ground. Here are some of the pictures from Christmas in NC. Lots of little ones and lots of fun.
p.s. You better listen to the music as you look, b/c it too FOREVER for me to figure out how to get it there.







These are from our NY celebrations: