28 Months.... and news!

Timmy turned 28 months yesterday and we spent the weekend sharing some news with our families and friends!!!

We brought Timmy around to each grandparents house with a sweatshirt on over this t-shirt and enjoyed seeing everyone's reactions when the sweatshirt came off! We are happy to announce that Timmy will be a Big Brother some time around May 11th! This will time out to about 5 weeks before Timmy turns three!

Tim wants to be surprised as to whether we are having a boy or a girl this time around... I am going to try to go along with this plan. I will be analyzing all sonograms though, that's for sure! He says I can buy the bedding I want a few weeks before for either a boy or girl and we'll just return the one we don't need and he also says he'll have the nursery painted before I get home from the hospital. I am putting this in writing here so I can hold him to it! ;)

Fall Fun

We woke up Saturday to beautiful weather and took advantage of it by going to Cox Farm which is a great pumpkin patch right around the corner from our house. Last year when we visited, Timmy was a little bit affraid of the goats, this year he was happy to walk right up to them and try to pet and feed them! He went down several of the slides too. I sent him down one on his own and he wiped out, spun around, and hit his head on the hay bales on the side... I had planned to walk down but immediately slid down behind him, just to find him laughing at the bottom of the slide instead of crying like I had expected! He seemed to enjoy the things he could climb on the most this year (imagine that!) which included a long wooden train and a huge mountain of hay bales. It made for a very nice afternoon for all of us!

27 Months... and then some

Okay, I'm slacking this month! This post will be a bit of catch up about what we've been up to all September! Timmy's independent play is becoming more advanced. He still loves his vehicles the most, but he has a set of dinosaurs and some musical instruments that he spends quality time with as well. He received both for his birthday. One evening when Timmy was playing alone before bed I suddenly heard "Roarrrr.... Roaaaar" and looked over to find this kodak moment!

This month we've gotten to spend a lot of time with Jenny and Brayden, thanks to his Dad's busy schedule! One weekend they came out to our house and played in Timmy's pirate ship and in the tubby. The next we all spent the weekend at Grammy's house while she was relaxing at the beach!

Timmy has recently discovered Hide-and-Seek... most of the time he is very, very easy to find because he hides in the same spot over and over again. Every once in a while though, at a grandparents house, he sneaks off and starts playing without warning... and it takes me quite a while to find him! I use "Let's hide" to trick him into cuddling on the couch with me, he'll stay still as long as the blanket is over our heads! If someone helps him hide he does a good job of staying still and quiet! In the below picture he asked for help hiding when he heard Grandpa (now pronounced Ga-pa) getting home from work, he's burried beneath the pillows on the couch!

We bought Timmy a tricycle last weekend... it's going to take some patience on all of our parts to really get him pedaling, but he looks really cute sitting on it!

Dad and I got up in my parents attic Monday evening and pulled out all of my and Joe's old toys for Timmy. So far all that we've unpacked is two boxes of Playfamily People. Timmy is in heaven! He has not played with anything else this week at Baba's! The little vehicles are, ofcouse, his favorites and the set has a gas station. They must ration gas in Playfamily Land because all Timmy's cars do is wait in line to get filled up!

Last night we got to play with Brayden and Dylan at Grammy's house. Timmy shared his toys really well with Dylan and they had fun chasing each other around and getting Grammy to give them too much sugar! I think Timmy was looking particularly cute in his overalls! He has learned to unlock and open Grammy's back sliding door, and to undo the deadbolt and open the door to the garage!!! It just became a lot more tiring for Mommy to hang out at Grammy's! (Especially since when he decides to play Hide-and-Seek I now have to check outside!!!)

A weekend of Timmy-style fun!

Last weekend we had a very Timmy oriented weekend (as I wish more of them were this busy summer!) On Saturday we went to Collin's Birthday Party (My childhood friend's, son!) who just turned three. They had a ginormous water slide in the backyard and even though Timmy didn't choose to go down the slide, he did have fun splashing around in the pool at the bottom and had fun playing with all the kids inside at the train table.

From there we picked up Baba and went to see Tim and Grandad who were selling shave ice at a children's carnival nearby. Timmy had a blast in the moonbounce there, no hesitation at all about getting in, and after just a little while he even figured out how to go through the obstacle course, up the ladder, and down the slide all by himself. When the bigger kids would get in and bounce around too much for his liking, he would just sit down and stay still until they had moved on, or if it was at the ladder for the slide, he would simply stand out of the way and let them pass him before starting his climb! There were some other fun things at the carnival as well, and of couse we had some yummy shave ice!

On Sunday we took Timmy to his First Circus! It was the Coles Brother's Circus, a Two-Ring in a Big Top. The first act was the Tigers and he watched very intently. He enjoyed the first clown act too, laughing appropriately even though they were on the far side of the tent. He watched the Flying Trapeze act and another animal act before he got tired of the whole thing. He was standing infront of me and said "Go..." and pointed down the stairs, across the aisle and out the door... he gave me his escape plan! Luckily, we were ready to go too because it was a million degrees, and it just happened to be time for intermission!

26 Months

Well, this post is late, but the picture is from around the 17th! Along with all the fun we had for Trey's and My birthday the weekend of the 17th, we also got to have Great Grandma visiting us for a week and half or so. Timmy loves having the extra attention all day at Baba's and they found a few new games to play with each other and a few new cars for him as well. It was great to have her around, as always!

My Birthday!

I officially have one year left in my 20's! To celebrate the start of this year, we had a great, long weekend! Saturday evening we went out with some friends to a local bar, it was nothing special to most of the group, but we don't spend much time in bars these days and it was great to see everyone!

Sunday we slept in, had a nice brunch with my parents, Joe, and Grandma and spent the evening actually relaxing at home! Tim and I both took Monday off to spend the day with Timmy on my actual birthday. We started the day by touring one of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Homes, the Pope Leighy House.

Next we went into D.C. to the National Building Museum to see the Lego Models that are currently on display of some of the World's Tallest Buildings. It was impressive, especially the new building that holds that title, the Burj Dubai Tower, shown below with me!

After that stop we took advantage of Restaurant Week, going to my current favorite restuarant, Chef Geoff's, and Tim and I each had a 3 course meal for $20.10! Timmy had pizza. On our way home we stopped to look at some Herman Miller desk chairs, hopefully I will be the comfortable owner of a Mirra chair in the near future as further celebration of my licensing!

Trey's 3rd Birthday Party

On Saturday we were invited to a 3 year old's birthday party, Trey is Timmy's cousin Brayden's, cousin! The party was held at an indoor moon bounce playground and it was so much fun! The moon bounces and slides were sturdy enough for the parents to enjoy as well! It was great to be able to catch up with the Hedge's families and I am so glad that we brought our real camera to capture some of the fun.After an hour of bouncing we had some time to visit. We got to see Brayden crawling for our first time! We also enjoyed an amazing cake that Trey (and Brayden's) babysitter made, a 3D Moon Bounce Castle! (Timmy didn't believe I was actually trying to take a picture of a little boy other then him, so he popped his face infront of the camera!)