Up North

We had a great time at the cabin with my parents. All we could have asked for was a little nicer weather (rainy and 60 degrees for a high until our last two days).

William had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa playing in the cabin with old and new toys, at the park in town, in the pool in town, washing cars (yes, Adam needed to wash the car even though the cabin is on a gravel road), blowing bubbles, riding on the boat, scooping up sand in the lake and the list goes on.




William posing by his favorite thing right now, garbage cans. I have mentioned it before but he loves to pick up stuff and then put it in the garbage. But now he has figured out it is more fun to pretend to throw the stuff away so you get picked up again to try to throw it away, again and again...




William did great getting a life jacket on, the buckles kept him entertained until the boat ride kicked in then the wind and motor noise lulled him to sleep in my arms for the whole ride around Long and May lakes.

Helping build the fires, we only took him out the last night in his pajamas. I was too afraid of him getting too close to the fire.

William tried and liked Root Beer!

Having fun with Grandma pulling little dogs on leashes (the one behind him was my little snoopy from when I was growing up). It was fun to see all the old toys my parents saved and William was at a great age to play with them all.

Helping Daddy wash the very dirty car only to see it dirty again the next day :)

Thanks Mom and Dad for a wonderful time, we look forward to doing it again in August with you guys!

19 Months

Sorry no pictures to share, I haven't gotten the camera out for a little while (putting in some weird and long hours at work on a big project for my plant). So instead I thought I would share some of William's favorite things right now at 19 Months old ... drum roll....

Bubbles - He will assume that every time we are going outside that bubbles are on the agenda and ask for them repeatedly. We discovered a cap that we had semi-discarded that allows for wand insertion, but helps slow spills when the jug is tipped, that has cut down on our consumption quite a bit, thank goodness because our sidewalk was getting a regular bubble bath :)

Pick up - This involves picking up things and then putting them in the garbage or a bin. Favorite items to pick up, lint and dirt on the carpet, sticks in the yard, garbage at the park (and when that runs out he starts putting the park's wood chips in the garbage). The other day he was so intent on doing this in his room he got every spec I could see, no need to vacuum!

Car buttons - William loves to crawl around in the car when it is parked in the garage, he crawls from backseat to front seat and has fun with all the buttons. We usually get a bit of a surprise when we start the car as the windshield wipers are usually going as well as other stuff.

One more week of work and then a whole week of vacation starts. We are headed up to my parents cabin up North to spend a week with them. I look forward to all the fun and all that William will get into up there this year. We are going to try to take the trip up in one day, it's 8 hours in the car (not counting stops) so it will be a long day. We have movies, books, toys and stops planned to help break up the time. I hope it goes well or a long day is going to seem like forever!

Have a great week everyone.

Little Zoo and Water Table

We had Grandma S out for a visit to help watch Will while I had to work shifts this past weekend. We had fun playing in the water table and going to a little zoo near our city.

Memorial Day Weekend

We did a lot this weekend, shopping, park, walks, water table, reading, cleaning, cooking, playing in the new little tikes police car and the list goes on. Adam was home on Saturday and then worked the other two days. Keeping up with an active toddler for three days straight wears me out.

Fun at the Bog

We had a fun visit from Grandma and Grandpa S this weekend. They had fun with William all day on Friday and then we had fun as a family checking out the ducks, turtles and birds at the bog walk at a nature preserve.


Helping Grandma in the kitchen with dishes. Give him a spoon to stir the bubbles and he is all set.

The bog walk platform, a bit of a great day, but it didn't rain thankfully till we got home.

The guys!

Picking up pebbles and then letting them drop, slowed down our trip back to the car!

The trillium and violets were blooming in the woods. I have never met a flower I didn't want to take a picture of.

William still fits in the hiker, but doesn't want to stay in there for long.
Have a great rest of the weekend, I hear someone making peeps on the monitor, gotta go.

18 Month Stats

Quintessential William: outside, bubble wand in hand, trying to make the dog go where he wants.



Inside munching on snacks, or should I say stuffing as many as will fit in his cheeks!

William is 27 lb 13 oz (75%), and 34 3/4" tall (90% I think). He is doing great developmentally according to the doctor and has increased his vocabulary. Let me see if I can think of all the words he knows...

dog-dog, mama, dada, ball, car, all done (which sounds more like ah dah), bubbles (bub-bas), kitty, turtle (tu-ta), frog (fra), cheese, water (wa-wa), and more

Still at 12 teeth, 4 on top, 4 on bottom and 4 molars. He has an ear infection that he just can't seem to get rid of even with the strongest antibiotics, so we will be scheduling an appointment with an Ear Nose and Throat doctor to see about tubes.

He is a crack up and makes us both laugh during dinner. We are having so much fun with him learning and talking. Hard to remember him 1.5 years ago as a tiny 6lb miracle.

Please let this be the last cold of the spring!

Thursday at work it seemed everyone was sick around me, but I was healthy and so voiced that I was now going on 3 weeks with out a cold (which has been a record this winter). Thursday when I picked him up from daycare he felt warm. By 4 am it was 102 and by 7am this morning it was 103 with Advil. So I stayed home and kept him medicated to keep the fever down and gave lots of lovings. In fact my arm and back are sore from holding him almost all day. Most of the day he just wanted to cuddle or sleep on my chest, poor little guy. He is still on antibiotics for his ear infection he just can't seem to shake, so this is most likely viral, which means most likely in a week or so I will have a bad cold.

Pictures from last weekend at the park:


Pictures inside having fun.