Skye and I

Skye and I are having soooo much fun together. She really seems to understand my way of thinking. She's got a lot of cool toys, which I have thoroughly enjoyed playing with. Maybe later we can get the adults to take us for a walk before it gets all hot and sticky again. We'll see.

Life's a Beach

Today Mommy, Daddy, Aunt Mags, and Skye took me for my first trip to the ocean. Here's a photo of me chillin', checking out the beach babies, and living the good life. Keep checking out this blog for more photos of me on my first vacation.

What to expect...

Parenting is such a wonderful experience and we have greatly enjoyed learning about Ben and seeing him become a little person with a real personality, not just a cute newborn who only sleeps, eats, and poops. Things have changed gradually, which has seemed a true blessing for us, so that we can grow right alongside our son. However, in the last week it seems as though a switch has been flipped in Ben. Almost overnite he has gone from this little boy who we knew, to a little boy we have to learn about all over again.

We have been greatly blessed by the fact that he's slept thru the night since about 4 weeks old. He now wakes once, if not twice. He's been eating about 5 oz a feeding, which is on a 3 hour cycle. He now wants 7 or 8 every two hours. His diapers have changed as well, from manageable to "let's flip a coin to see who gets the next one." (I never knew such a little human could make such a huge stink and mess.) It's times like this where one wonders if this is another growth spurt or the next plateau being reached. I guess we'll find out soon since growth spurts generally last about 48-72 hours. At least there's never a dull moment!!! It's quite exciting not knowing what to expect around the next corner.

South Carolina Here We Come

We are getting ready to leave our cold, rainy home and head down to sunny South Carolina for a vacation with our friends Phil and Mags. Hopefully we'll get a chance to catch up with other friends that we haven't seen since we lived down in Charleston. This will be Ben's first real road trip and first week long vacation. So here goes a new learning curve. Dave and I are looking forward to spending time out as a family and getting to meet Skye for the first time, while hopefully getting some sunny days and maybe even a trip or two to the beach. This time we will NOT swim out to any sand barges.

Ladies and Gentlemen...start your BBQs

Hurray! Dave is done with seminary...for this semester anyways. He finished yesterday with his one and only final in the afternoon. One semester down.

For now we will be enjoying some space from school until Summer Greek starts in June. Today we ventured out for a walk to tour a bit of the historical sites around and then we hiked over to see Hannah, Ellie, and Heather. After which we went home to have our first BBQ of the season with Travis. It's great to have community so close.

Last week Dave and I traveled to Penn Hills for a Lifeshapes weekend. It went very well. While down there, Ben and I were heading out to lunch when we got stuck in traffic. Evidently the local GetGo station was the venue for a radio station's free gas give away. Well, Ben and I had to find another route to Jerry's because the traffic wasn't moving anywhere and the giveaway was from 12-2pm and we still had 1 hour before it was over. So, I've learned a bit more on how to get around Penn Hills.

Ben got to spend a lot of time with his family over the weekend. He saw all his grandparents, and Uncle Barrett and Aunt Carrie had him for a whole day. Then we headed to Uncle Mike and Aunt Heather's to celebrate her birthday. He seemed to love every minute of his weekend and was also quite tuckered out by Sunday nite. So, Monday and Tuesday we made sure were some light days.