First Impressions

While at Toys 'R' Us today looking at bumbo chairs we saw some impression kits and I just had to get them. I feel horrible because my C-section recovery was miserable and I was really disabled for the first 3 weeks. I tried walking around to heal faster but I was still limited in what I could do and between nursing non-stop, taking care of baby and going back to work I didn't have very much time to do anything like ink prints, impression molds or even much of his scrapbook. Recently he has started to have an amazing sleep schedule with actual naps during the day making these things possible so I'm determined to get them done/started soon. As a Mom you learn that some things are better late than never, so we bought two of the impression kits today and set up shop in the kitchen.

"Whatchya doing dad?"

"Wow"

Round 1 of 2

The finished product.

It took both of us to do the hand impression so unfortunately there are no pictures. Even though it took a few tries for each impression I am very pleased with how they turned out. I can't wait until they are dry and I can hang them up. Next mission: scrapbooks!!

Sitting Pretty

Kevin has loved sitting up in our laps lately, and also standing up on our laps. We bought him a bumbo this weekend and he absolutely loves it!! He is so adorable and I can't believe in just 3 days he will be 4 months old. My baby is getting so big!!

(I love his smile in this one but it turned out a little blurry giving him a black eye look)

Thursday 5

I think this is the greatest idea!! All you have to do is think of 5 things that have made you feel the following emotions this week!

Main Entry: joy·ous
Pronunciation: \ˈjȯi-əs\

Function: adjective

: experiencing, causing, or showing joy

Main Entry: ju·bi·lant

Pronunciation: \ˈjü-bə-lənt\

Function: adjective

: filled with or expressing great joy or triumph

Main Entry: ex·u·ber·ant
Pronunciation: \-b(ə-)rənt\

Function: adjective

2 a : joyously unrestrained and enthusiastic

Main Entry: thank·ful
Pronunciation: \ˈthaŋk-fəl\
Function: adjective

1 : conscious of benefit received

Main Entry: mer·ry
Pronunciation: \ˈmer-ē, ˈme-rē\
Function: adjective

2 : full of gaiety or high spirits


Here are mine:

1)Celebrating 3 amazing years that I have been married to my wonderful husband.

2)Having my beautiful baby boy sleeping through the night, and waking up at the same time I need to. He sleeps from about 7:30 pm to 6:00 am.

3)Having an amazing job that I love and being able to work 40+ hours without missing any of my son's precious moments because I'm blessed to be able to take him to work with me.

4)I'm thankful my Mom-A is staying stable and that her MRI came back with some pretty good news, she has some bruising but the Dr's are very optimistic that she will make a full recovery.

5)I'm happy to have the amazing family that I do!!!

There it is my Thursday 5!! What are yours?? Check out Mrs. Gambizzles blog post here and see what so many other people are thankful for this week.

3 Years Ago

July 27th, 2007

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." -Winnie the Pooh

Happy Anniversary to my best friend, an amazing husband and the wonderful Father of my sweet precious baby boy! Three years ago we promised a togetherness that would last "forever". We said "I Do" to an agreement to stay together no matter what was thrown at us, and considering all we had already been through we both knew we could make it through anything. I am so happy being your bride and I look forward to so many more years to come. Thank you for making me the happiest wife in this world. You are amazing.

You swept me off my feet the first day I saw you.

You took my breath away with your first sweet kiss.

You have made me smile non-stop since we started dating.

I just can't get enough!! I love you so much!!

The rest of our trip to D.C

Ken's Boss' house...A.K.A The White House

D.C was so much fun I can't wait to go back there and see everything else it has to offer. After the Smithsonian we walked to The White House. Word of advice if you are planning on going to D.C parking is horrible so be prepared to walk...a lot!! The day we spent actually in the city walking around to the monuments and other historical landmarks we walked over 3 miles. Whew... it was exhausting not to mention super hot. Another piece of advice go in either the Spring of Fall when it is not as hot or humid. We had fun regardless and it was such an amazing adventure.

I love it when super nice people see us trying to take a picture and offer to do it for us. I also love returning the favor. I hope theirs turned out as great as ours did.

Washington monument

The National Zoo:

The National Zoo is amazing! They have such great exhibits. Our favorite? The Giant Pandas.

Yep that's a real panda behind us eating bamboo.

Sooo cute!!!

Side Trip to Alexandria, Remember the Who?:
On our way home I wanted to show Ken the house my dad lived in when he was little in Alexandria. I also wanted to show him something I discovered last year while I was there with my Dad. I am a HUGE movie buff and Remember the Titans is one of my favorite movies. Football, a sensitive topic that makes me cry and a young Ryan Gosling. Oh yeah all the makings of a great movie. Well look what we found...

The actual T.C Williams football field.

Oh yeah still home of the Titans!!
I'm such a nerd but I love it.

Our trip was amazing and I'm looking forward to our next family trip. The next destination? Philadelphia in the Fall... hopefully.

Our trip to D.C Part 1: The Smithsonian

For our Anniversary this year we wanted to go some where fun, busy and inexpensive. Washington D.C is only about 3 1/2 hours away and with my younger sister's employee discount we were able to book a 3 night stay at a Marriott for just over $100!! Everything in D.C (mostly everything) is free. We stopped there last year on our way home from a camping trip to Gettysburg, and we were able to see the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and Arlington National Cemetery. We wanted to see so much more but were limited on time. This time we saw some of the other things we didn't get to last year!!

We went to The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and spent 4 hours there. I don't even think we saw everything there was to see though.

Exhibits:

(dumb, dumb, want gum gum)

Animals:

They had both stuffed animals and skeletal animals. It was amazing the variety that they had. Ken and I both thought the skeleton exhibit was so cool. They had so many skeletons of so many different animals from frogs to whales.

Some of the skeletons, including an ant eater, and armadillo.

Part of the stuffed animal exhibit, they had so many different animals this one was really neat though. It looked like he was pouncing from a nook in the ceiling.

Insect Zoo:

They had a real Madagascar hissing cockroach out for people to hold. I figured I am the mommy of a little boy so I will eventually have to hold bugs even if I don't want to. So I said YES!! I want Kevin to think he has a cool mommy!! (Even if it creeped me out)

Ken did NOT want to hold it, but I think I made him feel like he had to since I was brave and did it lol!!

Our own little bug watching mommy and daddy being brave.

Gems and Precious Stones:

I love this necklace... So Pretty!!

I HOPE I get this necklace for Christmas lol I'm a dork!! This of course is the gorgeous Hope diamond and it was very big and very beautiful.

Butterfly Garden:

This was by far one of our favorite exhibits. It was amazing!! The butterflies just flew around you and they were so beautiful.

Kevin and I in the butterfly garden. See the little butterfly on the leaf? On a side note, he loves the snuggly!!!

Ken took amazing pictures of the butterflies!!

I have never had a butterfly land on me before it was so cool!! (see my shoulder)

Ken thought it was really cool too.

The Smithsonian was so amazing. There is so much interesting stuff there, I can't wait to go back when Kevin is a little older. I also want to go back and go through more of the museums. I swear you could live in D.C for a year and not see everything there is to see. The best part of the museums... they are free!!

Ready to go??

O.k little man we are ready for our trip. We have all of our bags packed (see here) and we are ready to go... are you?




Yep... I think he is ready!! Well now we just need to make sure Daddy and the car are ready. Well... not so much.



Yep about 5 minutes after we hit the highway we were flagged down by a nice fellow highway driver (thank you stranger whoever you are) to alert us we had a flat. It must have just barely happened because neither one of us felt it and the tires were all completely fine before we left the house. After a quick tire swap though we were back out on the road and headed for our trip to D.C.