The Grammas

The little guy LOVES to spend time with my grammas. They happen to live in the same condo complex so we typically visit both of them in one trip. He and I are so lucky to have them in our lives and he's old enough that when they are in heaven, he will remember who they are. I just wish he would have been able to meet my pepe but I know he's watching down on us and smiling all the time at how cute he is.

Here is a picture of Eric making cookies (aka eating batter) with my gramma:

 

 

 

Every time Eric goes to my Gramma McNeil's house he steals her crackers. So she went to the store and got him a whole supply. I mean really, who needs to eat a meal when he can have crackers and cookies at the grammas! It melts my heart to see my Gramma McNeil's face light up when he is there and how much he makes her smile and laugh. When I was pregnant with Eric she had broken her hip and had to have surgery. We weren't sure if she would make it through the surgery because her heart is not very strong. Turns out her spirit is because she pulled through and has been able to see Eric grow. He just loves both of my grammas but has a special fondness for Gramma McNeil. He helps her get her cane and helps her up and holds her hand when she walks around the house. It's the best.

Big Bed

I had a plan to get the little guy a full sized bed for his birthday. The toddler bed was just getting too small and he likes to roll around. I ended up getting it for him early because he totally gave up on his toddler bed and was sleeping on the floor for several weeks. I sold his bureau/changing table, re-arranged his room and set it up. I had dropped him off at big Eric's house so I could get it all set up. He had been asking for his big bed forever so the first thing he did when he saw it was starting jumping on it. This bed has been a life saver. He sleeps like a champ in it. 

 

 

Snow

We have had some serious snow over the last month or so. At the beginning of Febuary we had 20+ inches of snow. It was just ridiculous. So me and the little guy hunkered down for the storm. I thought for sure that we would lose power but miraculously we never did. Once the snow stopped we went out to play. He could play in the snow for hours. His socks would be completely soaked and he would not say one word about it. All he needs is a shovel and a snowbank and he's golden. Here are some pictures for the big snow storm and the one we had about a week ago that gave us about a foot of snow. That storm was weird because it was "warm" out meaning it was like 40 degrees so it was tolerable to play out in the snow. 

 

 

 

Marissa's wedding

In January, my friend Marissa got married. It was quite a process to get to PA. I took my car to town fair tire the day before I had to leave so I could get new tires and an all wheel alignment. When they went to do my rear alignment a bolt snapped off my car. I drove it over to Lundgren and they didn't have to bolt in stock so they had to order it. I went there the day I had to leave for the wedding to get the car fixed (on town fair tire's dime!). I had to be to Lancaster, PA by 6:30 for the wedding rehearsal.Around noontime it was clear that they weren't going to be able to get my car fixed in time. So Lundgren got me a rental car (again on town fair tire's dime), they packed up the rental for me and I was on my way. I'm not going to lie, it was nice to drive a car with only 20,000 miles on it as opposed to mine with has more than 10 times that amount of mileage. Especially when I was driving all that way by myself. So I drove straight through without stopping and got to PA at 7pm. Not too shabby!

The wedding was actually a lot of fun. The groomsmen were ridiculous and we had fun finding a way into Marissa and Matt's wedding room and decorating it. I wasn't sure if I was going to have a tough time at the wedding with my marriage no longer intact but I had a very fun time. Here's a few pictures from the day:

 

 

 

Christmas 2012

We did a lot of fun things over the Christmas season. One of our big projects was making Christmas cookies for all of Eric's friends at daycare. Last year this didn't go so well because he was licking all of the frosting off of them. This year went much better. We made cookies for what felt like hours. Then we made another batch when we had Eli over for a sleepover:

 

 

We went to the Oxford public library with my friend Melissa and her son and daughter and made ginger bread houses. That was a lot of fun.





On Christmas day he opened up all of his presents.

 

Big Eric got the little guy a power wheel for Christmas. He has wanted to get one for him since he's been able to walk. Unfortunately, he's not a big fan of driving it but he really likes to sit in it and turn on the radio and press all the buttons!

broken

I realized that I went by my pictures in regards to catching up my blog and forgot some life events. So at the end of September we were at my sister's house celebrating my nephew's birthday. At the end of the night I heard Eric crying in the boys' bedroom. He said he "fell" off the top bunk. What I really think happened (and we'll never really know because he was the only one in the room) is that instead of using the ladder to get down he slid off the side and then let go and fell the rest of the way. Needless to say after he got up from the fall he was limping. It was late at night so I brought him home and put him to bed and hoped that he would feel better in the morning. When he woke up the next day he was still limping pretty bad. We had some limping issues over the summer so I decided to not panic and go to the ER and instead just stay at home with him and make sure that he got plenty of rest and I gave him some ibuprofen hoping that he would stop limping with that in his system. He never really stopped limping but it seemed to get better. When he woke up the next day (a monday) he seemed to be doing better so I dropped him off at daycare and explained to our daycare provider what was going on with him. She texted me and said that he was crawling around and not really walking at daycare. I made him an appointment with the doctor but when I got him to the doctor's office he was running around like nothing was wrong. He got x-rays done and we had a great person take him x-rays and for the first time he didn't flip out while getting x-rays so that was a plus! Turns out he had a buckle fracture on his foot which means that the bone buckled into itself but it wasn't a complete break. The doctor said it would heal in a few days and that he should just keep his shoes on for extra support. This is why he was crawling at daycare because he didn't have his shoes on, and then running around at the doctor's office because he did have his shoes on. So needless to say about a week's worth of wearing shoes and he was good as new. I'm sure this is one of many visits to the doctors for injuries in his lifetime!

There you go!

There you go! All updated... well for the most part. There are pictures and events that have been missed because the pictures are saved all over creation and it's hard to gather them all but hopefully now that I have my new computer I will get better. One can only hope! It is so important to me to keep this blog going. It's my scrapbook for my son. I don't print out pictures, I don't scrapbook and so this is my way of maintaining my memories. I'm hoping that blogger doesn't go out of business so I can have this forever! Happy holidays!