Another Exciting Saturday Night!

Brody with Cousin Mandi
Brody & Great-Grandma
Brody's First Tractor Ride
Brody's first 4 Wheeler Ride
Brody's first visit to the ocean! BRRRRRRRR...... (Early May isn't the warmest time to visit Cape Cod)

And more pics from the trip....

More Beach Pics

Right before he became a rolling maniac

Safe and Sound!

We are back safe and sound. Brody is adjusting to being home fabulously... though I could stand for a few less middle of the night re-plugging's. Luckily I have a marvelous husband who took over last night, as I felt like I had gotten run over by a tractor trailer. But he seems to be back in the right time zone, so that's a start.

A couple of quick cool things- Brody can scoot backwards... a pseudo backwards crawl, though he doesn't really lift his belly off the ground much. He is also starting to realize that he can make it all the way across a room with the rolling. Apparently it is time for baby proofing and baby gates! I think that will be on the agenda for tomorrow... along with picking up the Pack N Play that we left at the airport. OOPS!

This weekend will be busy, so pictures from the trip will have to wait until Monday probably... sorry!

Long Distance Blogging

This post is brought to you from Bellingham, Massachusetts's. The past 7 days have been BUSY! Brody, Pap Pap, and I put in over 1000 miles in the car in 3 days after flying across the country. But now we have been here since Friday afternoon, and are staying put until Wednesday. Probably a little too long for my financial well being, since I am having an affair with New England gift shops. I always get so many cute things when I am out here, and am now finally getting in the mood to start decorating our place.

Brody has been The. Best. Baby. EVER. throughout the week. He is an old pro at flying, and barely batted an eyelash at 7 hours a day in the car. And now that we are settled, he's just been having a ball. He is madly in love with Sophie- she has gorgeous blong hair, and loves to kiss him all over. (I'll post pictures later, I'm not sure if Matt brought the cord to upload pictures.)

Brody has also learned that rolling isn't really the horrible thing that he thought it was. In fact, he likes it so much that he is boycotting sitting. He stiffens up and doesn't let you sit him down, preferring to stand or lay down. If you manage him to wrangle him into a sitting position, he doesn't like to stay that way, and has hit his head a few times while we have been here.

But he has also gotten better about eating. He has eaten Shoefly Cake, Pancakes, and Bananas- and even manages to get them chewed and swallowed.

Ok- pictures later... I'm going to search through Pam's recipes for something yummy to make when we get home.

Just Another Manic Monday

Hopefully you can tell by the pictures that a good time was had by all this weekend. It was wonderful to get to spend so much time with Matt's aunt and uncle... and as always, it was so much fun to see Keri, Brian, and the kids. There was precious little sleep to go around, but after some naps yesterday and an early night, and I think we are almost recovered. Just in time to leave again!

Brody handled the trip very well, and it is giving me hope that the plane and car rides will be more tolerable than I thought. He has been in such a good mood lately, and I'm sure the constant adoration and showerings of love have everything to do with it. =) He just LOVES his Auntie B & Uncle Al, and can't wait to see them again soon.

Well, I suppose I should stop procrastinating... I don't think dirty laundry will magically get clean, or bags get packed even if I do twitch my nose a little or wave my wand. (Which really is a shame, because a hot cup of coffee and a day of resting sound SOOOO good right now!)

I promise that when we get back next week, I will have lots of fun things to share (and a million pictures) to make up for the void over the next 9 days... so miss me... k?

Out of my every loving mind *UPDATED*

So yes... starting on April 27th- here's how the next 3 weeks will play out....

April 27-29th: Estes Park (includes 2 1/2 hour drives each way)
May 1st: Me, Brody, and Pap Pap fly to Boston
May 2nd: Me, Brody, and Pap Pap drive to Pennsylvania
May 5th: Me, Brody, and Pap Pap (hopefully with Great Grandma & Pappy in tow...) drive back to Boston.... and Daddy, MeMa, Uncle Chad, and Cousin Addy fly to Boston
May 9th: We all fly home....
May 10th & 11th: Frantically try to do laundry & re pack our bags....
May 12th: Daddy, Me, and Brody fly to LA & drive to Santa Barbara (did I mention this is my 30th Birthday???)
May 13th: Spend my first Mother's Day in Santa Barbara... revisiting to places Matt & I went while we were first dating....
May 14th-18th: Spend lots of time with Brodykins on the beach... in the pool... shopping... generally just slaving away while Daddy works Oh... do I have that backwards???? =)
May 19th: Fly home
May 20th: FINALLY have some quality time at home!

I think I'm in denial. Brody is the only one with clean clothes in this house... Without being sarcastic, I probably have at least 10 loads of laundry to do- not to mention what we wear daily. I have relatives in town that I haven't seen in way too long and need to see today- I have to go visit work tomorrow... Saturday, well, I think we are home... Sunday we have a Birthday Party to go to. Then I have 4 days to get ready for all of this madness. But yet... denial- because really, all I want to do is go lay back down with Brody and take a nap.

*UPDATES: I got in trouble this weekend for not having updated this to mention that we are not going to Santa Barbara in May- but are likely going in June... it is still up in the air if Brody and I will be joining Matt, but hopefully we'll be able to make it work.