Swing!

Here's the little guy looking like a big guy on the swings today:

I'm lucky enough to have all the men in my immediate family around this weekend, so here are three out of the four at the playground!

What fun!

Helping Helping!

We went for a nice walk last night, and the little booger scooped pretend poop for several blocks. He kept saying "Picking up poop! Beau's poop." and waving his little bag in the air.

The sad thing is that when he's old enough to actually scoop the poop, he won't want to do it.

Bedtime!

Eric usually puts the little booger to bed. When I do it, though, the little dude gets a quiet bath, some time to sit on the potty, a clean diaper and pjs in dim light, a couple of stories, and a loving kiss goodnight. When the little stinker and his daddy go upstairs, I hear shrieks of laughter, loud thuds, and roars. Here's what daddy does to wind down at the end of the day:

The little guy LOVES bedtime, and I guess now we all know why.

Just Like Elmo?

The little booger has been working on pedaling his tricycle these days. He loves the video of Elmo singing and riding his tricycle, so whenever he's on his own tricycle he says "Just like Elmo" over and over and over.

I guess Elmo's as good a role model as any.

Little Kiss?

I've been carpooling to work with some friends (hooray carpool!) and one of them taught the little dude this charming trick.

Maybe a Dr. Pepper commercial is in his future...

Like Grandma, Like Grandson

The little booger is clearly related to my mother for at least these two reasons: (1) They both like cheese crackers with peanut butter.

(2) They are both happy to curl up with a good book.

Goodbye Jeep

Eric sold his Jeep today. Now we're just waiting (patiently?) for the new one to come in.

Even though Eric is excited about the new one, he's pretty sad about letting the old one go. I thought I'd do a quick photo retrospective on the Wrangler and us. (He had her before I came along so I can't speak to the truly early days...)

Here's Eric in his Jeep right after we got engaged. Look at how happy and bearded he is!

And here he is getting in his Jeep after our wedding (thanks, family-in-law, for making it so filthy). I think this is my favorite wedding photo-- GQ meets redneck.

Here we are on our honeymoon. We had just driven up this incredibly terrible road only to see that there was a "Road Closed" sign for the other direction. Whoops!

Here's a fun photo of Eric using his Jeep to tear down a shed in our old backyard.

And here's just one more of Eric and the little stinker by the Jeep. This one was taken about twenty minutes before we sold it.

Goodbye Jeep, and thanks for all the memories! (*sob*)