Wednesday, February 9, 2011

2 Year Checkup

Vake's doing great! Drumroll for the stats please. 40 pounds. 37.5 inches. Above the charts for both.

He's also got strep. Of course. So no pics today but hopefully he'll feel better on his BIRTHDAY tomorrow!!!!

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Sweet AbbyPony

This should give everyone out there in the internets some idea of how sweet and longsuffering AbbyPony is.


Sunday, February 6, 2011

Vake's Birthday Party!

Guess who celebrated his second birthday with his buddies on Saturday!!!!
That's right- my precious little man is celebrating his second birthday all this week. We'll do some year in pictures stuff later on, but on Saturday, we woke up SUPER excited about his party at Maymont. Maymont is an old property that a wealthy industrialist left to the City of Richmond. A highlight is the Children's Farm.

"I'm two years old." (Which is very cute when said in the Vakevoice.)

So we booked the party with the idea that the children were going to be able to wander around and feed the animals and have a hayride.
UNFORTUNATELY, Saturday was just a gross day. Cold and miserable. Fortunately, Jennifer and I realized it was going to be a problem and bought craft supplies and the children did crafts- tragedy averted.
I will say that 2 hours with no planned activity other than crafts and cake is about 30 minutes too long!



Making a flower pot!




Sweet Huff.



We had lots of happy little munchkins!




Vake getting a hug from his neighbor and buddy Oren.



Eric made AWESOME cupcakes- the amazing thing was that they were vegan so Huff could have them!




My small man can flat out eat some icing. Just like his mother.






My first baby angel, Wills.





The two birthday boys!


They love to hug it out!



Saturday, February 5, 2011

New Bathrobe

These pictures aren't all that good- I don't think my crummy old point and shoot had enough light- but you get the general drift- my little angel baby got a new bathrobe from his West Coast grandparents.

It is REALLY soft and he is in love.






Passing

Eric's grandmother Millie died peacefully after a long illness yesterday. Millie and Vake were Eric's maternal grandparents and a huge influence on who Eric is today.

I never knew Millie and both Eric and I are sad about that but Eric's cousin Leslie wrote a really nice piece about her- the link is here. www.undersundog.com/2011/02/bye-millie.html

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Cousins!

Vake is thrilled to let his readers know that he will have a cousin in early August!

Anne and Dennis are looking forward to their new baby!