Jumping and Dancing

Vake has become a dancin' fool. If you ask him, he'll happily run and dance and then jump for you. It is so sweet and funny to watch.

And this child runs everywhere- by the end of the day he's just exhausted from moving around so much- here's a video of a dance party we (Taren, Huff, Vake and I) had tonight- it was awesome.

Weight Watchers Wednesday!

Down 3.6 pounds this week. I credit it to last week's goal which was to drink 120 ounces of water a day. Which is not easy. Actually you sort of feel as though you are about to float away.



Is it ridiculous that I was so proud of myself for "winning" my little 5 pounds lost star?

Happy Birthday, Anne!!!!!

Here we are a year ago celebrating Anne's birthday!!!! Go Anne- you are the best!!!!
Big shout out to an awesome sister- we love you Aunt Anne!!!!!

Vacation- the first few days!

Canmore/Banff was awesome- after a little hiccup (err...screaming...on the flight on the way there, we were rewarded with an awesome condo and a great trip. We watched a lot of movies (here's baby Vake dancing with Aretha in the Blues Brothers)
You really cannot make this up- too cute.

We did a lot of hanging around in pajamas- which believe me was totally welcome and totally fun after a summer of being super hot and uncomfortable in Richmond. You can see the view that we had from the deck in the image below.

After we got there and got squared away, on Sunday we went to a Highland Festival- the weather was great and Vakey had an awesome view from Daddy's shoulders.

It was really beautiful and a great way to spend a day- and notice that we were all wearing winter clothes!!!!

This was looking back at the mountain from the festival.

Vake had a great time running around- so glad to be free of strollers and airline seats!

Here's a picture of all the participants doing the last bagpipe song.

We really couldn't have asked for nicer weather that day.

Music Man

Despite the fact that I am not at all musical, I love to listen to music- and so does Vake. When we are playing downstairs, he will beg for the music to be turned on. So Taren found a music class for the boys to take- here's little Vake trying out the instruments.

Weight Watchers Wednesday (actually Thursday)

Ok. So only lost 1/2 pound this week- will chalk it up to being sick and hurt (thus not exercising) and going out for birthdays, etc. Setting up the goal for lost of 2 pounds.

But, as Anne Monroe reminded me, at least it wasn't 1/2 pound in the wrong direction. And although I want to pick up speed, at least I am doing it in the right direction.

For those of you who are following along, I'm going to pretrack this week- in an attempt to eat my WW points correctly I am really going to work at planning at the beginning of the day what I am going to eat and then trying to stick to the plan supercarefully.

We are making progress- I've got my water consumption way up and my Diet Coke consumption down to two a day. And no alcohol. I'll check back in with you next Wednesday!

New Chair and Uncle Neil's Birthday

I've been hard at work uploading pictures of our vacation- I've almost got them organized. But is this post about vacay? Absolutely not!!!!! (I promise I'll be organized one day...)

So this is the little rocking chair that Eric had when he was little- he brought it from Seattle and it has been sitting around waiting to be reglued. The happy day has arrived- and Vake's in heaven- a chair his size!!!!


Here's the detail across the top.

Could a child look any more like his father? Really?

And yesterday we celebrated the birthday of someone very special- Uncle Neil. We got all dressed up and went to see Uncle Neil's parents- look at my big boy- now in the largest size smocked rompers I can find.