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Summer Vacation

Today is the last work day of summer vacation for Danny :-(.  He starts daycare on Monday.  I don't officially go back to work until August 10 or so, but I wanted to ease him (and me) into daycare with half days.  Plus I have a TON of work to do in my classroom before the 10th.

I'm sad!  Not sure how I'm going to leave this face in the morning.

But it's just an adjustment and then we'll find our new normal.  And if nothing else, I'll get to come home to a happy baby just like Tom does each day :-)

Walk in the Woods

Okay, this could be the kind of thing that I find hilarious, but it's really not that funny.  So knowing that...

While Daniel and I were sitting outside waiting for Tom to come home from work, he gchatted me to ask if we wanted to go for a hike/walk.  I decided to take a picture of the boy and me as a response.

And it cracked me up.

Daniel is displeased...

I think it's a combination of my excitement and his look of disgust that just cracks me up.  Anyway, we went for a beautiful walk and the little one had a great time.

Gloating

This little boy spent about 20 minutes in his crib quietly looking out the window.  No fussing or scooting (his new thing), just hanging out.  Then he started to complain a bit.  So I whipped out the ol' bag of tricks to get him to nap, and he just wasn't having it.

I took him into our bedroom to lie down with me and nurse a bit.  Clearly he was pretty proud of himself and thinking he won this battle :-)  He decided to gloat a little bit..

But, judging by this next picture, it's safe to say Mama was right...he was indeed ready for a nap.

Furniture Shopping

"Somebody help!  My mama is making me go furniture shopping for her classroom.  I'm stuck at Office Max."

Poor little guy.  Don't we all remember being dragged around on boring errands with our moms?  Though I do remember one furniture store my mom took us to had warm cookies!  A definite plus!

Overalls

Aunt Maggie gave us a lot of pretty cute hand me downs.  Today we tried on these overalls just for fun.

They were a hit!

Though admittedly, we rarely dress Daniel in such clothes.  It's a lot of work to get those on and off and it's too warm these days.  We had a storm this weekend though, so he actually wore pants for the first time in awhile. 

Friday Afternoon

Just some Friday afternoon fun.

Followed by some wrestling/tummy time on Alphabear.

Trying to eat the bear.  Grrrrr.

I think he looks a bit more like a Keck in this picture than he has previously.  I think he looks like Uncle Andy and/or cousins on the Yerkes side of the family.