Take Me Home

Eric and I are leaving tomorrow for West Virginia, to go home for Thanksgiving. In honor of this, please enjoy the following! (Don't forget to press the pause button at the bottom of the page first!)

Great Performances

Eric is such a performer. Recently he has taken to standing on Porter (his podium?) and announcing "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Playroom proudly presents xx Song"..fill in the blank. He is making up his own songs and dances to go with them. This one is about orange flags that he was singing to Nana. To hear better, scroll down to the bottom and push the pause button on the music that is playing. Enjoy!

The Toddler Bed Trials

Yesterday,Tim had the day off and we decided to convert Eric's crib to a toddler bed. We plan on converting it to a full bed, but are going in stages. First let me say that I am extremely annoyed at these companies who had the genius idea to made cribs that convert but didn't think to provide rails on the toddler beds! We have tried every rail and none of them fit. And I'm not going to put him on the floor after spending hundreds of dollars for a crib that converts to a toddler bed! OK, sorry, enough ranting. :)

Anyway, yesterday Eric did great during his nap. He stayed in his bed and he called for us when he woke up. He was a dream. And last night he went to bed fine...but at 6:30 I found him sleeping in the floor! I have no idea whether he got out or fell out. So we'll see how it goes from here. All I know is that anyone looking to buy a crib and convert it should also make sure it comes with a rail!!

The new bed! All decked out in Thomas!

Eric was very excited to test it out

Before bed as snug as a bug. And yeah...we know there are a LOT of things in the bed and it doesn't look that safe...but have no fear, he throws it all out as soon as the light goes off! :)


Here's to some sound sleeping tonight! (In Bed!) :)

Football Friday Nights

Living beside a high school has its advantages! Over the last few weeks we've had lots of competitions and sports events going on at the school. Notably, we took Eric to his first football game! Actually, the first one we took him too it downpoured, so we stood outside the gates for about 15 minutes and that's all we could take! :) But then we got to this one and Eric had a wonderful time! He loved watching football, really loved watching the cheerleaders and really really loved watching the band!
On a side note, Dublin Coffman is an amazing high school and I hope E is lucky enough to attend. Just look at the number of football players and band members!! In my graduating class of 287, this was enough to make my jaw literally drop...

Compare the football sidelines...

Intent on the game
Yes, this is a high school band!

We also took E to a band competition and he loved it!

Our Little Monkey

I'm super late in posting these, but here are some of our best Halloween photos. We had a BLAST! We made cookies, carved pumpkins, had lots of parties, and of course trick-or-treated! Eric loved walking around and saying "Trick or Treat" and lasted a good hour. After he was done, he tried his first candy and of course loved it! As a special surprise, his good friend, Will, was dressed in exactly the same costume - Too Funny! Enjoy!

Making Halloween cookies - notice all of the orange sprinkles...we got a little carried away...
Eric's special pumpkin! E loved painting his pumpkin
When we were done we put them on the porch and E was just taller than the scarecrow

Later in the week E had his Halloween party at school

Halloween Night - "George the Monkey" holding a Curious George book
Our Little Monkey
Will and Eric
Eric loved holding his glow stick when it got dark Mmmmm....chocolate...