Vacation countdown

As many of you know we are heading out for our family vacation in ONE WEEK!  Our plans include a drive to Chicago, a flight to Boston, then up to Maine for our good friends wedding.  Miles will accompany us to Chicago and stay with his grandparents while we fly East.  I am excited but nervous about leaving Miles, although I know he will be in good hands.  I know it will be harder for me (and maybe Jean:) than Miles!

In the meantime, we are enjoying summer!  Bryan is continuing to work hard on his Neurology rotation and my schedule changed so I am working in the middle of the week (to free up our weekends to travel when Bryan is away this fall).  And as I have said in the last few posts, Miles is EVERYWHERE!  And as I have heard, this is only the beginning of his bumps and bruises, but he face plants, spins, nose dives, and back busts so much!  I try my best to catch him but it happens so fast!  Luckily, Bryan assures me that kids are resilient and he always bounces right up.

Miles continues to enjoy bird watching, reading books, chasing the dogs, pulling up on everything, playing with his cars, and being in the pool!  I love this kid so much.  He is starting to say words intentionally: ball, bird, dog, teeth, whoa, drink, more, and dad.  "Mom" tends to come out during a good cry...but I am still 'patiently' waiting for him to say it in context!

We have enjoyed a few meals out this week with Miles.  As long as we have food, an interesting neighbor, and some toys we usually have a pleasant meal.  Bryan and I did sneak away one night this week for a date night.  We were both exhausted so we didn't make it out long, but it was worth it!

Also this past week, if anyone didn't watch, OKC Thunder won the NBA West Division Championship! We are waiting to see who we play in the finals, but we have enjoyed watching the games and seeing such a great group of guys play so hard!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!  Our next post will be in a few weeks with vacation pictures!  Can't wait to see many of you in our travels and hope to see our Arkansas gang soon as well.  Oh also, if you are reading this and are a mean person who wants to rob us while we are gone...I have someone really fierce staying here with the dogs...don't try it.  (For you mom and dad:)  Love you all! xoxo

Water baby

Miles and I went to visit my family in Arkansas this past Memorial Day weekend.  (Sadly, Bryan was working and on call)  We traveled to Clarksville Friday night then over to Heber Springs for the weekend.  Despite the cool and windy lake, we had a great time riding in the boat and playing in his inflatable pool!  We got into the lake briefly at the swimming area, but it was kind of cool so we didn't stay in long! So, needless to say our days of carefree laking are over, but replaced with lots of laughing and a different kind of fun!

We had so much fun...but missed Bryan so much!  We were glad to be home with him on Monday.  Miles and I had to sit through a little stand still traffic on the way home, but we made it to OKC around 4 pm and headed to the Opies for a Memorial Day BBQ.  The boys enjoyed the pool (until Wilder decided to go sans diaper...he had already been put in his pjs which obviously didn't last long!) but it was a great ending to a wonderful weekend!

Miles liked the pool so much I decided we needed one in our backyard!  Our friends Kandice and Colton came over on Tuesday and enjoyed a backyard dip!  This was the only pic I could get because I was busy keeping Miles' head above water!  He already has no fear!

Already bossy...where'd that come from!?

The rest of the week was crazy weather! Tuesday night we had hail storms and tornado warnings.  You can guess how that worked with a sleeping baby...it didn't!  Luckily we all were safe with minimal damage to the cars and we are getting our roof inspected.  Oh Oklahoma.

Speaking of tornadoes, my child is everywhere!  Pulling up on steady and unsteady things and learning the difference, slipping and sliding in his footed pjs, and hopefully learning that his push toy goes faster on the wood floors than on the rugs.  But he is having fun exploring the house and showing mommy where she needs to clean.  Haha.  Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Love you all! xoxo