Moving on up

My parents are moving! They are leaving Alabama and coming to live in our neck of the woods - just a few minutes away. We all loaded up and went house hunting this weekend and they found a great house in a great neighborhood (great!).

Anyway, it will be so nice to have them close by as we'll have permanent babysitters. We can drop Holton off at their house to go see a movie, or go eat sushi, or heck, just to sleep in one weekend!

We are thrilled to have them back in this area. Here is a picture of their house!

Baby Back Rib

Oh, if it was only that easy. A simple little post about the delicacy known as Chili’s Baby Back Ribs. We're not talking about that kind of rib, we're talking about Adam's rib.

We don't know how he did it, but sometime over the past couple of weeks Adam's rib popped out of place wreaking all kinds of havoc. Adam has been in sooooo much pain with major tissue damage. He now has to get traetment at the chiropractor for the next 4 weeks.

He was really feeling bad yesterday, so I took him to the chiropractor to hear what they had to say. I guess it's the type of injury that takes time. But dang, everything you do causes pain in that region....breathing, sitting, standing etc.

To show my support for Adam, I took a picture of him while getting treatment yesterday.

I really hope he gets to feeling better soon! I'm open to any suggestions if anyone has ever experienced something similar. Poor Adam!

A new do

We finally did it. We finally took Holton to an official salon to get his haircut by a professional. Adam usually handles this job but has been out of commission due to an rib injury. That's a whole other story.....poor guy.

So, we thought we'd give Adam some peace and quiet yesterday by going to get a fancy hair cut.

Here is Holton before the cut, playing with the salon's train set.

Then it was time for the haircut. Holton didn't mind at first because he could sit in a cool car, watch his favorite DVD, but he hated the blue cape. He really cried when they put that on him. Nothing a good pacifier couldn't fix.

And here he is after the cut. See, he went short for the summer. You have to do this when we constantly hover at 100 degrees! Notice the train in his hand.
So, our first trip to the salon was a piece of cake. Except when we left the train set. He was extremely unhappy about leaving this new find! He did the whole kicking and screaming thing. He even tried to run back in the salon to get to the train set. I felt bad for the little guy, so we went to the toy store and got him his very own junior train set. Hey - you do what you have to do ;)

Finding Nemo

Adam was on the road last week and my parents were in town. So, I took a day off to spend time with Holton and the folks. We visited our local aquarium/rain forest. There were no lines and it didn't smell too bad in there, so I was very pleased.

It was a lot of fun showing Holton all the fish, turtles, monkeys and flamingos. He seemed to really enjoy taking in all of the sights but he did get scared a few times.

Notice the pacifier and the ball he's holding on to? That's like his new security blanket!

He loved the turtles and sting rays. He wouldn't move from this spot for about 5 minutes.

Holton and my dad in a tunnel of sharks. Holton was so impressed that he said "ohhhhhh" really loud. Too cute.

He was also really fascinated by the flamingos. Maybe I should get some of the plastic variety for our front yard....classy!

This and that

I am so behind on downloading pictures from our digital camera. So, I thought I'd post a couple pictures today from my camera phone. I will update soon with more details, but I thought this was at least decent for a Monday. Have a great week!

My two guys - Mother's Day Weekend

Holton thinks the goal is to dump all the water on the patio

Holton made a friend at Bass Pro Shops

Memorial Day Weekend - we went to this great lodge and wildlife park.

An apple a day

Waiting for the pediatrician is always fun. Yes, I am the type of mother who will give my child a closed Tylenol bottle to chew on if it makes him happy. Here is Holton doing just that while waiting to see his doctor.


We went in for Holton’s 18 mth check up. Here are his stats:

• Weight – 24 pounds
• Height – 32 ½ inches
• He is still rocking the 50% for height and 25% for weight.

Holton is at such a fun age right now. I wish I could freeze time. He is talking more and more. He says "o" when he wants to see his "show" which includes the Backyardigans or Wonder Pets. His vocabulary also includes - biscuit, bubbles, Gus, a mumbled version of Somba (our outside dog), go away birds (something I often yell at the terrible birds on our patio that leave lovely presents behind and eat the dog food) uh-oh, hi, and he just loves to say da da over and over.

At this stage Holton laughs a lot, loves to blow kisses to everyone, gives the best hugs, dances to almost any music, claps his hands when people do the same on t.v. (he loved the American Idol finale), and he is just growing up so fast and it's so much fun to watch each new thing he does. He is the best thing in our lives and we adore him. Even when we take him out to eat and he's done after 5 minutes, we still love being with our little Holton.

Our Canada Trip

Sorry it's been a while since our last post. Adam and I just returned from such a great vacation.....without our precious little Holton. We spent the week in Canada with our friends Annie and Adam. We have to call the other Adam "Greg" because it's just way too confusing.

We started our trip in Calgary and then went over to the beautiful resort town of Banff. This place was so amazing and pictures truly don't do it justice. Now, if you know me at all, you know I am not an outdoors girl at all. I am what you call a city girl. But, I would go back to Banff in heartbeat. I highly recommend it. Just bring a lot of money for food...they are very proud of their culinary skills.

Although we dearly missed our baby boy, we had such a nice time being kid free. It was great to have long dinners not having to worry about high chairs and the ever lurking threat of Holton throwing food - ha. A big thanks to Holton's Na Na and Pa Pa for watching him while we were away.

Getting to know the locals

Really? Is this necessary? Must be a hot issue in Calgary.

Poutine - have you had this exquisite treat? I loved it!

Annie and Greg

Our first day in Banff.

Adam and Greg in front of our hotel. Kind of romantic, huh?



Adam wants to sell screen savers to Microsoft



We're about to go into the hot springs

The manly mountain men

The good old gondola ride. I wasn't even scared.

Banff's first patio day of 2008


Another pic of downtown

The fantastic Fairmont hotel in Banff. If you have a cool $650/night, you are set.

Hanging out at the Fairmont....pretending we have a lot of money :)

The views were just amazing!





My Vana White pose