valentine quick vid!

hello hello--a happy, and veeeery belated, valentine's day! henry hasn't been able to go to daycare the past couple of days because the gal who runs it is sick with the flu :( sooooo, henry and i are hanging out at home and watching sesame street this morning (a bittersweet blessing because I can't work on my thesis, but get to play with my boy), i remembered this little video we took of him on valentine's day, because he just learned to say "elmo"and thought it would be fun to post--plus it doesn't take my undivided attention to blog---might take me all morning to type this little post while i play with henry though :) hmmm what else has henry been up to? he is eating more "big boy" meals. last night he had chicken nuggets with rice and mixed vegetables and some pineapples (he has a big appetite), and this morning we had some blueberry waffles and oranges--all dairy free of course ;) he has been very busy placing toys in and out of his dump truck and driving them around, in fact this is quite the serious business. he hops on and off his rocking horse no problem, and practically runs around the house now. he sits facing forward in his new car seat which he really likes. we don't need to watch dvds to and from brookings anymore. he just sits with a book in his lap and reads and looks out the window now and then.....but he is afraid of the windshield wipers :( I suppose if you didn't know what those big scary wipers flying at you were and that there was a safe barrier between you and them, you'd cry too! oh henry just jumped up on my lap and wants to say hi, here i'll let him say hi:

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haha, sorry i had to cut him off before he did some serious damage!

:) enjoy the elmo video

crunch time

hello hello! sorry to say this but....the posts may be fairly few and far between for the next two months!  It is crunch time!  my priorities are as follows: my boys, graduating from college (i.e. finish my thesis!), teaching dance, and photography.........blogging, not matter how much i love it, did not make the list :)  I only have a two months left to finish my thesis, so when i am not spending time with my loves or at the dance studio i am busy as a bee working on it....so really no time for photography now either...  But I thought I would send out this quick jot to let everyone know that we are doing splendid! henry started at a new daycare and became fast friends with another little boy there.  he doesn't even cry when i drop him off...a good thing i guess :)  austin and i are busy planning and preparing for our big spring, and trying to finish up all the things that come before it!  Last weekend we went and visited henry's great grandparents in scotland.  he had a lot of fun and ended up redecorating both of their houses a little!--sorry charlie and myrna and paul and bernie!  haha, henry just tends to do that no matter where we go :)  here are a few photos from that weekend.

We made some valentines!!! Here is Henry getting to work and coloring with his new crayons!  In fact, you may have seen some of his handiwork in the shape of a heart :)  However, the love of coloring doesn't last all that long...so only a few valentines were lucky enough to display his miniature masterpieces.  I also, somehow miraculously, and with the help of my mom, was able to hold his hand on a piece of paper long enough to trace it!  Then we used that tracing as a pattern to make little hands for more valentines, and when we ran out of those we just went on decorating till our heart's content-haha :)  It was really fun for me to do something that wasn't thesis related for one afternoon.  For me, its stress relieving...even though the time it takes could have been spent writing, and I wouldn't be as stressed about writing if I had gotten more of it done...hmmm....a bit of a dilemma :) ah well, any time spent with my barbaloot is time well-spent :)

 great-gramma found a little pull-toy for henry that he thoroughly enjoyed!

 and rides with great-grampa were fun too!

okay!  we are going to miss you! don't worry, i will check in every now and then, but as i said...time to write write write!