Our Holiday In Ohio (get it?)

We ventured to a little known part of southeastern Ohio to meet our dear friends, The Porters. This was our big adventure before all of the craziness of starting a new job, day care, Daddy duties, etc. What a wonderful time we had! This is Mark, who became a very quick friend of Luke's. They played so sweetly together! Mark is only 5 months younger than Luke and crawling like crazy! He'll pull himself up on furniture, but we didn't have much luke getting Luke to teach Mark how to walk or Mark to teach Luke how to babble more.


Luke really pitched in to help with the chores over the weekend...reloading the cooler with water...

and feeding the sippy cups...
Oh yes, and the pool was a huge hit. This kid is some kind of waterbug. We spent each afternoon there after naps and had a ball...in the indoor pool.





And, bottom line is that we all survived our first week. Luke has been a super trooper, getting many kudos from the day care about how good of a first week it was....except for the day that Bear and Blankie didn't make it into the van. Daddy ran home to fetch them at lunch, and the day care suggested I try and find a 2nd set to keep at school. Of course, my kid would have fallen in love with a bear that happens to be a limited edition bear that was released by Ty for Borders bookstore in 2008. Thank God for eBay! More to come about the job and springboard in to Chicagoland traffic.