Under the Big Top

I got this awesome cupcake cake mold from james and steph for my birthday. I only use it for special occasions. Tomorrow is a special occasion- my grandfather's birthday. So he gets a special cake. I might add that not only does it look awesome (I'm joking), but it tastes awesome as well (not joking here).


out of the oven


decorated!

Banana Bread!!

Tripp tried banana bread today for the first time and LOVED it! I think this will probably become a staple in his diet (and when he can have peanut butter I will probably toast it, put some PB on it and give him a nice cold cup of milk to wash it down with)! Please disregard his hair in these pictures, it is looking kinda nasty. I promise I will give him a bath soon. Maybe tomorrow :)

Tripp's new view

You can pretty much find Tripp standing to do anything these says. He much prefers it to anything else.

Happy Last Patch Day!

Today hopefully marks the last day that Tripp will have to wear his eye patch and as you can tell, he is very excited about it :). He has two months of not wearing it and then a check-up after that. Hopefully he will have a clean report and a patch free future!

Spring Break 2010

One of the drawbacks to working in an academic environment but as a researcher means that I don't get spring break. It gets pretty quiet for two weeks when all the students are gone. That can be kinda sad. I also work in the lowest level of a building with no windows, so when spring time comes, I am more than ready for it. So when my parents asked if I wanted to come along with them to Jacksonville to visit my godparents (their best friends), I jumped right on that opportunity. Tripp and I headed down to sunny Florida this past weekend and had a great time. I love my godparents dearly, and we both had a great time being spoiled by them.


our little frequent flyer


yummy food!


loving the swing!


just playing


riding the horsey


helping his grandfather get ready for his run


meeting his great grandparents

too bad his collar's not popped

weekend with Nana

Nelson's mom came to visit this weekend and it was wonderful. Tripp was a little bit shy at first (it only lasted about 15 minutes- 15 minutes too long for all of us) but as soon as that was over, he couldn't get enough of his Nana.





Tripp was having such a good time with his Nana that he developed a plan to get her to stay. He decided that he would get sick starting on Sunday morning. Just a little fever so that no one would be suspicious of his plan (he added in some vomit on Sunday afternoon, but hey, that is not too out of the ordinary).



But come Monday, he decided not to eat or drink much all day and around 4:30 in the afternoon, he pulled out the big guns- a high fever (to the tune of 104.9 and rising after he had gotten Tylenol all day long). So with that kind of fever, his mom had to call the doctor, who after some questioning, said it was time to go to the ER. Of course his mom lost it and began crying (all part of the little boy's plan) and his Nana felt so bad that she attempted to change her ticket and stay one more day. By the time the little boy got to the ER, his fever was above 105 and his parents were really worried! "Nana has to stay now," he thought. Well, Southwest Airlines foiled his plans when they said it would be pretty pricey to change the ticket. So instead of his plan working, this little boy's Nana had to leave while he was in the waiting room of the ER with parents who were a little stressed to say the least. Good thing his other grandmother lives in town and could stay with them while he got hooked up to an IV, threw up some more, got medicine, cried lots and eventually got his fever down. Now while this little one is doing much better today, he is still quite disappointed that his Nana did not get to stay for longer. I guess he will just have to be content with seeing her again in just a few weeks!