That's a rap!

This is the last official day of summer vacation. Monday mom returns to work and bebe begins full time at daycare. Thought I would summarize all of the great things we did this summer.

Farmers Market every Wednesday to replenish our stock of strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. We took part in a music class, saw angora rabbits, sheep and goats, played with bubbles and of course people watched. While downtown we often stopped at Tip Toes baby store and other local shops.

A guys weekend while mom went to Windsor to be in a wedding.

Swim Lessons at the Hamilton Community Pool. This was a blast. Can't wait to do it again when he is older.

Pool party with the ladies from Mom's work.

Visits from friends from Wisconsin, Chicago, Windsor and Colombus, OH.

Visits to Troy and Manchester.

Umpteenth visits to the grocery store and errand running.

Discovered Red Robin as an excellent family friendly place to grab an early lunch with friends. They have excellent grilled cheese and lots of cheesy decor to capture the little one's attention.

Survived a week without daddy while he and his buddies played survivorman in Yosemite.

Tried out some new neighborhood babysitters with pretty good success and visited daycare a few times to practice the old routine.

Our last summer adventure takes place this weekend with a visit to the Binder Park Zoo near Battle Creek. Grandma and Grandpa will meet us there Saturday for what we hope will be a very fun day despite the weather forecast.

Dog days of summer AKA Marley and me

So pretty much each week day this summer bebe and I and the dog have gone for a walk. Many of you know that our dog is not the most obedient but has been mellowing out lately. Today on our way back to the house something caught his attention as we passed a wooded lot. He started to go for it, the bite collar kicked in and we began to struggle. This is usually tense, but something I can manage fairly well. Not so much today. The gd bite collar came undone and he took off. Most days I take my cell with me but not today so I was out of luck as far as calling a neighbor to come get the baby in the stroller while I search for the gd dog. We wandered around trying to coax him to come back and finally I began walking back towards our house. The dog followed- I use the term very loosely- and thankfully at one point while we were totally in someone else's yard a car pulled up and I was able to do the whole "look who's here" bit and get him to come over. I put the collar back on him and we made it safely home. Some days I hate this dog, please someone tell hubby we don't ever need another one.

Sweet Seven

Now that summer is almost over and work is just around the corner, little man has slept in until 7 am 2 days in a row. Why? Oh well, first practice day at daycare and work went well. He didn't even look back at me once he saw the other little kids. Yes!

Mom2Mom Sale October 10, 2009

News has been posted about this year's expanded sale and new location. Should be bigger and better than before. Admission is free too.
www.hollandmom2momsale.blogspot.com

Bring socks

We had our first adventure at a mall play center today. Since the mall was not actually open yet it wasn't too crowded. Little man was the youngest one there but held his own pretty well. I tried not to worry too much about the germs and just enjoy it but we did make a side trip to the meijers across the parking lot for socks once we realized that you can't wear shoes and aren't supposed to go barefoot. Moral of the story: make sure you have a pair of socks in the diaper bag- you just might need them some day.

Errybody in the club get Clunk

Finally got an upgrade with the new cash for clunkers deal. Said a sad farewell to Black Beauty last night after 11 awesome years and hello to a new black Escape. Big ups to the crew at RE Barber Ford for the excellent service and Pres. Obama for the CARS program that helped get us there. Mommy actually upgrades to the Hybrid while Dad sports the new ride for his long commute.

Spagetti Nos!

Last night my son tried Spagetti-Os for the first time. He didn't seem too excited by them so we tried them again today for lunch. No dice. His whole body gave a shudder once he had a spoonful in his mouth. I am secretly happy as this is such a messy food. I was dreading the clean ups to come if they were a hit. Unfortunately the can claims there is a serving of veggies so that kind of sucks, no secret helpings of veggies for us thanks.