I looked at our blog today for the first time in a while, obviously. At
first I felt bad that neither of us had blogged for a while; but then as
I was perusing though others' blogs, I noticed that everyone else had
not reached their full blogging potential this summer either. So there,
grandparents.
At the end of August, Eric went out to Michigan for a backpacking
trip with his brothers - I'll let him blog that later. Meanwhile,
instead of being at home by ourselves for a week, Henry and I made our
way out to Ohio to see Mimi and Opa. It was so nice to be able to get
away from the mundane every day and spend time in the woodsey haven that
is Mimi and Opa's house.
Opa kept the garden nice for us alllll summer long. With hungry deer
and not much rain, this was a very appreciated feat. Henry loved being
in the back yard. He found some great basil leaves and sticks to chew
on, and we even got to see some deer - up close and personal.
We went out to lunch with Mimi and our friend, Deb. This is when
Henry had his first (and definitely not last) experience with a dill
pickle. Let me tell you, this kid was talking, being kind of fussy, and
generally unsatisfied with the amount of attention he was receiving, but
when we gave him his first dill pickle spear, he was a whole new (much
more content) baby.
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| Mmmm Pickles |
The same thing happened again a few nights later when we were eating
dinner with Opa. Speaking of that night....Henry also got his first
taste of chocolate ice cream. Mimi and I were just sitting on a bench
and Opa took Henry somewhere to get some ice cream (supposedly for Opa).
After quite a while we started to wonder where they were. We looked
around this giant bush next to us, and, "DAD!!!!" There was ice cream
all over little Henry's face. The minute I took Henry away from the ice
cream was the first minute of true sadness in Henry's life.
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| Is it just me, or does this photo like like two pics stuck together? |
Later in the week, we drove out to Michigan to pick up our Eric. He
was staying at his brother, Daniel's house, so Henry got to see two of
his cousins, an aunt, two uncles, and Gammie. We had an excellent
breakfast and lots of fun with the fam. (I feel like there should have been pictures of more people though - we'll get them during Christmas.)
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| Don't worry, Henry's just punching cousin Ray - toughening him up. |
This trip being Eric's first trip to Ohio with me, we had to do some
fun stuff. We spent the whole Labor Day in Cleveland visiting the Rock
Hall (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for those not in the know). It was
really fun, especially for Eric - it was like his Disneyland. Plus he
got in for free because he's a super talented musician who has an
amazingly awesome CD. It just so happened that there was also an air
show right next to the Rock Hall, so we got to see a whole bunch of
airplanes doing crazy tricks.
In other summer news: We hung out a lot, went on some hikes, to farmer's markets, cooked some delicious food, and Annie says, "Hi!!!!"
