Positively Fifth Street

Thursday, July 9, 2015

San Fran Trip: Part 2

Saturday Jimmy and Dan wanted to play disc golf so we ventured out to this beautiful course right around a lake for a nice walk and a few holes and then it was time for everyone to rest up for the wedding. Such a beautiful ceremony, though I wish Danny wouldn't have freaked out half way down the aisle with Connor and run backwards to me. The venue was great as was the food, drinks, music and company. Jimmy delivered a great best man speech. The kids held up pretty well. Two thumbs up! So happy for Kevin and Stef!

Sunday we packed up and headed back down to the city to hit up the San Francisco Zoo. It was Danny's first zoo experience and he was beside himself. Loved seeing all the animals, but maybe equally exciting was helping navigate with the zoo map. His favorite he says was the giraffes!

Excited for the zoo!

Danny meets a giraffe

Sunday afternoon Kevin and Stef hosted a BBQ for everyone at a beautiful campground with Pacific Ocean views. Such an awesome idea to round out a great weekend! After staying a little too long by the campfire it was time to get to our hotel near the airport. We had another really early wake-up call, but we made it to the airport and had another easy cross-country flight with both kids sleeping almost all the way. It took about a week and 10 loads of laundry, but we're finally back into swing of things and have so many great memories from our first big trip as a family.

Finally homebound

San Fran Trip: Part 1

At the end of June we headed to the San Fran area for Kevin and Stef's wedding and I have to say it was an extremely smooth and productive trip for our little family of 4! Here's how it went...

Wednesday, June 24th my mom arrived at our house at 3:30am to take us to the airport. She had worked until midnight that night - bless her for helping us out! Both kids were surprisingly okay with the early wake-up and we made it to Charlotte no problem for our connecting flight to San Fran. Not surprisingly, Danny loved all the airport transports, planes, shuttles, moving sidewalks, etc. Danny and Crew were so tired that they both slept the majority of our 4.5 hour flight. Jimmy and I watched one and half movies. It was strangely relaxing. When we arrived it was about 11am California time (2pm eastern time). We got the shuttle to pick up our rental car and then we were off!

5am

Mining for M&Ms in the trail mix

To make the most out of our day, we decided to drive south to Big Basin National Park to see some redwoods. Not too far mile-wise, it was, however, pretty hard to get to with super windy roads most of the way. Danny started looking a little pale and was kind of whiny, but we eventually made it and it was SO WORTH IT!

Inside a giant redwood

On our way out of the park and up to Kevin and Stef's place for the night, the windy roads finally got to poor Danny and he barfed all over himself and the rented carseat. It was the first time he's ever gotten sick like that and it was so sad. He didn't know what was going on - just kept saying, "I want to go to Uncle Kevin's house, I want to go to Uncle Kevin's house." We got cleaned up when we got to Kevin and Stef's and managed to stay awake until about 8pm before calling it a night.

Post barf - stripped to his undies

Making himself at home on Kevin and Stef's bed

Thursday we managed to make it to Golden Gate Park in the city where me and the boys met Shiva at a park and Jimmy and Kevin played disc golf. And then we swapped the kids and I went out to lunch with Shiva at great restaurant called Burma Superstar. Next we met Dan, Marisol, Kelly and Connor at this beautiful overlook spot, had an early dinner in Sausalito and then headed up to Fairfax where we were staying for the wedding weekend.

The humble abode

Friday we did Muir Woods and saw some more incredible redwoods and then met Martha and Ron for lunch at a cute place across the street from our motel. Friday evening was the rehearsal and a wonderful rehearsal dinner where thankfully we had the whole restaurant to ourselves. A bunch of people were going out afterwards and Martha and Ron offered to watch the kiddos, so Jimmy and I got to go too. I played flip cup for the first time in I don't know how many years.

Hunting imaginary animals

Pre-rehearsal

Martha and Ron entertaining the kiddos

Deep conversations

Flip cup - get it, bride!

Stef + Jess

Monday, July 6, 2015

Crew at 8 Months

Eek, I completely missed Crew's 7 month post and not because I forgot, but just didn't have time! For the fun of it, here's a snapshot of Crew throughout the months...

(left to right) 1, 3 and 6 months

Now back to Crew at 8 months. I said he was active at 6 months, but that was nothing! For every other monthly photo shoot I've gotten 20+ takes and this was my one and only for 8 months. Hope you enjoy ;)

He's not only extremely proficient at crawling, but also pulling up on everything and I even caught him climbing the stairs the other day. Heaven help me! He's very attached to mommy right now - separation anxiety is a common phase around 8 months - which is hard at times, but I know it will pass. Sporting two teeth in his very cute smile! Loves playing with Danny and Danny really enjoys making him laugh. We're currently experimenting with lots of different kinds of food, but he still prefers things more mashed than in finger food size and wants me to feed him rather than feed himself. He thinks it's super funny to spit and blow mouthfuls of food all over me! Just started drinking (playing) with water in a sippy cup. At the doctor the other day, he was 67% in height and only 4% in weight, so the doc told me to just keep feeding the little booger as much as he wants! He may be small, but he's mighty! Up until now, he hadn't been sleeping through the night, but I was afraid of depriving him of a meal knowing that he's so light. But the doc also confirmed that he doesn't need to eat during the night, so we've been crying-it-out since this past weekend and we're all starting to adjust. What else can I say, I just love the little guy so stinkin' much!

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Insta-Lately

Yes, I know it's been weeks since my last post...and Crew is 8 months tomorrow...and that means that I completely skipped his 7 month post. So shoot me ;) We're off to California tomorrow for Kevin and Stef's wedding, so an Insta-Lately post is all I can muster at this point...