Last weeks post finally posted!

Last Friday I started this post and now I finally got around to finishing it. So bare with me as I edit some of the details.
Last Friday I started my day out by going to work for the morning...

Gabe had the leftovers from last night's dinner ready for me for lunch when I returned, how nice :)

This is what Jack and I got Gabe for Father's day:

We tested it out last Thursday and our results were delicious. (This is what my lunch leftovers consisted of, lucky me!)

Then our basement flooded, I attempted to shop vac out the nasty water only to be distracted by Jack's needs so Gabe finished/did the majority even though he shouldn't be doing any heaving lifting after his recent appendectomy!

Then the basement flooded again...yikes, we have a plumber coming tomorrow.

(The plumbed never came until Monday :( )

So we had to miss Katie Sue's 2nd Birthday party in Richmond :(

Katie Sue is Gabe's cousin's daughter, Jack and her are second cousins. Here are some past picture of the two:

Congrats to the Edds Family, they are expecting their second child in September, it will be fun having the second cousins close in age!

I recently got promoted at work, this week was my first week working almost full time. The basement flooded at work too! Please pray my recent trials with flooding basements ends ASAP!

We are adjusting as a family and extended family to my increased work schedule but thanks to Jack's loving grandparents on both sides plus additional family members we are all having a great time!

Happy Father's Day part II

Read about Father's Day part I here...

Father's day part II started out as a beautiful day with 11AM church:

Father's day lunch:

10:30PM trip to the E.R.:

Happy first Father's Day Gabe, you have appendicitis!

Appendectomy 10:30 AM Monday

12pm Tuesday back home recovering!

Doctor's orders: No work, driving or picking up your 10 month old son for one week.

We are spending a lot of time together as family and having a great time.

NPR

National Public Radio

I grew up listening to NPR and I try to listen to it whenever I'm in the car. I've always been a radio person in the car. I have an ipod touch but almost everyday I surrender it to my loving husband because he enjoys it more and his ipod broke.

Sometimes NPR can be dry and I enjoy quickly being able to change the station to another one of my preset stations. While driving I much rather flip between my preset stations then mess with my ipod.

Most of the time I find NPR very interesting, they have some great shows:

• Morning Edition
• All Things Considered
• Fresh Air
• The Diane Rehm Show
• On The Media
• On Point
• Talk of the Nation
• Tell Me More
• Weekend EditionSaturday
• Weekend Edition Sunday
• Car Talk
• Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

To name a few. The car show is great and they also have an excellent question and answer show about pets!

NPR reviews great music and really helps me broaden my choice of music. Through NPR I have been introduced to some artists I would have never known about.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15404033

I am ashamed to admit that I don't watch our meal ticket/the news channel Gabe works for very often, I usually just watch it when I'm at the gym. We get the Washington Post daily, but with a very active 10 month old baby who loves to rip the paper out of my hands I barely get to read it.

When I am stuck in the horrible traffic of the DC area I often find listening to people on the radio more entertaining then music laced with endless commercials.

If you live in the DC area, its 88.5 FM, give it a try!

www.npr.org

Breakfast/bath time

Usually bath time is before bed. Today it was after breakfast! And yesterday it was after lunch. The photobooth picture didn't quite capture the mess. Jack wanted to eat his cheerios and not sweet potatoes. Wouldn't life be easy if living off of a diet of Cheerios was acceptable?

Jack 's

Guess who won't go to bed?

I finally used my photobooth!

Its a little tricky taking a picture of someone besides yourself on photo booth because the camera faces the computer user, that is why the picture is a little crooked.

It is dark because its bedtime and the lights are out.

I almost had him asleep a few times but he keeps waking up and preceding to stand up.

He cries if I leave the room so I'm brought the computer in for a break because this bedtime process has been going on for a while. Back to attempt bedtime....

...Gabe came home, he tried, then I went back and gave him some more bottle and success!

We had a pretty busy day, I went to work, Jack played with Victor, Brendan and Aunt Sarah. We napped and then we went to my sister-in-law's boyfriends bbq.

After that went to to a graduation party for the girls I used to babysit for. I babysat them from 5th grade until they started high school and I was between the ages of 16 and 21. It was my first real job. We spent a lot of time together during those years, sometimes I babysat 50 plus hours a week, but the girls were great and made my job easy. Tonight we reminisced about stories of time spent together. The family was sweet and told me I was a role model to the girls over the years and I agreed we were kind of like sisters. Hopefully we will spend sometime together this summer before they go to college!

Dennis the Menace?

When Gabe got home tonight I was explaining about the antics of my day with Jack.

While I was in Jack's room putting away his laundry, Jack discovered that knocking over his diaper genie and rolling it around was a fun game. Of course I was concerned that this was a bad idea!

vs.

aka...

Being 10 months old is so much fun!

Happy Father's Day!

After returning from four days at the beach without Gabe, Jack and Gabe got to spend the day together without me because I had training for work.

It was day three of sick baby Jack.

I wasn't worried because Gabe takes the best care of Jack.

I didn't get all the details of the day or was I able to take pictures but this is what it looked like when I left early this morning:

Jack slept alright last night in the beginning but woke up with a fever and slept much better once he joined us in bed.

Usually Dad is all about doing fun things with Jack on his days off like going to National Monuments and baseball games:

Dad is also good at making sure that paci is always in.

Today, Gabe took Jack to Babies R Us and the doctor.

When I asked Gabe tonight if we needed to give Jack a bath he said it was already done.

Gabe has been a pro at giving Jack the best baths every since his first one:

He comes out the cleanest after Dad's baths!

Gabe has many great skills as a Dad.

For the longest time I had the hardest time putting Jack to bed because I could never swaddle well. Gabe mastered this skill mere hours after Jack was born:

(He also mastered teaching Jack how to sleep to longer in the morning, the key, joining us in bed)

I wish I could take credit for this swaddled, sleeping baby in the bassinet, again all Gabe.

Jack asleep in Trinidad thanks to Gabe.

Jack out grew swaddling a few months ago and I learned the skills to put Jack to bed successfully. It can still be a challenge though and I look forward to the nights Gabe is home to put Jack to sleep.

From an early age Gabe has been teaching Jack how to cheer for the local sports teams:

Gabe loves D.C. sports.

He likes to cook too and had dinner waiting for me when I got home from my all day training!

He likes to read more then watch tv:

However, after dinner Gabe found one of his favorite movies on tv:

He played with Jack, watched the movie, and let me take a nap!

In a few weeks Father's day will come and Gabe will most likely be working a 12-13 hour day. Everyday Gabe is father, today he got to have a Father-Son day.