Hey where's that ticker go?

you know the one on graduation countdown...two weeks from today.

Back in action....

My oh my this whole month has been such a whirlwind and now it's Memorial Day weekend?? Where has the month gone? We had a really good time in Niagara Falls until Simon started puking the morning of Marks' Wedding. He didn't stop until well into the evening and we both missed the wedding. We were so so disappointed, I was looking forward to seeing Mark and his wife and meeting his family we've heard so much about. Impecable timing. Oh well, I suppose things happen, but what a bummer!

Simon was a trooper through his illness. He even made the comment after he threw up for the first time, "ewww that was dross (gross)". Poor little guy. He had a great time with his cousin Nicholas though, they were sooo cute together. Nicky is 10 months old and such a sweet little guy. Simon just loved to make him laugh, and cry apparently as one time I heard him yell for Kim from the living room, "Mama! I'm sitting on baby Nicky!" I don't know if he knew that sitting on your cousin earns you a time out. Life's big lessons learned on vacation in New York.

Simon also enjoyed the "big water" (the falls) and the Hard Rock Cafe. We tried to make a baseball game, but ended the trip a day early since everyone was feeling a little under the weather at that point. Oh and the trick to keeping a toddler entertained for 10 (!) hours in the car...borrow his big sister's portable DVD player. If I have to watch Wiggle Bay one more time...

Simon, baby Nick and cousin Tony

Heading out of town!

We are finally starting to feel settled in the new house. Simon has become more of his normal self, it is very very nice! We did some planting (flowerboxes) around the house and I dug up the garden for planting soon! We're heading out of town tomorrow to Niagara Falls to see family and go to our friend Mark's wedding! We always thought Mark would be the eternal bachelor, but he's marrying a wonderful woman this Saturday in Toronto. We'll probably be gone until the following Monday or Tuesday and we will update them with pictures of our trip. Think of us tomorrow, 10 hours in the car with a very active two year old...GROAN. And when we return, let the graduation fun begin!

Sweet little guy

Heard from Simon on Monday morning, "Mommy, when we go home to our regular house?" Despite this he is doing remarkably well with the transition.

We've moved!

After tons of anticpating and packing craziness we've finally arrived safe and sound at our new house! Simon has been very relieved to see that all his toys made it and spent his first half hour or so here walking around saying, "Look Mommy, my movies made it! Look Mommy, my people made it! Look Mama my trains made it!" I think he was just in awe of the whole transition and has handled the whole thing absolutley beautifully. He was a little edgy those first few days that he spent at Grammie and Grump's house but did very well overall there. Last night was his first night in the new house and we had set up both his crib and his bed in his new (purple!) room. He chose the big boy bed for both bed last night and nap and bed tonight. He's taken to the new bed and hasn't looked back. What a big boy. He did ask me today when we were going home...still I don't think he quite gets it...must be so confusing for the little guy, it's just amazing how well he's done.

We've been busy unpacking, which has also gone very smoothly, most of the rooms are either done or waiting on something to be done, like hanging a medicine cabinet to put stuff into it. The office/Molly's room is waiting on shelving being custom made for the room so that room is full of boxes of books, the kitchen is waiting for our china hutch which hopefully is coming tomorrow. So there's things to do, but seems we're waiting on other things to happen first. In any event, the house is lovely, almost feels like home, I'm sure it will more so when ALL the boxes are gone. The neighborhood is great, aside from the (very nice) neighbors with the cars in the backyard (hello fence). I visited the local movie store tonight since we don't have TV to zone out to yet and it was just so nice to have something like that (and ice cream, the library a candy store and a yummy pizza place) all within a couple blocks of us. It's just so different from living in OOB. Everything is just so...close.

I'll post pics of the house soon, but right now I have no idea where the camera is and not a whole lot of energy to look for it!