A breeze, a bit of salt in the air, taffy in my teeth.....

Okay, Josh didn't have taffy in his teeth (or should I say his tooth?), but he did get a chance to visit the ocean this past weekend. Auntie Mick's boyfriend, Cameron, was kind enough to offer us the use of his beach house in Ocean Shores for a girls get-away weekend. Josh, Nana Jackie, Auntie M and me of course, hopped in the car Friday night and made our way there by 11pm after stopping for dinner. We lounged most of the weekend, had a good breakfast at a local diner on Saturday morning/mid-afternoon, took naps, played cards until way too late on Saturday night. Sunday we finally made it to the beach and shops for a bit. After all of the nice weather we have been having, we actually had an almost completely overcast weekend. I guess the weather back in Puget Sound was still sunny and in the 80's. Oh well, it was actually nice to have it be a bit cooler for awhile.

Josh thoroughly enjoyed all of the attention he received from Nana (and he loved her even more for all the nummies she provided, let's see, there was toast......pizza crust......garlic bread crust.....about the only thing he didn't get were waffles, which was a big surprise!) You see, I had this mistaken idea that the three of us could eat 3 gigantic waffles apiece, so when I mixed up the batter, I used the whole dang box. Michele and I managed to eat 2 each (barely!) and mom only had 1, this meant 5 were left over, much to their amusement. Maybe if we had gotten Josh eating on them, they would have been all gone!

The only crazy thing about the weekend trip was that Josh's sleep schedule was totally upended, I'm not sure what upset him, but he wouldn't go to sleep at night and naptimes were not much fun. He was a crank all the way through Sunday night, not getting to sleep until after 1:30am and only after he feel asleep on daddy and we very carefully put him down. I concentrated on staying home the past two days and getting him back on schedule, thank heavens it has been successful and he seems to be back in the swing of things.

He has been eating a lot more lately, don't mess with the kid and his dinner! Breakfast he skips sometimes, but dinner, boy, you had better get it on the spoon and keep it coming fast! He has also been up on his hands and knees going to town rocking in one place, I'm sure he'll be crawling very soon. He inches forward a bit and then usually lunges forward to bonk his head on the ground and then starts crying, he'll figure it out sooner or later. He surprised me by pulling himself up to his knees in his co-sleeper the other day, fortunately, he was just in there playing while I worked in the room, but this means he won't be able to sleep in there anymore :(, oh well, more snuggle time with me!!

I think that is about it for now, I have a ton of pictures to upload, but we have been playing upgrade the computers around here and I don't quite have all the ducks in a row to get them online yet. Soon, I promise!