A Little Damp

Casey, Frisco and I are in a hotel room in Belleville, IL tonight, on our way home to Dillon. We should get back on Wed afternoon. So far Casey has been a great road tripper. She watched a lot of videos today, took 2 naps, read some books, had some snacks and played with toys. After an hour of running around the hotel room, take lap after lap, crawling all over me, walking around with my ipod, holding it up to her ear and my ear saying, "hebo," she just walked over to her crib saying, "nighnigh," pulled her blankey out, crawled up on the couch, laid down and stuck her thumb in her mouth. I just put her to bed.

Last week we kept busy again. Monday we went to a park and then had lunch with Kris and her 3 out of 4 kids. Tuesday, Casey had a sleep over at Gramma Gail and Grampa Tom's while we went to open mic night at Tiffany Tavern in Old Town. Stan and Matt played (the SM of SML). Wednesday, we played with Gramma Gail and Grampa Tom all day. Casey swam in the pool, played with the bikes/car/wagon, basically did not sit still except at naptime. I went out to dinner with Dyani and Stacey while Stan and Casey stayed home. Friday we went to Aunt Marcy's for one last play day. The whole fam (except Kel) made it for lunch at Panera. After lunch we headed to Blacksburg.

We dropped Casey off in Roanoke with Gramma Lois for the weekend. She had a great time entertaining Gramma, Aunt Linda and Aunt Donnie all day Saturday. Stan and I went down to Blacksburg Friday for the VT/Miami game Sat. It poured down rain all day, needless to say, we were very damp all day, but the game was exciting and we ended up winning, so it was worth the wet.

On the developmental front, Casey is saying all kinds of words now...she said computer tonight (after I said it of course). She is great at pointing at her body parts, saying animal noises and counting to 3 (of course she leaves out #1).

Not many pix this week, will try and do better next week.

Lily buckeling Casey in the doll stroller

Grampa Tom in charge

A little damp at the game

laying with her new baby

Baseball, Beach, Football

We've been in Virginia all month and we keep very busy when we come to visit.

We went to the VT vs Marshall game in Blacksburg 2 Saturdays ago, then headed back up to DC for cousin Lily's 5 year old birthday party. Casey had so much fun at the "Luau," playing with all of Lily's toys and friends. She loved the moonbounce (maybe not as much as Jack, but close). It took her a little while to figure out how to stand up in it, but she finally did and thought it was hysterical when she would fall and bounce.

That following Tuesday, our friend Ken treated us to a Nationals game. This was Tracy's first time at the new stadium. Casey was pretty good. She wouldn't sit still, but she was very cheery the whole game.

We went shopping with Gramma Gail and found her Halloween costume...very fun...you'll have to wait until October to see what she will be.

Casey has gotten to play with lots of different kids while in town. She has gotten to play with Jessica's kids, Hunter (5) and Jacob (3); Stacey's kids John Patrick (3) and Cate (1.5); Dyani's boy, Harper (7 mos); Dayna's boy, Owen (9 mos); Kris's kids Ellie & Erin (3) and Evan (7 mos); and Sweet's and MaryAnn's girl Ellie (2.5). She has had so much fun with everyone elses toys and is slowly learning to share.

This past Wed, we met our friends Ken and Stacy and their son, Isaac (1.5 months younger than Casey) in the Outer Banks. We beached it Thursday and Friday morning (the No Swimming signs were out, but Casey enjoyed the big "sandbox").

Friday afternoon we drove to Gramma Lois' house in Roanoke. Saturday was spent cheering on the Hokies. What an exciting end to the game, especially because we beat Nebraska. Go Hokies!! Casey got to tailgate for a few hours. She was spoiled with junk food, potato chips and doughnuts (thanks Jeff). She had fun!

Casey has been learning so much these past couple of weeks. She is saying all kinds of words now. When she hears a plane go by, she'll stop, look up and say, "plane." She tried jumping this past weekend. She bends her knees and tries to spring up, but never leaves the ground. It's pretty funny. She loves when we do "This little piggy..." with her and after we do it, she does it to herself and then cracks up. She is definitely testing us lately. She has started to deliberatly throw things off her high chair while looking right at us. She'll start to fake whine with her eyes shut and then try and open one eye to peek and see if we are looking at her...if we are, then she'll continue the whining.

We have 1 more week in VA before heading back home. Enjoy the pix.

Jack, Lil and Casey after Lily' 5 year old birthday party!!

Vaccuming Aunt Marcy's basement

Fam at the Nationals vs Phillies game

Playing with Hunter and Jacob's train

Playing with Isaac at the beach...Frisco getting her lick on...

Casey dressed for the sun and sand

Mom, Casey, Dad and Frisco in the Outer Banks

Casey and Dad at the VT tailgate

Labor Day Lake and Game Day

We are in VA for the month of Sept. Tracy, Casey and Frisco took 3 days to drive from CO to Gramma Gail and Grampa Tom's lakehouse at Lake Gaston. We spent a cool day at the lake on Thursday, then Tracy left Casey with Grams and Gramps for Labor Day weekend. She got to play with her Aunts and Uncle and cousins and Grandparents all weekend. She is very busy, so she and Gramma Gail and Grampa Tom were pretty exhausted when we saw them again on Monday:)

Friday, we flew to Atlanta for the weekend for the VT vs Alabama game. Tough loss, but we had a great time.

Sunday, we flew back to VA, then headed straight to our friend Glenn's bday party. SML (Stan's band) played.

Monday was spent at Gramma Gail and Grampa Tom's house, visiting with Aunt Kel (in from Boulder), Aunt Marcy, Uncle Stuart, cousins Lily and Jack, Aunt Jenny, Uncle Carlton, cousin Valerie and Liam (2). Casey had a great time playing with everyone and has learned a bunch of new words and facial expressions. Her new word is, "No." She has also come to the conclusion that any and every toy, should be hers, especially if someone else is playing with it first. She has also gotten very good at screeching and whining.

Thanks Gramma and Grampa for watching Casey and Frisco!
Happy birthday to cousin Lily this Thursday, Sept 10th!!! She'll be 5!

swinging in the plane swing at the lake

having fun

pontooning with gramma gail and grampa tom

hanging with aunt kel

the dogs pontooning

getting ready to climb into the sandbox

at the game with ken and kristi...our seats were 4 rows up on the 20

pre-game...we're happy

casey and jack in concert

frisco and casey exhausted from the fun weekend