a perfect saturday

this past saturday was a delightful day of doing things we love as a family. we started the day walking to our local coffee shop and getting coffee and muffins to take to the park. susannah loved this first picture of the car parked outside the coffee shop with the dog "driving."


next, we hung out at a local park and watched the start of the 5K race that was going through our neighborhood. susannah cheered the runners on, but then got back to the busy toddler business of play. like a good mommy, she let baby have the first turn on the slide.

then, she had her turns - many of them! she has overcome her fear of slides : )

enjoying the beautiful day, crisp breeze and beauty all around.

a perfect saturday . . . continued

grimes finished my mother's day present - a beautiful, hand-crafted adirondack chair! I just love that one of his hobbies is woodworking as we are slowing building a collection of family heirlooms. grimes reminds me that this is lawn furniture and not of heirloom quality, but I am blessed and impressed nonetheless!



looks like I have a little competition for my new chair - susannah likes it too! She actually helped grimes make it. I went outside one evening and she was holding her own piece of sandpaper and sanding alongside daddy. I love seeing her fondness for working alongside daddy as it brings back happy memories from my own childhood.

later in the afternoon we went out to the nursery to pick out some flowers and planted our window boxes - and various other projects around the yard.

and lastly, susannah enjoying her swing.

first set of wheels

spoiled rotten

Susannah was just spoiled rotten by a nice visit from MiMi and Grampy. As you can see from the picture above she knows how to be charming. We had a great visit with my parents and even managed to get away to Wilmington for the weekend, which was delightful - a babymoon I guess you could call it.

This picture below is susannah sitting in my chair in my new office downstairs.

a rough road for susannah

I would post a picture, but poor susannah is a bit unsightly right now. She just had her 3rd visit to the doctor in the last two weeks and turns out she seems to have a penicillin allergy (she was given amoxicillin to combat the ear infection that came along with the roseola). Anyway, a few days after the roseola rash cleared up she broke out in a new rash that has progressed into hives that cover her body if you catch her at a particularly bad moment. the poor dear is having quite a rough time right now - not to mention that the antibiotics didn't clear out her ear infection. So, she is taking a nice cocktail of benedryl and tylenol and now has drops to numb her ear pain. It is amazing that she has any spunk left in her, but she still managed to jump on the table with all the crinkly paper at the doctor's office - she loves doing that!

In more fun news, we had our 20 week ultrasound yesterday and beanie looks great! A little chunkier than susannah was at 20 weeks - perhaps a boy???? we left that a surprise for late september : )