Happy Birthday Hannah Banana!!!

Little man hopes you have a great birthday! He misses you!

Spots

Spots can derail your entire week. And that's what the Little Man has, little tiny spots all over his little body. Is he upset? Heck no! He's had mommy or daddy t himself the past couple of days, with the likelihood of a few more.

So, he apparently has some sort of rash, possibly heat, according to Dr. Mommy. Regardless, the day care said "get him outa here!" so Jaimie and I are taking turns working from home. To be honest, he is happy and seems to have hit a bit of a sleeping, eating schedule, so I have gotten quite a bit of work done today! Plus, dialing in for every meeting I had scheduled instead of being there in person affords me time to multi-task.

Mommy is finishing up her final shoot with Family.com on her healthy nutrition segments that will fun on Family.com. I'm excited for her, as I know this is something she will be really good at. It sounds like the family team really likes her and say she is doing a great job. The producer for the segments produced Trading Spaces and has worked with a number of people in the industry. The complement she was paid by him was, "on camera, you look alot like Reese Witherspoon." Nice comment, I think.

Other than that, we are starting to really plan out our summer around a busy work schedule, Parker hours, and two different family vacations coming up! Look for more pictures coming soon, as we hit the beach and hiking!

The day before the day daddy was born

All things considered, today was a very good day. 

Work has been busy and daddy has been working late, but today he didn't look at his blackberry once. Our dear friend Katherine is still in the hospital, fighting to regain basic motor skills and cognitive functions, but the doctors decided to day to hold off on a brain shunt to give her body one more shot at draining fluid from her brain naturally. She is nothing short of a miracle right now. The temperature hit 100 today in Pasadena, but it was only 80 in Santa Monica at the beach where we spent our afternoon. And mommy decided to give daddy his birthday present early. And who doesn't love surprise presents?

Mommy, Daddy and Little Man started the day by heading up to UCLA Medical to spend some time visiting with Jay and his family, bring them some lunch, and let Parker have some quality fun time with his little buddy, James.  James and Parker spent the morning climbing all over each other in the waiting room lobby. They are both about the same size now, which means James can really hold his own with Little Man.

It was a nice morning just spending time together and talking with Jay, his sister and mom, and a few church friends. Katherine still continues to fight the long fight, with her family of angels carrying her along.

We left the hospital around 1pm and headed to Santa Monica for some beach time. The weather was amazing and even the water is beginning to warm up a bit. Little Man has no problem getting messy in the sand, even sampling a handful now and again. As much as Parker loves water, it's amazing how much waves freak him out. And after a few toes dipped in the cold Pacific he had had enough. We packed it in and headed home.

After getting home, mommy took daddy to pick out his birthday present. We hit REI and picked out a brand new baby hiking backpack for daddy. Parker even gave it a test drive in the store! Hopefully, tomorrow we will give it a real spin!

Tonight, I watched as mommy got Little Man ready for bed, fed him and put him to sleep. I would have to say the best birthday present of all is being able to celebrate it, for the first time, with a family of my own.

All things considered, today was a god day.

Her First Mother's Day

Mommy had a wonderful first Mother's Day yesterday. She started the morning out by sleeping in, while Daddy and Little Man made her breakfast in bed. After some fun play time we all got dressed for church and went to our Young Marrieds group at Bel Air Pres. Parker spent the hour flirting with the other girls in the class and chewing on daddy's watch.

We left church around 11 and went to visit Jay Wolf and friends/family at the hospital, getting an update on Katherine. We brought Katherine a mother's day card and some photos for her to see, with Parker and baby James together. After some good conversation and some floor play time for Parker, we left the hospital.

Hitting the 405, we headed west to the coast. With a short drive up the PCH, we stopped in at a local Santa Monica state park for an activity we haven't done since before mommy was pregnant. We took a family hike over Santa Monica and the Pacific Ocean. It was a beautiful day, but a bit overcast, so the ocean view wasn't at it's peak. But that was just fine for mommy, getting in a good 2 hour hike.

Little Man enjoyed it as well, spending the hike in a backpack behind Daddy. He LOVES to hike. And by hike I mean sit with his legs dangling on daddy's back while he hikes.

A good day.

This is Amazing...

Our friend Katherine has made the news in Montgomery... God bless us all.

PLEASE WATCH THESE VIDEOS!!!

A Dad's First

What a week it has been. I remind myself I need to be more on top of updating this blog, but sometimes I am not sure if I am talking to anyone but myself, so I talk myself out of typing. However, as history has shown, the more you document, the better your stories can be :)

Jaimie, Parker and I travelled to Seattle this weekend, for work and for pleasure. We stayed with Aunt Christen and Uncle Jeremy over the weekend and had a fabulous time. We ate good seafood, went on a nice walk, did some responsible drinking and took turns as babysitter for the Little Man.

The trip was nice, Jaimie and I both got some work in while Aunt and Uncle did a day of babysitting, and we ate some amazing Halibut that Uncle Jer cooked up. But, it makes you realize how difficult it is to be away from family for very long. Conversations always moved towards "if we got a job in LA" or "if we ended up in Seattle." I like those conversations. It usually means no matter how different we are, we must still sorta like hangin out together :)

Jeremy took some great photos: Check 'em out!

The "first" of which I speak is the fact that Daddy and Little Man flew back from Seattle yesterday by ourselves. It also includes Parker's first full night away from mommy. Overall, I'd grade our performance a B+. Parker did great on the plane, flirted with the flight attendants, was quiet in First Class, and ate well. At home he pretty much slept through the night and woke up around 7:30 this morning like a champ. Obviously, it all could have been much worse. 

I dropped our grade from an "A" because Daddy lost a teething ring on the gangway of the airplane and last night around 11pm the Little Man had a 30 minute shriek-fest. But, other than that it was a strong performance.