Mike and Alisha Party

Well... more like we went over to Mike and Alisha's for dessert, but if there's ice cream or cake Trev seems to declare it a 'party'. We went over for a visit last night and I managed to remember to take a camera.


















Alisha teaching Trevor how to "chill" in the hammock

















Last time we were over, Alisha taught Trevor how to use one of those little back rubbing things to rub her back. This time Trevor found out that it works on his back too, so no more free back rubs from Trevor. He seemed to inherit my back rubbing gene because he loved it.

Other than back rubs and cake, we've been coming to the end of summer break. I start back at the schools bright and early tomorrow. John is in Ohio for the first half of this week, so the next couple of days will be extra busy for me. Trevor has moved to one of the toddler rooms at daycare and seems to find it pretty fun--you can tell by how messy he gets the days that he goes. He has learned some new songs that he has been singing at home--we'll have to ask what they are because all we can make out is "fish swim swim fish swim swim (etc.) and then BUBBLE! Pop!" Sometimes he throws in a crocodile too... so I'm not sure if that's part of the song or an embellishment. His language seems to be booming the past few months, so it's a lot of fun hearing him talk about things, sing, and interact in new ways.

Aaron visit, development of office and baby

We had our anatomy scan this morning for babywithnoname and everything checked out with good proportions, size and location. Here's a few ultrasound shots--the first is of his head, the second is proof of his manhood.






















And we got our cabinets in last week for the office nook... very pretty... I've been excitedly moving things into them today. As you can tell, they still need the desk tops, so you'll have to use your imaginations a bit.



























And our last recent event was Dr. Aaron Garnett (aka "Dr. Wiskas") coming to visit. He and a friend were meeting in Lone Pine to climb Mt. Whitney, and he stayed with us the day before and day after. Trevor found Aaron to be hil-a-rious and we took some pictures as proof of Trevor now liking Aaron.

okay, Trev does look a little concerned in the second picture, but he was having fun during non picture times :)

Alaska Week Two

As my mom pointed out, week one pictures made Alaska look all nice and sunny. Week two pictures are mostly indoors or cloudy, so you can get a more accurate picture of the summer they are stuck with (but we greatly appreciated) this year. Grandma Linda took Trev to the Build-A-Bear store at the mall while my dad and John were out golfing. The goal was to get a teddy bear for the teddy bear picnic later in the week. But Trevor was instantly drawn in by the magnetic powers of elephants.

Grandma Linda suggested that he could get an elephant, but that the elephant would need a (bear) friend too. So Trevor dutifully went and found elephant another elephant to be friends with. He got over the elephant shortly and ended up with a bear and got a kick out of giving the lady hearts and watching the stuffing machine. The most exciting part was that bear got a little manly blue stroller too (Grandma drew the line at bear getting a car however). He walked bear around the mall for the next hour or so and was completely exhausted by the time we hit the car.



















Turns out that my parents' new place is within walking distance to five or more coffee shops(they both did not know or care about this). So John and I got to go out in the mornings for our fancy vacation coffee and we took Trev along some of the time. He was very excited to have his very own coffee (milk in a small coffee cup) and seems to be on the road to paying way too much for beverages in his future.















We made a trip to the zoo where Trevor got to say "hi" to all of the animals without them running away (the usual response when he tries this with birds and cats at home). He found the wolf exhibit fascinating, as he was sure that the three little pigs must live in the little cache. And the bears were also very interesting because one of them pooed. At the end out of all the stuffed animals at the gift shop, he was drawn to a blue snake... there are no snakes at the zoo and I'm not sure where blue snakes live, but I'm sure it's nowhere near AK. But never the less, the snake is pretty cool.



We went to he Teddy Bear Picnic with his new bear and stroller. It was a really good turn out for an almost rainy day. Trev seemed to enjoy the play-doh booth the most and was very suspicious about the life sized bears walking around. However, he was compelled to follow it during the teddy bear parade.




























Our trip ended with a longer than necessary flight back because the airport is dumb and the people that work there are dumb. But I digress. We had to take a later flight that stopped in San Francisco instead of going directly to LAX. I think I was the main person put out though--Trevor and John both seemed content with spending the extra hour waits looking at airplanes and talking about how they fly. Trevor was also very impressed by riding a bus to get to our car parking. He's still very interested in flying in airplanes and the first week back he kept asking if we were going on one again--and when we say no, not today his answer is always "Maybe later".

Back from Alaska

And we have tons of pictures to show for it... so I might make a couple of posts. First big news (that has nothing to do with our trip) is that our little baby girl has blossomed into a little baby boy. So I am preparing myself to be severely outnumbered by John and his army of mini-Johns.

Here's a video of Trevor "helping" with the whole packing process. He was pretty excited about the suitcases and eager to stuff things in too.



Early in the visit Trev, mom and I went downtown for a concert in the park... Trev liked the music, and was also pretty impressed by all the wildlife on the sidewalk.















Introducing Moose to Bear















Playing with Grandma Linda at the concert

We went to some friends of my dad's for the 4th of July--they have a place near Big Lake which is near an area that sells fireworks.















John and Trev in the paddle boat--loved it--suckered grandpa into going out with him after he wore John out.















The boys lighting off fireworks--there ended up being some bonus fireworks set off when they lit the firepit because Trev would grab unlit ones and throw them on in too...















Trevor holding his first sparkler















Trevor hiding behind George--after lighting a loud whistling one he decided maybe they were not okay after all.

And to conclude week one of Alaska, Trevor throwing pop-its...

Baby Duex

So the king may be dethroned by the end of the year... we're pregnant again and due late November, so that puts me at about 15 weeks. The doctor thinks it's looking like it might be a girl, but he's not really feeling confident enough to declare it so quite yet. Here's a picture of an ultrasound taken last week:

Trevor is pretty unaware at this point. When I tell him there's a baby in my tummy he either humors me by nodding his head and pointing or shakes his head no because obviously I've gone a little nuts. His biggest association for 'baby' is 'baby cries' and 'baby sleeping, quiet, shhhh'. So he seems to have an already pretty accurate view of things.

In the meantime I'm on summer break right now and trying to catch up on all sorts of things I've been feeling behind at home with the past couple months. It's getting warm, but not to the point of agony or anything yet. Trevor has taken to the kiddie pool again and I'm meaning to get him out to try the outdoor one on base pretty soon. He also has become quite skilled at using a hose, thanks to his thoughtful Grandpa Steve during their last visit. We've been having fun with him--he's very talkative and turning into a real little boy. It's hard to picture him as a baby now.

Last week I took Trevor in for his two year appointment, so we have his latest stats:

Height: 35 inches (between 50th and 75th percentile)

Weight: 28 lbs (just under 50th percentile)

Head Circumference: 20 inches (between the 90th and 95th percentiles)

So his head continues to be his most distinguishing trait : ) I was noticing the other day how it seems easier for him to wear his sunglasses on his waist than on his head... we're expecting great things...

Officially a "2T"

Trevor turned two yesterday and seemed to have not too terrible of a day. We took him to Starbucks for breakfast where he was able to load up on chocolate milk, scone and some of my donut before heading out to the park. Since it's starting to get dumb hot here, he had most of the park to himself. So ample room for climbing and chasing birds. The birds still managed to get away somehow... maybe it's his approach--running and saying "Hi Bird!"



We had our Trevor Two Celebration that evening--which for him meant part of a hot dog and more sugar. He was pretty on top of blowing his candles out and got them snuffed before the "Happy Birthday" song even ended. And no problem with eating cake and ice cream this year--he dug right on in. And he was delighted to find that the cool boxes decorated with balloons and elmos and balls had stuff in them too.


















Trevor and his Elmo minions.

Mmm... Fair...

Ridgecrest had one of it's many Fairs this weekend, so we went mostly to look at animals and eat fair food. They actually had a monkey, a parrot, a wolf, and some tigers there this time. We missed out on whatever the main show was, but Trev was pretty enamored just to see them live. He was pretty interested in watching a flying elephant ride too... I'm not so sure how solid his concept of elephants are yet because he'd run back and forth to look at those animals and then the live ones.


Eating dinner--he actually managed to eat half of the whole corn dog


















And ice freezie--between having this and seeing the animals he was running around in circles while maniacally laughing for a good little bit.