Skater Chad LaRose with the boys ( a hurricane)

Dru still loves the 'canes. This is AWard, who isn't on the team any more, but still practices with them.

Look! I can sit up by myself! And how about those thighs!

I'll get you my shadow, and your little dog too! (he didn't fall, he was running really fast)

oh they can bring me back here anytime. I like this sand stuff. [wrightsville beach, nc]

that's the way, Daddy!

I rather like the texture, actually.

Tooth!

I have this funny feeling you and I will be great friends.

presented without comment :)

could the little one be any happier?

Oh how I miss the beach! This was the last time we were there -- Sept 30 06, Outer Banks, NC.

FINALLY! I have my camera back! Mr smily has really taken on a whole new personality. We just love how his whole face crinkles up when he smiles. Note -- there won't be many more gummy smiles, as of 8-6-07 he has a tooth!

Copy and paste the link below to vote for Ernie in Evenflo's contest. Top prize will help us pay for his education!!! start voting on August first, and vote once a day til august 15th.

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the picture is the one of Ernie and his adorable feet. ;)

click the slideshow to see the photo album!

Dru and Uncle Ernie in Styvesant Town in Manhattan. BIG FUN!

New York City

We made it! Sara's graduation was wonderful, super to see everyone. Both of the boys were great on the plane rides. Seeing uncle Ernie was so special, and seeing Ernie holding his namesake was really cool. We had a great time in Styvesant Town in the playground, and watching the garbage men and the men cutting the trees and the fork lift carrying the potted plants and eating at little belgium (complete with pictures of tin tin on the walls) and seeing the cabs and the no parking signs. ;) Dru is very into circle slash and understanding picture language. He wanted to know what all of the circle slash words were on the safety information cards on the planes in particular. And what the street cleaner circle slash meant. So many signs! He was in heaven!

We also saw the statue of Liberty on the way in -- to which he started singing "the great american melting pot" from schoolhouse rock!

I'll post some pix once I figure out how to get them from my phone to here. Perhaps Pete can help with that - he has the exact same phone as me and his girlfriend Kim drives the same car as we do! parallel universe!

the golf lesson. One of many.

feeding the little man was a family affair. Perhaps the most fun? hearing Dru beg me to pump so he could give the baby a bottle! (he has remained fascinated by the whole pumping thing since last fall's trip to the state fair dairy barn. Moo)

when Ernie was 7 days old. at Triangle Town Center in Raleigh.

Ernie, out for his first walk, Jan 30 2007 -- it was COLD that day!

Dru, the bandito drummer at shabashabu in Raleigh, NC in February 2007 with the whole gang.

this was dru's dinner on fathers day 2007 - lamb, rice, peppers, green beans. Yum. I'm in a food coma. My plate looked the same but it was larger with more lamb and rice and beans :)