Strasburg RR

Saturday, July 31st we visited the Strasburg RR to take Seth on his first train ride. We got off at a picnic area and had our lunch before boarding the next train. The weather was nice and we all had a good time. Hopefully we will do it again next year!

Seth & Daddy

Emsley and Seth on the see-saw

Pappy & Seth and Seth swinging

Paw-paw and Maw-maw

Pappy and Nana (Nani/Gram)

Ashley, Bobby and Emsley

Us

more OBX

OBX

slide + pool = awesome

oh to be two again... note the shovel in the background supporting the slide. totally ghetto!

Road Trip

Here's a quick update on our summer so far. The first event was a road trip out to Iowa for Andrew and Emily's wedding. We had a great time staying with the Armbrecht's in Des Moines, catching up with some friends, and of course attending Andrew and Emily's wedding. Congrats once again guys! It was fun being part of your special day and getting to see everyone from Willow Creek church too. We also had an awesome time with Todd and Paige, and got to meet Atticus and Penelope. We went to Cornerstone for a Saturday evening service, ate at Hickory Park, and got to reminisce about our two years living in Ames. We tried to catch up with as many people as we could, but I know we missed several we would have liked to see!! After we got home we realized we had a grand total of about two pictures from the trip, but here they are anyway:

Congrats Andrew and Emily!

Roadtripmobile. And yes, that is a real word... I made it up myself

Updates

It has been a while since I've been on here so I will give you some updates on what has been going on. I am getting bigger & hungrier but doing well overall and as far as we know all is well with the baby. We haven't come up with a name yet, so if you have any boy name suggestions that go well with Eby then let us know! Hopefully this time around the name will be decided before we have to hand in the papers with his name on at the hospital! (Last time we waited until the very last second to decide and so Seth was called "Baby Boy Eby" for the first 2 days of life!)

Seth has been in his "big boy" bed now for a week and we couldn't ask for it to have gone any smoother. He hasn't once gotten out of the bed in the night or for his nap. When he wakes up, he waits in bed until we come get him! I am hoping that he continues to do well and not later on down the road, get out and play with toys in the night. We let him pick out his own sheets and he chose "Cars" over "Thomas the Tank Engine" which surprised us a bit. We now read on his bed instead of in the glider and he likes that a lot too. He has picked up on a few more words: help, yes, out, and shoe. He refers to himself as "you" instead of "me" which always gives us a good laugh. He prefers to wear his sneakers instead of his new sandals even on the hottest of days. He has become bothered by some of the tags on his shirts and so I have had to cut a few off already. If his clothes get wet, he usually wants to get dry ones on. When his hands are sticky, he likes them to be wiped clean. Seth LOVES playing at the park but he doesn't like to swing and he won't go down the slide or through the tunnels if they are too hot to the touch. He enjoys throwing his football to Ted and I and kicking his extra large ball to us. He is generally a happy little guy who gives us lots of laughs and tires us out by the end of the day.

24 Months

Seth at 2 years:

Length: 36 inches (90%)

Weight: 27 pounds (10%)

Recent words added to his vocabulary: Elmo, Bye, Cup, Dig, Dirt, Couple, Two, Choo-choo, Caillou, Door, Home, Hi, Pop, Car. (There may be others but that is all I can think of right now)

He currently LOVES bubbles and to play outside. He likes to slide down his sliding board but isn't too fond of swinging. Seth also LOVES to water the flowers/plants and is a good helper at doing so. He enjoys playing with his cars, building towers, flying the helicopter, coloring, hitting his golf balls outside and hammering/fixing things at his new workbench.