Your grandpa and grandma Yeoman are visting you this week and today you went with them to Minnehaha Falls where you had your FIRST “bike” ride. Actually, it was a pedal surrey; you rode on the front basket part and got to wear a helmet.
While your grandparents are here, you turned up the cute, evidence by these pictures of you as a hipster and apparently, Frank Sinatra.
Since Easter, we’ve all been very busy. And a lot has happened, so here goes our April update:
Every kid has his first haircut, and to be honest, daddy was worried about your reaction to it. But as you can see in the picture below, your first haircut was a smashing success:
Soon after that, we were getting ready to visit with your Mimi and Doc. They drove very far (two days of driving!) to visit you, but Mimi got very sick. We ended up spending the time with them in the hospital in Shakopee. While we were very worried about her, it was great to see both your grandparents (Daddy’s parents). We ate lunch with Mimi in the cafeteria and played ball with Doc in the room.
Later that month, we watched our favorite team, the Chicago Blackhawks, get knocked out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, your enthusiasm for hockey wasn’t quelled. Here’s a movie showing you watching a different game with zeal:
We had a fun, but short weekend. Most of the time, we lounged around the house. You did a lot of tummy time and met some new friends; Wes & Jenny Moore, Sierra (7), Owen (5) and Lucy (15 months) were nice enough to invite us for dinner on Saturday evening. (I work with Wes) You were a little scared of all the new people at first, but by dinner you were your usual happy self.
Sunday, we were supposed to go to a Native American Pow Wow, but it was a bit far (we didn’t want to keep you cramped up in a car for so long) and mommy’s ankle hurt, so we stayed around the city. While napping, I caught you doing a new thing… pulling the blanket up to your face and curling up in a ball with your feet up in the air. Pretty funny, and as always, very cute.
Today we took you to the Dragon Boat Festival in St. Paul, Minnesota. Grandma Belinda and Grandpa Boyd are visiting and we all took turns passing you around. As each airhorn sounded for the race to begin, you twisted around to face the lake and watch the boats. Not sure if you really understood what was happening, but other than the heat, you seemed to enjoy the day a lot.
I felt sort of bad, taking so long to post this, since your Grandmother Sande and Grampa Ed came up to visit weeks ago. But daddy’s been on the road to a new job and just got a chance to do this.
Otherwise known as “Mimi” and “Doc” to your older brothers, these are my mother and father and they were SO happy to see you. In fact, Doc was a little shy to hold you at first, but when he did, you slept soundly in his arms.
It was an amazing visitor you got this weekend. Your daddy has two other sons and the oldest one (Brandon) came to visit you while he was in town. He’s technically, your oldest older brother. And while I don’t know if he knew exactly how to hold you, he seemed fine doing it.
Pretty amazing to have two completely different generations of sons in the same room. 🙂
Today, while you took a little nap, Mommy cleaned the front room for some very special visitors; the Yeomans! (Well, there are MANY Yeomans in Mommy’s family but these were the closest).
You were visited by your Grandmother Belinda, Grandpa Boyd, Aunt Erin & Uncle Jack. You were charming, quiet and very entertaining. You got a lot of really lovely gifts from them & some great gifts from Uncle Brydon, Aunt Chrissy, Cousins Ian-Scott & Ashley.
Today you had your first non-family visitor, even though we call him “Uncle Olly.” He’s the namesake of your sock monkey (which was his gift to you) and it was HIS birthday today, so it was pretty special that he came to see you.
Uncle Olly’s real name is Kris Olson and he’s been a friend of mine for 15 years (at this writing). I was in a few of his movies and someday, when you’re older, you’ll get to see them.
Uncle Olly was pretty amazed at you, as are we all.
It's Campbell Time! 