Mom's Birthday in Carmel and my first tooth!!

Well, it's been a while since my last post. I have had a little trouble getting my hands on the computer. Todd is still awaiting his work laptop and therefore has been using ours.

My birthday this year was awesome despite a bit of a stink! It started out with Todd cooking me a special birthday dinner, Murphy getting sprayed by a skunk!!, giving Muphy a bath (trying to get the stench out of our house), and then opening presents. The next morning we unexpectedly dropped Murphy off as the kennel (because he still stunk) and made the two hour drive to Carmel, CA. It was not only a beautiful drive but the weather was amazing!!!

We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ate at Mission Ranch (amazing)

went hiking in Big Sur and Point Lobos

Drove along 17 mile Drive

and Most IMPORTANTLY, stopped at Pebble Beach to enjoy the views and show Harrison the course. Todd said that if he was good that he would take him to Pebble to play when he was 10. I reminded Todd that he did not play Pebble until college graduation. His response was 'double digits baby!!'. So I guess we may be taking a trip for Harrison's 10th birthday - at least it will be the off season:)

Oh, and by the way, we were watching a few guys tee off and saw Chris Harrison (of the Bachelor - Todd's favorite show)!!

What an amazing trip!! It was so nice to get away, relax, and enjoy the beauty of CA!

Once we got back we were all getting sick again. Harrison got a cough and cold and then I did and then Todd did. This round I got knocked out and ended up staying home one day from work while Harrison went to daycare so that I could try and sleep it off. We are all finally feeling better!

And just to celebrate that we are all healthy again, Harrison cut his first tooth! On the bottom right! So cute! (I couldn't quite get the tooth - but I tried). Surprisingly he has not seemed cranky because of it. He is such a good boy and continues to get cuter by the day.

Todd was out of town for three days this week. Typically Todd will go in in the morning and get Harrison up, get him dressed and then pass him off to me. Well the first morning he was gone I did the morning routine and we walked out of Harrison's bedroom and he was looking for Daddy!! Instead he got a little cuddle time with the Murph! He loved it but was so happy when Daddy got home.

Second week of music class and Harrison is loving it!

we had visitors....

Mom-mom and Grandpa came for a visit last weekend.

A big aside - Todd just accepted a new position as the VP of Finance for Frontier Wind - a start up company developing new technology for wind turbines. Congratulations babe!! He is really excited about it. It will be a great change from investment banking.


As his parents were arriving he worked his last day at Seven Hills, so we all got to spend a long weekend together. We had a couple of meals out, went shopping, the guys played golf, we went for some walks, Todd and his parents went to wine country (Harrison was getting a cold and did not sleep well the night before so we opted to stay home), we did our fantasy football draft (stay tuned to see Harrison's Hustlers to dominate all other teams)....We had a fun and busy weekend. Harrison was an allstar during two dinners and a lunch out. He loves watching people and eating at the table with everyone. Thanks for a great visit Donna and Bruce - it was so much fun to have you!


After Mom-mom and Grandpa left on Tuesday Todd and Harrison spent the day together. Daycare was closed to get set up for the new school year. It sounds like they had a lot of fun looking at an office for Daddy and playing. And as timing would have it I started getting sick which made for a long work week. BUT, here we are again at a long weekend! Yay! (and now Daddy is getting sick - yuck!)

Harrison continues growing and changing. He gets cuter by the day....on Tuesday while he was home with Daddy he started waving and then yesterday he started clapping. While not mobile crawling or walking yet (really there is no rush) he is a wiggle worm. We are convinced he is going to be a crazy man. Only time will tell but right now he loves to move! He also loves to eat....while he started out loving veggies he only wants to eat fruit now. We keep trying new things every four days or so and just found that he loves bread - just like his Mommy...although I try not to eat too much of it!! Darn carbs -ha!

As football season fast approaches the budding Eagles fan has his game face on!