Week of Vacation

This past week I have been on vacation. I realized I had finally earned my first ever week of paid vacation in my entire working life. So, why not take it. I thought this would be a good time for me to work on redoing my son's room. The weekend went great with a chance of a snow storm. Guess what? The storm came. It conquered. Thus, no work for me on monday and my vacation started early! What luck! I used this free time to get the supplies needed and off I went. To make a long story short I finished his room in about a day and a half. Mind you it is not a very big room. I coat of Kilz. I coat with touch-up's of green and I was in business. I painted a fun tree in the corner. I will post pictures in my next entry.
The reason his room was done so fast was because my in-laws were suppose to come and be with us for the weekend. They were headed our way thursday and were going to be here till sunday. Plans ended up changing so they stopped by thursday evening. They brought over a couple gifts for Jaden.

This first gift was from our Grandpa and Grandma Garretson. It was a winnie the pooh music table. It has a ton of numbers and letters and sounds. It is pretty fun. This morning Baby bear could hardly eat fast enough once he realized his new toy was waiting for him.

This toy was from our uncle Mike. It is a ride on race car. Jaden likes to honk the horn. He realized that it rolls, but is still a little too short to sit on it and do it himself. He will catch on soon.

After the evening of opening a few gifts, the next afternoon we went to lunch at Famous Dave's. Now I love a good bbq place, and it looks like Baby bear is a fan too! BBQ sauce and corn bread, YES PLEASE! I was happy to capture a good picture of Jaden with his grandparents. It's not very often this side of the family gets good family pictures. Someones camera either doesn't work, we forget, or someone left early. Not this time! It was a good afternoon, despite the on comming cold of Jaden. Poor boy. I don't think it will be very bad. He just needs plenty of fluids, sleep, and some mama bear loving and he will be just fine!

A couple last notes. The past month or so I've been working with jaden on baby sign language. This morning I was feeding him and he asked for more milk! I was extremely excited about this! I hope this is a new trend with him that will catch on! My next entry I will post some room pictures. Until then. God Bless.

Love.