fire-truck, fire-truck

this spring donovan did lots of singing about fire trucks.  the love of the fire truck has been long lasting, but the singing started when uncle matthew found this video:





 which led to this on a daily basis....very cute!

mom's new office

part of why i lost track of blogging is because i opened my own office which took over my blogging time.  i had considered doing this for a while, and the time was right back in march.  a friend of mine and i decided it was time to spread our wings.  although i thought i was going to lose my mind during the transition process i (well, the whole family) has made it to the other side and there have been no regrets!

i work 3 days a week on tues/wed/thurs and see clients from 1pm-7pm.  donovan will start pre-school this fall so i will come home a bit earlier but work mornings while he is in school.

good-bye old office with a lake view.....hello new business!

let's start with spring.......

i have taken a hiatus from blogging, and frankly i have missed it.  so here i am to try and play catch up.  here is a slideshow of some of the highlights of our spring.

ba-ba and tookies

we have a nightly tradition that is milk and cookies. before donovan goes to bed he asks for a "ba-ba" and "tookies". here is a little video showing the whole thing go down.

big truck

yes, that is a baby in the front seat of that truck. and if you look really close you will see nothing but pure excitement.



i am in the process of moving offices and somehow i made it a family affair by packing the whole family into a uhaul to get some furniture. donovan has an obsession with trucks....or really anything with wheels so this was like a trip to disney for him! he is not a morning person (he gets that from his mom) and so we bribed him all morning with a ride in a big truck. i thought once we got to pick up the truck that we may not be that into it but boy was i wrong. who knew it is legal to put a carseat in the cab of a uhaul? frankly i do not know if it is or not but we did it, and donovan was thrilled.

a little video of the whole thing:

pre-school

some free space for worry has been resolved in my brain and now i will have to find something new to worry about because donovan got into preschool! i have worried about this time since i was pregnant because so much fear is instilled about being able to get into preschools. we checked out three preschools one of which was equivilant to college tuition, one where they served cheese balls in an economy bin for snack time, and then the methodist preschool. we decided we would like to have another child and that it would not be fair for the second child to not be able to afford preschool, if dan and i can not have cheese balls at the house then donovan can not have them at school, and so methodist it is! we were in the pool of last picks due to being half baptist and half catholic....but we made it! donovan will start preschool 2 days a week in august! woo hoo!

a little get away

dan and i got a little getaway, and donovan got a weekend with the gram and grandaddy. dan and i indulged in long meals at some of our favorite and new favorite asheville restaurants, long nights with good friends, and sleeping in. donovan indulged in constant attention and entertainment, popcorn, new toys and firetrucks. yes, you heard that right donovan got the v.i.p. treatment at the burnsville fire department.

we were excited to get back to our little guy, but he had a hard time getting back to reality with us. i am not sure if he just does not like us as much as gram or grandaddy or was just that exhausted from the weekend. either way we will not hold it against him. he is just to darn cute to hold a grudge for long.

here are a few pictures from our weekend from both perspectives ......some of them were grainy because they were cell pics from my parents keeping us up to date with the weekend.

and ps. thank you nicole bloom from two sweet sparrows for a lovely evening!