Oooooh.........Tractors

Once again, it's been a while since my last update. I think I may have forgotten all that has taken place since then as the days just seem to fly right on by. I had to put this picture of Caleb and his furry brother Tyson on here. The both of them just adore one another. Tyson will come looking for Caleb and vise versa. Caleb is so rough with him, jumping on him, pulling his hair and swatting at his face and Ty will just lay there and take it all and most of the time just purrs right on through it all. What a good sport. I must say I was a bit worried about having a baby around our 2 cats as they have been my babies until Caleb came along but everything has worked out just fine and we are one big happy family. We have been keeping busy as the summer is fading away and fall creeps up on us. I love the fall, it's my favorite time of year. Sweatshirt and jeans and some nice crisp air but still not too cold. Gotta love it!!!

This picture was taken at the great Minnesota get together. Yep, I'm talking about the State Fair. Another one of my favorite times of the year. I've always loved the Fair and I can remember growing up and going with my family, we would get there bright and early in the morning and stay all day long until everything was shut down. The days never seemed long either as I could just sit and people watch all day long and never get bored. My parents use to drop me off at the KDWB booth and come back later to get me. Last year I almost missed it for the first time ever. I was put on bed rest with this little bug right before the fair started and I just remember being so upset that I was not going to be able to go to the fair as I had never missed a year. I even had friends offer to take me and push me around in a wheel chair but I refused to go that way. Luckily I got put on modified bed rest the week that it opened and got the ok from my doctor to go. So this year we took the little guy and he amazingly made it almost 8 hours. I must say it wasn't quite the same as we didn't go into many of the buildings we usually do as it's just too much to push a stroller through all those people and it was the earliest that I've ever left the fair. It was still light out when we were leaving. That made me kinda sad as I love the fair at night but our little guy had enough and we needed to get him home. His favorite thing about the entire day was looking at lawn mowers with dad. The picture above is Caleb sitting on his daddy's dream mower. Maybe some year for fathers day. HEE HEE!!!

We finally got a new family vehicle. We bought a Chevy Equinox which is a midsize SUV and I love it. We just needed something a little bigger. Jamming the stroller into the trunk of a car is not much fun especially when you have other things to put in there and then there's no more room cuz the stroller takes up the entire trunk. My favorite feature about the new vehicle is the tinted windows. I don't have to listen to Caleb scream anymore because the sun is in his eyes. And I guess the heated seats is another. I've always wanted a vehicle with heated seats. No more frozen butts in the winter. Another plus is I might be able to get out of my driveway now when it snows. My little car never made it very far. So I guess we made ourselves a good purchase.

We headed to Alabama last week for the National softball tournament but Josh's team didn't play very well so that was a bummer. They lost their first game, won their second and lost their third. They were outta the tournament on Saturday and we weren't suppose to come home until Monday afternoon but my parents had Caleb and they both ended up getting sick so Josh and I changed our flight and came home on Sunday. It was actually nice because I was missing the little guy terribly and he hasn't been eating really well so I was worried about that and then I felt awful that both my mom and dad ended up getting sick while they had him to worry about. That's no fun to be sick and have to deal with a baby. Plus we got Labor Day to hang out and get a few things done around the house.

This past week all 3 of us have been fighting colds and feeling miserable so I can't wait till this is over with. I was suppose to have my nephew overnight last night and was so excited but that didn't happen because my cold worsened over the weekend and now has moved into my chest and I've been having trouble breathing and have had a nasty dry cough. I went to urgent care yesterday morning and got some meds and an inhaler which are helping. Josh took Caleb to his parents for the day yesterday so I could just get some rest. I still feel pretty cruddy today but I've got tomorrow off work and I'm going to send Caleb to daycare to hopefully get some more rest and fight this nasty bug off. Josh is feeling better and Caleb's nose just continues to drain but he's happy as ever. We've been cotinuing to get more landscaping done around the house and Caleb enjoys hanging around outside in the yard playing with the tractor sprinkler. The thing is almost as big as he is. He is getting more teeth and is becoming more darring each day. He's a climber and wants to climb on everything. He's pretty steady on his feet and I just have this feeling he's going to be an early walker.

Until next time, take care - Erin