the day is finally upon us… tomorrow, derek and isaac and i will depart for the mountains for a much needed vacation. isaac is excited because all he knows about the mountains is that thomas the train was there last time. i think he might be disappointed, but i’m hoping that tweetsie will suffice. derek […]
derek
day out with thomas…
a few weeks (months?) back, we went out to blowing rock to tweetsie railroad for the “day out with thomas”… thus began isaac’s obsession with thomas the train… here are some pics. if you click on any of them, the internetz will whisk you away to my picasa album, which contains many more thomas pics… […]
Family day
Derek needs to use up some vacation days, so he's been staying home here and there. Today, we took Isaac to the childrens museum and now we are lunching at the mellow mushroom… Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
patterson farms
after church today, we made a spontaneous decision to go to patterson farms to check out the pumpkin patch. it was a little bit crazy, considering the sleep schedule adjustments we were going through due to the time change, but we figured all crabby boys would get over their sleepiness when they saw the wonders […]
belly scratching, by dad.
sometimes, we can get the boy to sit still for a couple minutes by scratching his belly. but, let my be clear, it’s only a couple minutes max.
sans dad
derek left this morning for a week long training in orlando. isaac and i are on our own. i think we’ll fare better than last year’s week long training (isaac was 2 months old).
A Pleasant Surprise
Today, right after Derek’s mom came over to help with the boy, I heard the back door open. I looked through the kitchen, expecting to see Derek’s dad, only to see Derek Lidbom himself standing there. He had changed his flight and come home a day earlier (probably because of my alluding to possibly putting […]
the life and times
ok, so here’s the weekly update: Derek is out of town (Orlando) at a training thing for his work. He left thursday and returns next friday. I’ve been too busy to be affected by any bouts of loneliness or depression. I have my 4th (and final) teaching observation of the year tomorrow. Rumor has it, […]