Big Boy Cup

Truman loves his soft-spout milk cup. And when I say loves, I mean, he's basically obsessed with the thing. Whether or not he is drinking from it, Truman wants his favorite cup with him at almost all times. Lately, we've been trying to switch him over to a hard-spout cup (his motor skills and love of spilling liquids equate to him not quite being ready for a real cup yet). Anywho, we've been excited to have some success with his new cup lately! While Truman still definitely prefers the other cup, and at times will still insist on his other cup, about 1/4 of the time he's willing to take his new "big boy cup" instead - that's progress! At times, it seems like he even feels proud of being able to drink out of his new cup (probably because every time he's willing to take it Shea and I start celebrating like crazy! :-) And yesterday, he actually refused his soft-spout cup, insisting on his new cup - we were SO excited!!!

Trip to Virginia Beach

Two weekends ago our little family of 3 traveled up to Virginia Beach for a few days. While the main purpose of the trip was to allow me to run my first Half Marathon (woohoo!) we also had fun exploring the city. We arrived Friday night and Truman was immediately loving the hotel. More specifically, he loved the hallways of the hotel. He had so much fun running back and forth down the long hallways. It was hard to get good pictures (because he is so very fast) but here are a couple of cute ones:



Saturday was spent at the local aquarium. Shea and I absolutely love aquariums, so whenever we are visiting a town that has one we make it a point to go. Hopefully we can pass this love of all things aquatic to Truman! He seemed to enjoy our visit to the aquarium this day - he especially liked the shark tank:



Eventually, he got pretty tired out, and after some rocking from Daddy he was able to take a nap while we continued touring the place:


After finishing up at the aquarium we headed back to our hotel and spent the rest of Saturday enjoying the beach and resting up for the run. Here's the view from our hotel room (not too shabby, right?):


As mentioned above, we made this trip so I could run in my first Half Marathon, a goal I've been working at for about 4 months now. Long story short, everything went great! We woke up bright and early race day (after Truman slept soundly all night - thanks, sweetie!) and headed down to the race. Here I am right before leaving the hotel - can you tell I'm nervous?

Shea and Truman then drove me closer to the race's start - our hotel was about a mile and half from the start and I didn't really want to walk that far before running my 13.1 miles. We ended up not being able to get that close so I probably walked about a mile to the start, but I still appreciated the lift! As I said, the race went great. I was able to run the whole thing and was so happy to see my boys waiting for me at the finish (even though Truman had fallen asleep and missed the grand finale ;-)



After the race we headed back to the hotel so I could soak my legs in a cold bath and grab some food - running that far will make you really hungry! After Truman woke up from his nap we spent the day hanging out and just enjoying the beach. While we thought about leaving Sunday after the race, we ended up spending the night and leaving Monday. I was just way too tired and sore to even think about getting in a car for 4 and 1/2 hours on Sunday. All in all, it was a fabulous trip!

Fav Fotos Friday

At night Truman thinks it's funny when Daddy walks him up to his room and Mommy comes after him saying "I'm going to get you!" He is, without a doubt, the sweetest boy there is!

Friend's Birthday Party

Yesterday, we attended a birthday party for one of Truman's friends from daycare. The birthday party was thrown at a park, and we were lucky because it was beautiful outside! It was nice to be able to see all of Truman's friends (and their parents) outside of the daycare setting. Truman enjoyed the playground, but he was really nervous about the slide and swing - he definitely preferred the small slide to the big kid's one! However, his favorite game involved bringing me two bubble wands and then having me lift them up - we could not figure out why he loved it so much, but every time he brought me the wands he would start cracking up and just could not contain himself! We wished we'd brought our video camera, because we're not sure we've ever seen him laugh that much. Our little guy is the best :-)

Grandma Bernard Visits!

Three weekends ago (yes, I am once again very behind in posting!) Grandma Bernard came down for a visit. We're lucky because President's Weekend matches up closely with Truman's birthday, so this is the second year in a row she's been able to come down and help celebrate our little guy's day with us! Truman was, of course, thrilled to see Grandma B! She arrived a little before naptime and when we asked who he wanted to put him down, guess who he chose?


The rest of our day was just spent playing and cuddling (we didn't really take any pictures because we were too caught up in the fun - oh well!). On Saturday, we decided to throw a tiny little party - our only 'guests' were Grandma Bernard and LeeMarie (Truman still gets a bit shy/overwhelmed around new people, so the small size of our party was perfect!). We bought Truman a cupcake but he wasn't too into the candles. In fact, he decided to read a book rather than listen to our song!



He wasn't super into the cupcake either - he was more interested in putting it on his head than in eating it :-)




After the cupcake, we all just kind of sat around and played with our little guy. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the party:




Our final day with Grandma B was spent just like our first - playing, cuddling, and loving up on one another. Again, we kind of forgot to take a lot of pictures as we were enjoying each others company too much - We all had such a great time together! Love you Grandma B!