My boy lollipop.

Days out in Cincinnati

The wildlife!

See the snake?

A visit to The Jungle.

We had a visit to Cincinnati this past weekend, and Harrison got to enjoy his first Bengals game!

And what an exciting game it was too......

Harrison had not napped at all that day as we went to celebrate Jeffrey's 2nd birthday at the Newport Aquarium in the morning, then went straight to the game. Together with a cold, he did pretty well.

We got Harrison a Bengals shirt with Blake on!

He finally fell asleep around 3pm and slept through 2 touch downs, that's LOUD!

The Bengals scored what we thought was a winning touch down with seconds to go, then Denver managed to score a crazy touch down to steal the game in the final seconds.

We still had fun.

Days out.

This is some photos from some days out at the par and the Butterflies in Bloom at the conservatory down town.

Unfortunately there were barely any butterflies, I think because it the last day they release the butterfly's for the summer.

Fun at the lake

Wipeout.

Poor little Harrison took a big tumble yesterday.

He was climbing (Did I mention he is a climber lol?) on the patio chairs on the screened porch, I am trying to teach him to only sit on them as they rock.

Apparently the rocking is fun.

This makes teaching him to sit on them very hard!

So I was sitting at the kitchen table, repeatedly telling Harrison to "Sit on your bottom!". 2 seconds later and the chair tips over and he flies over the top of it smack onto the floor. Needless to say, there was blood and tears and a very scared Mummy and Daddy :-(

Out came the torch, again, to find the source of the blood. A little bloody nose, a big fat lip, some cuddles and Motrin later he is back to his old self. Apart from the little bruise across his nose! His lip went down in an hour or so.

Lesson learned right, don't climb on chairs?

Only a few hours later he was doing the same thing!

Almost there!

This teething business is sloooooow!

I got a torch (or flash light for those of you who think I may be taking a naked flame to my son) and shone it inside Harrison's mouth yesterday and I could see 3 of the 4 one year moles have broken through his gums. Just one to go! His other bottom front side tooth has also broken the gum, so after this bout of teething I think we are done till 2 year molars?

Yippee!

Edited to add- I forgot about the canines....gah!

A visit from Great Uncle Jim!

Great Uncle Jim came to visit from California.

It was so great he got to hang out with Harrison, Gracy and Jeffrey.

We had a fun day!

Daddy's first Half Marathon.

Matt ran his first Half Marathon on Sunday.

After running 10 full Marathons he thought a half would be fun.....

He did a great job and we had a fun day.

This is the start of the race, Matt is in a white hat with an orange shirt in the middle right of the photo.

Here he is coming into the finish, he runs to fast to get a photo anywhere on the course.

And here he is about to cross the finish line.....he came in 4th in his age group.

Daddy and Harrison after the race, I don't think he even broke a sweat.

Harrison had a lot of fun running around by the river after the race.

Fun with Cousin Katie

Unfortunately I didn't take many photos during Katie's visit...oooooops. But e had a lot of fun and LOVED having her round. We got up to a few things, we went to the pool, to a couple of parties, and to Target allot! Our most fun trip was a day trip to Cedar Point near Cleveland........


Harrison Loves Katie and gave her lots of kisses.

Hanging out on our way to Cedar Point,

Harrison enjoying the Cedar Point petting zoo.....he was afraid at first!

There were some VERY scary rides at Cedar Point...........

this being the scariest.......

It goes 122 miles an hour and vertical up, over then face down!

I am kind of glad I didn't ride it.

Here's a video, but it doesn't do it justice!

I managed to get a few photos of Katie and Matt on some rides. I couldn't ride as I am pregnant so I hung out with Harrison lots.

They are right at the front of both of these rides.

Here's a close up.

Thanks for visiting Katie and for being so helpful with Harrison!

We love you!

Where not to store food colouring.....

....anywhere near a one year old.

There was either a massacre at Mesquite Ct or Harrison got into red and green food colouring.

PS. Theodore the fish died this morning, he is now floating in the sewer system of Ohio. R.I.P Theodore.