I have a monkey!

So long to the days of, "Oh, he can't reach that, we can leave that there!" That's right, Decovin not only can climb up onto the couch, he can now climb up on the coffee table and kitchen chairs...everything is fair game now!

Yesterday, I was in the computer room checking my email, like I do, when all of a sudden I hear Gwen Stefani BLARING in the living room...I run in there and Decovin is sitting on top of the coffee table next to the stereo where he had switched it from TV to RADIO...he was very pleased with himself and bouncing up and down to the music...

*sigh* He's growing up too fast!

Another cute sidenote, Decovin has also figured out how to ride his Power Wheels that we got for him. He will crawl on the 4-wheeler and/or the go kart and he knows he has to push the button down and hold it in order for it to go...as for steering...well, that is talent that he has yet to master...one day he will avoid the walls! :-)

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This past weekend was super fun! Amanda, as you all know, graduated from Des Moines University and is now officially: Dr. Amanda D. Camden, D.O.
Sounds so fancy! We are all so proud of her and still can't believe we have a doctor in the family! So cool!

Amanda invited me to go to one of her banquets the night before the graduation and so we got all dolled up and went to it first and then later we met up with some of her other friends at a martini bar called "The Lift" in downtown area. It was super fun and I was so glad she invited me. Plus, who doesn't love a good martini?! ;-)

Saturday was the graduation and it was only 2 hours long...I thought that was pretty good for a bunch of doctor's graduating! We all cheered her on when she walked across the stage....take a look for yourself:



It was a good time! Congrats again Doc!

Other than that, not much else is happening...we leave Friday for our mini-vacation to Arkansas to visit my Aunt Mendy and Uncle Jim for a few days and to go camping one night at Mount Magazine State Park...should be interesting anyway! :-) It will be D's first time camping...(which is why we are only going one night...lol!) I will be sure to let you know how things went!

JP OUT!

Rearranging...

So I decided I needed to clean my living room out of toys and utilize D's bedroom. So I put his dresser in his closet and moved his crib a bit and took the chair out into the living room. It is so weird to have all that space in the living room again! :-)

He has also graduated to a booster chair full time now. No more high chair. He is such a big boy now.

He was zonked and I had to take a picture of his sleeping cuteness. :-)

Yard...

Or shall I say something resembling of a muddy swamp! I hate when you just have seed down and then water it...you have to walk through mud to move sprinklers and the hoses are then covered in mud and get all over you & your clothes and let's not even mention my flip flops! I'm already tired of watering this swamp and wish we had a rock garden, for our ENTIRE YARD! Oy! Anyway, I am hoping we see some grass sprouting soon. If not, I am NOT paying for the seeding they did...haha! I'm actually already cotemplating calling them regarding the top soil they neglected to put in our back yard. It's sad really. Oh well, it is done and I am just glad we don't have to think about the wall anymore...it's fixed.

Decovin is amazing us everyday with his new tricks. First it was climbing up on the couch and next it was knowing how to change the channel and laughing when daddy would go running in there to change the channel back so there wasn't LOUD FUZZ happening. Daddy wasn't as amused. I also had a neighbor offer to sell us her Power Wheels that her boys are too big for now...she had two...one 4-wheeler and a go-kart. Easy push of a button and off they go! The only problem was, she was selling them together b/c she only has one power extension plug to charge them...so we took them both for $50...:-) The go-kart looks brand new! LOVE IT! Decovin tried it out today and thought it was fun! We should get some good use out of those!

Other news, I have been holding off telling everyone but most everyone knows by now. I started Weight Watchers on the 17th of April and since then, I have lost 9.6lbs. I am very excited about this and hope to get back into all of my pre-pregnancy clothes soon! Bob has been a great support and that helps A LOT! So, there it is.

That's all I have so far. I'm headed to Amanda's tonight for a sleep-over in her new townhouse...Wine will be involved! :-) Cheers!

Uh-Oh!

No longer can we leave things on the back of the couch and think Decovin won't get them...that's right...he has learned to climb up on the couch! Yesterday, Bob told me that he left the room for a minute and when he came back in the living room, Decovin was on the couch playing with the remotes...then today, I am in the computer room and I come out to check on him and "poof" he is on the couch playing with the remotes again! So, I haven't actually "SEEN" him climb the couch, but he has done it twice now! Our lives just keep getting crazier and I LOVE it! WAY TO GO DECOVIN!