July Indiana Visit!!

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When I think of Indiana my heart just races and I get exited. Excited to see family and friends...Indiana is where my heart is. Every time we visit it gets a little harder to come back to New Orleans and leave everyone I love, but we are stuck right now and there's nothing I can do about it. Stu and I make the best of a situation neither one of us is all that thrilled about. The city is truly beautiful and we know we won't be here forever (we hope not) and that thought makes it bearable.

Our trip was great. Every time we've visited since Cohen was born it's only been with family and this time we actually spent time with our friends...and we had a blast. We spent a little time with family too (pictured above), but the reason for the trip was to see all of our friends at the Oldenburg Fruedenfest. I forgot my camera so there are no pictures to post of the Fruedenfest.

On Saturday we went to Grandma Edna's to visit with her and all the other cousins. There are six babies all within 3 months of each other right now and watching them play together is just hilarious. All the babies can crawl but Cohen. He just gets on all four and humps right now. He gets frustrated that he can't crawl. As always we brought Cohen's favorite thing in the entire world (other that jars of baby food - that might actually be his favorite thing) we brought Tina the giraffe. Cohen was not the only baby who enjoyed Tina. Tina was a popular little giraffe that day....everyone seemed to get a turn chewing on her...thanks Mimi for getting Cohen Tina.

We won't be back in Indiana until Christmas....and that makes me sad, but we do have a lot of family and friends coming our way for a visit!!

Thanks to Mimi and Grandpa Dave we have pictures of our visit!!!

Blueberry Picking - Poplarville, MS

Blueberry Picking
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We went blueberry picking this morning. We paid $10 a gallon for our hand-picked blueberries. Since blueberries are a staple of my grocery list this will save us some money...I normally pay $5 for a tiny container. Picking was fun and there were a few other families out picking early this morning too. Cohen, as always, was excellent. He just talked in his hiker and grabbed branches as we passed by. It was really hot and the little guy was sweating like crazy. He did manage to give us a scare...since everything goes in this kid's mouth nowadays he managed to pull off a leafy twig and get it into his mouth. He started making gagging noises and i turned around and saw a big leafy branch hanging out of his mouth, but with a quick finger swipe I got it out. He just looked at me like "what was that"?...he's so funny. Here are some more pictures from our day.

VIDEO - PIANO/FLIP FLOPS

VIDEO - PIANO/FLIP FLOPS
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I have no idea how Stu and I created such a beautiful baby! We are so blessed to have such a wonderful little man in our lives. He brings a lot of happiness everywhere he goes.

Hiking at the Bonnet Carre

Hiking at the Bonnet Carre
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We woke up early and decided to head to the Bonnet Carre to hike. It was such a gorgeous day. Cohen loved the baby hiker we have and he was all smiles and very talkative the entire hike. Next time I'll pack bug repellent...mosquitos were really bad. The bugs in general were bad. I'm not one to be scared of bugs but never in my life have I seen grasshoppers this large. They were about the size of a tennis ball. I screamed a lot. Looking forward to next weekend...hiking in Mississippi!!

Holding a bag of muffalettas

Holding a bag of muffalettas
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I got into work this morning and like always checked my email and then decided to cruise over and look back at some old pictures of me and Stu and I came accross this one. It just makes me smile remembering this day. We went out and shot pictures the entire day and on the way home we stopped and picked up some muffalettas. I just adore this picture and my handsome husband. I just love him to pieces!

Destin - Family Vacation

Our first family vacation was to Destin, FL. We had so much fun. We are very blessed to have such a good baby that actually makes vacationing with a 6 month old easy. He's not fussy. He hardly cries. He sleeps through the night. He sleeps in late. He is just a very laid back little man who is so funny.

We got up about 7AM on Wednesday morning. Got ready....got Cohen dressed and headed out for a 5 hour drive to Destin. We stopped at Shoney's and hit up the breaskfast buffet...boy was it good. So with full bellies and excitement we drove to Destin.

Our condo was great. Our view was great. The condo was huge. The pool was nice. The beach was beautiful!  It was awesome. We upacked the cooler and of course headed straight for the beach. To my surprise Cohen was scared of the waves. He clung to me hard every time the waves came in.

We were a little concerned about whether or not the oil spill had affected the area we were staying in, but it hadn't yet. The day we left the tar balls starting washing up on shore. So we planned or vacation right in time.

On day two of use being there we got up early and went to wal-mart to pick up some food and we happened to run across a very AWESOME walker....cohen just had to have. We hurried up...checked out....and drove home to put Cohen's new walker together.  We figured it might take him a little while to figure out how to operate it, but boy were we wrong. As soon as his little legs hit the ground he took off. Check out the video on flickr. He had us laughing so hard.

Memorial Day Weekend!

Nancy and Dave came in for a visit. It was nice to have family visit.

We ate some snowballs:

I got red teeth and lips.

We ate crawfish twice....Nancy and Dave love it as much as we do:

We took a few walks, which Cohen loved. Cohen got a little grumpy on one of the naps so Grandma carried him for awhile, but big boy wore grandma out. He's heavy....so daddy carried him the rest of the way. 

We went to Audubon Park. Dave and Stu played washers while Grandma Nancy, Cohen and I played on the blanket. 

Here are some more pictures form our weekend.