May already!

Enjoying the slide, doesn't he look grown up?


Enjoying independence feeding himself his yogurt


Enjoying the wagon~ thanks Julie & Johnny! And no he didn't try to jump out after the ball that fell out~ that wouldn't be good!


A previous fishing trip, his own pole, for a few days :)


Mom & William in the rain


Spring showers are going to bring spring flowers, right?? At least they bring mud puddles you can jump in if you're wearing a huge raincoat, & mud boots. Why don't they make raincoats in sizes less than 3T? I guess all the good mommies are keeping their toddlers inside!

Well I can't believe it's May already! Happy Belated Mother's Day!! I hope you ladies all had great days! We had a lazy Sunday. Jeremy & William took me too a late lunch at Red Lobster. It was very good, and of course I ate too much. Then we did a little shopping but Will quickly got a little tired of looking at electronics. (He especially loves laptops, and specifically popping off the keys, which is not probably appreciated while shopping :) So we came back to the apartment and did some relaxing. It was a good day with my guys :) And they did buy me donuts & roses while I was getting to sleep in, so I can't complain.

We have started to pack up all of the things we don't need. So now the apartment is a MESS!! The more things William sees us put in boxes, the more toys or clothes he drags out of his room, or from the laundry basket. He is eternally helpful. He is actually at the age where he loves to pick up things and help put them away, IF he wants to. I think I hear the echo of the word NO in my head even when he's napping. Last week I asked him to say anything else, so UH-OH was the word of the day. It was a refreshing break. Of course I'm pretty sure he was just tired of saying no and not actually listening to my request. :)

We haven't been up to much else. It's been lots of working for both of us, and trying to do necessary activities in our time off~ laundry, dishes and getting groceries. We did go fishing for a bit last weekend. Apparently William didn't LOVE the Pirates of the Caribbean fishing pole we bought him, and we should have bought the Sponge Bob pole (sorry grandma kathy :). After a few short trips out fishing with his new pole he finally managed to drop it into the lake from the dock, and unlike the SpongeBob pole it didn't float, so straight to the bottom it went. Oh well, we are thankful we didn't spend alot on the pole, and he obviously didn't have any attatchment to it. Actually I think he was pleased with himself because then he can go back to using our poles (which have the reels he's used to, none of this kiddie stuff:).

Sorry it's been so long since my last post. I have been trying to be better, but this month is probably going to be pretty crazy. We're making the trip to Bemidji to see the families for Memorial Day, yah!! Then the next weekend we'll be closing on our new house! And moving out in two days, thank goodness for friends... And then the first weekend in June we have a wedding and Jeremy's an usher. So if I'm on vacation for a little bit, it's really not vacation at all! I'll at least post about the move to the new house which will be here soon. You have to love moving :)

Feeling always behind....

Just a belated Happy Birthday to my Mommy (who hasn't updated in awhile)!! She had to work on her birthday but Dad & I did pick up some awesome party hats & he let me pick out the cake! Monsters vs Aliens was the first movie they ever took me too, and I was very good! Anyways Happy Birthday Mommy, we missed you, but good think you're celebrating like Uncle Sonny always did, all month long!!I'll let Mom tell you what we're up to. Love, Will :)

Here's some photos from Easter weekend. Now that I've gotten behind maybe someday I'll catch up! Then it will probably be time to move. Anyways Enjoy!!
Thanks for coming down to visit us!

Playing with Grandpa

Dying eggs

Decorating eggs with Grandma

The finished products!!

Hiking at Whitewater...he's to cute.

Three generations

One cool dude

The guides

Just like the grownups

He fits right in...

Relaxing with Grandpa


Since I posted last we haven't been up to alot. Last weekend I worked, and it's been crazy there. I had Friday off because of some classes I had this week, and they called every four hours to see if I wanted to work. So I've worked enough extra hours this week. I work nights this week Tues -Thursday and then have a few weeks of days which will be nice ;)

I had better get off to rest before work tonight. I will eventually get last weeks fishing & jungle gym photos up as well. Sending you guys hugs...

Catching Crayfish & Easter weekend

Well it's been awhile since we've posted now. Two weeks ago we caught crayfish on the river here in Rochester. It was quite the experience. Of course Jeremy found a good recipe and we had crayfish for supper on Sunday evening. It was good, but alot of work for a little bit of meat ;) Enjoy the pics. Obviously Will liked to catch the crayfish (or at least make a valiant effort and lots of splashing) more than he enjoyed sitting on the riverbank. I just couldn't leave the shot out though, he's just always been so expressive.

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Then we celebrated Easter last weekend. Every little twenty month old boy is supposed to get five easter baskets right? This one is sure loved :) First we went to the office to pick up our package and Amber, who runs the apartment building, had a few baskets left over from a little easter party they had in the office. Her basket for William was of course filled with candy which is still being carried around the apartment (especially the boxes of jelly beans). Then he opened his package from Grandpa & Grandma E & got his second basket. Thanks so much for the beach toys, outfit(ROAR!!), book & candy. The beach toys are in every room around here. :) Then on Sunday we gave him a very small basket with a book & an egg which hatches into a creature~ dinosaur or turle it's a suprise. No big suprise his parents didn't give him candy which was OK because everybody else has him all set up. Then Grandpa & Grandma D came over & we had Easter brunch & he got another bucket with books & treats. Will really enjoys the hop along bunny book & the music that comes with it. He's sure going to be a sweetheart! And last but not least we went to visit our friends Josey & Beth for dinner and they had picked him out a too cute camo basket with camo & football eggs. Another book & more chocolate for William :) Thanks Beth now he knows how to unwrap kisses all by himself! Thanks to everyone who helped to make our easter special & sweet! We love you guys!

We had a nice visit with my parents last weekend. They came down to visit us which was awesome since Jeremy had to work Good Friday. We were sad to not be able to make it home to Bemidji to see the rest of our families but it's just too much to do in two days. So we were very thankful my parents came to us this year! We got to do a little hiking in Whitewater State Park, see Soldier's Field, have lots of good food, not to mention Olive Garden for my upcoming birthday! Thanks for all of the fun times you guys, we're sooo glad you could make it!! I'll be putting up some more pictures of last weekend & our lastest fishing trip soon but I just don't have them ready yet.

Things William is up to:
*running like crazy!
*climbing & finding his way up on everything
*sitting in his rocking chair flipping thru books
*chatting with everybody he meets in the store or restaurant
*saying NO to every question mommy ask (even if he means YES!!)
*used the potty chair for the second time successfully (Go Will!)
*picking up phones and starting his imaginary conversation with HI
*blowing kisses goodbye, too sweet
*calling everybody BABY, whether your <1yr or greater than 30yr
*sucking on his baby's pacifier while carrying her around~haha
*he can reel in a fishing line faster than anybody else on the lake
*being an awesome friendly lovely little almost 2yr old boy.

Our beautiful boy


This time last year!! It's so amazing how they grow up so fast!

Fishing & then some...

Well we haven't been up to much this week. We have done lots of working & going to daycare. William has been under the weather with a bad head cold & it seems he's finally passed it on to us grownups here. I was suprised it's taken this long, as his nose has been running like a fountain since last week. At least he's been sleeping better, and not waking himself up coughing quite as often. I've heard from a few others that this is going around. We really aren't complaining, this was Will's first winter at daycare & he has hardly been sick....we've been really lucky.

My job has been really sad this spring. It's been hard to leave it all at work. It's easy to do the medical nursing care but much harder to watch people grieving for the whole twelve hour day without internalizing some of it. That's difficult but lately I've felt even worse coming home, hugging Will and being so thankful for our lives. It just isn't fair what some people go thru but I do understand that we just can't save everyone. On the other hand we have had a few AMAZING kids who are doing AWESOME!! That's why it's great to be a nurse~ there is such a variety of jobs, patients, illnesses & outcomes.

Here's a few pics of our cute son while we were out fishing lately. He really enjoys it, which you'll see below :)

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