Another Year Older!

Russell's birthday was Saturday...shame on those of you who didn't send presents!!!!

Friday was his day off so we got to spend a nice long weekend together. Sadly, Saturday was sort of uneventful. He decided not to play basketball due to a back injury he got the previous week while playing. Thankfully by Saturday he was moving around and not in pain. It was nice to have him home. It rained both Friday and Saturday mornings so he wasn't able to do the outside chores he'd been planning to get done. But, we were productive in spite of the rain. We got our entire house vacuumed--quite a feat with 3 floors and two sets of steps. Russell was a huge help and did the basement, main floor, and all the steps. I got our bedroom carpet as well as the upstairs landing cleaned with our carpet cleaner. Wow, what a difference that makes!

We also got the nursery ready to go, for the most part. We got the toddler bed taken down, all the junk that's accumulated in there put away, and got out all the things we'll need right away with a newborn. We worked so hard that we didn't even get cleaned up for the day until 4:00 that afternoon. Maybe it was nesting, or maybe it was just getting things marked off our to-do list. I'm not sure. In any case, it feels good to have those tasks accomplished.

Saturday evening we went to Abuelo's to celebrate Russ' birthday. My parents and sister joined us and we had a yummy Mexican dinner. Charles did quite well at the restaurant. We were skeptical about how he'd act because we weren't sure he actually slept when we put him in his room for nap time. He loved eating chips and dipping them like the adults. He wasn't interested in his meal, however--except for french fries he could dip in ketchup! Things were going great until I spilled his milk all over him and the floor while trying to wipe ketchup off his shirt. Oops! The staff at Abuelo's was great and was there right away to help us clean it up and bring Charles a new high chair. Of course he never got back in it and sat on Mom & Grandma's laps getting them wet too!

After dinner we came home for cake. Russell kept joking about having all 31 candles on his cake, so I obliged him. Charles figured out how to blow them out so we lit some extras for him to blow.

Russell blowing out the candles.

Charles and Grandma blowing out another candle.