Helping Dada Pack

I went upstairs to see how Greg was doing packing for his next work trip. Josh had followed saying he was going to help. This is not unusual, but this time Greg really did let Josh pack for him. He had taken a whole laundry basket of clothes and tried to fill Greg's suitcase. It might not have been so bad if they were Greg's....they were mostly all my clothes and my flip flops. He said I was going with him. This isn't the best picture, but it was pretty funny. I got a good video of it, but I'll spare everyone from watching it. I'm sure it's only amusing to me and Greg.

Spiky Hair

Josh's head is all dry and yucky :(
So I rubbed a ton of lotion into it so it spiked all up.
Josh loved it. He kept staring in the mirror laughing at himself.

Happy Fourth of July!

Uncle Kenzie helped out on the roof and Greg and
Josh gathered up all the pine needles in their wheelbarrows.

Josh did great! I have been meaning to have him try his own sparklers for over a year now.
He loved it!

New Hat

I got Greg this Survivor buff at the CBS store in NYC.
Josh LOVES it!

Best Thing Ever

I hate it when little man gets a diaper rash. It just hurts me to see him suffer. He handles most things really well, but he always cries when I have to change his diaper with a bad diaper rash.

I think he ate too much junk at the in-laws, even though no one agrees with me. But he has had this since we got home. :(

The best thing ever made to help with this is the oatmeal bath. It helps it heal right away and I highly recommend that everyone should have some on hand at all times to help out their little one's bottoms.

We also have started using the Aveeno diaper cream. It's hard to find, but worth the search. I really want a spray on that works just as well, but haven't found it yet.

New York City: Day 5

I had planned to get up and go swimming. Mainly because it was a pool...on a rooftop...in NEW YORK CITY! But, I was so tired I barely got out of the hotel to finish the museums I wanted to go to.

I barely got a glimpse of the park and it had so many different sides to it. It's so crazy. Everything we call outside in so many different ways, hidden forest trails, large grass fields, small playgrounds, etc. but they go and have it all in one location. Crazy!!!

The Met was great. I don't think I got to see it all though. It's so big with so many connecting rooms you would have to spend days there!

The Natural History Museum was neat too. I'm so glad I got to go to so many places!!!

This was in the museum. It was a big dome where they did a show about the stars. It was free with my pass. It felt so good and the chairs were so comfy that I nodded off for a minute. It was a great show about the stars. The narration was annoying, I wish I had my iPod, but it was still a good experience.

I would never have made it if it wasn't for the subway. What a blessing!!!! As it was, I barely made it alive to meet Greg. I was still walking by shear will of survival. It was a long week with A LOT of walking! We ended up sitting in the hotel lobby for about an hour before taking a taxi to the airport. I wanted to keep going and look around more, but I couldn't get out of the chair! Oh well. We had a GREAT trip. I am so happy I went. I missed Josh terribly, but it would not have been the right place for him.

Oh yeah, we ended up getting one more great thing. This cupcake place called Crumbs was so awesome! We each got a cupcake on the way out and ate them at the airport. It is a good thing they don't have them here. I can't afford the price or the calories! :)

When we flew back into town it was dark so on our way home we could see the city lights. I literally could not stop laughing b/c it was just so small!!!

New York City: Day 4 - Happy Birthday Greg!

This guy looked cool. He was obviously dressed like the Statue of Liberty.

So I took the ferry out to the Statue of Liberty Island. I highly recommend that if anyone ever goes to NYC, you get the City Pass. It saves a ton of money and if you buy it somewhere w/o a big line, you get to skip most of the lines for the other stuff, including this. My line was at least 1/3 of the line where people had to purchase a separate ticket.
The wind was so crazy! And I'm stylin' my new NYC glasses. They have the little Broadway theater masks on the sides. LOVE THEM!!! And they were only $6!!!

This picture is so great. It really represents what I was staring up at. It looks so fake. It did in person too. Very surreal to stare up at this idol that I've seen pictures of and heard about my whole life. So neat to see it in person.

Next, I went to Ellis Island. Again, I've heard so much about it, but it's so much more real being there. This thing was neat. If you stand to one side, it looks like the flag. If you walk to the other side, it shows all different faces of immigrants.

They have a whole section of International barbies from the past and present. There were tons, but the Eiffel Tower one was my favorite. They had it for sale but I didn't want to spend $50 on a Barbie.

This was just inside the hall.

There were a ton of rooms that took you through every step of the process the immigrants went through. It was very educational. I guess I never really paid attention.

After I took the ferry back to Manhattan, I went and waited outside Greg's building until he was finished. I can't believe I forgot to mention this so far...I had a few books with me on the trip. I had one with me at all times so I could just sit, read and enjoy being there. I went into the library and read for about an hour and some other places. So I just read and waited for Greg. Then we walked all around where his conference was. This was on Wall Street. Hitch anyone?


There wasn't much to take pictures of at the Twin Towers site. It's mainly new construction. But these two neat things are on that street.

We took the subway and stopped at Grand Central Station. So awesome!

Then we met Joey's brother at his office. Yes, these three pictures are of his OFFICE BUILDING. I would never get to work somewhere so cool.

We went out to eat at a Jewish deli then headed back to the hotel.

I gave Josh a few things including a Survivor buff I got him at the CBS store. He LOVES it!