Late November Photos

Mmmmm... apple crisp and whipped cream!


Ro-man painting. Not quite sure about the feeling of paint on his fingers!
Once upon a time Mama had a cupboard for pots, pans, and lids...
Still loving those apples!

October has been a busy month for Ro-Man & family! We have done a lot of tractoring with Grandpa, breadmaking with Grammy, and fall cleanup with Mama & Dadda. Halloween was exciting, although Ro-Man couldn't quite figure out why he had to put on this silly hat to visit all of these people.

Tractor hiding in leaves at Grammy's house:
Ro-Man-ephant
Mmmm...Cheerios...

Mmmmm...Cheese Puff Thingies

Road Trip!

Ro-man and family left on Wednesday to go visit the great-grandparents in Ohio. Ro-man wasn't quite sure about the whole "load the entire house into the back of the station wagon" thing that was happening on Tuesday. It was so disconcerting that he decided that it would be wise to stay up all night on Tuesday night, so Mama and Dadda only got about 3 hours of sleep.

We left at 8 am on Wednesday and made our first stop in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Ro-man got his first experience with the McDonald's playground. After a brief stop there, we continued westward toward New York.

Our next stop was at Pine Lake, the Environmental Campus of Hartwick College, in Oneonta, New York. Dadda lived at Pine Lake when he was a student at Hartwick, and we spent a couple of hours wandering around visiting his old haunts. This photo is from The Meadow at Pine Lake.

We had dinner at the Neptune Diner in Oneonta, then proceeded through cow country north to I-90. We stopped for the night about 15 miles east of Rochester.

On Thursday we drove along Route 5 and visited Erie State Park. Ro-man got to put his feet in Lake Erie and enjoy his favorite snack.

He then enjoyed a nap while Mama and Dadda enjoyed the scenery in New York and Pennsylvania wine country.

We then took the interstate south and were in Poland, Ohio (near Youngstown) in time for dinner.

Great Nanna and Great Poppa were thrilled to see Ro-man walking all over and getting into everything. Their cats were not as pleased, however! Ro-man has been playing hide-and-seek with them since we arrived.

This morning we walked around the condo complex with Great Poppa and enjoyed lunch directed by Great Nanna. Everyone took a break for a nap after lunch, and we are expecting more fun and games this afternoon and evening. Ro-man and his entourage are planning to head east again on Saturday and hope to get home before dinner on Sunday.

Ro-Man is 14 months old

We haven't been doing a very good job of taking Ro-Man's monthly photos, but here are a few from the past week:

Enjoying Grammie's Blueberry Pie

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Doing the Dishes

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Cousin Amanda’s Visit:

Lobster:

Hanging with the Cuz:

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Cleaning up storm damage on the tractor

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Ro-man's adventure

Ro-Man's daddy brought to my attention that I haven't updated the blog and people have been asking about Ro-Man's eye. He finished his drops and doesn't have to go back to the ophthalmologist until February. We're glad that ordeal is over!

He still loves to ride on Grandpa's tractor and is horribly offended if we don't go over there every single day to play! We are still trying to find fun things to do at home, but nothing can come close to the tractor.

Ro-man and Daddy recently survived 44 hours without Mama while she went with Cousin Amanda to see the Red Sox play for their last game in Yankee Stadium before it is demolished this year. The ladies tried to cram as much fun into 2 days as was possible: they took the train from Boston to New York and stayed near Times Square. The Red Sox lost after starting out with a 2-run lead. Jason Giambi (traitor to the A's and Red Sox Nemesis) hit the tying 2-run homer and the base hit that scored the winning run in the 9th inning.

Daddy was too busy to take photos of their adventure, so here are photos from Mama's trip:

Mama & Amanda at the 128 Station



Empire State at night:


Our breakfast spot:


There were A's fans everywhere! These ones flagged Amanda down at the diner:




At the game:

Amanda wants to see a game, eat a hot dog, and get a program at every major league ballpark before she's 30. The Yankees are too cheap to buy enough programs to last the month, so she's going to have to order one. But here's the hot dog!



Lester warming up:



Masterson warming up (before he loaded the bases and got pulled from the game):

The good news is that so far Ro-Man has managed to avoid eye surgery. He has been on steroid drops since seeing the pediatric ophthalmologist last Tuesday. If he continues to improve, he'll be off the drops and good as new. If his eye doesn't heal, then he will have surgery.

He isn't letting any of this stop him, though! His new favorite thing is to ride on his Grandpa's tractor. For hours. Fortunately for all, Grandpa is flattered by this and drives him all over town. More later as I have to get back to building block towers so Ro-Man can destroy them.

Ro-man had a piece of metal the size of a grain of sand removed from his eye yesterday. That was after spending 2 hours at Quick Care then 6.5 hours in the E.R. only for them to tell us that the ophthamologist on call wouldn't be coming in, but we should go to his office on Saturday. So Rowan and I went on Saturday and found out that the ophthamologist was expecting a 25-year-old guy. Soooo...faced with the option of an in-office attempt or going back to the E.R. and hoping that a pediatric ophthamologist would come in on a Saturday (yeah, right), I opted for the in-office. It wasn't fun, but he got it out and other than being a little swollen, Ro-man seems to be OK.

Today we went to the beach. BRRRR! We had a blast playing in the seaweed and the rocks.

Here are more pictures from Rowan's birthday. On his actual birthday we went to the beach. He had a ball and didn't want to get out of the water (even when his lips were blue). He takes after Daddy in that regard!

Ro-Man is 1!

Happy Birthday Ro-Man!

Pause for the Applause!

Ro-Man is walking! Mama and Dadda are in big trouble now...