Once again my posts have been slacking BUT this time I have a good, if not great reason!!  Taedon is going to be a big brother in late January 2013!  We found out around Memorial Day (the same time I had my poison ivy) but just recently started telling people.  We like to wait until the 12 week mark to spread the news.  According to our 12 week ultrasound, we are having another boy.  We both saw him on the screen but are waiting until the 20 week ultrasound to just make sure before we start to decorate the nursery.  We also found out that my gestational diabetes has already made its presence so not only did I have horrible morning sickness all summer, I was battling that as well.  But I am happy to say that for the most part, I have that under control with diet modification.  So here is the little guy!

Last weekend we took our first annual Henry family vacation.  We chose NYC for this year.  To say we had a great time is an understatement.  The trip went very smoothly and we saw a lot of great sites, ate a lot of great food and saw some great people.  So to sum it up, GREAT!  We spent our first day with Dontae's friend Amy catching up and hanging out with her beautiful family.  The two days after that, we saw as much of NYC as we could.  So here goes...

The horrible traffic trying to get on the George Washington bridge.

Luckily we were in good company while we waited.  We have fans everywhere, even Jersey!

NYC, I see you!!!!








Our first stop was the Empire State Building.  Luckily the lines were minimal and we didn't have to wait long.  The entire process to get to the top and back down takes awhile.  There are several elevators, sites, gift shops, etc that you go through on your way up and down that makes the visit long.  We didn't mind though, the building was air conditioned!

The lobby

Our best attempt at a couple picture.  

Such a cool backdrop!

I asked for cheese face and boy did I get it.

The city is so peaceful from this elevation.  I could have stayed up there for hours and just looked down.

                             Family photo

"Mom, it's Madison Square Garden!!!!"

"I would bet I'm short enough I could sneak into a game unnoticed!"

The Stock Exchange on Wall Street.  So much fun going on inside this building.  We didn't go in but I can only imagine the chaos happening.

We did run into Donald Trump Jr. while walking down the street though.  He was walking around in a suit like he owned the street.  Which honestly, he probably does.  I'm guessing he was heading into The Trump Building right across the street.

One of the new "twin towers" they are building.  The building in the right of the picture is the other one.  They definitely don't match and are different heights but that is probably a great idea in my opinion.  It will make them blend in better.  Still impressive.

The park area at ground zero.  It was really pretty.

The survivor tree.  This tree is/was between the two buildings and somehow survived it all.

Probably my favorite picture from the trip.  You can see us all and Taedon kept making funny faces into the mirror of the side of the building.

The fountains were amazing.  It really reflected how large the buildings were just in their footprint alone.

In all of the pictures with me, Taedon was more into my necklace than paying attention for a picture.  We tried I guess.

Taedon wasn't overly fond of the train rides.

"Hello, room service?  I would like a large chocolate milk, a hot dog and some Gerber puffs.  And hurry up.  I had a long day of riding in the stroller and I'm beat."





WHEW....wasn't day one fun!?!?!?!  We enjoyed it but it was super hot and a lot of walking.  I wasn't sure how we would survive day two.  But we did and here it goes.

Times Square

Taedon fell asleep on our way to Times Square (our first stop of day two).  I guess two days of hardly any naps will catch up with a toddler.  He fell asleep shortly after this picture.

This wasn't on our "to visit" list but we were happy to stumble upon it.  Such a cool building.

Another accidental find.

I was hoping to run into Tina Fey.  No such luck.

Rockafeller Plaza - A very kind woman asked if we wanted a family picture.  We finally got one!  Too bad Taedon was still asleep.  He slept the entire morning.

Grand Central Station

Inside.  I was hoping a flash mob would break out.  Guess no one was in the mood.  So fun to watch the people all on a mission to be somewhere.  Taedon finally woke up for this.

So we gave him the Nemo we got for him at the Disney Store in Times Square while he was sleeping.  He was so excited.  He watched this movie on the way to NYC in the car.  He can almost say Nemo but it sounds more like Mama.

                            Central Park

The grand finale...FAO Schwarz!  I was so excited to take Taedon.  Needless to say he enjoyed himself.

The big piano!

One of the employees was driving this around.  Taedon chased it for a good 10 minutes.  So we got him his own age appropriate remote control car.  

Finishing the day watching Nemo with his new Nemo

Hope you enjoyed our trip as much as we did.  I have some other pictures from July and will do a post of them soon to catch everyone up.

So what has been going on in the Henry household lately.  Not a whole lot which is why no post for awhile.  I spent almost a month recovering from the worst case of poison ivy ever.  It was horrible so needless to say we stayed around the house because going out in public was a bit embarrassing.  Daddy went to Japan for work for ten days and to say Taedon missed him is an understatement.  He barely ate and cried all the time.  It probably didn't help that he was/is also getting eight new teeth all at once at the same time too.  Luckily my poison ivy was gone by then.  One issue at a time!

Taedon loves to say "da du" (thank you) all day long.  You hand him something, he says thank you.  He hands you something he says thank you.  It's cute and makes for a very polite 14 month old while out in public.  He also loves to get his hands on paper and shred it and bring you each tiny piece one at a time and say think you with every piece.

So here goes for a few pictures and videos from the past few weeks.

I can't remember why we had chocolate cake but he stuffed his entire mouth full of it and just sat there like "now what?"

It's not very often that Taedon has to get out of bed before he is ready in the morning but one morning we needed to leave the house early and of course he slept in that day.  I decided to use the occasion to get cute sleeping pictures of him.  None of these woke him up and I still had to nudge him repeatedly.

While Dontae was in Japan, we had a rather cute dinner guest one night.  This deer has come back to hang out in our back yard several times since this.  Dontae said the other day there were also two baby deer in our yard.

While Dontae was in Japan, the weather was super nice so we went for nightly walks.  No stroller needed for this grown up little boy.  He now walks the dog for us.  It would take us 30 minutes to walk half a block but both kid and dog enjoyed it.  Luckily Niko is a perfectly behaved dog so that I feel comfortable letting him be walked by the mini me.

Since Dontae does bath time when he is home I never get pictures of Taedon during his bath.  I got a few cute ones during our two weeks of bath fun.  Here was my favorite.

Shampoo mohawk and awesome water levitation.

I got some awesome assistance making dinner the other night.  It's amazing when you dump a bowl of flour, how fast an entire room can be covered in white powder.  Taedon was not thrilled with his new look that he gave himself.

Niko is now six years old.  Wow!  We celebrated by getting him some new treats, busy bones (his favorite) and a new toy that he destroyed in seconds.  I would say he had a great birthday.

Poor toy never stood a chance.  Niko has an issue with ropes.  He sees one and it is like his brain says MUST...DESTROY...IMMEDIATELY.

Taedon kept teasing him with his bag of Beggin Strips.  He would bring it to Niko, then take it away and walk around with it and of course Niko would follow.

Such a cutie.

Since it has been very warm lately, I put a bowl of water outside for Niko since he overheats once the sun comes out.  He loves the sun but can only be in it for a few minutes.  Taedon apparently thought the bowl was for him to play with.

I finally found a way to keep them both contained.  Taedon enjoyed it, Niko, not so much.

My beautiful hibiscus I bought on my first Mother's Day last year is blooming again.  The flowers are as big as Taedon's head!

With my some of my birthday money I bought myself a bigger diaper bag.  I kept having to take two bags on day trips to take enough cloth diapers with me and decided that I just needed to get one big one for long trips out.  As you can see, Taedon fits in it so I think I got it big enough!

Critter update:  Myrtle the turtle has not come back and Lenny the lizard's beautiful tail has fallen off.  We discovered a large, beautifully ugly black snake living in our front flower bed that thankfully we have not seen again (I tried to get a picture but it slithered off way too fast) and these huge moths (?) were on our tree the other morning.

 For Memorial Day since it was super hot and our AC broke (again) we got outside and tried out his new water table.  He LOVED it!