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This & That

Here are some random photos from our first week here....

Playing playdoh.

Watching cartoons on mama & daddy's bed...and eating a snack.

Talking on the phone...real and fake.

Picking the deers nose. :) 

Playing at the playground and apparently he didn't want some girl

climbing the stairs by him. 

 

Playing in his room. 

I promise we don't stay in our jammies every day. Just some of them. :) 

Our First Weekend in LA

Friday morning we got up and ate breakfast at the hotel. Miller was chugging some juice once again....

Then headed to our apartment for the long day of unloading & unpacking

Break time for movie and books

Having fun popping bubble wrap with daddy

 Snuggles with Gamma at dinner (even though he looks bored),

playing with toys from Grammy

Easter basket (he looks thrilled) Yes, I know he has on Christmas jammies in April. :)  

We went to the historic downtown area in Monroe and walked around for a while. Miller had fun running on the bridge while daddy or Gampa chased him.

All that running wore the little guy out.

He loves his Toy Story pillow that Grammy made him!!

Then it was time to hit the playground. He was very careful to hold the handrails. I'm surprised he went down the big twisty slide. He looked a little worried at first, but then he loved it. Of course, Buzz had to slide too. He would let Buzz go down first, then he would come down. 

We had a lot of fun with Gamma & Gampa here with us on our first weekend and were very sad to see them go!!! 

Louisiana, here we come!

We headed out of Newcastle about 9:30am. We had planned on 8am, but we couldn't find the cord to plug in the dvd player, which was a must, so my mom went to buy one for us and we met up with her at our house. Grammy saved the day! :) 

Our caravan: Miller, Gamma and I in Gampa's truck (pulling a U-Haul trailer) Eli behind us in his truck, and Tom behind him in the moving truck. It was a slow trip since we couldn't drive over about 60mph. 

Miller got started watching Rio, a new movie to him. As you can see, he was really into it and we have watched it MANY times since.  Grammy (my mom) worked hard and packed a bag FULL of stuff for Miller to do on the way there and once we got here. I pulled out a toy when we stopped for gas. He loved his tiny Mr. Potato Head. He was feeding it a goldfish in this picture. He smacks his lips together to make eating noises. :) 

McDonald's break! He took over Gamma's strawberry lemonade. If he likes a drink, he doesn't stop, he chugs it.

We stopped at a cute baker in Tyler, TX. I'd seen it both times Eli and I had made the drive and thought it looked fun to stop at. It was really good! I tried the cheesecake. Maybe more than one slice. (they were small)

Miller got to eat a couple cookies, which made him haaapy. 

This is one of my very favorites of him ever.

Then, we drove some more and finally made it to the Louisiana border.

We stopped in Shreveport to eat seafood at Ralph & Kacoo's (I ate a grilled chicken salad) :) And then, at 9:30pm we finally made it to our hotel and we were tired for sure!!! 

Ready or not...here we go!

Well....we've settled into our apartment in Louisiana. It's not really feeling like 'home' yet, but I'm working to make it feel that way. We've been here almost 2 weeks, so I thought it was time to post some pictures of our journey.

We'd been packing for about a month, here and there and it's a good thing because we have  ALOT OF STUFF! The day we packed the moving truck, we had several big strapping men to help out....

Seriously, they were a huge help!! They packed up our house in no time.

Miller loved running up and down the ramp

And playing in the big truck

 

He played so much that he fell asleep in Gampa's truck. Everything was packed so he just slept on some pillows on the floor.

That evening, after we said our sad goodbyes, we spent the night at Gamma & Gampa's house. Eli had our suitcase in his truck and he was playing basketball at the church, so after Miller's bath, he got to wear one of his uncle Ben's t-shirts. I'd say he wore it well. :) 

Next up....road trip pictures.