Living in Georgia

We made it home tonight after a long drive home....with a stop in Macon, GA to visit the BassPro Shop!! It gave us a couple hours to feed Ethan and let Jack get his wiggles out. We bought the boys stuffed fish and Jack was so excited to get it that he put it in pj's and took him to bed tonight (after naming his Fishy Swim). As you can see there are no photo's posted. This is due to a camera accident at the beach. We managed to drop the camera and must have gotten sand in there somewhere. We could take pictures at first, but then only Jason could get it to work. I went to download the past several days worth of photos only to find a formatting error notice flashing on the camera screen. I already missed a ton of good pictures of Jason on the beach with the boys and now if I can't even download the ones I have on my camera I'm going to be very upset. Jason said he'd take a look tomorrow and hopefully I can get to them. Then we're heading out to buy a new

What a busy few days we've had doing basically nothing!! The weather has been so nice lately that we've mainly spent time at the beach. Yesterday Jack and Nana built lots of sandcastles up and down the beach - there must have been half a dozen or more - each one with a flag (sticks) or two in them and a moat. He had a blast. Ethan wasn't too sure of the beach andcean the first time he was on it. He became very clingy and didn't want to be sat down on the blanket. Every time I did, he would turn himself around and reach out for me. Then, when holding him, if you tried to turn him around to look out, he would turn around and cling on to me and Nana. I think it was a bit to loud with the waves crashing onto the beach and a bit too windy. Today he did much better! Last night, Friday, was very exciting for us as they had a Space Shuttle launch at 7:55p. The weather was really clear and we could actually see it from our beachfront timeshare. We gathered around the TV

We had a very successful trip down in the car from Atlanta to Daytona Beach on Tuesday. We left around 9:30a and arrived about 7:30p. We had 4 stops, two of which were quick gas and bathroom stops. Here we stopped just over the boarder of Florida and had some fresh Florida orange juice. Jack loved it! We spent about an hour here letting Jack run around and get his wiggles out, which gave me a chance to feed Ethan and let him roll around on the grass and get his wiggles out, too!! It was dark when we arrived, but we still had to check out the ocean. Jack wasn't quite sure what to make of it but since we've now seen it in the daytime, we go out each night and say goodnight to the ocean. While we are on vacation, as you can see, I'm still busy checking out my coupons! I can't go to the grocery store without first checking what's on sale and how I can get the best deal. It's much harder to do when you're picking foods to eat for a two week trip, as oppose

We're heading off for Daytona Beach, FL in the morning so I've got to make this short. It's already about 10:30p and I still have packing to do. In the last couple of days, Ethan has managed to go from getting up on elbows and knees to one arm, one elbow and knees, to now getting up on all fours! I predict that he will be crawling in a few weeks - if not sooner! We finally got to bathe both the boys together in the tub, now that Ethan has mastered sitting on his own. It's so much easier this way and both Jack and Ethan LOVED it. Jack is so great with Ethan, always wanting to help him and be involved in everything he does. Of course, that will probably change once Ethan is crawling to get to Jack's toys! Will post more from the beach with lots of good pictures and stories - hopefully. Cheers!

It's been a long day for us here. We're all feeling a little under the weather and Ethan is cutting his first two teeth! I thought I had seen two little white spots on his top gums and kept trying to get him to laugh so I could keep looking and then today his speech therapist confirmed that she, too, felt some teeth coming in. Normally the bottom teeth come in first in kids, but Downs babies often times get their teeth in weird patterns, so I'm happy that at least he's getting the top two and not some back molars or something else first! Jack is such a big help for me these days. This is him helping me to make some trail mix. He won't eat it, but he's all about helping me to make it. We did discover that he likes the candy Smarties. He got a bunch on Halloween and has been scarfing it down. He had about 3 packs one day and man when the sugar kicked in he was a wild child. We've since severely limited his intake. Ethan is getting so close to crawling.

We spent a sunny, warm Sunday up in the North Georgia mountains with out new friends, Lisa and Bob, who's 2 1/2 year old daughter, McKenna, also has Down syndrome. We stopped at Uncle Bob's Corn Maze where Jack led us all through the corn maze. There was also a petting zoo, where Jack (and Ethan) pet and fed the pigs, bunnies, goats and chickens. Then we all went on a tractor ride around the farm. When we were done, we drove up a little farther north to visit an Apple Farm store where they sold everything apple - apple butter, apple juice, apple bread, apple salsa, etc. It was a great day and we can't wait to get back up there for more apples!!