headphones

now that we are at diana's mom and david's house for the summer, i've got lots of work to do!  david has hired me for the summer to do a bunch of work around the house.  lawn work, cleaning, and construction will be my main focus for the summer.  with all this time working, i get the chance to listen to whatever i want while i go about taking care of everything i need to do.  this has lead me to listening to a bunch of podcasts!  i've been listening to podcasts for a while now, i get the chance to listen while i work on saturdays at meijer, but now i've got tons more listening time so i've been finding a few new ones to keep my ears busy while my hands are busy too.  every time i come in from working around the house, ledger is curious about the headphones that i've got hanging out of my shirt.  well, i thought i would show him what they are for, and he totally loved it!  the look on his face the first time i held one up to his ear was priceless!  he was so confused by all that sound coming from what seemed like no where!  he figured it out quickly, and now every time i'm wearing them he wants to listen too!
(podcasts i've been enjoying)

stink away

one of the side effects of staying with diana's mom and david for the summer is that david is allergic to dogs.  that means that our little stinky poco is not going to be able to join us!  fortunately, diana's dad stepped up to the challenge and offered to take him for the summer!  we are so thankful that he's willing to watch our little gross dog for us- what a lifesaver!  we are still able to visit him as often as we like, her dad only lives about 15 minutes away, and he's got a huge fenced in yard for poco to play in, so i dont think he will mind too much!

dada all day

school is done!  another year in the record books for me!  after all the graduation stuff and grades finished, i was able to join my wife and son at mom and david's place in south bend.  its been so amazing to be able to spend the whole day with ledger!  i've always been a bit jealous of diana because she gets to spend all day with ledger, seeing all the new things he's able to understand and do, while i'm stuck working and missing out on all his new developments.  well, no more!  now that summer is here i will be able to spend as much time with our little guy as i want!  this is definitely the thing i am most looking forward to this summer!  the little moments of playing, getting to read to him, sharing lunchtime together.  i cant wait!

saturday walk

one of ledger's favorite things lately has been going outside to just walk around.  since he's gotten better at walking on his own, i try to give him every opportunity to practice his new skill!  saturday he and i got up early and let mama sleep a little longer, so we headed out into the great outdoors and wandered around the neighborhood for a while.  it being saturday morning and one of the first beautiful weather days, the neighborhood was packed with people in their yards and driveways working and enjoying the weather.  as we went along we had about seven or eight neighbors stop and chat with us for a while, wondering how old our little ledger is getting these days and marveling at his amazing walking skills!  very impressive, son, very impressive!

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car swap

after the great time in grand rapids, we headed down to diana's mom and david's place to get the car we had left there over the weekend.  since we're there, we might as well hang out for the day, right?  ledger, once again, has a blast with another whole new set of toys!  what a lucky kid, everywhere he goes he's got new toys!  with only one week of school left, we are both counting down the days until we spend the summer there.  we will see you again soon, mom and david!
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