Home Sweet Home
We're on our way home now. We left two weeks ago for Victoria to visit Matt’s parents and to drop Henry off. Gram Mellie and Grandpa Bob kept him while I went on another business trip with my honey bunny. Matt had some work to do for a few days at this 5 star resort in Arizona. I couldn’t let him go there alone, so I tagged along, lounged by the pool and visited the spa. We stayed through the weekend -- caught a movie, shopped and enjoyed being babyless. We missed Henry a bunch, talked about him a lot and couldn’t wait to see him.
Our mini-vacation didn’t end there. We headed back to Victoria to get our little guy and hang for a week at the Bryarly Spa and Resort. Their fabulous new house in the country is situated on 10 acres full of oak trees and wildlife. (Including a guinea named Sirus.) It was like going from one resort to another. Except this second resort was a little more labor-intensive with Henry, painting and getting the house in order before 20 or so people arrived on Thanksgiving day.

Henry was beside himself pretty much all day. His bottom molar was coming in, so he cried a lot and wouldn’t eat anything -- not even turkey.

About the only thing that calmed him down were ice chips, but that made his gums bleed. So we took him next door to see the cows. He forgot all about his teeth.

He’s better today, which is good because that would have made for a long drive home.

Walk & Roll Henry
Henry walked today!!! He stood up by himself over at Gramme & Grandpa's last weekend. But today he took steps!

We have "It's Fun to be One" playgroup on Mondays now, so we were playing over at Max's house. Henry really liked looking out the back window at Max's dogs. I stood him up just a few steps from the french doors and he took 6 or 8 steps toward the windows. He'd pat on the door saying, "da, da". He also walked between Amanda and I a few times. Then when Matt got home, we got a video of him taking some steps. Yeah Henry!

It's a good thing Shackleford is still around. Don't tell Henry, but I tried to get rid of Shack when Henry was just a few months old. Well, they are great buds now. Henry says, "Chak-Chak".