Vivian is lying in her bed starring at the ceiling fan in Terry/Kim's living room. Actually she's chatting with it as well =) She started giggling and smiling more regularly now. Kimberley gets her chatting up a storm. Terry, Kim and John hit a bday party last night for a little while and Viv/I hung out at the house and caught up. It's been a week and I've been able to hold her maybe once. The relatives were definitely smitten with her. Dad and Mom of course were a whole different story. I think Mom bribed a TSA at the airport to find out the exact second I landed and Dad wouldn't let me even touch the car seat the whole time. At one point I was leaning on the door, he jumped out of the car (I'm not sure we had come to a complete stop, the car wasn't in park yet) and opened the back door to grab Vivian and I almost flew out into the front yard of his house. Well, at least I know she's very very loved. Still have a lot of fun times to talk about. We were down in Philly for 3 days, then Vermont for 5 days (one with Deb, Joe, Ruthie and Vaughn) and now here in Granby for a few. Viv had her first date on Thursday with an older boy - he was about 10 days older. Wow the stories to tell and I've got a few snapshots of them too. I'm going to crash back out, it's a little after 7am here. Viv is starting to quiet down a bit and I'm going to get some more sleep.

That would be either my mom or dad calling me on the phone and letting me know how they feel about no pictures of the granddaughter *grin* Imagine that! Can't keep them waiting that long again or I'm afraid the consequences might be deadly...for me. Click here or the picture for the latest Vivian montage I'm playing with a new wrap I got, it's a T-Shirt material, real comfy and it's got 5 different ways to hold her. We tried out forward-facing while getting the mail today. Such rebels we are huh?

hit the sonic burger yesterday. all the time spent in so. California and i think i hit the drive-in sonic just once. was thinking about doing the whole stall/car-hop thing, but there was a picnic table open and did that instead. so i guess that makes it table-hopping, because they still came out on skates. there were a few with skates and a few with blades. only saw 1 person with just shoes on - spoil sport! after that we took a long drive through hazeldale, scholls, sherwood and the likes. there are a ton of blueberry, raspberry, marionberry and other berry farms out there. john said that he and his mom use to go out there a lot and go to the u-pick places - sounds like a fun afternoon. i just dug on the drive/scenery it was a great time. i remember when john and i were first dating we took a road trip, though i don't remember to where, but i do remember we were listening to an 80's station and singing at the top of our lungs. i knew we were perfectly matched =) i really think you get to know a person when you take a vacation, road trip or something where you are spending a lot of time together. i think it can make or break a relationship (like dumping Brian in Greece on our trip) the weather has been really hot and trying to keep cool. Vivian has just been kicking it with just her bottoms on, of course then people say "what a cute boy" - nope she's just a naked girl *grin* although yesterday she was wearing this lil' outfit that Travis and Krista got her that has dogs driving cars and someone still said "cute boy" sure i know at this age babies look like babies, it's hard to tell what sex, but at the same time i'm not going to be dressing her in pink all the time just so people can identify gender. john and i were talking about that the other day when we bought some bottles that had airplanes on them instead of flowers. hell some of my favorite toys when i was a kid were big metal tonka toys and my dad's army gear. screw stereotypes!