kai pie: travels

For the last couple weeks we have been visiting with family and friends. We first traveled to New Kensington, Pennsylvania to celebrate my Grandmothers 100th birthday. Yes, I did say 100th. It was absolutely amazing to see my Granny, as it had been about 5 years since I had last seen her and of course amazing to share with someone their 100th birthday. She is doing fabulously for 100, although she would tell you otherwise as she'd still like to be working away, hauling around bags of flour and sugar for my Aunt's cookie business. Since in the last two years she's had to cut it back to only taking care of the paper work for the bussiness, yes that's right she still does the paper work for my Aunt's business! Also she could beat just about anyone at poker, so watch out!!

After spending a few days at my Aunt's house in PA we headed up to Canada with my parents in their VW camper. We made it home in a record time of 12 hours, (usually takes my parents 13!) Owen did amazingly the whole way. I took this as a HUGE hint that its about time we get our own VW van. hehe. Once at my parents house he was simply all smiles, he seemed right at home and I really felt that he truly remembered being there from our last visit. While there Owen didn't seem to mind the cold one bit and had lots of fun playing outside, with you guessed it, a wagon! Oh does this boy ever love wagons!! Other than pushing wagons all over the place Owen experienced his first sweets on this trip. We hadn't yet introduced refined sugars into his diet, only a couple of times had people offered him sweets with him only to turn them down, making his Mama proud! But at my Aunt's house he surprisingly, after being there for a few days, helped himself to a cookie, and after that he just had to have more! So now we've actually got to start watching what it is we eat in front of him because he most certainly seems to be a fan of cookies. However he does seem to have a preference toward coconut macaroons, so maybe we will be safe as long as we stay clear from coconut!

Also on our trip Owen turned 18 months old and as many friends had advised me this was a time of great change. I have definitely noticed a lot of change in him, more so than any other month as of late, climbing all over, a greater desire to communicate, developing a sense of humor, etc. I will be sure to write more about all this in a later post specifically about this milestone. As for now enjoy some photos from our trip!