Pat’s trailer and misc Lydia pix

Just thought I’d put up the other pix I never got around to putting up in my last post. Stay tuned for the next post in 3 weeks though when Baby #2 comes!!

Our portable DVD player is probably the best investment we ever made (especially when I was doing a ton of traveling with Lydia a few months back). One day I just got desperate and she LOVES watching movies anyway. Glad to say though this was the only time I had to do this.

Lydia can put on her own pair of sunglasses and then she goes around going “Cool! Cool!” because when I first put them on her I would say she looked so cool with them on.

Right at the end of October we got a whole lotta snow. This is our grill. And backyard

I took Lydia to reading time at the library once and she got a little cup of dirt with a pumpkin seed in it. I actually planted it and it was the one thing in our garden that grew. So here’s Pat and Lydia carving it for Halloween. Lydia wasn’t as excited as we thought. She mostly just ate the pumpkin seeds.
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Probably not impressive now, but this was when Lydia first started climbing stairs on her own really well (17 months old - right around Halloween). Gosh it was nice not having to carry her anymore!
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I finally put Lydia is this famous bathing suit I wore as a baby. Unfortunately I waited a bit too long so the suit is a “tad” small. Plus Lydia wasn’t in her “modeling” mood. I was hoping to get a similar shot, but the one photo where I’m standing up in it I cannot seem to find right now, so this will have to do. Any similarity??

Lydia loved playing in the fall leaves
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Pat’s most recent [GIANT] project has been building a trailer on the trailer frame we bought last summer at a garage sale. He put a LOT of time and work into it. I wanted it built by Thanksgiving so he could drive out to Utah and get some furniture and my boxes of things that had been brought from Connecticut. His hard work paid off and he finished, like 24 hrs before he was scheduled to leave. It’s really sturdy, did well on the trip, and now our house actually has some furniture in it! One glitch though, was that Pat made this really nice gate for the back (you can see it in the picture). On the way there though, he hit some bumps on the road and it came off without him knowing. By the time he noticed and backtracked it was smashed into a million pieces in the road. It was severely devastating for us both (if you’ve ever done a project that took a lot of time and money, you can understand). But with Mom’s help he was able to figure out a temporary gate for the trip back. Here’s before and after pix.

Pat made the mistake one night of showing Lydia that she can be driven around in boxes. Lydia’s inside with her “B.” That’s what she calls her special blanket.
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