Washington with Grandma and Grandpa Bonner

0.We just got home from a week visiting Steve's parents in Washington. We were supposed to go up there for Christmas, but with Steve stuck in Texas during the holidays we decided to put off the trip until Presidents Day weekend. It was a good visit. Very low key which is nice sometimes. Steve's sister Janel and her two girls live there too, so it was fun to spend time with them.

The boys had a fun time with Grandma and Grandpa. They slept well and enjoyed themselves, EXCEPT for poor Luke during the first part of the trip. We left for the airport from our house around 4 to catch a 6pm flight. Luke had woken up from his afternoon nap at 1:15 (only 40 minute nap, yuck) screaming. Basically the screaming didn't stop until he finally conked out on the plane from shear exhastion. Sometime at the airport it dawned on me that he had to have had a ear infection. When we finally got to Steve's parents' house late that night and got the kids to bed Luke was awake crying more then he slept. The next morning we took him to Janel's brother-in-law who is a pediatric doctor. Sure enough he had an ear infection. He started feeling much better once we started pumping him with Tylenol, antibiotics, and when he was able to get plenty of sleep.

Here are some pictures from doing giant bubbles with Grandma:

Notice the jammies with swim shorts on top...What's your guess, my idea or his?

You're almost there, just  five more feet of air to pop it.

Pictures from playing on the swing in Grandma and Grandpa's backyard:

I'm bummed this turned out blurry, but just look at that mischievous face!

We drove to Portland Monday morning to spend some time with Steve's sister Gail her husband Kirt and their 8 kids. They recently moved into a new house with an amazing yard. I took pictures, but somehow deleted them from my camera, Carson had so much fun playing with his cousins and being part of the chaos known as the Heninger house. He especially loved playing with his 4-year-old cousin Daniel who originally said Carson wasn't his friend because he was only three, but after playing on the slide together Daniel decided Carson was. =) You could quickly tell the Heningers were true Oregonians because we took a walk to the park in the rain and no one batted an eye. The flight home was great much to our relief. 100x better than the fight there. It was a fun trip, but as always it's good to be home. Carson started saying "I want to go to my home towards the end and he was so happy to sleep in his bed last night. Me too!