Another day with Baby Olive...

 

Connor and Olive are tye-dye buddies. Connor and Katie had a tye-dye day and made shirts and socks and a "onesie" for Olive.

Sunday evening, Connor, Katie (Connor's friend), and I took dinner to the hospital folk (Jen, Megan, Rusty and Olive). We had BBQ chicken off the grill, baked beans, a broccoli cheese rice thang and fixins (for those who wanted to make a BBQ chicken sandwich). We got there just in the nick of time. Megan had just started to eat her hospital food. I looked at her plate and said – "What did you get today, Chicken?" She said, "No this is chicken!" mmmmmm. We all had Sunday dinner together in Megan's room. Times have changed. When my brother Aaron was born, our family got to go to the hospital. Dad pointed out my mom's hospital room from the parking lot – third floor. I remember one of us saying, "Can she see us? Will she wave?" We did get to spend a couple minutes looking at him through the glass into the nursery.

Olive in her cool, far out tye-dye onesie…showing us that she doesn't sleep 24-7.

When the Taylor family gets together, we try and include Jessica and Cody via Skype video. We miss her and she REALLY wishes she was here, but knows that time comes soon. The person on the right is Jeff. He has been a friend of Megan and Jessica (and all the Taylors) since Megan's high school years

Sprinkle of Sunshine - Olive Elizabeth Wadleigh

Same baby? No! We have how come full circle…The picture on the above – Olive the picture on the below – Megan and her first bath. The Taylor button nose continues on. Olive entered earth life Saturday morning at 6:52. She weighed 7 lbs 10 oz and 20 inches in length.

Megan and baby are doing fine. ..Rusty is not doing too bad either

Grandma Taylor and her new granddaughter – Connor and Mitch now take second seat…the cats are a little concerned who's going to take care of them now too.

One proud, grey-haired, happy grandpa….Will now be referred as PapaT…(warming up my Elmo, Kermit, Grover voices as I type – they better let her watch Sesame Street…at least "Elmo in Grouchland")

Jessica gets a good view of the baby too. We had her Skype'd in (both her and Cody) so she could be a part of the experience. Skype – the next best thing to being there.

Olive's first TV program – Germany vs Uruguay in the third place game of the World Cup…Germany wins 3-2

first pickin'

these will be a nice tree-t, picked these myself now i am bushed...time to leaf, branch out to other activities, not sure what...I'm. stumped...must stick with it to get the root of it all...maybe knot you but i wood. shoot cant think of any more sap even though you are pine-ing for more

when it's 94 degrees outside at 7pm in Battle Ground...this what it looks like inside...vision from above

Yes, Connor is wearing a blanket and sweatshirt. i asked him how he was doing and he said he hates it. Jen on the other hand -- "loves it"

PGE park Home of the Portland Beavers

Mitch, Jen, Connor, and Katie enjoying the hottest day of 2010 (86 degrees) at a baseball game

Started in row 7 just behind third base...we moved up so we would have room...

Connor making the picture perfect...and Jen...in baseball heaven (and would have killed, mamed, beaten me if I didn't crop her out...let's just say if I left her in the picture you would have thought it was 50 cent beer night - NO LIMIT)

THINGS WE LEARNED LAST NIGHT -

• There is something worse than a veggie burger ...veggie hot dog
• Umpires are people too...the just make more mistakes at work than the rest of us...and don't get fired for doing so.
• Umpires can toss coaches...coaches can't toss umpires - no matter had bad of job they are doing
• the best night to see baseball is the night AFTER fireworks night
• Kraft singles BOGO night is also a great night to go...(this is same for Salt Lake's baseball games - talk to me)
• Mitch is loud
• Connor should not eat snowcones while wearing a white shirt.
• Ticket booth operators - even with fancy computers can't figure out that if I have 2 kraft wrappers that get me a buy-one-get-one ---should be 4 tickets for the price of 2 and not 4 tickets for the price of 3.
• Connor is an illegal candy smuggler.
• Baseball food is way more expensive than movie food.
• Some baseball players will never exceed past AAA baseball.
• This family will miss the baseball games after this year (MLS soccer takes over the stadium) and the baseball team has no where to go...next closest place it 2 hour drive.

ESPN the Magazine...

Weed agree that the summer will be berry good and divine

This is the wine barrel of chicks and hens - from the starter that mom and dad brought out years ago! This has been my favorite plant since I remember see them as a little kid at Grandma Etta's and her beautiful garden

This is the out of control morning glory that surrounds the Jen's homemade compost pit. The other day Connor was asked to throw out the corn husks into the pit…the husks were in plastic bags. I told him to take the husks out of the bags and then take the pizza boxes and plastic bags to the garbage. I must not speak clear English – I found the husks still in the bags in the compost pit – along with the pizza boxes…well 1 out of 3 is a good average – for a baseball player.

These flowers are blooming from the vines too. All the vines are a continuous battle.

These were just cool plants Jen has growing out front.

The black berry and marion berry bushes are out of control. The blossoms are numerous – more than any previous year. Connor and I have been out twice to trim the flowerless shoots before the reach the oak tree's lower limbs (if the reach them then they grow up the tree). It now is time for a third session of trim-back.

The blueberries are ripening – I'm getting 2-3 handfuls a day now. With all the rain , the berries are HUGE – some are dime-size in diameter.