Off to Chi-town!

What a weekend Tommy had! Last weekend for my fall break, we flew up to Chicago on Saturday morning and met up with our friends PJ, Kristen and their son Gilbert (you may remember pics of them from their Nashville visit in April). Gilbert and Tommy are only 6 weeks apart and have always been fine with each other but this time they were real buddies! Tommy got to ride in his first train, bus and taxi cab! And as you can see below, he also thoroughly enjoyed his first smoothie. We went to the Children's Museum and the Shedd and even entertained ourselves by watching the boys run up and down the hallway in the condo building when it was raining. We had a blast and LOVED seeing the boys together. On Sunday we headed to Ryan's cousins' house where Tommy was the hit of the household with Riley, Morgan, Jan and Terry. He loved all the attention and didn't want to leave. They gave him a book called "Good night Chicago" which is currently the ONLY book in rotation: literally, we read it through 3 times a night before bed. We can't wait to get back! Sorry for the amount of pictures but I just couldn't cut it down...too many cute ones.

Yeah Uncle Jerry!

A couple weeks ago Uncle Rob and Aunt Lara were in town so we all traveled out to Lebanon to have lunch with them at Lara's parents house, now lovingly known as Margot and "Uncle Jerry". Jerry has a hangar (where the wedding and reception were held) with 3 of his own airplanes. With Tommy's fascination of airplanes, the trip was a hit and of course "Uncle Jerry" is now the coolest guy Tommy has ever met. Tommy didn't get to actually fly in one but Drew, Carter and Catherine did along with most of the adults. Tommy was pretty content to sit in them and spent the majority of the day either saying "yeah Uncle Jerry!!" when he would fly a plane, or rotating from plane to plane. And I worried that we hadn't brought toys out there for the kids to play with???? I included a couple pics of Tommy in the planes and then had to have Jerry pictured in at least one so you can see him. 2 weeks later and Tommy STILL talks about how Uncle Jerry flies the yellow airplane!