Records

Serif has been in to my childhood records lately. He gets so excited as he holds on to the front of the stereo pull, anxiously waiting for me to come open it up. Our routine is to get out the records and open the record player, then we have to turn it on and pull up a bar stool. He holds on to the mirrored top until I'm ready to put it on the record. He sits up on the bar stool and watches as I put on the mirrored top. He gets so excited! He doesn't listen to all of them all the way through, but a couple of them he does. When he's done with one, he says, "More?" and motions it in sign language (circled hands and tapping his fingertips together).


These have been so much fun. I've always loved these records. I think my mom picked them up at a yard sale. Some are in great shape and others are pretty worn. I'm finding them on ebay for a bid price started at $9.99 per record. They are "Red Raven" records, in case you're interested or looking for a gift for the boy! ;)

Serif & Daddy

This is just one of my favorite photos right now. Aren't they adorable?

Bug Bites

Jeff and Serif spent some time cleaning up the back yard on Saturday and Serif got eaten up with mosquito bites. His legs were covered from the knees down with bites. I've been putting this moisturizing oil on any bites he gets and it always seems to do a pretty good job in getting rid of them quickly. (Serif calls them "bug bites" and the oil, "bug bite stuff".)

Sunday we went to lunch with Jeff's side of the family, Grandpa, Uncle Don, Aunt Shannon and Anelia. We got to talking about the bug bites and Aunt Shannon mentioned that she had heard that deodorant with antiperspirant was suppose to get rid of them quickly. So that night, we gave him a bath and after we lotioned him, we decided to give it a try. We applied it to all of his bug bites and then Serif insisted we let him try . . . immediately he does this . . . I guess he watches us closer than we think.



Another note. We took Serif to the doctor a few weeks ago because of numerous bug bites he had gotten from daycare. He hadn't gone outside that day and he didn't have the bites when we took him to daycare, so it was very strange to us that it could honestly be bug bites! He even had them in his diaper! That's when I got concerned and we took him to the doctor. They had us come in the employee entrance because they thought it could possibly be chicken pox and they didn't want him around any other kids, just in case. (yes, he has been vaccinated, but the doctor does still see about 1 case every year to year and a half). It ended up just being bug bites from a very trapped and determined little bug. The doctor was so gracious that he didn't even charge us for the visit. We were a little embarrassed by taking him for bug bites, but it's better safe than sorry!

SOCKS!

I was getting laundry out of the dryer tonight when Serif came over and wanted to help. I had just folded Jeff's socks and so I told him to go give them to Daddy. He did . . . and then came back like this! Serif has been very animated lately. Everything he sees and gets excited about is shouted out, so in this case he comes in and says to me, "SOCKS!". I think I snapped the picture when he started saying, "More?", which has been a much used word in his vocabulary lately.

Then he took me to his room and pointed to his fire hat. So I helped him put it on. He's snapped his chin before with the elastic and has learned to be very careful with it. His patience has grown a little now and will let us help with it. Once we got the hat on, he had to go show Daddy.

Several of the photos blurred due to the motion and lighting, but I couldn't resist posting them anyways. They're still fun.

Rocks

Serif was coaxed into staying at school this morning by Ms. Rachel offering him 2 big shiney rocks!


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ice cream. yes please!

Our Villa

The view of our villa from The Rockhouse Restaurant. The curve wall you see to the left hugs a single dining table that can be reserved for a private dinner.

I do believe this one will be blown up and framed on our wall . . . somewhere. I'm still pinching myself!

Our villa entrance and view of our patio.

Our patio.

View from patio to the entry.

Inside the villa.

The big windows are actually doors that slide open.

A view straight out from the open window/door.

Looking down at the landing from just outside our entry.

View of the ocean access from the patio.

Us, at The Rockhouse restaurant waiting for our breakfast.