Jun 17
We took a nice little trip up the Gorge last night, to spend the night at Eli's parents' house, so we would be there all day for "Father's Day"....even though that's tomorrow. I love spending the night up there! I just like being there altogether, it always feels like I get my batteries recharged, and am able to just rest.
We had a nice family breakfast with his folks. Even though we were there for Father's day, Grammie got to spend a little more time with Martyn since she hadn't been able to in a long while. It was really cool.
We even brought our other play pin up for him to take a nap in, and he went down for a nap pretty well. I was pleased with that. Our other play pin is much smaller than the main one, I think I can even fit it where the bassinet is in our room, and won't have to rearrange the bedroom after all. We shall see though.
Some friends of Eli's youngest brother Jon, came by to visit/get a little direction on where the best place to go Kayaking around there was. They were from New Zealand, and Martyn was really interested in their accents. He seems to be pretty good at noticing things that are different from what he's used to, which is really cool I think. He's a pretty bright fellow.
As usual, he was also really interested in the dogs. It's fun to bring Sheba up there, because she loves it so much. Now that they have a new puppy, she was just in even more dogie heaven. We had a regular pack of dogs, that all looked kind of related. It was funny to watch Larry, Walt and MaryJane's Lab/Malamute mix, run around and play with "the puppies"....Sheba is 2, and Sissy is only like 4 months, Larry is the old man of the bunch.
When I got up this morning with him, we came down stairs before anyone else was up. He really wanted to look out the big front window, at all of Mary Jane's pretty flowers. He's just getting so big, I had him sitting propped up on my knee so he could look out the window. He was holding himself up for a long time. I decided to take him for a little walk around the property, and to see the dogs outside, up close and personal. I zipped him up into my hoodie and carried him face out, around the yard for a little bit. We went over to see if Eileens horse Augie, was out and to say hello to him like I always do when I come up there. He wasn't. Oh well. Martyn was very quiet and observant the whole time.
Later in the day, Walt, Eli and I took Martyn for his first walk up to the spring....first of many I'm sure. It was overcast but not raining, and comfortable out. Again, Martyn was very quiet and observant...just taking everything in. When we got back home, he was ready for a nap. I think he just had to processes all of that new environment. He went down in the play pin pretty well.
We ended up staying pretty late, much later than we had intended to. We didn't get home until around 11pm, which is really late when you have to be up at 5am. I ended up taking Martyn out to the man cave to sleep, so Eli could get as much sleep as possible.
That was kind of nice I have to admit.
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