We had a wonderful weekend, doing absolutely nothing!!! It's the first time we have done that in a while, and will also be the last for a while. It was kind of rainy here this weekend so we just hung out and watched movies and played with Josh.
Our weekend got an unexpected extension when late Sunday night I bent over and my back basically seized up in major pain (mind you, I have been through childbirth now and do not define major lightly) and wouldn't let me move. It was still bad Monday morning so Chris had to take off work. I went into the chiropractor that afternoon, and he said it's nothing a couple months of work won't fix. Hooray for more bills. Actually he was really good and was finally able to explain to be that I have compression of nerves and acute problems of some sort. So at least now we know what's causing it. Drama.
But that's all the big news on our side of things. Josh is even more expressive in his range of emotions now days (like how tactfully I put that?) Here are some pictures of his expressiveness

This is the annoyed look, quickly following this comes the loud screaming trying to get his way.

This is the face he makes in the midst of whining to try and get his way.

This is the surprised or "cool" look, he is usually making the noise ooohhhh when he does it, and it's usually in response to something he likes or thinks is cool.

And of course, this is his adorable grin. One flash of this, even after he has done something horrible, and mommy and daddy (and anyone else around for that matter) is at his mercy.

No pictures to post for this weekend because Josh was at Grandma and Grandpa's house. I went to the Women of Faith conference here in Hartford, and had a great weekend. Chris was Mr. Productive and got a ton of yard work done, and painted our bedroom. It was another crazy weekend ( I think we've had a month of those), so we're looking forward to relaxing next weekend. Hope you all enjoyed your weekend too!

Whew. We're pooped. In the past week we've only been one night without visitors. After my parents left Chris's came in the next night. But it was very nice to spend time with everyone. Josh is acting like he's pretty pooped too. Either that or he's going through the terrible two's early. Maybe it's a little of both. If you just look at him wrong right now he throws a fit. We managed to get some good pictures while he wasn't fussing though, so here they are. We think Josh likes his new cool hat. He looks like such a little man!

We had a "missing St. Louis" moment when we were watching this show on Food Network called Feasting on Asphalt. They went to Ted Drewe's. While thinking about Ted Drewe's and craving a concrete, I realized that none of the ice cream stores that we've been to here have concretes. Maybe those are a St. Louis thing along with good old toasted raviolis. Well, now we're just left craving concretes, but we're taking offers from anyone who wants to ship us one on dry ice! Missing you all!

We went down to Mystic this weekend. Pretty cool area. Reminds me a little of Branson, except smaller scale, and with a beach! Except it was hot, Hot, HOT! Record highs here are comparable to a normal Missouri day though, so it wasn't anything we weren't used to, but if Joshs' face looks flushed that's why!

It was nice having the parents in. They helped us get alot done around the house!
Our furniture comes in today, Woo Hoo! We'll post pictures after everything is settled.
That's about it, and now for some Josh pictures!

Josh enjoying his first bite of clam chowdah!

Petting the rays in the petting pool

Josh cruising around