Little Yellow Bird

Project 365 - Day 15

June 21, 2010

Today I was looking through Roman's baby book, and I stumbled across this page.  It was filled out at my baby shower, with people guessing the date he would be born, his sex and height/weight.  I got a tear in my eye when I noticed that my mom was the one who got the closest on everything but the weight.  She picked boy, July 12 (which is his birthday), but she totally blew it on the weight!  He was 8 lbs, 6 oz...quite a bit off from her guess of 6 lbs, 12 oz.  Glenna was the next closest, with having picked the right date, but thinking Roman was a girl!

I'm glad we did this for his book.  Stirs up good memories, and that is always a good thing.

Project 365 - Day 14

June 20, 2010

Today is Father's Day, so I'm including a couple extra pics.  The top photo is of the Kerbo extended family; the only person missing is my brother Ryan, who was with his dad instead.  It's rare that we are all together at once, so I loved the opportunity to take this photo.  I also used my timer on my Nikon D90 for the first time...worked like a charm.

The second photo is of our little family; Mike, myself, Roman and Baby Nebula (or Baby Wobble, as I've affectionately come to think of him/her, because of how she/he makes my belly wobble when kicking!).

And the last photo is of my dad, grandpa, Roman and myself...Four Generations of Kerbos.  A photo I will be so proud to have in 30 years.

Hope everyone's Father's Day was lovely!

Love, T.

Tinker Air Show

Yesterday, we attended the Tinker Air Show at the AFB in OKC.  Our friends from Tulsa, the Varnells (Brandon, Amanda, Keaton and Gwen) came down for the whole day.  It was our first time to attend on base, and my aunt Glenna hooked us up with VIP tickets.  And I mean, HOOKED. US. UP.  We got super close parking, reserved seating in the shade, free water and food, and an air conditioned room in a hangar nearby, where all we had to do was catch a ride on a golf cart anytime we needed to cool down.  Score. 

In 100 degree weather (literally), we needed to cool down often.  But we ended up only going there for lunch, and a stop through when we left.

We saw some awesome shows; my personal favorite was Tora, Tora, Tora; a reenactment of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.  It was surreal to see the Zero fighters swooping in and out, dropping bombs over the airfield.  And they actually "dropped" fake bombs too, so you could see the smoke plumes rising off the surface.

Also fun to watch were the Vipers and the Thunderbirds.  They both put on a show, although the Thunderbirds definitely beat out the Vipers in noise.  We all wore earplugs, but it STILL woke Roman up from a nap, and he's hard to wake!  Although, actually I think what woke him was the terrified screams of a little boy about his age at the table next to ours.  The little boy had earplugs on too, but it still scared the poor guy.

We had so much fun spending the day with the Varnells and my uncle Don.  We don't get to see the Varnells as much as we'd like, but every visit we have with them, we walk away saying how much we love them all!  And R and Keaton have a blast every time too, especially now that R is old enough to understand how to play with others. 

After the air show, we all went to my dad's to hop in the pool and cool off for a few hours.  The kids had a blast, and Roman jumped off the diving board for the first time in his life!  Over.  And over.  And over.  This kid has no fear.  I have some photos on a water camera that I will add to this post once I get them developed.

Great. Day.  One for the books.

Roman running to GiGi.

Brandon, pointing at the show.  He's special.

One of the Japanese Zero fighters.

Keaton, apparently about to eat Roman's face!  Such a funny photo.

Posing after a water run.

Another Zero fighter.

The baby, hanging out at the show.  Probably much cooler than I was!

The obligatory Facebook status update.  :)

The boys, checking out a Navy passenger plane.

Thunderbirds

Roman, horsing around in a Learjet...so this is what BP execs are taking to Cape Cod for the summer...hmm.

Checking out the cockpit.

Standing in line with PaDon to see a cargo plane.

Horsing around in the front of the same Learjet...I want this plane for Christmas!

Project 365 - Day 13

June 19, 2010

Here's R at the Tinker air show...yes, that's his iPhone...it took him a little longer to warm up to the plane watching!  We had so much fun today.

Project 365 - Day 12

June 18, 2010

The gift I made for my dad from R for Father's Day.  My dad always sings a song to R, "I'm a PaPa's boy, oh yes I am, I'm a PaPa's boy for sure..." It's cute, so I decided to use the words from that song as a title for a framed photo of him and R for his desk at work.  It took me forever to figure out the layout, because I haven't used my creativity in so long, but I like the way it turned out!  This was before it was all glued down (which took a while for those darn tiny buttons!), but it looked pretty close to this when finished.

Project 365 - Day 11

June 17, 2010

I don't think R understands what he's doing in this photo, but I think it's sweet nonetheless.  I try to explain that there is a baby in mommy's tummy, but let's face it, that's a huge pill to swallow, even when you are 10 years old!  The miracle of life is a tough one for a two year old, but I still try, mostly to get sweet moments like this one.  R will be a great big brother, I just know it.

Project 365 - Day 10

June 16, 2010

Aaaahhh...the greatest sign ever.  I wish every store had one of these, especially Walmarts and Targets!  I didn't take full advantage of these when I was pregnant with R, but this time, I search them out every single time.  Love the ones for new moms too, because let's face it, you carry a lot of crap when you have a newborn!

Project 365 - Day 9

June 15, 2010

I finally got around to cleaning my bathrooms for (gasp!) the first time since April.  How gross is that?  With all the vomiting I've been doing, the toilets got cleaned every week, but that's about it.  I finally felt up to tackling the task, with my hubby helping me out by cleaning the tubs.  That's one thing that he's always done, mostly to spare my back, but now I can't reach over the tub edge because of my big 'ol belly.  :)

Project 365 - Day 8

June 14, 2010

I was so lucky to be able to get a picture of Baby #2's foot in my ultrasound.  The reason I was so lucky (besides getting to count little toes!) was that I have an almost identical photo of Roman from his ultrasound!  Armed with those two sweet photos, I decided to make a photo box layout using the photos.  It's hard to read, but the caption says, "Growing like a weed", with Roman's name above his photo, and an empty space below No-name baby's photo.  I will probably hang it in the nursery once we start decorating.

Project 365 - Day 7

June 13, 2010

What in the world is this, you ask?  Well, my blogging friend, this is, or was my Macbook battery.  I had read about the dreaded battery "bubble" that can happen, but mine has been bubble free since I purchased it in 2007.  Alas, about a month ago, it started to slightly bulge.  Then about a week ago, the bulge became a large bubble, and today the bubble broke free, and the whole corner popped out!  Now I get to order a new one to replace it...but the good news is that Mike gets to take this one apart for fun.  :)  See kids, there is always a bright side!