Lily's Playlist

We have taken plenty of long car rides lately and Lily has been a great sport. Most of the credit goes to a playlist we created.

It all began when we were listening to the The Beatles and after In My Life finished she said "Again?" and this happened a third and a fourth time and continued until we reached our destination. We figured out later that all the songs she has wanted us to play to are from home movie soundtracks. So do you want the master list?

1. The Beatles My Life
2. The Beatles Here Comes the Sun
3. Sufjan Stevens No Man's Land
4. Paul Simon Father & Daughter
5. Bow Wow Wow I Want Candy
6. The Proclaimers I'm On My Way (Because it's on Shrek–one of Lily's favorites)

Yeah, there are some pretty good songs. Unfortunately I think listening to them over and over so often might just ruin them for us. At least one of us is cruising happy.

Cooper's Here! —Already?

I finally have pictures of my new little nephew so I can now dedicate a proper post just to him.

Cooper Jay Oakey came in to this world a pretty early, but I think it just shows the go-getting attitude he has. He's almost two weeks old and his due date isn't for about three more, so he's pretty tiny and still in the hospital. He's progressing and gaining weight, so he should be coming home soon.

I can't wait to see this little guy in person! Isn't he a doll?



I'm sure he doesn't feel too good, but look how happy he is! What a sweet heart.



I'm so happy for Melissa and Jay. I LOVE being a mom and I'm so glad my lil' sis can have the same joy the I have with Lily.

Pura Vida

Eric and I went for one last hurrah before he slips into the dark hole known as the Nurse Anestheia program. My mom took Lily for the weekend so we could celebrate six years of marriage properly.

After six years we still are pushing each other out of their comfort zone. I had to zip line 200 feet into the air over a rainforest. Eric who can't ever sit still had to learn how to relax and lay out on a beach. It doesn't sound too hard, but he only lasted about 10 minutes before running back into the ocean or playing in the sand. He just couldn't grasp the concept of laying out. Here is a summary of my lesson that day.

A LESSON ON LAYING OUT


Me: Eric get over here and lay out with me. I went on the zip line with you, now you have to lay out with me.

Eric stops jumping around in the ocean and comes over to me.

Me: Where is the towel I told you to bring?

Eric: In the car.

Me: How are you going to lay out on the beach without a towel?

Eric: I'll just lay out on the sand.

Eric then lays down on the sand.

Two minutes pass.

Eric: Now what do you do?

Me: Just lay down. Read a book or something.

Eric: For how long? This is boring.

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And so on. Needless to say, he didn't last. I on the other hand successfully went down all 12 zip lines. It was not easy for me to get up there.

It actually really stressed me out for the five days leading up to it. The night before I couldn't sleep. We got there at 8 am and I had to pee like three times before we went—anyone who knows me too well knows I never pee. Having a 10 year old girl go before me helped a little. If she can do it I could, right? So I just tried not to look down and then I just jumped off and whoo hoo! It was awesome! I was so glad I did it. Until we went rafting, it was my favorite thing we did. I think I would do it again. I don't know if I could get Eric to lay out again so at least one attempt was successful.


As I mentioned rafting was my favorite. We went with Tico's River guide and they were the best. The river we went down is ranked the 5th river rafting river in the world. And had several class 3 and 4 rapids maybe 5 according to Fabio our guide. I'm just grinning right now thinking about it, it was so much fun!


Other things we did was: view an active volcano, tour a coffee/sugar farm, swim under a waterfall, swim in natural hot springs, go on a nature tour, see lots of spiders and animals, and of course eat great food, and get completely soaked to the bone--did I mention we went during the rainy season?



The worst part of going on vacation used to be coming home, but this time we had this little gal waiting at home:



(Lily showing off the one item we bought in Costa Rica)

So we were just as excited to go home as we were to leave!