Henry's 1st Vacation

Henry has recovered nicely from his first week long vacation which took place at Grandma & Grandpa Hested's cabin in Bellevue, Iowa. Mommy and Henry spent a whole week there and Daddy joined us on Thusday for a long weekend. Jalene's sister Jennie was there with her whole crew which includes 3 very busy boys. Zack is 7, George is 4 and Andy is 2.

Andy was the most interactive with Henry. He's such a good helper, I miss him already. Everytime Henry dropped something Andy would stop what he was doing and come pick it up. Andy was not that great at sharing things he wanted to play with even if Henry had it first. Ahh, such is the life of a 2 year old.


Henry was definitely very entertained by the Swayne boys since he took multiple 3 hour morning naps while at the cabin. Then he still took an afternoon nap too, wow! Only a couple trains disrupted his naps. Too bad he has not continued the super long nap trend at home.

Some highlights from Henry's vacation include:
- He learned to wave, although it is quite a flimsy wave it is still very cute and intentional.
- He learned to sit up on his own from his tummy. It's funny watching him back into a sitting up postion and he's so proud when he does it. He's getting better at it everyday.
- He splashed in his own little pool

He probably still wonders why he had to put clothes on to splash in a big tub!

- Henry went to his first car show in Dubuque. Papaw was very proud to have 4 of his 6 grandsons there.

- We went to the Bellevue Butterfly Garden, on top of the bluffs, it was very hot up there and Henry was a tad crabby so we didn't see too many butterfly's.
- Henry re-discovered his piggy face:

Check out the slide show for some more vacation pictures:


When we got home, Henry was very excited to see the kitties. He immediately waved at them and smiled and laughed. The kitties did not return the kind gestures, instead they looked at me like, "seriously, you brought him back here?" Hahaha!