Summer’s End

Our summer has been an eventful one, even though we have spent nearly all of it in Portland, Oregon. We arrived here in late June to begin waiting for the arrival of our second Grandson, Martin. We didn’t have a long wait. He was born on July 9th. The real highlight of being here though has been getting to know our other Grandson, Oliver. When last we saw him in person, he had just turned two, and was not yet calling us “Grandma” and “Grandpa”. He started doing that while our only communication with him was on the computer via video chat. (Google Hangouts). Now we were able to get real hugs and kisses from him and read to him and play with games and toys with him. It has been great!

We took off for about ten days to visit with friends and family in California and see a some sites in Oregon on the way back. Once back in Portland, our jobs have been two-fold: to occupy Oliver when his parent’s needed a break, and to sit with Martin when Katherine had a doctor appointment or just needed to get some well deserved rest. Both have been less than jobs however. We have been picking Oliver up at his day-care school and taking him to dinner on Fridays and the two months since Martin was born we have seen him change a lot. He is getting noticeably bigger and is smiling and cooing at us a lot more than being fussy. If he does fuss, it usually because he has a wet diaper or it is time to go back to Mom. We have had a couple of opportunities to give him a bottle too, when Mom was not around. We also got to celebrate Oliver’s 3rd birthday while we were here. It was great fun!

Now it is Autumn. We still have another month before we get back to Florida, but only about 10 more days here in Portland. Then we go up to Washington for more family and the wedding of our Niece. Then we will travel to southern California to visit with even more family before heading East. Hopefully we will return to our winter cocoon in Florida before any seriously cold weather sets in. We will have friends waiting for us there in Disney World and even more in our “happy place”, Sun-N-Fun RV Resort in Sarasota.

Meanwhile, we will be keeping close tabs on the Boston Red Sox as the continue their dominance on the American League East and see how far they can get into the post-season. All the way to the World Series would be cool.