Long Time - No Blog?

It looks as if I have again dove into the abyss when it comes to my blogging. Things have been exciting and busy around my office lately and the three of us have also been on the road a lot. That combination has kept me from getting a chance to do any blogging. But I'll try to tell a little of what has been going on.

One of Lacy's newest developments has been her pointing and asking "what dat?" at everything. She has gotten very inquisitive and wants to know what everything is. Another thing that she is doing is almost dressing herself. She can't quite get it yet, but she is pulling her shirt over her head and putting her pants on 2/3 of the way. She also has started calling Kate's dad daddo, but that's subject to change at any time.

The biggest news is that she has now learned how to climb out of her baby bed. We found that out two nights ago on the 18th. That night she was a little wired and was uncharacteristically hard to get down to bed. Well, Katie and I put her in bed. She usually cries for a little while then eventually falls to sleep when she acts like this. But this night was different. This time after a while katie was walking by her room and heard a noise. The next thing we know Lacy is hitting on the door and screaming. Katie was scared so she screamed to me and we ran in and got her. Everything was okay and she wasn't hurt at all, but she was pretty freaked out I think. We'll we held her and calmed her down and made sure everything was okay then we eventually put her back down. After putting her down I made it outside her room and shut the door and stood there with Katie. Then she started crying again and before we knew it we heard a "thump". That thump was Lacy hitting the ground again. We were all three scared now and picked her up and held her for a long time. Thank goodness she wasn't hurt at all. The rest of the night she spent in her mom's arms in their chair together until she was deeply asleep. I'm not sure what we're going to do now about her bed. She went down easily last night. But when I heard her wake up this morning I was extremely quick to get her out of bed before another "escape" occured.

Where have you guys been, you might ask? Well since the last blog entry we've been to Orlando to visit Karen and Eric for a long weekend, we've been to Belzoni, we've been to Chattanooga and we've been to Starkville. Next weekend we'll be here in Memphis visiting with our friends Brian and Kelly (which we're really looking forward to). Then who knows where the traveling Ferrell's will be.

ORLANDO

• We stayed at the Beach Club Resort in Orlando and we really enjoyed it. The hotel was great. It had a pool that was really nice and we hung out there a lot. Lacy and I spent the night together on Friday night and had a blast. Katie had spent that night with Karen and it rained that entire evening because a tropical storm was coming through. so we spent a lot of time that evening on our balcony looking for ducks. Lacy had seen some earlier was hunting them down the rest of the weekend. It was a lot of fun. She looked great in her little Minnie Mouse outfit and got tons of compliments from everyoone as we walked around the hotel.
• The next day Karen and Eric came to our resort and we all ate at the Swan and then hung by the pool and had a lot of fun. Sunday was our one day in the park and we hit them hard. In the morning we did Animal Kingdom (big hit with Lacy, especially the playgrounds and safari ride), followed by Disney-MGM studios (another hit at the playgrounds and muppetvision 3d), then we had dinner that night at Chefs de France in Epcot (Lacy was out by that time, but she did wake up the last few minutes of the fireworks as we were walking out).
• Our flight down there and back went great. We were on the very last seat and Lacy sat in Katie's lap while I held her portable dvd player and watched movies. She hardly made a sound the whole trip. I do have to confess that I actually left the dvd player on the plane on our first leg. Luckily for us the attendants turned it into lost and found and I called them and they had it ready for me to pick up when we went back to the airport. I think portable dvd players may be one of the greatest inventions ever for long trips!

CHATTANOOGA

• We drove down to Chattanooga in order to drop off supplies for the title company on Friday. While there though we were able to visit their riverwalk area and go to the aquarium and imax. The aquarium was a huge hit! Lacy loved the entire thing. She really liked the penquins, tropical fish and butterflies. It took us over three hours to go through the aquarium and that was blowing by a lot of the exhibits. Earlier that morning we had gone to see some imax deep sea 3d movie. For the first part Lacy actually kept her glasses on and she was adorable because she kept reaching out to touch the 3d objects like the jellyfish. But after a while she grew bored of it. The movie was probably a little too educational and slow so we walked out after about 45 minutes.
• I'd also like to ask what is up with people who enter a huge movie theater and decide that they need to sit immediatly next to and beside us? There was a whole family of about ten people who came in and sat next to us (yeah the only ones with a toddler). Eight of them sat immediately behind us and then two others climbed over us and sat right next to us. All the while about 200 empty seats were open. I'm I that attractive? Does my personality have that much magnetism?
• Overall that trip went great as well. We also took a little visit up to the Ocoee river to look around and enjoyed that as well as having a great pizza at the Mellow Mushroom (chicken cordon bleu, minus the ham and substituting mushrooms).

Oh well, I think I'm about blogged out. It really takes a while to write a decent post. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of time.

I'll update pictures when we get them downloaded.