We walked a little ways and we found this:

and a little further – we found them:

(The man in the green hat getting his picture taken kindly yelled to us, “Vote NO on Obama’s Health Plan – It’ll Kill you!  and your BABY too!”)

Then we found this:

The Melting Pot – YUMMY!  It was right across the street from this:
(The 2nd largest mall in America.  It is smaller only in size because it doesn’t have an amusement park but it actually has the most stores than any other mall in america – so pretty much it’s the biggest)  IT IS HUGE!  By the time we walked just through a little bit of the mall we were tired.  So we headed back to our house and took a nap.

Adventures really take it out of ya.

A lady on the street called out to us after seeing you and said, “LOOK AT THAT JUICY BABY!”  You are pretty juicy…I guess.

You have this thing about your blankets on your face.  One morning I came in to find you with your blanket COMPLETELY covering your entire face.  It wasn’t even touching the mattress it was JUST on your face.  What is with that?  I didn’t get a picture of that but I did get this one:

You have also learned how to fake cry and whine…not my favorite thing, but yeah….

You are still pretty much the happiest baby in the world.  Even while I was a crazy mama over the past month with packing, moving and then unpacking you were extremely patient and wonderful.  I can’t tell you how much I love you and I know that I am the luckiest mama in the whole world to have you.  Ok – so are you ready for pictures of yourself?  These are from the past month:

I also had to get a couple pictures of your doing your favorite thing in the world.  Drinking water from a cup.  You are funny because if I try to drink out of a cup you immediately pull the cup down to you so you can drink.  You have even latched right on while I am drinking from the cup.  See pictures below:

You also had to say goodbye to your nana this month.  I think you have missed her but you know you’ll always be her favorite and she will be back every month to snuggle and play.  Here is a picture of you and nana saying good-bye:

You like it here in King of Prussia a lot though.  Especially with cute girls like this around!

(I used to babysit these three girls when they were tiny tiny – like you!  Now they are super cute and will probably babysit you once or twice while we are here.

So today has been a good one Fred.  We played and we sang and we laughed and had a great time.  Then I tried to take some pictures of you to document how extremely happy you were on your five month birthday and this is what I got:

So yeah, getting you in your extremely happy state didn’t work out so well.  You were too focused on your favorite new toy (the remote).  p.s. that is the second day in a row you have worn that outfit

So since I didn’t capture your excitement in pictures we tried video:

Thanks for cooperating here.

Freddy, I can’t help but love you more and more everyday.  I can’t believe how much you have grown.  You are amazingly smart.  You are sweet and loveable and laughable.  You fill each and everyday with joy and happiness.  Thank you for giving me the best five months of my life.  I love you baby.  Let’s make this month go a little bit slower OK?

The bedroom

and the mess I am avoiding…

I’ll finish tomorrow..too tired tonight.

You should see the INSIDE of my cupboards.  THEY ARE PACKED!  This is one amazing apartment kitchen though (organized by my mother in law and myself – Thanks Patsy!) it is storing a year’s supply of food storage for two adults and one child.  Amazing.

Freddy’s room was the first room finished.

Next on the list:

Finish living room and organize desk (almost there)

Work on master bedroom and bathroom (not even close)

Finish laundry (working on it a bit every day)

Hang pictures and accessorize

THEN:

Refinish the side tables in ebony to match new bookshelf.

Find a couple of cute stools and an extra couple of chairs.

Figure out how to remove the arm rests from my desk chair.

By this time it will be time to decorate for christmas

Freddy’s new thing is drinking water out of a cup.

The bigger the cup the bigger the excitement.

Getting ready to go on our last Pittsburgh adventure.

Daddy took us on the” T”…”Dan- TAHN”

Freddy was very excited to be at the Pirates game sporting his new cap!

Freddy and Daddy watching the game.  It turned out to be a GREAT game:  3 homeruns in the same inning BY THE PIRATES, and a walk off homerun to win the game!

Another cute shot of daddy and the boy.

cute bum bum.

The game was so exciting it really wore Freddy out.

We had a GREAT day.  We will really miss you Pittsburgh!

We’ll be back!

Uncle Craig is always willing to hold a baby (he’s used to it).  Pap Pap giving Freddy some love from what he doesn’t know will be the last time he is able to sit in that chair (funny story…ask uncle craig for details…in his defense though – those chairs were like 50 years old)

Happy to be celebrating Mammaw’s 70th birthday in Wheeling with the fam.

Isn’t this a beautiful picture of Nana?  You’re the best Nana….

It was actually Uncle Craig and Aunt Judi’s Anniversary!  Happy Anniversary!  Aunt Judi put together an AWESOME dinner to celebrate for Mammaw!  Thanks Aunt Judi – it was fun and TASTY!

“I see you Mama”

Also a good picture of Aunt Judi if I do say so myself….again…Thanks for doing all that work for Mammaw and everyone.  It was so nice to see everyone.

It was such a nice day – I could have fallen asleep right there as well.  (P.S. I made the onesie a STEELER onesie) Seriously though, it was THE perfect day.  Couldn’t have been better (well, maybe if Ye Ye was there to celebrate with us.  WE MISS YOU!)

Another good picture of Burgess’ cousin Nate and his girlfriend Sara.

Freddy wants that cake!

Make a wish Mammaw!

It was such a nice time.  It was good to get to have a visit with everyone while we are still on this side of the state.  We probably won’t get to see so much of Mammaw and Pap Pap but we’ll be A LOT closer to Aunt Judi and Uncle Craig.

Burgess had the day off on Monday so we took Freddy swimming

Freddy got a little tired so we soaked in some sun at the pool.

Then while we were chillin, I said to Burg, “Gosh we should have planned to go camping while you had these two days off in a row….HEY, WHY DON’T WE GO CAMPING?  We can stay one night and then come home.”  It took some convincing but Burgess gave in.  We heard about a place that was nearby called Raccoon Creek State Park.  I looked it up and it was only about 40 minutes away, has a lake with a beach for swimming and lots of hiking trails so we decided to give it a try.  We rushed home and packed up the car, hit up the grocery store for some hot dogs and marshmellows and then we hit the road.  I’m so glad we did!  We had a great time!

Daddy unloading the car.

Freddy, having a great time watching Mama and Daddy put up the tent.

“Mama are we camping?”

Freddy LOVED his sleeping bag

Going to bed

Waking up

Freddy loved getting to spend so much time with Daddy.  We spent pretty much the whole day at the beach…OK more pictures.

After being doused in sunscreen

Freddy in Auntie Keri’s favorite outfit

Playing in the lake with Mama

Freddy and Daddy swimmin

Freddy LOVING the lake

“Freddy, time to take a nap…OK?”

“But Mama, there are too many things to look at!”

“Freddy…..”

“OK”

“Finally ”

Camping was the best thing we could have done.  Burgess officially has a job in Philly and will be in school full time so Freddy and I will be with out a Daddy a lot of the time.  It was WONDERFUL to be able to spend a few days ALL together before things get really crazy.  The next two weeks will be spent packing and packing and packing and then we are OFF on a new adventure!

Gretta the Jetta is the newest member of the Coffield family.

We adopted her from some relatives

(the nicest, most generous, most wonderful people in the world..cough cough…Paula and Timmer).

Doesn’t she fit right in?  She is gorgeous and we already love her so much!

AND

CHECK OUT HER COOL TRICK

Talk about a ghetto booty…:)