Seattle.

Ed was going to be in Seattle last week for meetings and I decided to join him and since I was already taking Henry, I thought I would take Ava too. I knew she'd love it but even more, I knew I'd love to have her. Ava is the most enthusiastic, cheerful person I know. She's a bit of a Pollyanna when it comes to finding the good in things and when traveling with a baby (who hates to leave his home!) it's nice to have a little sunshine by your side!

She wanted this picture to show her class since they've recently been talking about the Statue of Liberty!

We did a lot of shopping. IKEA was her favorite since they had kid carts. And yes, she's in a tank and flip-flops....it was 50 degrees when we got there and we think that's summertime!

I also brought her for this:

to be my nanny.

The meetings were at the Embassy Suites--one of my favorite places to stay with the kids! Separate rooms, huge breakfast, and free drinks at night.
That's a mai tai for me, shirley temple for Ava.

We got to see Ed for about 3 hours the entire time we were there and we spent it at dinner at Bahama Breeze (a place we went to in Atlanta!) and then Ed and Ava hit the pool (the best part of the trip for both of them!)

Henry was out of sorts about 90% of the time. He's a serious homebody (just like the rest of mine at this age) and he was not happy in the hotel, not happy shopping, and not happy eating out (except the one night we ate with Ed and he slept through the whole thing). He was fantastic in the car--both ways with just a little peep and he slept great all night but when he was awake he was a stinker....most of the time anyway:

hard to be annoyed with this cute face!