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This past weekend Jana, Drew, and I left Lansing and visited Holland, MI. We had a wonderful weekend! The weather was perfect, and we enjoyed spending time together as a family. One of the highlights of getting away is having some guilty pleasures to eat that you wouldn't normally eat at home. Drew discovered the joy of potato chips while on vacation and found that he loves to say, "Chip, please!" He is pictured here in the hotel room that we stayed in, which came fully equipped with a stove, microwave, and refrigerator in the kitchen area. The setup in the hotel worked out perfectly for our family. Drew had a room for his pack and play, and Jana and I had our own room. The two rooms gave Drew lots of room to roam!

Drew loved the hallways in the hotel. He ran up and down them saying, "Echo! Echo!" We made sure he did that during the day!

On Saturday night Drew experienced a restaurant first: we ordered a kid's meal for him! The food that Jana and I ordered wasn't great for sharing with him, so we decided to order a kid's pizza for Drew. He ate a little of it, and we decided that we're still not ready to get him his own food for right now. He usually prefers what we have on our plates anyway because he always eats whatever we're eating at home.

On Sunday morning Jana and I visited the Saugatuck Dunes State Park. We took Drew on a very short hike and let him wander in the leaves. He was VERY intent on looking where he was going! This is usually how Drew walks when we're on a trail: with his head DOWN.

In this video you can see some of Drew's hike with us. He loved brushing his feet along the ground through the leaves. At the end of the video he tripped on a root, and I stopped the video. I didn't think it was nice for me to film his little accident!

Drew found a stick on our walk and had fun poking around with it. What's under all those leaves?

In another part of the park Drew found some rocks and loved picking them up. He remembered finding rocks on the beach this summer and was having fun finding them.

Drew found dirt and leaves and all sorts of things to sift through his hands. He was a dirty little boy by the time we got him back in the car!

The other night we decided to let Drew sit at the table with us in his booster seat. He did awesome! As you can tell, he had a great time eating at the "big person" table with us.

I had to throw another of these pictures in just because Drew's smile was so big and he was doing such a good job of looking at the camera.

In a previous post I showed a video of Drew putting a diaper on his teddy bear. Well, here he is at it again with his teddy bear. Drew tries to put the teddy bear in his chair and finds some of his old shoes for the teddy bear to wear!

He's definitely not an amazing leaper yet, but Drew has learned to jump. At the end of this video he manages to get both feet off the ground. Jump, Drew! Jump!