Boo at the Zoo

It's a bird.........It's a plane.........It's the Halloween Chicken!!!!



We took Ethan to Boo at the Zoo! Lots of fun! For a kid who refused to nap, he was actually in a pretty good mood! We got lots of comments about what a cute chicken he was......but of course - we already knew that!!!















I know Mommy packed cookies in here somewhere!!!


It's a long walk to Africa!








the colors at the zoo are beautiful in the fall!










Mommy's favorites!!



Big Boy!!


What's down there Daddy??

The Pumpkin Patch!

2 weeks ago we went to the pumpkin patch. They had a TON of stuff for kids to do - Ethan was not excited about any of it. Turns out - we took him to daycare the next day and he was throwing up with a fever just 20ish minutes after I dropped him off. Poor kiddo. He was probably sick the whole weekend and we had no idea! But he picked a pumpkin! We're going to carve it soon so we can be all festive for Halloween!

Our little pumpkin


Yeah, it was really really cold outside!





















Hey you Mr. Pumpkin........Get out of my wagon!!




and just because - a comparison

Pumpkin Patch 2008




Pumpkin Patch 2009

New Toys!

Did someone say new toys?!?!?



Ethan got a new basketball game!











"Hey Everybody!!! Guess what I can do now?!?!"

The garage floor

Charlie worked very hard to refinish the garage floor.



Ethan approves!

Ethan's 1st baseball game!

I know....I know......2+ months.

I won't even try to make a list of the excuses. Just trust me that I'm sitting on the couch and I'm writing a bunch of blog posts so there will be new ones all week!!

Let's back up to Labor Day Weekend! We took Ethan to his 1st Royals game. Yeah, it didn't last too long. The Royals lost and Ethan was not too excited about the butt-kicking they were getting!

Here's what you really want - pictures!!

The K!!


Daddy's Little Buddy


The chicken strips and french fries are taking too long. Ethan decided to eat his shoe instead


Eating fries with Daddy


From our seats


Slugger stole Ethan's stroller


Daddy, Ethan and Slugger

More?!?!?

Tonight we had homemade pizza for dinner. Charlie and I made the crust for ours. But it was super dense so we made E's pizza with whole wheat english muffins. He LOVED it!! This kid can put away some pizza!!

Just yesterday we started working on the sign for "more". Up to that point we have been informed that he wanted another bite when he grunted, growled, or banged on his tray. I decided that was not going to work for me.

Tonight, he looked at Charlie and signed for more pizza. I nearly fell out of my chair! And then of course, jumped out of my chair and grabbed the camera!

1-yr Photos!

We met my friend Audrey downtown to take some pictures a few weeks ago. We have all the pictures back and couldn't be happier! I just keep going back and looking at them again and again!!

You can see the entire album HERE

But here are some of our favorites!