Little Gym

We took Mimi and Poppy to The Little Gym yesterday! Here are a few pictures! I have more pumpkin patch pics to post, and after tonight I am sure I will have fabulously fun pics of the little train engineer!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIMI!!!!

today we went to pick a pumpkin (well, a few pumpkins!) Have more cute pics to post, but here are a few to start! 

taking two punkins for a walk . . . 

i love pumpkins! 

Ohhh, I hope I can have THIS one!!! 

Hmmm, I am checking out a little ant crawling on a pumpkin. 

{love these boys!} 

Daddy, smell this flower! 

Could I LOVE any picture more than this? Not right this second anyway! 

Bryce has been SOO snuggly lately, and loving our cooler weather this week! 

Who needs a crib, when you have a laundry basket? 

Winter Wishes

Just in case you were wondering what we are asking Santa for (and the birthday fairy as well) check the link at the left for our ever-growing list of holiday wishes!!!!!

new new new!

Bryce has added these new words: bed, (because Gigi and Doobie got a new bed today) Nemo, (because he saw Finding Nemo yesterday) boat, and Oh MAN! (complements of Jillian and Annamaria who say it ALL the time!!!) to his ever growing vocabulary! Here are he and Jillian relaxing with their sippy cups the other day.

new words!

in the last three day, bryce has acquired quite a few new words, like. . . .

uh-oh!
milk
moon
Jack (Jillian's dog's name)

He will also repeat ABC's, when we say it with him. . . we will try and get it on video - it is ADORABLE! (of course!)

I realized I forgot to post the pictures of our big shindig, the weekend joy and dan were in town. we had five pizzas, four kiddos, lots of fun, and TOTAL chaos! here are some pictures of our friends! i guess the chaos explains why i have no pictures of MY son, and no pictures of me and my girlygirls, and no pictures of all the kids together (maybe because none of us stood still long enough! toddlers like to hit, and kick, and steal food, and hug, and trample, and kiss each other!)

eric cleaning the kitchen. here's the proof! 

daniel trying to be a buckethead like bryce 

Dan, who decided to put a cup in his face to avoid a photo, and Sammy (Kristen/Kristin's :) husband) 

we made some new friends! kristen (oh dear kristen, are you kristEN or kristin?) and sammy, and little miss alex were neighbors of shawn and AM a few moves ago, and now they are all here!  

because dan had to be a putz in the last picture, i told him i was going to take another picture of JUST him, and put it on the blog. so HERE DAN! 

shawn and jillian 

Vroom, Fire Fire!

After the zoo, we spent the day at Gigi and Doobie's house, and Bryce got a new FIRETRUCK! It makes all sorts of fabulous sounds, and has lights too! (It even speaks in Spanish and French in addition to English. . .I told Bryce he should work on English before he becomes multi-lingual though!

What a bunch of ANIMALS!

We had the BEST time at the zoo yesterday!!! We went first thing in the morning - the weather was beautiful, it wasn't crowded at ALL (at first!) and the animals were all performing better than I have ever seen!!! A gorilla sat RIGHT in front of the glass. . .not even two feet away from us, the entire time we stood there. He just stared, looked around, scratched his face, and looked QUITE bored with us. It was AMAZING! The baby giraffe was frolicking around, the bears were eating melon halves in big giant bites, and the monkeys (the real ones AND Bryce) were swinging around on vines. The FUNNIEST animal of the day was DEFINITELY the howler monkeys. . . .holy COW they were LOUD. I had never heard them do that before - we got them on video, that I will try to post later. We also got to check out the new playpark, (that's where Bryce really did hang on vines like a monkey - see photo below!!) He had a GREAT time, and practiced LOTS of his animal sounds!!!
*I'm sorry some of these pictures for NOW are sideways, I am uploading them off the SD card on eric's laptop, and I am not taking the time to edit them yet!!! Didn't want to keep you waiting though!!! I love the one of Bryce and I, because of COURSE he cannot sit still, and he was shaking his head - which is why he is all fuzzy. There is actually a better one - but I sort of like the fuzzy-cant-sit-still-just-ate-too-many-french-fries Bryce :)

hey there goofball!! 

this afternoon annamaria and i made pumpkin cookies! soooo cute, if i do say so myself!!!! 

the cookie monster!