Halloween Past

Since I won't have this year's Halloween pictures until tomorrow I thought I'd post pictures of Andrew's first 2 Halloweens. The first one, he is a turtle and wearing my costume from when I was a baby. He had just started crawling for real (not doing his "leap frog" that he had been doing for a couple of months already). The next one is self explanatory I think.

Pumpkin Carving

Scraping the guts out

Getting the seeds out

What a fake smile

The Spooky Picture, Andrew is there too.

We carved our pumpkin last night and Andrew loved it. He tried to help scrape all the guts out and would say "ooooo, yucko!" Then when we got the candle out he kept saying "Happy Birthday? Daddy's birthday? My Birthday? Mommy's birthday?", then would try and blow out the candle. I read in a magazine that if you cut the bottom off instead of the top more of the guts would come out so, I tried it and it seemed about the same. However, it was a ton easier to light the candle and then just put the pumpkin over it.

Andrew also had his fall party at MDO today and here is a picture of his class in their costumes.

Wordless Wednesday (almost) ~ My Black Tooth

This is what happened when Andrew fell and hit his mouth

on the kitchen floor almost a month ago.

It didn't turn black until a couple of weeks ago.

Now it is even darker.

Andrew Anecdotes ~ "She's Lying"

(Yes, I know, this picture is from almost a year ago)

Marc has been golfing the last few weekends and every Friday or Saturday evening he and Andrew go out to clean his clubs. Well, Andrew comes in and wants to clean his plastic club and I think he tried to do it in the toilet the first time before deciding that the sink was better. Then the day Marc does go golfing and tells me all day how he wants to go to. I tell him that he can't because daddy is at the golf course and he can't go there. The Andrew tells me "I go golf course too" I go course tooooo!!!!!". Well, last night Andrew asks me to take him to the course and I tell him "only daddy can because mommy doesn't know how" then Marc says softly in the background "She's lying" (which I was, I can sort of play golf) then Andrew plops in the chair with a pout on his face and says real loud "She's lying!!!" As if anyone needs more proof that you need to be careful what you say in front of little ears.

Pumpkins at the Arboretum

A couple of weeks ago Andrew and I went to the Arboretum with my 2 Aunts, cousin and her baby. It was a really nice day until we left to go eat. Andrew threw up while we were eating at Souper Salad. I think he had drank too much chocolate milk, because he was fine before and after. I was sooooooo mortified! Anyway here are some of the pictures I took.

P.S. I didn't know until later that I could take that bar off the stroller.

Andrew in the pretty flowers.
There are a ton of Butterflies in the flowers behind him.

What a ham!!

GAM and Andrew

Cousins

Mommy and Andrew in front of the giant flower pumpkin

Andrew and Abrey

Here is a close up of the butterflies in those flowers.

Wordless Wednesday ~ Why So Sad?

Horseback Riding

We went to a friend's birthday party yesterday and there was a little petting zoo and a pony to ride. Andrew had a blast and kept going back to ride the horse, "Dallas". He loves horses and this is the first time he got to ride one. Of course, the most interesting thing about the horse was when in pooped. I don't know what it is about my kid and poop. Everyday when Marc comes home he wants to go out in the backyard and "pick up poop!". We took the picture with our phone, so it is a little fuzzy.