Weekend Fun

Last Saturday, Ian was introduced to the town of Manor. It was a beautiful day, and we had a great time playing at 2 different parks. I think Ian's favorite part of the day was helping make dinner. He was all practiced up on being a chef because he had made a chef's hat at daycare the day before as well as made his own sandwich for lunch that day. I just love picturing a whole classroom full of toddlers wearing chef's hats and feeling important; such a fun time!Cool dude riding on a motorcycle.Ian loves to swing and can really get himself swinging high by pumping his legs.Exploring new places to play.He did some trike riding.Ian has never been a climber, but he is becoming more brave and daring as time goes on.Enjoying some lunch while watching our Red Raiders play football.We made pizzas for dinner, and Ian felt so special to make his very own pizza. Here he is spreading out the sauce.Sampling the cheese. The wild look in his eyes makes you think he hasn't eaten for days! :)Pepperoni was next.Adding some olives.While the pizzas were baking, we made bracelets.Concentrating.These hands are always so busy, but they won't always be this small.

Quite excited to eat his creation. :)

Random Moments

Here are just a few pictures lumped together. They are too cute not to share, but don't really group well with anything else we have been doing lately!Just a taste of the attitude that lives in our house.In this ensemble, Ian told me he was "Dressed up like Mommy." I'm not sure if that is a compliment or if I need to submit myself to What Not to Wear.

"Mommy, I want to do a sack race." After we emptied the last of the bird food into the feeder, Ian decided to be creative with the bag.Jumping to the finish.As I was cleaning up after dinner one night, it got extremely quiet in the house. I was pleasantly surprised to find this little boy happily playing with his trains, cars, and trucks. It is fun to see his imagination really come to life when he is playing.

Trick or Treat

Ian was excited for Halloween this year! When he woke up yesterday morning and it was still dark outside, he informed me that he was ready to go trick-or-treating. When the sun came up, he finally believed me that we would have to wait until after dinner to get dressed up. It was a fun night, and he didn't fall asleep until 10:15 after all the excitement and candy finally wore off.

Ian went up to almost all the doors by himself, except the ones that looked scary. His funniest comment of the night was when he looked down at some lady's slippers after she answered the door and proclaimed, "You're wearing those because our Red Raiders are playing." She had a Texas Tech double T on the top of her slippers, and she was so impressed that she gave him extra candy...Red Raiders are hard to come by in this part of Texas! :)

Ready to pass out some candy.Dressed up and ready to go. My mom actually made this costume for one of my brothers 20 years ago. It fit Ian perfectly and was that much more special since it had been Uncle's.Ferocious alligator!!

Headed down the driveway for some trick-or-treat fun.First candy deposit from our sweet neighbor, Alice.Is he excited or what??Ringing the doorbell.Talking with Grammy on his way to the next house.

Walking through a huge Halloween display at one house. As the night went on, parts of the costume came off, but the excitement never left! Looking through his loot.Sharing candy with Mommy.The sugar high has begun...:)

Pumpkin Carving

We waited until last Friday to carve our jack-o-lantern because I knew with this heat it would rot in no time. It was a beautiful fall day when we tackled this project, which was nice since it actually felt like we should be carving a pumpkin for Halloween!

This was our harvest from Sweet Berry Farm in Marble Falls a few weekends ago. Ian chose all 3 of the small ones by himself.Starting off the event with an extra silly face.Spoons in hand and ready to get to work.Not quite sure whether or not he should actually touch it.Cleaning out the seeds.

This picture is worth a thousand words! :)Deciding what kind of face our jack-o-lantern should have.

Lost interest in the pumpkin and decided sliding head first was a more fun choice.I roasted the pumpkin seeds that night, and they were a tasty snack before bedtime!