Henry is almost 18 months old and can say the following words...which gives you a pretty good idea what his life revolves around.
uh-oh
apple
mia
mama
dada
banana
bottle
puppy
bird
duck
quack
cheese
truck
gum
snack
done
up
down
movie
blankie
hi
baby
phone
no
eyes
me
cup
batman
2 years ago while all the adults in Chris' family were at the church setting up for Jenny's wedding reception, Uncle Richard was at home with ALL the grandkids. He captured the following priceless video.
We spent Halloween this year with our favorite friends the McDuff family. They live in the perfect little neighborhood, full of little kids. The kids got tons of candy and Amelia claimed it was the "best night ever."
Happy Halloween from our favorite ladybug, Captain America and Bumblebee.
I got a year pass to the Botanic Gardens near our house. The kids have a lot of fun wandering the paths through the garden and spending time in the children gardens. They have a brand new section for the kids with a giant treehouse, music garden, stream, etc.
In the beginning of October we went with Chris' work colleagues and their families to the Bates Nut Farm. We spent the morning visiting the petting zoo, taking a hay ride, making our way through the hay bale maze, and of course picking pumpkins. We dressed for autumnal weather...only it was the hottest day of the year. Henry was DONE at the end of the morning. Also...the kid trying to share his sippy cup with the goat is Will McDuff...he belongs to Chris' friend DeForest and his wife Susan.
My whole family came down to San Diego to visit, and we celebrated cousin Kate's 3rd birthday. She is adorable and we had such a fun time celebrating.
Miles started going to a soccer class once a week. He has been looking forward to this for a long time, and he calls it his "soccerball class." It's really good for Miles to participate in a class and learn how to follow directions, while at the same time doing something he really enjoys. He is catching on quick.
The first thing Amelia said when I picked her up from school...."I just want to go back and start it over again right now."
Chris hates that Henry's nickname is Hen. But we just can't stop calling him that. It's Miles' fault...he started it. We know he has big ears and a giant head and he has thin hair...but we think he is the cutest thing we have ever seen.
He is starting to talk now, which is always adorable...he can say dada, mama, more, puppy (pupa), yes, bird, ball...all the essential words for a baby.
The kids participated in the summer reading program at the local library, and got free tickets to the Natural History Museum here in San Diego. The museum isn't that great, but is a good way to spend a few hours on a saturday afternoon.
For our tenth anniversary Chris and I spent 5 days in NYC. We spent our time walking around Manhattan, eating tons and tons of delicious food (i.e. - almond croissants, famous NY deli sandwiches, famous NY pizza, delicious food in Little Italy), marveling at the architecture, visiting museums ( MOMA, Museum of Natural History), traipsing around Central Park with the Dastrup Family, taking taxis (17 total), and sleeping (we slept 12 hours straight the first night - the sign of two exhausted parents on a vacation), except when we weren't sleeping (i.e. - the middle of the night when our ceiling started caving in because it started leaking...we had to have a bad nyc hotel room story, right?).
this is what you look like when you take a red-eye flight. land at 5:00 a.m (2:30 a.m. your time), drop your bags off at your hotel and then wander around the city for a few hours. We finally stumbled in for a much needed rest in Bryant Park. We were running on adrenalin still and loving every minute...we just looked ragged.
took a cruise around the bay...first sighting of the statue.
i loved this shot of the tiny little house in the center...the smallest building on the island...so cute.
view from the empire state building. it was foggy and rainy that day (similar to san diego) and so the visibility wasn't as great....but still spectacular. visiting the empire state building was our favorite surprise of the trip...we didn't expect it to be so awesome. if it hadn't been so cold and rainy we would've stayed there for much longer.
our hotel room. as seen from the top of the empire state building.
a shot of a dinosaur, for our kids.
chess and checkers in central park with the dastrups.
we sure had a great time with the dastrups. and we sure miss their cute family.
We talk constantly about how much fun we had walking around the city, and we can't wait to go back someday.
