Fall Visit to the Zoo

Looking at the moo-cows.

Brody is hugging Max. I promise he's being "gentle".

Claire hugging Brody, so cute!

Last weekend we went to the zoo with Josh, Whitney, Claire and Max. The kids had fun checking out the penguins, monkeys, and zoo animals. We also got to see some giant pumpkins and take a tractor ride.

Hearts, Boys, and Teeth

Ask Brody "what does a heart say" and he will happily tell you "dup dup" while motioning his hand over his heart. Cutest thing ever! He also loves the extra stethoscope we have and will listen to his heart or ours.

The weekend before last we went to Barry's aunt & uncle's place to see some of the Park family. Brody got to play with Alex who is 3. Alex showed him all about Thomas the Train and they had lots of fun playing with all sorts of toys. It was fun to catch up with some of the Park side. I'll have to post a picture of Brody's new quilt from Aunt Rach. It is so perfect for Brody's big boy room and bed next year, filled with airplanes, puppies, baseballs and more!

Brody loves to brush his teeth. This is only exciting because I am sure that soon enough he will fight me everyday on brushing teeth.

Gymnastics

Getting his feet up while hanging onto the little bar.

Kicking Mr. Aaron's hand while walking on the high beam.

Sometimes (well quite often) Brody falls down.

But he always gets back up again!

Mr. Aaron helping Brody walk across the beam.

Daddy helping Brody walk across the skinnier low beam.

Rings! Nice tummy Bro-Bro.

It was fun to have Barry at gymnastics last week. Brody was able to show him all of the great things he gets to do.

He's a little leery of this bouncy thing.

It's been fun so far this fall taking Brody to gymnastics once a week. It gives us an activity to do where he's sure to be in a good mood at night with me for a change! Sometimes cousin Claire is in his class too and it's fun to see the two of them explore together. At the end of each class he sits down in a line with the other kids like a perfect little boy waiting to get a stamp on each foot and hand, sometimes he's so still it's like I'm dreaming :)

Monster Shirts from Omi

My little monster with the under bite!

Max is "so-big" in the middle.

Out of the 50 pictures, I could tell that there was a lot of patty-caking, so-bigging, and clapping. Whatever works!

Omi bought matching monster shirts for the three kiddos instead of candy for Halloween. She did a photo shoot at the farm with them a couple of weeks ago already, but I'm just getting to posting the picturs now. They were pretty successful considering the challenge of getting three smiles. Max is always smiling, all it takes is for you to smile at him. Claire and Brody are hit or miss when it comes to smiling for the camera and Brody is increasingly difficult. Way to go Omi!

We had a great weekend and week, more on that with pictures later this week. Barry came home Thursday, so we even took pictures at gymnastics last week.

Last Saturday

Helping his daddy fill up the bucket of yellow pear tomatoes.

Coloring with mama. Ok, the white crayon gave it away, so clearly those aren't his drawings on the sheet.

New curtain from Grandma Cindy. Now his room isn't so bright and I love it! Brody can even say "curtain", although it sounds pretty close to "kitchen".

Sitting down with daddy's iPad. He's done this 3 times now with his daddy. All we have to do is look up videos of tractors set to music and he's in love. Where was this tactic when we flew home from Mexico with him?

Emma Krumbee's

This photo is from Whitney. Claire & Brody held hands and walked together for quite awhile and it was so cute!

A group shot of Brody, Max & Claire. Claire just ate a piece of corn and is discovering that it's not the same thing that she eats at home.

Apparently Brody thinks Max is pretty cool!

Because he is!

I look like a giant, Brody looks like he's crushing under the pressure of my huge hand.

Good job Brody, lifting with your legs!

Not a fan of this particular goat.

These 2 are much cuter than goat kids.

Claire is at the bottom waiting to catch Brody and Barry or at least that's what she said she was doing.

Tough climb.

Train ride, good times.

Last weekend we went to Emma Krumbee's with Josh, Whitney, Claire and Max. The kids got to play on some playgrounds, see some goats, ride a train, ride in a wagon behind the tractor and see lots of pumpkins.

Happenings In, Out, and Around Home

We tried on Brody's snowsuit from last year. It gives him a snowsuit wedgie in September, so I can only imagine how snug it would be in 2 months. Time to pass it on and get the next size! Too bad he loved it and didn't want to take it off.

One night this week we came home from work and all he wanted to do was snuggle the big blanket all around him and sit and eat raisins.

Getting a quick golf cart ride to see the cows with Papa.

Testing out Paco's (which he can now say!) bike! Sweet ride Uncle Sean.

A man on a mission, watch out!

"WAAAAAAIT for me Auntie Heather!"

Looking good buddy.

Helping mommy flip pancakes on a Saturday morning, nom nom!