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!

Friday Fun with Daddy

Helping with the garden.

Helping get the mail and loading it up in his trike.

Taking a stroll around the block in style!

Brody's new cheese smile. Why do they close their eyes during the super-cheesy smile?

The way he loves our phones you'd think we used them nonstop. Quite honestly though on our family plan of 700 minutes total, we don't even use half each month!

It's amazing the amount of fun that can be squeezed in from the time daddy arrives home on Friday from Duluth and when I get home from work!

Sever's Corn Maze

The B. Park Family

Brody helping Barry with the corn maze navigation.

Feeding the goats one corn kernel at a time, poor goats!

I was surprised that he liked feeding the animals. Jaedyn is helping him out.

Feeding the fallow deer, making mama proud since I inspect deer farms!

Brody's first experience with a juice box. There were a lot of "mmmmm" sounds and equally entertaining play with the juice box once it was empty.

Brody loves "tac-tors", this one looks just like the one "papa" has, only papa keeps his at the "fom" (farm).

Gabby giving Brody a smooch:)

Milking the fake cow with Jaedyn. I think he was surprised that water actually came out!

Brody didn't really understand the point of these things, he tried climbing out instead.

Giant slide! We didn't get to the giant slide until the end of the day, but he smiled and it was worth the wait.

"CHEESE"

We had such a fun time at Sever's Corn Maze. There was so much to do that it was well worth the splurge. A person could spend all day there with kids. We even saw pig races.