Chuck E. Cheese

Sorry we've been slacking off lately, but we'll be catching you up with what's been going on as quickly as possible.

A couple of weeks ago, we decided that Jack was ready for his first trip to Chuck E. Cheese. We were really excited, as Stacey and I hadn't been there since we were little kids. It's a little different now, they don't have the animatronic band anymore (boo!), but they had lots of games, video games, and enough flashing lights to keep Jack very entertained. We even got to meet the head mouse himself!

He had a lot of fun eating pizza, fries, chicken wings, and dipping celery into the blue cheese dressing. Plus, he got to play Skee-Ball! Maybe one day, he'll be as good as his mother.

In the next few days, we'll post about a trip to a fun farm, a surprise visit from Poppa, and of course Halloween.

From Chuck E. Cheese

From Chuck E. Cheese

From Chuck E. Cheese

From Chuck E. Cheese

From Chuck E. Cheese

From Chuck E. Cheese

From Chuck E. Cheese

From Chuck E. Cheese

Fall Festival

We made our second annual trip to the Burger Farm Fall Festival. This year my parents joined us and we all got to enjoy the merriment of pumpkins, goats, a puppet show, ice cream, and dancing pumpkin heads (to list just some of the activities offered!). Jack was especially entranced with the puppet show (at least for 10 minutes and then attention span was lost) and with the wiggly tails of the pigs in the pen. He discovered straw for the first time and also was pretty happy to throw around his little pumpkin like it was a ball (he also tried to eat it on the way home like it was a apple...yuck). We all had fun watching the wonder and amusement on his face.

To top off our exciting afternoon at the festival, we then headed to watch Dada play hockey! It was Jack's first exposure to a hockey game and he was pretty impressed. Erin even scored a goal for his little boy! He loved the Zamboni and loved all of the action of the game. He repeatedly screamed out DADA!! It was great...I think we have a future hockey player for sure!!

Here are the pics from the whole day...

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

From Burger Farm

GROWING up!

I have a bunch of pictures to post from a fun trip with Grandma and Grandpa to this year's fall festival at Burger Farm. I'll post them asap, but for right now I couldn't help but put these two up. This is a side by side comparison of fall 2008 and fall 2009...almost to the exact day. I am in shock by how much my little man has changed in one year! It's amazing!!!

Fall is coming!

In the past few months Jack has really become an 'outdoors boy'. He loves going outside to play. He goes to the front door, backdoor, and windows and says 'side, side, side'....'Mama Dada side, side'. He begs you to go outside with him. It has been on the cooler side here the past few weeks, but that hasn't stopped us yet from spending some time in the great outdoors.
Here are some pictures where Jack was discovering fall leaves for the first time and then playing fetch and chase a stick with his best buddy Lola.

From first taste of fall

From first taste of fall

From first taste of fall

From first taste of fall

From first taste of fall

From first taste of fall

From first taste of fall

From first taste of fall

From first taste of fall

family picnic

Just did another big dump of photos onto the computer. They were stacking up! These photos are from a little picnic the four of us (Jack, Erin, Lola and I) went on a few weeks ago. Erin made us some delicious chicken sandwiches and we had fresh fruit and cookies. Jack ate almost the entire container of fruit himself. He especially loves blueberries (or blue balls as he calls them) and gobbled them all up! He then spent a good 10 minutes drinking juice out of our plastic glasses. He ended up covered in juice, water and blueberry goo. So much that we had to change his entire outfit...hence the half naked picture at the bottom. It was a fun afternoon!

From picnic

From picnic

From picnic

From picnic

From picnic

From picnic

From picnic

From picnic

From picnic

From picnic

From picnic

techno wizard

Erin got a new cell phone which is pretty snazzy and takes good pictures and videos. He figured out that he can send pics and videos directly to our blog from his phone (he is so smart and technology so crazy!). So, the two posts below are practice runs. The first is a little video at a park this week. Jack had a blast on the actual playground, but had even more fun taking drink after drink out of this little water fountain. The second picture is from a recent trip to a Halloween store where Jack was trying on a puppy dog head piece.

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Playing

Here are a bunch of random pictures from the past month or so of Jack just goofing around our house. Some include pictures from a babysitting visit from Jess and Sam. There are also a few classic ones of Jack experimenting with placing a bucket on his head. Awwww....my little bucket head!

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