Just Chill'n

Thinking Inside the Box

There's No Stopping Him Now

And then Nick learned how to start pulling himself up.

It's not pretty, but it works

Nick is this close to really crawling. Right now he is doing a hybrid of rolling, sitting, rocking, scootching and crawling. Full on crawling is going to be a total game changer around here.

Now Isn't That Thee Cutest Thing Ever!

Without any prompting, Ben gave Nick a kiss this morning. And it was a nice kiss, not a 'I'm going to kiss you while I tackle you to the ground' kiss. Aaaawww, sooo cute!

Lem'me See! Lem'me See!

I got Ben one of the Playaway View video players from the library. He was supposed to have it for the camping car trip, but I didn't get to the library before the boys left. So he has been watching the Dinosaur Train all week. Several times he has gotten on the floor so that Nick can watch, too. And Nick is totally fascinated with it. Ben has been pretty good and just gotten up and moved if Nick was bothering him too much, but he has also been a good big brother and shared.

Ben's First 'Real' Camping Trip

Ben went on his first real camping adventure this weekend. Adam and the boys went to the Allegheny Mountains area in Pennsylvania this weekend. They were 'primitive' camping (read: no bathrooms), but with gourmet food (read: leg of lamb). Ben had a great time - he went fishing and on a boat ride and got to sit by the fire and use glow sticks and use is cool new ghost flashlight and dig holes in the mud and play with sticks. What more could a 2 year old ask for?  And it was perfect weather!

Peak-A-Boo

A Sandbox Play Date

Friday we went up to Ann Arbor to play with Alex and Luke. The boys all had a great time playing both in the awesome playroom and in the sand box. It was a beautiful day to play outside!

Pumpkin Patch

Today was a fun trip to the pumpkin patch. We went back to the same place we went last year, Fleitz, in Oregon. Grandma and Dziadziu met us there. I think Ben's most favoritest thing was the little ride-on tractor. He also enjoyed the muddy hay ride on the big tractor. We got four pumpkins - one for each of us - to decorate for Halloween.