Daddy's home this weekend!

Adam was home this weekend with Friday and Saturday nights off.  Even though he tries to somewhat keep to a night schedule we do get to see more of him.  We took full advantage and had fun around the house with him.  Especially since we will be leaving him home for Thanksgiving while William and I visit family and friends.

We got out to enjoy the weather a bit, William helped me in the yard this morning, Daddy got out for a run, and so did I.  I was enjoying my tea and reading a book during nap, when I was told to get out for a run or a sweaty pair of underwear were going to be lobbed in my direction.  What a nice husband, right?

Playing in our new clothes (great fit Gma S!) with our new toys.

Dad's were just designed to be jungle gyms, right?

William climbing onto my foot to be "walked" around.

Williamisms for the week:

"Your welcome, no problem Momma", every time I say thank you to him.

"That's the best ... I never had" or "That's the best thing I never dooed"

"Rainbows are big, Cranes are big, Daddy's big, Daddy's strong, what makes Daddy strong?" we then proceeded to have a conversation about how eating good food and exercising makes us big and strong.

"That's my crane, only my friends can use my crane, no grownups can touch it" about a building crane along the highway.  He then goes on to name who can and can't touch it.

"Ya, ya, ya, yourself", definitely picked up from Daddy's list of expressions.

"Mom, why is the moon a crescent", and then a challenging conversation where I tried to explain how the sun was behind the earth making a shadow on the moon.  Clearly by the repeat questions the concept was still too big for him, so a quick topic change and on we went talking in the car.

Birthday Party Time!

 William's Mickey Mouse themed Birthday party was fun for all.  We had a nice sized group, all Grandparents, and the kids had fun playing with old and new toys.  My friend Melissa again took pictures, so I don't have many to share yet, only those taken by Grandma Mc.  Thanks to all who made it to the party and thanks for all the great new toys to play with, we are definitely set till Christmas!

One of the favorite toys, a cool mailbox.

Pictures from the week.  William has been practicing his bossing skills.  It's "Mommy you sit there, no not there, here!", or "Boys only in the bathroom".  Some we are allowing slide and some we have budded heads over, oh the joys of three year olds!

Got some good pictures with nice lighting last weekend of the "boys".

William and I ventured to the park despite the cold last weekend and had fun digging, making lines in the sand with sticks and swinging on the big swings.

My acrobat swinging, kicking and hanging from my exercise bar.  We repeated swinging then running over to Momma, jumping into my lap then flipping back to the ground about 30 times.  What fun!

Lists

I love lists.  I love to-do lists, grocery lists, don't forget lists, or just listing things in my head.  So here are some going around in my head right now. 

List of foods/snacks for William's party next weekend: Chili, cornbread muffins, deviled eggs, jello shaped like Mickey ears and Mickey Mouse cupcakes.

Yard work tasks that need to be done:  Rake leaves, take load of twigs to compost dump, clean up remaining perennials, bring inside swings, refill bird feeders, and turn the compost pile.

List of baby stuff we are lending out to an ecstatic couple at work that are blessed with a pregnancy via IVF:  Swing, pack-and-play, jumperoo, car seats, walker.  And by them getting use out of this stuff it is starting to settle in okay with me that William might be our only child.  There is a little pang every once in a while, but it is getting duller as the years go by.  Plus William is just too fun right now, he is into doing so much and has such an opinion about everything that cracks me up.

List of baby stuff that we still use to this day: monitor, changing table mat (hopefully for not to much longer), stroller, crib converted into toddler bed, etc.

Okay enough of the lists in my head.

William was a great grocery store helper this morning and added a few things to his cart that I didn't have on my list but apparently was in his head: peanut butter, fruit cups and pudding cups.  All stuff we will eventually eat, so no big deal.  He also helped me rake leaves onto the tarp then pull them from the back of the yard to the curb.  Then we took a break to swing.  The white hat he is wearing is mine, the 2T-4T hats are too tight he says and since his usual one was left at daycare he was wearing one of mine, what a big noggin! 

And a funny face picture from the other evening, boy do I love this little guy!

Trick or Treat

Our town has trick or treat on Sunday from 3:30-5:30pm, not exactly the Halloween I remember, but fun none the less.  Will and I carved our pumpkins this morning in the basement to lessen Momma's mess freak out.  This was William's first time carving pumpkins and we had fun.

Here is Will's "I can't believe you are dressing me up when I don't want to" face.  It took a lot of convincing to get him into a costume that was regular clothes with accessories.  I think he has Adam's dislike of Halloween.  I on the other hand love dressing up and so love Halloween, though it has been 3 years since I dressed up, handing out candy doesn't seem to justify it.

On the return to home with candy William decided he enjoyed trick or treating, but refused to say "trick or treat" at any of the houses, but did thank them all for the candy.  What a goof.

On the other hand he LOVED handing out candy to the kids who came to the door.  I got a stern lecture on how it was his job and I wasn't to help.  Silly little man!

Happy Halloween, have fun trick or treating to those who have yet to partake!

More Grandparents!

I picked up Grandma Mc from the train last Sunday and she kept busy making cookies, cupcakes and sewing for the week.  We had a ton of rain around here the last week, but managed to get outside one evening to rake up the leaves. 

 After raking William wanted to show off his big boy bike skills and surprised me by wanting to go all the way around the block, and he stayed on the bike the whole time, good job buddy!

 Making spaceships with Grandma (they are an elephant cut out with a blob on top, magically they become spaceships when your squash them together!

And we managed to make it to the Little Farmer for apples and pumpkins, it was crazy busy there with dog weekend.  Lots of dressed up dogs barking, roaming and sniffing.  We saw one Great Dane that was as tall as William! We headed to the play area as they dogs weren't allowed in there.  William had great fun climbing on the hay bales, hanging out in the corn tepee and climbing to the top of the tires all by himself.  We tried the tricycles, but they were too caked with mud.

 Nice group shot with G&G Mc before church.

After church William wanted to take our pictures, here is the best one, he gets a little trigger happy and takes about 5 pictures at a time, good thing for digital!

So now our house is quiet (well at least until little man wakes up from his nap), no guests expected for three weeks.  Then we will be welcoming both Grandparents back and our friends to celebrate William's third birthday.  My how the time has flown!

Grandparents Visit

Grandma and Grandpa S came out for a visit and we had fun despite the rainy weekend.  We had hoped to make it to the apple orchard, but it was just too wet.  So we will have to save that for Grandpa and Grandma Mc's visit this weekend.  We pick up Grandma Mc from the train today and she will stay the week with us, sewing, baking and playing with William.

We headed to the Airplane museum to run around, push buttons and pull levers.  

William has a funny way of correcting us right now, if we say something wrong he says "Well actually...  I have been corrected a lot lately if I call something mine.  Will says "Well actually that is mine".  So apparently I don't own much in this house, but William does. 

We brought some of Will's outside toys, police car, tricycle, mower, etc. into the basement and he is having a blast riding around on his tricycle.  Usually I get commanded to ride the stationary bike while he is riding and he does a thorough comparison between our bikes.  Mine doesn't have wheels, his does, etc.

Now the brooms are out and being swung around pretty high, gotta go make sure nothing gets hit.  Have a good weekend!