In my attempt to think of a clever title for September's blog entry, nothing was coming to mind (last month wasn't so fab either)! So, I decided to search the web. In my lack of creative thinking, I just looked at the Wikipedia page for "September"...Harvest Month, Pompey and Augustus' birth, President Garfield's assassination, the Constitution signed in 1787, William Howard Taft's birth (in Cincinnati to boot), The Star Spangled Banner was written, President McKinley's assassination, the sapphire, the forget-me-not... What a month! Not so great for some of those Presidents though!
Needless to say, there's not much for me work with so, the Forget-me-not it is... Mark: forget-me (us)-not...school and football are quite time consuming; friends: forget-me-not- Labor Day 2010...hope to get those forgotten items in the mail to the Donahue's this week (can't wait for Labor Day 2011); house: forget-me-not to clean, laundry, and grocery shop...we've been out of town and had visitors every weekend; family: forget-me-not, how could we? We've seen everyone except the Garza's this month (and we miss them dearly)!
How can you not miss this face? (He makes my heart smile)!!!!
Helping with laundry!
Phew! Like I said...its been QUITE a busy month! We kicked it off (and said Goodbye to summer) with our annual gathering of UD peeps over Labor Day Weekend! A great time was had by all (I hope), but especially the kids! Jack, Izzie, and Olivia were actually all able to play together this year! Although, the word "together" might be a bit generous as the kids are all 2 and under and sharing isn't in the vocab! But, we can't forget about sweet baby Sammie who just bounced in the bouncer as long as one of the big kids wasn't in it!
Making sure the rainforest is still fun for Baby Sammie
Making sure the bouncer still works! Jack missed his friends!
Sammie in the bouncer!
The girls & kids
The boys & kids
Looks like trouble!
The tots playing!
Cornhole!
The following weekend we made a (long) day trip to Coldwater to celebrate Miss Avery's birthday!
Jack driving to the party!
Someone's ready for cake!
Jack and I spent a few days in Columbus as well. I was working on-site at a client's and thankfully Lolly was available to Jack-sit for a couple of days! They both had a great time and Jack even opted to cuddle with Lolly instead of give his mom a hug one day after work! Hooray for Lolly but sad for mommy! Poppy took Friday afternoon off and we all went to the zoo! (I ended up not having to work either!) Jack is really only interested in the big animals and can't seem to get past his reflection if the animals are inside. And, of course he still likes to watch the other kids! He seems to really like the petting zoo, starting a tantrum because he wasn't able to get to the horse poop, watching the elephants, and the bonobos were crazy!!!Mike & Donna came down for the Glenville game and Mom came down to Race for the Cure!
And we also went to Jack's 1st UD football game!
With Kevin Cripe (one of Mark's former DB's)
Of course, during all of our adventures we had lots of time at home. And since the baby book monthly updates end at "12", I'm just going to continue on here. (I apologize if this is boring ;-)!)
- We cut all 4 molars
- He LOVES eating chicken nuggets, grapes, bananas, apples, corn-on-the-cob, and pickles. (I even put peanut butter on a banana one day and now he won't eat them without! Can't say I blame him!)
- He's discovered the joy of ketchup! (Its much needed with the soy burgers I accidentally bought!)
- He's still taking 2 naps! Thank goodness! And going down for the night around 8 and up with a full diaper and hungry belly at 6:30.
Playing peekaboo bright & early!
- He's become quite interested in using silverware. He's not very good at getting food on it but he'll take the spoon/fork out of my hand and put it in his mouth. He did successfully use a fork at Lolly & Poppy's with a yummy dinner of meat loaf, sweet potatoes, and corn!
- He LOVES to go outside (please see previous "dog" mentioning ;-)!) He goes to the door when he wants to go outside and Eva has mentioned his mini-tantrums he'll throw if he thinks she's going outside without him. We don't even say the word unless we're ready to go out!
- He loves his stuffed animals. A different one joins his normal "guys" each night in his crib. Talk about a party!
- He honks our noses! And thinks its pretty hilarious!
- He repeats our actions! He'll shake his head along with us and we've started "cheers"-ing with our drinks!
- He'd rather push his car outside than ride in it.
- He's putting smaller objects in a larger one (i.e. toys, sippy cup in bowl)
Here are some fun pictures from the rest of the month!
Painting!
Busted!
What's in there?
"Blowing" bubbles!
