Thanksgiving

In Sanford for Thanksgiving weekend

Andrew's BFF, Bo.  I must tell Andrew to give Alex some space a lot because I overheard him yelling at Bo while being mauled, "No No Bo!  Nonny (naughty)!  Pace (space)!  Pace!" 

Watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

chilling on the couch

trying to dream up some mischief 

helping me set the table

pre thanskgiving dinner snack

looks like andrew was telling some jokes

playing the piano with his cousin james

running a muck after cousin olivia's baptism

this is a cute picture of avery and andrew.  he sure loves "A-E"

meeting great grandma and grandpa reed

exploring the green house

a floor to ceiling wall of cherry tomatoes.  andrew thought he had died and gone to heaven!

helping grandpa clean out the garage

Sunday morning, singing happy birthday to Robert.  or as andrew says "Obert"

happy birthday daddy-o

a-din a-din!  more fire!

helping daddy open his birthday present before hitting the road to drive home

iphone photos

Sept 22 (10 days old) lots of kisses from big brother

Sept 22.  there was no amount of convincing that could get him to change out of his cars pajamas

  i was feeding alex after we had gotten home form running errands and andrew was suspiciously quiet.  this is how i found him.  i lifted it up and he was grinning from ear to ear.  i guess he wanted to see what kind of fun went on underneath that car seat cover.

(Sept 29)  doesn't everyone eat quesadillas in their backyard without any clothes on?

(Oct 13)  Hammond's candy factory

(Oct 27)  out for a bike ride

sacked out on daddy's shoulders after a long walk

(Nov 5)  Robert in Portland for a training

view from the pwc office in portland

(Nov 16)  walking in to face the impending doom.  i hope it's a very long time before any of us return to the hospital

(Nov 17) this picture cracks me up

(Nov 19)  slave labor

daddy trying to hold Alex for the first time after his surgery (I think this was 3 days after).  robert looks like he's in pain and just for the record, i told him not to

Nov 20

(Nov 29)  BIG BOY!  about 10 weeks old

A Few Random Pictures

Andrew is obsessed with the geo.  He got to ride in it a couple of weeks ago with Robert while he ran errands and I think he thinks it's cool because it's "daddy's car."  When he hears the garage door open when Robert gets home he shouts "Deo!" (geo)  Not sure if he's more excited to see the car or his dad :)

Robert takes turns carpooling with a guy from work so sometimes the geo stays in the garage and it confuses Andrew.  He sees that dad's car is here so he asks over and over, "Where dad go?"  One day he had been playing in the garage for a while so I went out to check on him.  He was sitting in the passenger seat of the geo stuffing his face with gum that he had found in the jockey box.  We lock the car doors now :)

We asked him if he wanted to go for a bike ride and he ran as fast as he could to get his helmet and bike then waited for the garage door to open.

napping in the swing

mr. independent enjoying a clementine 

Urkel!

more swing napping

a saturday afternoon nap after a father/son bike ride and some yard work

I was upstairs giving Alex a bath one morning when Andrew disappeared and was being unusually quiet.  I tried shouting from the upstairs bathroom for him.  After not getting a response from him I got really nervous.  I hurried and got Alex out of the tub, wrapped him in a towel, laid him down in his crib and ran downstairs.  All the while imagining all of the terrible mischief Andrew could have gotten into in the past 2-3 minutes.

When I got to the kitchen, this was what I found:

He had gotten the mushrooms out of the fridge, sliced them with the egg slicer (witch isn't sharp, mind you) and put them in another container.  Haha, can you tell what his regular dinner time task is?  My only complaint, he forgot to rinse them first.

Whit stopped by and played at the park with us on one of his trips through Denver.

Andrew was afraid of Whit's truck and didn't really want to go near it.  But there has been a semi parked across the street from our house for the past few days (where whit was parked) and everytime Andrew sees it he says, "Whitty guck (truck)!"  Then asks, "Where go?  Play?  Fun!"

Sunday Morning

Nakey Baby!

tummy time

it had snowed a couple of inches the night before so Andrew and Robert were bundling up to go outside and play

pockets!

Alex and I stayed inside where it was warm

there is a big grin hiding behind his big coat

snowman!

an attempt at a picture before church.  andrew was trying to make a run for it instead

then he decided he would only take a picture if he got to hold the baby.  he kept saying, "my baby, my turn"

"my yap (lap), ya?"

and the toddler wins again