Fort

Audrey and I built a fort this morning.

The Tooth

Heath’s first tooth made an appearance last week.

Ma & Pa

Nice costumes mom and dad! You clean up pretty nicely old man!

Dad doing his best bull dog impression.

Laura

One of Laura from Pat and Jerry’s Wedding. Cheese!

Concentrating

Audrey concentrating very hard on stickers Wednesday.

Picture

Another photo of the picture Audrey drew this morning.

The Letter “A”

This morning I asked Audrey to draw a picture for her Auntie Laura’s birthday coming up. When She was finished I told her to write her name in the corner of the picture. Without any help she drew what you see in the corner and said “A!”. So now she can write the letter A. She never ceases to amaze me.

My Aunt Steph and Cousin Gabriel

A picture my dad “accidentally” sent to me on Skype. Enjoy.

Gabbi and Audrey at the Pumpkin Patch

Here’s a black and white from the pumpkin patch last Saturday.

Test

Just showing someone at work how my blog works.

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Close Up

I found this one from March 2008. I don’t even remember taking it. It’s amazing what a little housecleaning can turn up.

Blast from the Past

I took some pictures off of the old laptop and put them on the external hard drive. I think she’s about 11 months in this one. Circa June 2008.

Fridge Art

Some of Audrey’s recent art projects.

Our Pumpkin

This is the pumpkin we picked up today at Northwoods Apple Orchard near Douglas. Tomorrow: Carving.

More pictures later…

Decorating Cookies

Audrey had a Halloween dress up party last night at Rainbow School.

At the Mall

More photos from Wednesday at the mall.

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Snow… Again!

A girl at work took this picture out the window at Gonda today. If you can’t tell, that’s Calvary Church where Mara and I got married! It’s a crazy slushy mess out there. Wish me luck on my way home tonight.

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At the Mall

Since yesterday Audrey has been talking about going to the mall while “mommy goes to Rainbow School”. Audrey’s favorite thing to do is ride on the airplane ride. It’s 75 cents and last about 45 seconds. But she loves it. Anything to keep my little girl happy. Yesterday she wanted to take a “talking picture” of her on the airplane at the mall. I asked her what she would say. She said “hello everybody!”. Of course when I started to take the video today the fist thing she said was “hello everybody here!”, adoreable.

Another thing she loves to do is balance precariously on the very slippery daisy with her very slippery socks. She manages to never slip off, she is even able to jump and get air. I’m guessing this is only a matter of time before there is crying. She was on that thing about 10 minutes today.

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Parkwood Hills

After an early dinner of Hy-Vee Seasame chicken with pork egg rolls Audrey and I decided to go for a jaunt over to Parkwood Hills playground. I put Audrey in the Burley and pulled Audrey up Viola Road hill. Had a little problem with the rear wheel so I had to stop half way to make an adjustment to the wheel. No problem. When we got there Audrey wanted nothing to do but swing for the first twenty minutes. I finally talked her down off of the swing and on to the “horsies”. Audrey wanted me to take her picture. “Picture, take my picture!” she would yell. So needles to say I took about 30 pictures and videos on our trip. Filled up the entire card on the camera.

Just as we were about to leave a flock of about 3,000 small black birds (of indeterminate species) flew over head. Neat to see but pretty common this time of year. Safety in numbers I guess. Maybe they were flying south to warmer climates.

This time of year it gets cold very quickly once the sun goes down. When the sun was starting to set it was time to go home. We had a great time! Hopefully we have a few more weeks of parkhopping left before the snow flies. And heck… even when it does we’ll still be out there swinging away!

Corn Bran

Audrey’s favorite cereal just like Mara’s is Corn Bran. She can’t get enough of the stuff! She ate it no less than three times today. Like mother like daughter.

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Wii Fit

Audrey attempting Table Tilt on Wii Fit.