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Nov 16, 2012

Downtown - Uptown - All-overtown

Here is the rest of my time with the Thalman family in Charlotte. One of our big event days included heading uptown (which I think should be called downtown....). We stopped for storytime at the library.
Benji played with legos...
and on the computer.
Which is what Gid also found most entertaining! 
We walked a few blocks to The Green and the kiddos played in the fountain.






We picnicked there, then on our way back we stopped in the Wells Fargo Museum and we got to ride a "rubber-wheeled trolley".




Other happenings (not in chronological order, but all happening sometime in October) include:
Eating all the honey crisp apples we could stomach
 Dressing up like blue and black ninjas
The swords were most definitely outside toys.
Wearing Grown-up's shoes (featured are Mally's sandals. Honorable mentions are my boots- worn up to Benji's thighs.)
 Back massages.
 Playing hard at several local playgrounds.

 Wearing sunday shirts and burp cloths tied around the waist. (Why, you ask? We asked Gid the same thing, and never got an answer.)

Monkey Joe's! The boys were playing so fast, that I could only really get pictures of the backs of their heads. Too fun.



Not all fun and games though. We put those boys to work making dinner. (Then convincing Benji to eat four big bites before getting candy.) 

Apparently he wants a puppy. Black. Small. Named Fred. 
 Thalman men ("I'm a growing man!")

Thank you guys so much for letting me stay with you for four weeks. It was such a blast!!!

Pumpkins!

Staying with my sister and her family was so so so much fun. We took a day to go to the local pumpkin farm. The boys had fun seeing all the animals, and picking out their pumpkins for Halloween.


Both boys were awed by the horses


They liked seeing this goat too.

Trying to take a picture with the guinea hens and roosters, but Benji was dancing around, and Gid was distracted by the pigs...funny!

We finally made our way over to the pumpkins, and those boys had so much fun running around trying to find the perfect ones to take home. 




Later, we had fun carving them. The boys were so excited to help.

At first he was afraid to reach into the pumpkin and pull out the guts, but by the time the carving was done, the goopy mass was a hit. It was fun trying to recruit help from the little guy to separate out the seeds.

 Finished projects (night of...cause by the next morning they were a little broken and covered in soy sauce...which makes perfect sense...if you're a 2 year old!)



Happy Halloween!

Nov 6, 2012

The Elusive Picture-of-all

Grandma Marty is dying for a good picture of all three of her grandbabies together. The problem is all of her grandbabies are young boys... Mally and I are wondering how the heck we're going to pull off getting "a well composed shot" ;) 

Here are our options:

Hey, all the boys are in this one...

Action pic, blowing bubbles. Cute.. if you ignore my presence with weird undried hair

Sad Silas
 and distracted Gideon

 At least my hair is done in this one...

 Everyone is happy here!
 if only there were a way to photoshop out Mallory. She's cute but not one of Marty's grandbabies...




I don't think this counts as composed

Goldilocks and her three bears is just right! Cute pic Grandma Marty!!

We finally busted out the bumbo so Si can sit up with the big boys, and here is what we got-






And, finally (drumroll please....)






We Love you Grandma Marty and Papa Mike!!!