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Nov 17, 2012

Four Months

Silas is getting so big. He is four months old already (where has the time gone?), weighs 16 pounds, is 25 inches long, and has the cutest giggle I've ever heard. He has been so busy...

Hanging out
Sleeping
Napping 
Making friends

 Tummy-timeing

 Drooling
 Showing off his leg rolls
Eating as many fingers as possible



Growing the most adorable feet
Playing with Mommy
Giggling 
And being super cute some more.

That about sums it up. Silas is undeniably cute.

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!