Sunday at home

Kevin loves to play with his footballs. He has one in just about every color. Today he took some passes with his dad. Check him out:

Too much excitement, he has to stop for a milk break. We let him know the clock was still running, better get back to it!

We put up the Christmas lights today, we'll be busy the next few weekends and wanted to get out there before it's too cold. Before dinner we took Kevin out to see the lights. He was very confused and kept asking me for his "pupkin" (that would be pumpkin).

No more "pupkins" at our houseHe sports the puffycoat look better than I ever could!

We are coloring all.the.time.

Kevin loves to color! He gets super excited when I get the basket of crayons & his coloring book from the closet. For the most part, he has passed the "eat the crayon" phase and doodles in his notebook. Sometimes he prefers his Elmo Aquadoodle book instead.

Yeah for us... he is also at the age where he can color for a few minutes in his highchair if we are out for dinner. No surprise, most of the restaurants we go to nowadays have kiddie menus and a tiny pack of crayons :) I never thought that would be such a big deal (nearly as important as snagging the race car shopping cart at the grocery store)!

Friday Night is pizza night

You might wonder, why do I have so many recent photos of Kevin while he is eating... well it's usually the only time he is still. Plus, he always happy when it's time to eat. This pic was taken tonight during our Friday Night Pizza Night ritual. I said "Keep your hands where I can see them" because they were very saucy & dirty.

Happy weekend!

Happy Halloween, one day early

Happy Halloween, or as they say in Iowa, Happy Beggar's Night. They trick-or-treat the night before Halloween here and call it Beggar's Night. Tonight we took Kevin trick-or-treating. At first he was very shy, but quickly got the hang of reaching his hand into the big bowls of candy. It was a perfect night, nearly 70 degrees. What a lucky duck, Nate & I remember many Halloween's where we went trick-or-treating in our winter coats & gloves!

Grandmom & Grandpop come for a visit tomorrow. We are excited!!!

18 month check-up

I took Kevin for his 18 month check-up today. Here are his stats:

28 pounds
34 inches

A big surprise to us; he has only gained 1 pound since his 15 month checkup, but has grown 3 inches! The doctor was impressed with all the animal noises he knows as well as many of his body parts.

Beautiful fall day

By request from Chris... they don't have beautiful fall leaves like this in San Jose! We tried to stay outside as much as possible yesterday, the weather is supposed to get cold soon, boo!

Kevin has fun picking up the leaves, very, very helpful.

Gap Kid at the park yesterdayOur backyard

He is inspecting his pumpkin. We (a.k.a. mommy) are going to carve them this week.

"The Kevin Show"

Kevin entertained everyone on Sunday with his animal noises. Keep in mind, Tanya & Dave had not seen Kevin since he was 6 months old, so they were extra impressed with all his new tricks.

Enjoy!