A few cute videos

I haven't had any videos on here in a while, so I thought I'd put on a couple that I thought were cute.

This was from September of Nick blowing wishes.


Late August doing what Nick does best, eating blackberries! Of course he was quick to figure out that blackberry bushes have thorns, so he made Mike pick the berries most of the time.



And finally, Nick's violin playing stage from August up to about 3 weeks ago (about 7 weeks total). We went through two sets of batteries in the first 10 days. Mashka is very happy that the violin is no longer an obsession, she did not like it at all! But I did!

The Great Pumpkin

So we just took our yearly trip out to Heavenly Harvest for the fall festivities. We did all the usual fantastic stuff: duck races, hay bale maze, corn maze, corn cannon, pumpkin patch, corn box. Nick loved the hay bale maze - he ran through it yelling "this is neat!" He also had a blast in the corn box and left with quite a bit of corn stuck in his diaper and pockets. I discovered that dry corn can be re-plumped after going through the washing machine....

This year we had a larger crowd that came with us. Grandma and Grandpa Edwards and the Parker family (Misty, Emily, Staci and Gary) came as usual, but YaYa and Dza Dzu (Grandma and Grandpa Monroe) and Aunt Pili came as well. Also Nick's partner in crime, Jefferson and his daddy, Kirby joined us as for the fun. It was a great crowd!
Searching for the perfect pumpkin.

Father and daughter - Gary and Staci striking a pose.
Emily and the giant pumpkin!

Everyone in their game day orange.

And this is how we left with a pound of corn in Nick's diaper and pockets.

Jefferson climbing the hay stacks.

Nick keeps us laughing every day. The things he says just amaze us. Here are some examples:

1. We were out to dinner and Mike was reading the menu. Nick really wanted to play with the menu, but Mike told him to wait because he was reading it. Nick turned to me with this serious look on his face and said "Daddy not sharing, just reading it". And looked at me like - would you do something about it?

2. Nick was running his fingers through his own hair and saying "I have nice hair".

3. Nick was eating lunch and had a mouth full of food, he opened is mouth and looked at me, then said "Want mamma to look at it" and then opened his mouth again.

4. Mike was downstairs with Nick and he was yelling upstairs to me to get my attention and ask me a question. Mike was yelling "Hey Stac!" So now every time I run upstairs, Nick yells "Hey Stac" and cracks himself up.

5. We pretend we are in a boat (its a blowup dog full of toys that's as big as a bathtub) and I use whatever I can find for paddles. We paddle along picking up friends (a crab, a turtle, etc). Nick leaned over the side of the "boat" and said "jellyfish, want to eat blue one" and pretended to pick a jellyfish out of the water and eat it.

It is so much fun having conversations with him. I love it when he tells me stories and gets soooo excited to talk about things. This is such a fun age, and we are looking forward to Halloween this year. We'll see what he does trick-or-treating. Who knows what he'll do?

Portland Zoo

What happened to September? I don't know what happened. Could it have disappeared? Did the bump on my head cause amnesia? I have no solid conclusions, but here are some pictures from our trip in August to the Portland Zoo with my parents, my cousin Shelly, her hubby Jeff and their truly amazing daughter, Sydney.

As for the bump on the head story, it involved Nick, a gopher and a backwards whoop-dee-do. Feel free to fill in the blanks....


Monkey at the zoo...



Monkeying around....