Monday, October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween!

This year Rob picked out costumes for the family. I agreed with him that we really did need to take advantage of our children's complacence, since I believe this is the last year we can choose TJ's costume for him.

My little Chewbaca enjoying hotdogs@ our church's Halloween party.
Andy really was the cutest Yoda I've ever seen. He got a little hot in his robes, which is too bad since they were SO CUTE. I feel a little bad I didn't get a picture of me holding him all dolled out.

Our friends, the Fifes, also dressed up as Star Wars. I think we have almost every character represented.


And since I just can't resist that smile, here's one more:

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

He Crawls!!!! and other news

Somehow I'm WAY behind on posting again. This keeps happening to me! And Rob has the camera at work with him, so I'm limited in what I can post pics of right now.
September/early October kept us busy, mostly in good ways.
-TJ turned 3 (pics later)
-Andy started to crawl--well, army-crawl really, and it's not too pretty, but who's going to criticize the little guy? After all, he's only 5 months old(!!!), which is way too young to be crawling around at all. But he can get where he wants to go, and he can really cover some ground. The week he turned 5 months is the week he started crawling, too. And I thought TJ was an early crawler. This video is about 10 days old already, so he's already drastically improved. It's amazing how every day he's better and faster than the day prior. I love this age.


-a foot surgery for me
-a visit from my mom (and since the camera was in Guatemala with Rob, this largely went unphotographed; which is maybe just as well, since I couldn't really walk, so it was more of a work-trip for her than a fun trip).
-Rob went to Guatemala to operate with Iaomai Medical Ministries. Check out the trip blog here and a photo blog here (shots taken by the fabulous Josh Newton, whose work is likely all over your iPod, as he does lots of cover work for musicians).
-a new haircut for me (I'm loving it). Sorry for the lousy self-photos



And here are a few fun shots from Parkhurst Pumpkin Patch and farm this week: