Our Gifts From God, Noah and Faith

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

My second Halloween was a great one! I won cutest costume again in the neighborhood (ma-ma, da-da, and the Smith's said so)! I made a great duck! I quacked a little here and there and said "treat" when it was time to go up to the door and say "trick or treat"! I reached my little hand into the candy bowls and grabbed a handful to drop into my pumpkin. I thought it was very fun though I had no idea what it was that I was reaching for and will not get to taste ANY of it! :) A few of our neighbors did have something special for me (ie. play-dough and goldfish) which was great! We were out for about a half hour and went to about 9 houses! Prior to trick-or-treat starting my Gramps, Nana, and Aunt Heather came to visit me and see me all dressed up!

Fall Day at My Favorite Park!

This weekend, we also took advantage of one of the last semi-nice days of the year and headed to my favorite park, Preston's Hope, for awhile. I got all bundled up with a few layers of sweat shirts and my winter hat and stayed nice and toasty (except towards the end when the sun was starting to set and my hands were ffffrrrreeeezzziiinngggg). The cold hands didn't stop me though. I was having so much fun running around, playing with all of the things I like (probably for the last time this year), and playing in the sand that I didn't want to leave when mommy felt my hands and her and daddy said it was time to go. They had to carry me out of the park crying. :(

Nothing like playing in the sand with a winter hat on! :)

Digging for Dinosaur bones!

And building sand castles! Well, I actually just mostly watched another little boy build this and secretly waited for him to leave so....

I could do what I was tempted to do the whole time....SMASH IT!!!!

Then I visited with my Dinosaur friends!

And Mr. Alligator!

I tried to find a new hairstyle in the salon!

And I made some music!

Teeter-tottered!

Swung, while cracking up at da-da!!!

He is sooo funny!

Then I wanted to swing like the big boys do!

And then it was time to go home.

Halloween Party at My Gym!

I don't believe I have posted yet that I am now officially enrolled in Gym class!!! I go to My Gym (which I currently refer to as, "class") and typically go 3 times a week! I just started this month and I love it! So do mommy and daddy! It is going to be a wonderful winter activity for me. There's nothing better, really, than an having a hour to run around and play with all kinds of "gym" equipment for an hour on cold, snowy, winter days! I will post pictures of a one of my gym classes soon but in the meantime, here are a few pictures from the Halloween Party at the Gym which was a ton of fun!

The cutest wittle duck at the party...ME!

I LOVE puppets!!! At almost every gym class, we do something with puppets and it is one of my favorite activities! I especially love the fish and (of course) duck puppets!

They often set up the "circus" tent where we play with the puppets! I was happy to see they had it set up for the party too!

There was another duck at the party who liked the fish puppet too!

I rode on the flying swing!

Jumped on the trampoline (which I love)!

Crawled through the big, squishy ball!

Played with the bean bag toss!

Which I was excellent at!

Then I tried to hold all of the bean bags at once!

I went through the maze!

And down the slide and through the tunnel!

Playing With The Big Kids in the Neighborhood!

I think I've said this before but I just love, love, love playing and watching the big kids! On Friday, a high 60 degree fall day (and probably the last warm day of the year), many of the neighbor kids were out playing. I took the initiative to join right in and they love me so much they didn't mind at all!

They were playing some version of freeze-tag and all gathered around the base to see who was going to be it first.

I was trying to keep my distant from the person who was "it"!

Halloween Party With My Playgroup!

Friday, my playgroup gathered at one of the mommy's houses for a Halloween Party! We all arrived in our costumes, had a yummy pot-luck lunch, decorated cups with stickers for a pinata, and played!

There was a monkey, Michigan cheerleader (yikes!), a duck (that's me)......