Family Reunion

We headed down to Ennis after the Touch a Truck event to attend S's family reunion. It was at his cousin Charlie and Sheryl's place. Several of his other cousins were there, and it was nice to catch up with everyone. Here are some photos of that shin-dig.

With Papaw

That's Charlie and Sheryl in the center, in the light colored tops.

This was just before we prayed and ate.

LM's other cousins were there too!

There was a lot of visiting and catching up.

Whassup?


These tables were the perfect size for banging.










Those Family boys - they all look alike, no?


No, really, they all look alike, no?


There were also horses!




The dark brown one was very friendly.

We took quite a bit of time petting the friendly horse. Of course, I wasn't photographing that, because I was holding the boy and petting the horse, talking to the horse and the boy. It was very fun.

Then we went back to the other area for more visiting.








For LM this meant talking just about everyone there into taking him on a walk.


Seriously, just about everyone.

It was a long day for the boy, as you can see. But, a fun one too. See you soon.

Touch a Truck

On Saturday morning, we went to a fundraising event called Touch-A-Truck. LM was probably on the young side for the event - next year, he'll tear it up - but he still enjoyed himself and had fun exploring. Basically, this non-profit organization called "My Very Own Book" got local police and fire agencies and other entities to bring their vehicles to a mall parking lot, where you could buy a ticket to climb in and all over them. There was a city bus, a school bus, an ambulance that you could walk in, sit on the bed, and start the siren to, several firetrucks of different ages, limousines, a FedEx truck, lawn mowers, race cars, vintage cars, a garbage truck, dirt haulers, etc etc etc.

Inside the DART bus

LM had a great time in the ambulance. I think it was maybe his favorite one, as well as the monster truck. He also liked the garbage truck and the fire trucks. The rest of them...I think he was maybe a little overwhelmed by all the stuff. He and S checked it all out, the weather was great, and it was a full little event to do with the boy.

Sitting in a SMART car.
They are surprisingly roomy!

Checking out some cool spinner rims.

Sitting in a brand new firetruck.

Checking out all the instruments.

Not sure about this one.

Inside the hauler.

A really nice older man owned this car. He was very sweet to the kids.

Hi baby!

Walking through the FedEx truck.

Watching the garbage truck work.

Honking the horn on the garbage truck.

LM and S were color coded. LM got dressed first. I'm just sayin'.

In a vintage Ford.

In the monster truck. He thought he was big stuff.

Getting his hands dirty on the hitch of the monster truck. Ewww.

Checking out the back seat of the police car.

I think Daddy had as much fun as the boy.

See you soon.

OCD Much???

I was feeding LM some teddy bear graham crackers. I noticed all the little teddy bears were turned face down. I started turning them face up. Immediately, LM started turning them all face down again. Over and over. So, I tried to catch his little OCD behavior on video. 

The master bear flipper in action, and sharing with Daddy.

I certainly hope I'm not writing here on this blog (that has clearly fallen down the baby hole, let's be honest about that, shall we?) in the future about how my child really DOES have OCD and we're struggling with how to treat it, etc. God help us. But, you know, on this particular day it was just cute.

See you soon.

Rubber Lips

I bring you...Rubber Lips

We had lots of fun this last weekend. And I took tons of photos. But, I'm having a time getting them uploaded. So, today, instead of a weekend recap, I have for you the above video and a couple other random photos I've taken recently but haven't show on the blog yet for one reason or another. How is that for a long sentence? 

On the playground.

We pass a playground on the way back to the house from our bike ride route. We stopped and played a while last weekend. LM loved it. In fact, he took off on the playground equipment and went down a slide. I don't have a photo of that because I was worrying about catching him. Ahem. No fear, this boy. No fear.

Climbing into the playground equipment with abandon.

This would be the slide he went down. Twice.

There was also swinging involved.

Pajama Day

Last Friday was Pajama Day at school. This was a photo I took with my phone just before LM headed out for the day. PJs and shoes. Oh, and of course, a remote control. We left that one at home.

He wanted to wear a hat!

This was Friday afternoon - I actually posted this one on Facebook. He wanted, for the first time, to wear that hat. Or any hat for that matter. He was just so cute in it. Now, to convince him he WANTS to wear the headpiece for his Halloween costume...we have four weeks to do so...

He left the hat on for quite some time.

Anyhoo, hope to see you soon with some photos from last weekend.