So long since my last blog, I think I owe everyone some pictures!

A couple of weeks ago we went to the county to visit because Uncle Josh was home "on vacation" from Iraq:

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Well, it's Wednesday.....

that means Story Time at the Library and then to the Children's Museum for Arts and Crafts. Today's art was sponge painting...messy and fun....Manny's favorite combination :)

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Thanksgiving

Finally, time to sit down and post some Thanksgiving pictures. We went to Dad and Phyliss' for Thanksgiving with them, Uncle John, Aunt Carol, Sarah and Chris. We also visited GG in the hospital before going home. Here are some pictures:

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So we tried..

to keep Manny from eating junk food, but obviously we have given in (somewhat). Daddy and Manny are enjoying some chocolate chip cookies:

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Splashing in the puddles

Manny and I were helping Daddy string the Christmas lights outside and decided that we needed to jump in the puddles at least one more time:

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Playing with the Camera

Manny loves my camera. He likes that he can take a picture and then look at the picture. So here we are playing with the camera. I LOVE this picture:







I was trying to get him to make faces with me. I told him to stick his tongue out. Now that I have seen the picture up-close, I realize I have been caught. Manny and I were eating a tootsie-roll as well as taking pictures.


I like this one too:

Halloween Fun!!

Halloween was a very busy day! We went to Dexter to spend the day with GG and Grammy who had the day off from work. We went to visit a lot of people...mostly just to show off how cute I looked in my costume. Here are some pictures:

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After we went to Dexter, we went back to Brewer and when Daddy got home from work, we went to the mall trick-or-treating.

Halloween Party

Manny attended his first Halloween party today. It was with the kids in his playgroup. Manny helped me make Halloween cookies to take to people for trick-or-treating as well. Here are pictures of both:

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The WABI news people were there and took footage of the kids playing and singing a song too. Manny loved the camera and kept trying to take the microphone away from Joy

Just a Little Comparison...How fast a year goes by

I was recently looking through old pictures of Manny and was comparing last Halloween to this Halloween. What a difference a year makes.


These pictures are almost exactly one year ago (October 2005):






Compare that to this year:


















It is amazing when I stop and think that last year we were just happy when Manny would sleep through the night...this year we are like, "can't you sleep until 8:30?"



Last year at this time Manny was eagerly eating baby-food oatmeal. For supper this evening, he shared our buffalo chicken pizza and asked for more.



Manny is the greatest thing that has ever happened to Joe and I and we are truely blessed.

WE'RE GOING STREAKING...EVERYONE'S DOING IT...

Okay, so it wasn't technically streaking, but doesn't he look cute in his towel?

Story-Time

Wednesday's start out with a lot of fun. We have story-time at 9:15. We go a little early so that we can play with the puzzles and check out books.

Manny really likes story-time. It only lasts about 20 minutes, but that is just long enough for most of the kids (all under 2 years old).

We sing the hello song, then listen to a story, do some "bounces" (songs and movement), have a snack and then sing the good-bye song. It's great.

Manny usually finds a couple of kids to play with after. This week it was twin girls...quite the ladie's man. Joe and I knew their parents from child-birthing classes, they are just a little older than Manny.

It's cute to watch him interact with other kids.

Visiting with GG (great grammy)

Today Manny and I went to spend the day with his GG (he can even say GG, so the nickname works out perfectly). We had lots of fun.



First Manny had a snack (in case anyone is wondering Manny is holding a Betty Boop figurine in his left hand (Gram's name is Betty and so Betty Boop...you get it right?)







Then he decided that he wanted to take a picture of GG:





Then GG helped Manny make some blueberry muffins:

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All in all, I would say we had a fun day!


One of the best things about today was that we got to see Daddy when we got home. Joe got out of work early....only so he could go back in for midnight. However, we still got to see him this evening, so that is a plus.

Webdings?

I don't know how yesterday's post was in webdings...sorry. Everytime I looked at it, it was in a regular font. I fixed it though.

Yucky Rain

Today it is raining...not just raining...it is pouring. Yuck. And it is cold. Yuck again. Guess today will be a clean the house-stay inside kind of day.

Manny woke up and was helping me take care of laundry. He was looking in the basket and kept saying, "football". I didn't see any footballs or pictures of footballs in my laundry basket, so I just agreed with him. It wasn't until I asked him what he wanted to wear today and he pulled out his shirt with the tiger playing football that I finally understood.
Sometimes Mama's are a little slow at catching on :)

Today was such a nice day we decided to play in the leaves. I think that Mama had more fun than Manny. Manny didn't realize that he needed to close his mouth before jumping into the leaves.

Manny's First Hair Cut

Today we are taking Manny to get his first haircut. It is way past time to cut off the curls, but they are so cute. I will post some pictures from our little adventure this afternoon.

Okay, so everything was fine for the first few minutes of his haircut. Manny was just sitting there looking in all the mirrors and having fun. He was dancing to the music on the radio and eating cheerios....until....












he had had enough, time to go home...

Going to the Pumpkin Patch

Last weekend we took Manny to the Pumpkin Patch to pick out a pumpkin for Halloween. We had so much fun.

There was a petting zoo...with goats, chickens and two bunnies.



















We asked Manny to pick out a pumpkin and of course he tries to pick up the first pumpkin he sees. He was grunting like he was 102 years old when he was trying to pick it up.

He loved the chickens and the goats too.

Hi Everyone

I know that I have jumped all around to different sites recently to post pictures of Manny, but I think I am going to stay with this site. A lot of family members use this site, so it will be easy for them to view.

Also, I am creating this in the hopes that it will be easier to let everyone know what we are up to. Please feel free to leave comments!