Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Aunt Erin




These two adore each other. She's a fantastic aunt - does all the fun stuff that he wants, snuggles up and reads, you name it.  Shawn is overseas and she came all the way from Florida to hang for a couple of days. We're so lucky to have her and miss her already!



Sunday, October 27, 2013

View from my desk


Andrew with the sitter and her son, raking leaves in the yard.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Foodie Andrew

Andrew LOVES our local food co-op. He pushes around the kid sized carts and with that freedom I'm always surprised at what he chooses to bring home. This is a photo of him in the cheese department after sampling raw goat gouda. Finally he's getting a bit more adventurous. This past trip he grabbed a can of spaghetti o's (liked the tomato sauce but not the o's), baked mushroom bites - think mushroom nuggets - and tried those, frozen corn- which he will only eat frozen-, carrots, broccoli and snap peas (which he'll only eat raw.) Otherwise he piled his cart high with fruit. Literally. To the BRIM. And a wedge of raw goat gouda of course :) Thank God that Shawn and I volunteer there so we can keep our food costs down - the beauty of a co-operative market!  Trivia: Did you know Andrew chooses to be a vegetarian? At first I thought it was his pickiness at work but he's tried it and gags at the taste. Doctor says that's perfectly fine, we've just got to make sure he eats lots of eggs and beans, which we are diligent about.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Supercrazyawesome



Shawn just got a laser cutter - check out what it can do (besides his personal art projects!) I'm dizzy with possibilities.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Art projects

After a year of having no interest in arts and crafts, Andrew has gone full circle and now spends an hour or two each day making things to hang up on our new art walls. Some examples-

Match the number mosaic tiles
Collage
Painting 



Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Birthday Parties




One of the side effects of sending a kid to preschool, I've discovered, is the weekend birthday party trend. He loves it and I get to catch up with friends. 

Monday, October 14, 2013

Fall Festival



He was far more excited about the corn maze than the sheep photo opp. 

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Peekaboo


Loving our new neighborhood playground! Especially climbing through these fun pipes.

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Thanks, Nana!


Andrew was super excited to receive a spider themed care package from Nana! He put spider stickers and spider tape on spider web paper and then we hung the cotton web on our living room which looks pretty cool from outside at night too. More spider fun to come (think Halloween!)