Paul's Birthday and Other Fun Stuff

Here are a couple of pictures from Paul's birthday celebrations. The first cake is chocolate with chocolate. Wyatt added his birthday cake Bob to it--while the 2nd cake (which we are still working on) is lemon. Yummy...

Wyatt helping Daddy open presents.

A pancake as big as your hand--normal weekend breakfast food around here.

A picture that Wyatt took of Rob and Tiffany. Sorry about the captions, folks, as I cannot figure out how to make them match the picture space (neither can Paul!).

Halloween Pictures

Halloween was a lot of fun around here. It started with a Montessori costume party, where we saw our friends Katherine (Tinkerbell) and Lilah (Peter Pan). Wyatt was of course, Bob the Builder. He loved the black dracula teeth that they handed out at the party (see pictures). Wyatt went out trick or treating with Lilah, who was dressed as an adorable bumblebee. They had a great time. And we finished up by playing at her parents' house!

October Stuff

Paul and Wyatt have carved several pumpkins together. This one is pretty cool, as it features the profile of a witch who is holding a pumpkin in her hand. I think that it looks pretty cool and scary at night. I have also included a couple of pictures of the leaves near our house.

Pictures of Luca, Lilah and Wyatt at the apple orchard and Wyatt ready for his school's picture day.

Fall Festival Part Deux

More pictues from fall festival--I love the pictures of Meg and Wyatt (especially at the top of the Ferris Wheel with St. Boniface's towers in the background) and the one of Wyatt and I.

The Fall Festival

Well, one of the West Side Evansville delicacies is the brain sandwich. Despite the mad cow scare, the Fall Festival continues to sell them. Yum...

Wyatt and I met Meg and her kids there and we began with the pet parade. I really like the St. Bernard dressed as Cerberus. The parade also featured wagons with cages of cats and kittens and infants in precarious floats. All for 15 minutes of fame.

Wyatt loved the rides and Meg and her kids gamely took him on many of them. Mallory took him to the bumper cars and then he went up on the Ferris Wheel, which scares me to death.

The dinosaur ride was also a hit--he was happy to be in the front seat at least once. He went on this ride all by himself.

Here is Wyatt at the top of the big slide on Meg's lap (thanks Meg!) and a couple of shots of Wyatt on a helicopter with Mallory--you have to look for a little bit to find Wyatt in the last picture. We had a lot of fun with our friends eating food that was not good for us. Things that we didn't try include chocolate covered bacon, chocolate covered crickets, elephant ears, and deep fried oreos.

Wyatt's Fourth Birthday

We had a party at Chuck e Cheese last Friday to celebrate Wyatt's birthday. We had a good time, although both our birthday helper (Mildred, not pictured) and Chuck e were a little over the top. Wyatt enjoyed riding the toys and playing the games.

We waited to have cake at home til Saturday. It was very good and super cute. Wyatt helped Paul cut the cake.

Here is Wyatt with some of his new toys: a doctor's kit and Thomas the Train stuff. Note that Paul has converted Wyatt's old toy bin into a train table...very cool. It was really more of a birthday weekend than a single day.

Kids Fest, etc.

On Saturday of this past weekend, Wyatt and I had a busy day. We met Jennie, Lilah & Aviva at Kidsfest in downtown Evansville. This event was sponsored by our local NPR station and was pretty fun. We saw Curious George, which was very fun. We also saw Wyatt's teacher, Ms. Lori, at the Montessori booth, and got more Napoleon Peacock books written by our friend Margaret McMullan. Wyatt loved the bouncy house, which ended in a slide. I have enclosed several pictures of this here. One of the highpoints of Kids Fest was that Wyatt got a white fireman's hat, which he wore all day (see the last picture).

After Kids Fest, we went over to Haynie's Corner, for Arts Fest, where we saw glass blowing and various other artists at work. We also visited the UE booth. Then we went to the big, new library downtown, so it was a busy day. At the end of the day, Wyatt still had his fireman's hat on and snuck in a nap in the car.