Halloween

Who guessed it? Blake was Superman for Halloween. This is his Superman pose.

So here is the rest of the story...We had narrowed down the choices to a gorilla or Superman for Blake's costume. While we were driving to the costume store, we asked Blake what he wanted to be, he gave us his Superman pose and we had our answer. The funny thing is that we have no idea where he got this Superman pose from. Everytime we ask him what Superman does, he strikes this pose. Very funny.

We went to my parents' wards Trunk-o-Treat along with Blake's cousin, Seth. Who is the other kid in the picture? Just some kid who was excited to get his picture taken.

We played some games. This was Blake's favorite.

Blake wasn't too sure about this gun, but he liked the prize.

By the time we went to get some candy, it was Blake's bed time, which meant that his legs were all of a sudden broken and couldn't walk. Good thing mom and dad have good legs!

18 Months Old

Blake is now 18 months old, which meant a trip to the doctor's office for a check-up. Blake is tall...in fact, he is off the charts for his age. We also learned that he has an ear infection. Awesome. Did we know about this? Nope. Maybe that is why Blake has been shoving his finger in our ears. Aside from his ears, he is doing great. He is talking a lot..for a rugrat. His favorite phrase is "what's that?" This is almost as fun as the "why?" phase.

The new fun thing that he is doing is saying prayers. He will fold his arms and mumble something and then say Amen...or all done. We can't put his food in front of him before we say a prayer, otherwise, he will start eating before we say a prayer. He also will fold his arms anytime he is hungry or sitting at any table.

His latest obsession is coloring. Thankfully he has just stuck to coloring on paper.

This weekend we went shopping for a Halloween costume. Aaron and I thought a gorilla would be a lot of fun, but weren't so sure how he would do with a costume that required something on his head because he hates hats, so we asked him what he wanted to be. Guess what? He responded...but we'll let you know on Halloween what he came up with.

One of the great things about turning 18 months is Blake is now officially in nursery at church.
Doesn't he looked excited about church?

Children's Museum

While in LA, we went to a Children's museum. Blake had a lot of fun! Here he is flying a plane. He doesn't need to look at where he is going.


One of the things that Blake liked the most was to play with the other kids, since they were all about his age.

He really wanted this pretend food to be real food.

After driving the ambulance, he decided to be the passenger.

He went kind of crazy in the jump room which was perfect for letting some energy out.

LA Zoo

We were up in LA last week, so Blake and I went to the LA Zoo.


We stopped to see the seal and he was clapping because that's what seals do.


Blake's current favorite animal, the gorilla, was at the zoo. One of the gorillas came right next to him by the glass and he was so excited.

This one was looking for some food...kind of what Blake does.

There was a little play area at the zoo with a fake gorilla that someone had to go visit (and try to climb on).

Visitors

Aaron's sister, Tiffanie, and her husband, Kent, visited us for a couple of days earlier this month.

Kent couldn't come to CA without going to the beach.

We went to a beach that had a little playground. Blake couldn't look at the camera for a picture because he had to keep on an eye on the other kids at the park.

It was fun to see Tiffanie and Kent. Thanks for coming!

Helping Dad

We recently bought a new computer so Aaron had to pull out some parts of the old computer and Blake just had to supervise.

New Tricks

It's been a few weeks since our last post, so here are a few new tricks for your viewing pleasure. We hope you like them. My favorite is the gorilla, but I think Blake's is the owl.

What do you think? What's your favorite?

17 Months Old

Rugrat turned 17 months old today and yesterday I saw that he has cut 3 more teeth. He needs them too because he only has 6 teeth right now and would really like to eat some steak with no difficulties.
His favorite song at the moment is "Once there was a snowman", so here he is being tall, tall, tall.


Our day wouldn't be complete without a trip to the park. He has mastered the slide, if hanging on to the rail and then falling onto the slide is considered mastering.

Another usual thing that he does at the park is try to shove as many wood chips into the holes on the play equipment as possible.

Happy kid!

Happy kid? He has a graham cracker in his mouth or maybe he is just plain good at giving me the evil eye.

He does have to take a break to eat a snack.


Here is his friend, Grace. We haven't seen her in awhile, so they were pretty happy to see one another. She totally hams it up for the camera. Blake was too busy getting into Grace's grandma's stuff to look at the camera.

Zoo Time

A couple days ago, we went to the zoo with Grandma, Grandpa and Seth. Blake lasted about 5 minutes in his stroller, which is why I wasn't able to get many pictures. Blake had to be like his big cousin Seth and walk everywhere.


Apparently bunnies are really fun.

Blake had to wave to the chickens and roosters.

Buddies taking a break.

Blake's new favorite animal is an owl and he can even make the noise that an owl makes. He was super excited to see real owls at the zoo and to "talk" with them. Side note: our neighbors across the street have a fake owl on their chimney so every time we walk outside Blake will start to hoot.

After we went to the zoo, we went on a fun train ride around the park. Even though it doesn't look like it, I think Grandpa had fun.

BYU Fan

This was week 1 against Washington...a win. Blake watched the game (mostly) and was clapping a lot.

And this was week 2 against Air Force...a terrible game. Blake was bored out of his mind with this game. Hopefully next week will be a better game.