my week

so I decided to take the whole week of Thanksgiving off, with no real plans - but just to hang out with Blake. Sadly - since I work full time we don't get to just bum around a lot like a lot of moms and thier kids.

Monday we went to a playdate and then put up the Christmas tree. The week before Tania and I went shopping at lunch to buy shatterproof ornaments, good thing since Blake watched a little too much Handy Manny and spent a lot of time 'fixing' the ornaments! He loved the tree and would watch the lights and say "wow". I also put a couple of presents of Auntie's under there to see if he would open them - which he didn't! But he asks me about a hundred times a day if the presents are his, or if they are daddy's, etc.

Tuesday, we chilled at home

Wednesday we went to the Childrens Museum in Bloomington with Aunt Terra, Julie and Alexa. Blake had sooo much fun there and also hanging with Alexa - he just loves Alexa and she is so good with him!

Thursday - went to Gma and Gpas for Thanksgiving. Ted's sisters came too along with Blake's cousins Jamie and Brandon. I hardly saw Blake all day cause he was running around with them!

Friday froze our behinds off at the parade with Julie and Alexa again along with Alexis, Kylie, Dawn and Eva! (and dads, minus Ted) cause he was in the parade. When Blake saw Ted driving the big red truck he nearly exploded with excitement! and he kept telling Julie, 'that was my dad'. He was so proud of his dad for driving the Big Truck!

I have had a ton of fun, but sadly - I think I'm ready to go back to work (which I am totally shocked by) and I think Blake is ready to hang with his daycare friends again.

Story books and color crayons

Lately Blake has been calling crayons - color crayons - which I just find really funny! Who calls them that? I just call them crayons, but he always will say, "Where are my color crayons?"' so the other day we were going somewhere, he grabbed his Thomas book and says, I want to bring my story book. I just wonder, where does he come up with this, and what's next?

Cowboy

Ted bought this cowbow hat a long time ago when we were in vacation in Arizona. Blake found it and asked if he could wear it and then kept saying, 'I'm a cowboy - giddy up', I'm a cowboy - I'm gonna ride my horse' then he said 'I'm a cowboy - just like Pablo' - from the backyardigans! too funny.

Trick or Treat

Blake and mommy at her work parade; Taytem, Paige and Blake at mommy's work

Nathan and Blake; Blake and Kate at the Retirement Home

at the Halloween Extravangza

This was the first Halloween that Blake kind of understood what was going on. He really liked his fireman outfit and everytime he put it on said, 'he was going to the firestation' He got that from the 'Elmo visits the firestation' dvd that we have seen about 1000 times! The first event we did was at a church, a moms group event. When we first started I had to hold him cause he was shy, but when he realized they were putting candy in his pumpkin - he was all about it! Then we did trick-or-treating at the Retirement home with the moms group, my work parade, and both sets of grandparents houses along with a few houses in each grandparents neighborhood! A week later, we are still eating the candy!

Extreme

When the Extreme Home Makeover show came to Pekin - it was all that was talked about for the whole week. I was able to get down to see it one day at lunch and then decided to take Blake there to see it. He really liked it. I told him we were going to watch a home getting built like Bob the Builder does, and then when we were there he told me he said, 'I see him Mom - I see Bob the Builder'. I don't know if normally he would have enjoyed watching a house get built - but since there was so much going on at once, it was very exciting!