Umbrella

This is Blake's new favorite thing . . . his umbrella. No wonder he became obsessed with them seeing it has rained for so long I forget what a day without rain is like! when we were in the car he just kept saying, I need an umbrella, as we would watch it rain - so he told his grandma and she took him shopping.

This day, it was raining - of course - so he took his umbrella to school and he wanted to show his teachers and friends. so we went in his room and he opened it for everyone and all the little kids came running under it, then they had to take turns holding it - I had no idea an umbrella could be so exciting. But we have got a lot of use out of the last few days!

Nootril Drop

On Saturday Nootril Drop - Ted's band - played at the Jammin for Josh Benefit. Blake was so excited to go see them. In the morning Ted asked him if he wanted to go watch his band play and as soon as Blake woke up from nap he said, 'I want to go watch Daddy's band'. At first he wouldn't leave the stage area. He just stood there and watched his daddy - it was so cute, but we lured him back to our blanket with popcorn! Julie brought Alexa and Jenny brought Kylie and the kids also had fun running around and playing on the playground. Also Randy's daughter Samantha was there, but I don't think she liked Blake too much, cause he kept trying to play with her polly pocket toys.

Blake finding just the perfect popcorn kernal in the bag of kettle corn.

Labor Day Parade

Blake with Paige and Taytem That whole bag is full of candy!!!

For the first time ever I went to the Labor Day parade! It was probably the hottest day of the year, but we got a good shaded spot. It was over an hour long and Blake loved it since he loves trucks and tractors and all that boy stuff, so he would get excited when the trucks came thru - I got excited about all the candy we got!

Visiting Blake's cousins

Over Labor Day Weekend we went to Geneva to spend the day with Ted's sisters and Blake's only cousins - Jamie & Brandon. Blake doesn't see them very often since they live so far away, but he was so excited to see them. They are quite a bit older than he is (they are both 10) but they had so much fun playing with cars, running around outside, and they even had bowling on wii!. These pics are at the restaurant that night.

Build-a-Bear

Aunt Terra wanted to take Blake to make his own teddy bear. We took him Friday afternoon. We may have been more into than he was - hehehe. First they pick out the bear, then he put a lullaby sound in it, then he stepped on the pedal to put stuffing his bear and next added the heart before we was stitched up. Blake picked a guitar for his bear too and we also got him some cool pirate pj's. One of the last stops is to put the bear under dryer to fluff him. But after that Blake was more into the dryer than the bear! He even has his own birth certificate but when I asked Blake what his name was he said 'Teddy Bear' as if it was a no brainer. So now we have Teddy!

This weekend we went to Wildlife Priarie Park for Kids Day. Grandma and Julie went with us, Julie and Blake are in the train. He really likes Julie! They had different crafts and bouncies for the kids, plus they had free pony rides. I never thought Blake would actually sit on the pony and hold on, but he did such a good job and I don't think his smile left his face for the entire ride! Then Bill the Bear came around and he got all excited and started yelling, Teddy Bear, and gave him a hug. There was also a firetruck there which he was all excited about, until we got up close to it and I wanted him to sit in the firetruck, but for some reason big trucks scare him up close. Then we walked the trails for a little bit, but he fell asleep in his stroller and slept the rest of the day. It was such a pefect day.

This photo was taken of all of us at my work's Family Picnic. We don't get family photos to often where Blake will stay still - so this was pretty exciting! When we drove up to the picnic Blake saw the lagoon with the all the ducks and got all excited and then saw the giant bouncer and got more excited and then said "I want to get out and run around in circles"??? That is what is so cute about him - it's the simple things in life like running around in circles that makes him happiest!