Christopher's Game

Christopher invented this little game yesterday, and for some reason Daniel actually went for it. I was quite suprised that he was ok with Christopher having Bucky and teasing him with it, but I am frequently suprised by these guys.

Life has been crazy since Christopher started getting into everything. I feel like I can't get anything done, but soon this stage will be over. I also posted a video on Facebook of Christopher chatting up a storm and doing kisses. So cute!

Go Irish!

This football season was a little less than spectacular, but we are true Irish fans and can't tear ourselves away from the TV despite the performance. The boys got into it a bit, too. Daniel normally moves this much. Just imagine church together.

Daniel and Christopher in the Boat

I'm just wondering if all of you climb out of bed and get in your boat? That's the kind of house we live in. We have been enjoying the slower pace of life since our travelling earlier in the fall. Today is a rainy and cold November day. The boys are doing great. Christopher follows nearly everything that Daniel does and is getting faster on his feet each day. Immediately after shooting this little video, Christopher had to go over and watch the video with Daniel and Matt. He kept pointing at himself in the video and then would look at the front of the camera to see where the picutre was coming from. I wish I had a video of that. It is amazing to see their little minds work.

Alligator Wrestling

Banana Phone and Palermo's to the Rescue

I had to make a rush-hour trip to the grocery store this afternoon with one toddler who did not nap and one baby who just seemed a bit frantic (teeth?). I knew it was a dicey situation, but I had to go. We are hosting the dinner portion of our Women's Club Progressive Dinner tomorrow night and I'm volunteering for Expanding Your Horizons tomorrow afternoon, so it was now or never. Things were going alright until I got into the vestibule and there were no car carts. That meant that Daniel was either free or thrown in the big part of the cart. I opted for the big part of the cart, but I knew that my groceries were likely to get pulverized.

We started in the produce department where Daniel asked to taste everything. I don't know how many times I had to tell him that we have to pay for the food before we eat it (this was particularly important for the produce as it is by weight!). Well I grabbed some bananas, and before I knew it, Daniel had one plucked from the bunch and was talking on it like a phone. I decided that this was a pretty good compromise. He continued to talk on his banana phone for half of the store very loudly. The fun was wearing off by the frozen foods, and I started to get worried.

I had no need to worry because we ran into the Palermo's Pizza sample lady. She was giving out slices of pizza, and Daniel loves pizza! Now these were not a taste of pizza. These were Happy Hour at the grocery store size slices. It was perfect. If you recall, I'm a big fan of Palermo's. I mentioned them in a earlier post about coupons. They have a .pdf $1 off coupon on their website. The pizza lasted until the dairy aisle when Matt called. Daniel had to ditch the pizza for the banana phone. It was hilarious. I was talking to Matt on the cell phone, and Daniel was talking to him on the banana phone.

We finally made it out of there with minimal outbursts. There was a mini-meltdown when the banana phone went into the bag instead of to Daniel. If you could have only seen the look on the bagger's face when Daniel asked him for his banana phone. The banana phone made a perfect snack for the ride home.

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Photos, I Miss You

Some of you might be wondering why there have not been any pictures here since our trip to Virginia. I guess you might have to call it a casualty of good fun. Sunday morning was so hectic getting up and out of the hotel and to the airport. I was fine. It was just early for me, but Matt was, well, under the weather. Let's just say that being a groomsman in your college friend's wedding brings out the college in you.

So anyway, the camera never made it from the rental car to our bags. The part that ticks me off a bit is that I called Alamo before we even arrived at our house only to get a really sorry excuse for customer service. I am fairly certain that the person answering the phone that day has a nice Nikon Exlim now complete with pictures from Chris and Laura's wedding. At least we can see the Mariner's Museum and the Williamsburg Winery online, but there will never be a replacement for the beautiful bride or the green Focus. I've called back four more times, and their best excuse for helping has been that they sent an email. Thanks Alamo. I have zero confidence in their ability to find things as there were at least two other people's rental agreements in our glovebox. Despite the camera loss, the weekend was wonderful.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do about getting a new camera. I feel like we should wait until Christmas or upgrade to iPhones or something like that, but then I realized that Christoper will be turning 1 before then. I'm going to have to figure out something before then! I'm open to suggestions.

Happy Halloween

Here are a couple videos from Halloween. The boys had a great time. Christopher made it a couple houses, and Daniel made it almost the whole block. Much of our Trick-or-Treating involved redirecting Daniel from flowerbeds and other things like that. I particularly liked the house where Daniel found four treats - sand, a pinecone, berries, and leaves - before reaching the front door. He was a very cute duck, and got many compliments. Since then, we have been struggling with getting back into our non-treat routine ;)