Question for ya...

How cute am I?

I'll even help with the yard work: A little raking and...
watering the bushes...

and adding some "flair" (aka rocks) to the avocado pot.

Like my rain boots?

Jump, jump!

No pictures this week, but here is a clip of Ben "jumping" - arm motions and all... Wonder if he gets this from daddy's porch jumping escapades...

We had a nice weekend at home... We did venture out of the house on Saturday night to attend a play at a children's theater in Oregon City (Krayon Kids) - it was a fun variety show - musical numbers, some dialouge, dancing, and lots of activity. Ben did very well sitting still, watching and pointing at all of the neat things going on. After 1 1/2 hours of the show (starting at 7PM), there was an intermission which was already well past Ben's bedtime, so we opted to head out and miss the last part of the show... I think our little guy could have handled a bit more show, but we thought we'd better head out while we were ahead!

2 little videos

Singing "Twinkle, Twinkle..."

And trying to say "cock-a-doodle-doo"

Really, it's November already??

For Ben's second Halloween, he actually got to try his hand at the door-to-door trick or treating! He picked up on the idea pretty quickly. Well, his version anyway: OK - so you climb up the steps (on your hands and knees), then you knock on the door (or hope they have a doorbell, so you get to push the button), then you say say trick or treat (or some gibberish that sounds really cute), then you get to take some loot (or see how much you can get away with taking because you are so darn cute), and put it in your pumpkin bucket (that mommy and daddy will carry for you) then you move on to the next house and repeat. It only took him about 2 houses to catch on to the pattern.


Here is Ben "helping" to rake and haul leaves on Halloween.
Sunday, we went on an awesome hike for kids in the Columbia River Gorge to Wahclella Falls with Andy's bud, Riad and kids Alex and Dylan. It was a beautiful autumn day in Oregon - It certainly didn't seem like November...