Swings

 

This was Conway's first swing experience. He looks pretty laid back and/or tired, but he actually really enjoyed himself. Of course Parker did some swinging as well and this picture shows his new favorite way to swing. Parker also had fun pushing Conway, but as always, the concept of "gentle" was a little hard for him to grasp. I mean, why wouldn't an 8 month old want to go really high?

After Crawling Comes...Standing!

 

Conway has now mastered an actual crawl instead of relying on the worm move to get around. And basically as soon as he could crawl he moved onto his new task - standing! He's pulling himself up on everything...much to Parker's dismay because our strategy of playing with things on the coffee table or the couch when we don't want Conway to get to them is now much less effective. Conway sure is proud of his new skill, though!

 

  "Look! I'm up!"

 

"And I'm down... for a few seconds."

Chelan with the Hueys

 

This was our first trip to Chelan in the winter and it was freezing. I think it got down to 19 degrees, but we bundled up to play outside and then came in to warm up by the fireplace with hot cocoa and marshmallows. There were bike/scooter races, fun at the playground, "swimming" in the hot tub, rolling in leaves, and lots of time to play together inside. Parker, Roark, and Clarke even got to cuddle up on the couch to watch the movie Planes. Conway joined them for a quick picture, but his favorite place to play was under the coffee table.

 

Thanks for braving the frigid weather and joining us in Chelan, Huey family!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The house even got some festive new lights. Until next time, Maison Rouge!

 

Happy Halloween!

 

Parker seemed to understand a bit more about what was going on for Halloween this year... and by understand I mean he actually wanted to eat the candy. Unfortunately, gone are the days when he's oblivious to all those treats people put in his pumpkin bucket. Last year he didn't even know what candy was so he just wanted to take the candy out of his bucket and fill it with his cars. This year was a whole different story, though. 

 

We also tried to get him involved in choosing his costume this year. Anytime he was asked what he wanted to be for Halloween he said something like, "a cat and a dog and a flamingo and a shark and a whale and a pirate ship". So Parker was a shark and Conway insisted on being a Tiger.

 

Parker and David cleaned out one of the pumpkins we procured at the pumpkin patch and brought it to "Dad's Pumpkin Carving Night" at Parker's preschool.

 

 

 

Parker's preschool also had a Halloween Sing-a-long. Parker did a good job of not being disruptive on stage during the singing, but for someone who is constantly singing around the house he didn't do a whole lot of participating.

 

 

 

 

The Queen Anne Avenue shops all open their doors for trick-or-treaters in the afternoon on Halloween and we got in on the action for the first time this year. Parker got to walk the Ave with his friend Finn and we knew it was time to go home when Parker's bucket had so much candy in it that he started complaining about it being too heavy.

 

 

Then we headed over to the Verhasselt's house for more trick-or-treating, time with friends, and pizza. All in all, a successful Halloween. Now, how to get the candy away from Parker so he doesn't eat the ridiculous amount of treats he collected.