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Dear Shepard-fans. So sorry for the month-long silence! Life has been moving at manic-pace. We are buying a house next week, and October is my crazy season at work...and we're packing...chasing an active two-year-old and just doing this thing called life.
This weekend, we were able to take a breather from the hectic and enjoy a beautiful fall day. It also happened to be GRANDMA'S BIRTHDAY!!! Grandma got her first-ever hayride (short, but sweet), we had apple slushies and apple donuts and generally enjoyed the hay at Windy Hill Orchard near York.
Here are some fun pictures!
Self-portrait to prove I was at the event...since I'm always taking the pics.
Front-row seat to the music!
Apple slushie. YUM YUM.
I love this guitar!
The closest we got to him standing by the measuring thing.
I love to climb!
Hi piggies!
I pick.....THIS ONE!
Hay hill!
That's a big bale. This child was jumping off! (we caught him)
Here I come!
Hayride!
In hindsight, probably allergic to hay...oh well.
It was a wonderful day. Now, I have to get back to packing... (~Mommy)
Little man has really taken off with verbal skills. Lots of full sentences, loads of new words every day...and he doesn't forget a thing. In addition to all the yabberin', he's also started singing intelligible songs! We caught him singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" earlier this morning. Of course, I couldn't find the video camera!! While he was eating lunch, I started singing it to see if he'd join me...and he did. And by this point, the video camera was ready and waiting. Enjoy your first full Shepard song.
Yay, Shepard!
Excuse me. Has anyone seen August? I'm not sure where it went. Our house is on the market...so we get to go behind the wee tornado of toys and clean up the aftermath. Sometimes, if we're lucky, he'll help. He definitely likes to vacuum. It's been eventful, but not in great ways. We had a few trips to the hospital last week with Daddy and Grandma. I think everyone's on the up and up now. Daddy started a new school year, and Shepard moved up to the two-year-old class at day care. He learns so much every day that there's no way to document it all. He walked out of his room this morning saying "Follow the Leader. Follow the Leader!" Huh? It's awesome watching his language explode.
Here are some non-sense videos of the last two weeks or so. In the first one, he was reprising his fun trick of moving his bowl and alternately saying "Diamond. Square. Diamond." Did that all on his own. And of course, once I get the camera rolling, he sometimes doesn't "perform" the tricks. That's ok. It would be great if we could catch all the funny moments in our house, but for now you'll just have to believe me.
Here he is after a sweet little nonsense song he was singing. One day I'll catch his little songs on video. They don't happen too often, but they're nice when they do. This is a balalaika (Jerod's). We're just calling it "guitar" for now.
All the grandparents came to town to help with life as we shuttled to and from the hospital earlier this week. Here is Grandma with her "fuzzy feet" and "scary toes..." And my little monkey-climber with unending energy.
We finished up summer with a dip in the backyard "pool" on Saturday. As hot as it was, it was good to get splashed and watch Shepard have some summer fun. Though this mama can't wait for some cooler weather. Happy Labor Day, y'all!
August has flown by. Our house is on the market, so that means extra excitement every morning, trying to make sure there isn't wet oatmeal on the wall or a fire truck in the hall. I have a few little videos of nothing much to get on here soon. Meanwhile, enjoy these photos of Shepard I took on Tuesday. He looks sooooo grown up (and handsome, if I do say so myself). Every year we "help" Daddy with his school bulletin board, so these were for some posters that will go up in Daddy's room.
Sweet smile. Sweet boy.
He's got the whole world in his hands...and a few bruises and knee scrapes.
Who's that cute guy on the screen?
Here's a flashback from bulletin board 2010...sigh.
Our backyard has some visitors! Jerod and Tux (the dog) discovered some wee little bunnies yesterday. There are four. We've seen what are probably their Mama and Daddy this week as well. Talk about CUTE.
Daddy and Shepard left some carrots for Mama tonight. Shepard sampled a carrot as well.
According to Jerod's research, they are about two weeks old.
It was nearly bath time. I had gotten as far as getting clothes off and was tending the bath. I came in Shepard's room to find him performing, so naturally I flew to get the video camera. Thank God I caught some of it for you. Rock on, little man.
I have more videos to upload from July, but it's been a little nuts here lately. More to come!
