Halloween

I didn't get many good pics but here's one of Sam, Dylan, and Parker before Trick-or-Treating

Pumpkin Patch, Round 2

Ball toss

Sam won a fish at the ball toss

Dune Buggy

Ewwwww

Merry go Round

Pumpkins

 

Swim Lesson

Kate Sessions with Parker and Grandi

Halloween Party at the Forgiones

La Jolla Shores Fall Festival

Pumpkin Station Del Mar

Pumpkins!

First ride ever - Swings!!!

Merry-Go-Round Horse

Beep Beep Dune Buggy

This time on the elephant

Beep Beep Fire Truck

Driving the train

Last Day of Wonderful World of Music

Bubbles!

Soccer and Lunch with Dad

After soccer today John met us across the street at the museum cafe for lunch. Then I let Sam play a bit more at the Rec Center to make sure he took a good nap.

Best Seat in the House

This box contained a perfect Sam-sized chair but he seems to prefer the box itself

Puppies!

Sam loves the new stuffed puppy and puppy book that Grandi sent him

18 Month Check Up

Stats:

- 33.25 inches tall (76%ile)
- 24 lb 0.5 oz weight (48%ile)
- 18.9"Head Circumference (65%ile) He was only in the 6%ile when born! Brain must be growing :)

Only a flu shot today so that was a nice change of pace from the usual 3-5 per visit.

He is apparently supposed to be drinking from an open rimmed cup now instead of a sippy cup so I gave him one when we got home.  He immediately dumped half on his shirt and the rest on the ground.

He should also be saying at least three words besides family member's names. I told them "beep-beep"=car, "go-go"=ball, and "bowowowow" or "baa"=dog.  He also says "Hot" to mean things that is hot or any light.  He usually waves his hand as if he is feeling for heat too.

He can "count" to three kind of.  It usually goes "two two two two" and once he even said "one two three two two."

He runs very fast and climbs well too. John and I are constantly taking him off of the dining table.

He's down to one nap a day and usually goes down around 1:00 for a couple of hours.  Bedtime is 8:30-9:00 and he wakes up around 7:00-8:00.

He has a busy morning schedule of Monday-Soccer, Tuesday-Swimming, Wednesday-Music, Thursday-Swimming, and Friday-Art Class. Our new babysitter, Katie, comes over in the afternoon so that I can work.  

La Jolla Art & Wine Festival Car Painting

Art Class

Pumpkin Prints

Water Balls

Jar of Sand

Paint on foil

Wrecking Crew

I'm not sure who was more excited watching them demo this house

Soccer

Crusin' with Ellie

Ellie was happy to share the car. Sam, not so much.

KidVentures

It is still really hot here and I couldn't bear to go to the park today, so I took Sam to this indoor play area called KidVentures.  It's kind of like Chuck E Cheese without pizza. They have lots of different play rooms but his favorite, by far, was the disco dance room. He had lots of fun and fell asleep in the car on the way home.

The Fire Truck was pretty neat

Helping a little girl onto the stage

He ran out and grabbed this shopping cart...

...which he ran with in circles on the dance floor