Early October

Here's a few photos from early October. We've spent a few evenings at the park, since our days finally seem to be calming down a bit now and we actually seem to have time to go. So on the nicer days, we try to stop by for a few minutes. The sitter has a new slide at her house that they play on inside, and he is LOVING that! So at the park the other day he told Momma and Grammy Dene "go down". That was the first time I'd heard him say 2 words together like that! He's much better about going down on his bottom now, but sometimes he'll even surprise ya and go head first! He's even mastered the big slide at the park, and even waits til you're behind him to climb up!




Easton gets naked time for about 5 minutes after a bath or shower. We're certain he's peed in the shower, so one would think he would be good to go for at least 5 minutes! Right? Well, so far that's proved true. But one day last week he hadn't even been out for 2 minutes, when he peed on my blowdryer on the floor in my room!!! Thank God he missed my shoes! And luckily I have a backup blowdryer!!! He sure does enjoy this "free" time though! We can't let him run around in only a diaper anymore, cuz he knows how to get that off! So it's 5 minutes after a bath and then the pants are back on. Darn Mom and Dad!

Pictures from the farm

This last weekend we made a trip back to Osborne. It was a planned trip for my 10 year high school reunion. We did, however, end up going back a day early for my great uncle Math's funeral. So on Saturday, after the reunion lunch, we made a trip out to Uncle Math's farm. We got to see the house that my grandma and her brother and sisters had grown up in. I thought it was in surprisingly great shape! Easton had fun playing in the grass. It was a little tall and kinda hard for him to walk in. But he enjoyed himself anyway.

Oh, and before anyone emails to ask...those are mosquito bites on his head! Those buggies just love to nibble on him.






On the way back to town we decided to detour out to Uncle Ralph's farm, as he mentioned he had some new baby kitties. He also has a couple turkeys...one is rather large!!! Easton had a great time trying to chase the turkeys until I distracted him with the sighting of ducks. He chased those instead. Mom has some not so great memories of being chased by Grandma Sigle's turkeys!!!





I'm pretty sure Easton needs a baby kitty, but we really don't want another cat in the house. Ellie wouldn't like that. She's kinda a one-cat cat. Maybe someday we'll get an outside kitty...

Baby Cayden is here!

We got to go see baby cousin Cayden last Saturday evening for a short time. Easton was pretty excited to hug him...repeatedly! I wish I had a photo of that! He had to get up in Daddy's lap too when Elwin was holding him. Other than that, he didn't seem to be jealous of the baby at all. Hopefully he'll stay that way when his new brother or sister comes in February! My favorite part was when Easton was trying to hug him while Cayden was in his swing. The swing just kept going and bumping into him, and I don't think he understood that it didn't work too well! But he's all about the loving and I have no doubt that he'll be a great big brother!






I didn't think to take a photo of Earl, Crystal and Cayden! What a dummy! I'll get one next time.

We have babies everywhere! Good friends Carolyn and Brock just had their fourth last week, a little girl named Coy. And some more good friends, Jess and BJ, are having their third TODAY! I'm still waiting for the news there, but they know it's a boy. Another classmate and friend, Angela and her husband Kurt, will be having their first in a few weeks. And we're anxiously awaiting another new baby boy cousin to Auntie Kristen and Uncle Jeremy....hopefully in the next 2 weeks also! We should be all practiced up with the babies by the time little brother or sister arrives!

Finally some new pictures!

We tried to do our own little summertime (well, late summer) photoshoot. It was kindof a spur of the moment idea. We were in town with no major plans for the day. So we went to the park to take a few photos. Well, I've decided he doesn't like to take pictures for me. When we have Kristen (our professional photographer) do it, he sits so nice for her and looks at her....but not me! Luckily, I think Dana has some better pics on her camera, but she hasn't sent them to me yet. So maybe I'll post more when I get some from her.

I just thought this first picture was hilarious. It's the first one on my camera, and I think it's one of my favorites...it's just silly!




He didn't want to sit for pictures at all. Come on, we were at the park! Ya gotta run around!




And that's what he did! Run, run, run.... I wish I had HALF that energy!

Picture from Dana from 7/25/09

Dana sent me a couple pictures last night. And since I haven't posted anything in a while, I thought I'd share them. They're from the weekend of July 25th, when we were in Kansas City to visit Dana and for a friend's bridal shower. Elwin, Easton, Dana and Justin went to Cabela's while I was at the shower. Thanks for the pix Dana! I'll try to get some stuff downloaded from the camera and up on here soon, although, I haven't been very good about taking pictures lately.

Lovewell Lake

We headed to Lovewell Lake this last weekend for Auntie Kristen's baby shower and a family campout. It was Easton's first camping trip and he had a great time! He's an outdoor boy, so he loved every minute of it. Had so much fun during the day that he even slept great in his pack n play all night long (which he usually won't stay in there more than a couple hours).

This was our VERY FULL car on the way to the lake. We like to cook over the fire, so we always have so much more stuff than everyone else! Not to mention we were the only people camping in a tent, so we have all that extra stuff to bring along also.


It was a warm day for Kristen's shower, but it was windy enough that in the shade it felt pretty good.


Uncle Aaron had a friend who also camped with us who had a deck boat. So we got to go for a ride on both Sat and Sun. Easton seemed to enjoy that. He took a nice nap while on the boat on Sat. We were out for a couple hours, so it was a good spot to get in a good nap! Then on Sun we got him in the water and he seemed to really like it once he got used to it! After he played in the water it was time for nap. I think the two naps he took on the boat might have been about the only naps he took the whole weekend!





Just a random photo of E. I didn't ever think to get my camera out at the campsite, so no photos of Easton in the tent or anything. Darn it!


The only bad part about the whole weekend was that Easton got bit by something. We weren't sure what it was, because we couldn't see any bite marks. But his hand swelled up HUGE! It was red and hot and looked horrible. We went to Superior, NE to get him some liquid Benedryl, but it didn't seem to help too much. When we got back home yesterday afternoon we called the dr and they had us bring him in. The swelling had gone down some by then, and you could see a puss pocket and an obvious bite mark by then. Dr thinks it was probably a brown recluse spider. So now we have to watch him and make sure he doesn't get a fever or the bite area start to die. Brown recluse are famous for leaving "craters" in the skin. He's on an antibiotic now, so we'll hope for the best and for no holy fingers! The swelling was a little better this morning, but it's still not quite back to normal.

Splish Splash Sunday

On Sunday, we tried to go to the pool. It was closed. All the lifeguards are in 4-H and it was Fair time. Ok, I can forgive that. So we went home and got out the Splish Splash Mat from Melissa. We hadn't tried it yet, cuz Easton didn't like the wading pool too much last time, so I didn't figure this would be any different. Boy was I wrong! He LOVED it! It's a very cute little thing and we will certainly be using it again!