photo dump

I tried a few weeks back to put some stuff up on here and had some tech difficulties, and well, here we are now.  Here are some photos I have put up on flickr but didn't get up here yet.  I have found that I am taking more with the cell phone now that I got a phone that takes pictures better than the flip phone I had in high school.  I have some from the DSRL that I need to still put up, too.

Fun in the back yard of the old house:

Sleeping on our last airplane trip.  After a bit of this I realized we actually did pay for his seat...



Playing.



A new favorite morning routine for a bit there:



Big fan of helping cook:

Mosquito Falls

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is great.  Everyone should go...

52/52 End of a "year"

So this clearly took more than a year to do.  I will probably keep doing it, but probable not number the photos this time, ha.  Or maybe I will so I know when the "year" is up.  We'll see.  But how better to end a project than with shots from Easter?  Two this time and a bonus.

Sara made him this bow tie.  Just hamming it up here. That is chocolate going down his face from a chocolate bunny, by the way.

And then he wanted to add his hat to the mix.  Should have let him wear the hat to church as well!

Bonus!

50/52 Teeth Whitening

I might as well stop numbering these things, but I am so close to a "year"!

Just before the shot above: 

49/52

Home stretch here - but I might as well just sdtop numbering them.  I am pretty over how many weeks there are in a year as far as it is taking me to do this.

48/52 Rocks

Rocks and dirt. That's where the fun's at.

47/52 The Cook

46/52 And I Would Walk

some pics

While I did miss a week or two or something, there were some pics up on flickr before now (that is something of an apology even though probably no one is terribly concerned about it).

Anyway, my brother and his girlfriend came out earlier this month and we went to the distillery here in town while there were here. Pretty cool place:

While in AZ with the family, the kid could not get enough of being outside. He has always liked it, but this was on a different level. Maybe it was the sand and rocks instead of grass?

43/52 Runnin

Some photos of the kid getting a ride on grandpa's shoulders:

Skillz

Quick talent show. Dead lifting and precision building.

Trick or treat

A little something...

40/52 Fall Colors!

So I had a hard time choosing pictures this week from a hike we did this past week at Riley Park here. I decided to just narrow it down to a few of them...

Oliver was not really cooperative for these pictures, but this one is not too bad!

He was having the best time collecting acorns on the last part of the hike. He hiked over 1/4 of a mile on his own! It was slow going though...

The trees were quite nice though!

39/52 Hands Up

Yep, still walking around with those hands in the air!

Please!

This kid is amusingly polite. He pretty much never says no, he covers his mouth sometimes when he coughs (unprompted!) and the other night he went into the bathroom, pulled off a few sheets of toilet paper, blew his own nose and then threw it away (again, all unprompted!).

Oliver has really picked up on saying (as in, signing) please these days. That is great, but he uses it whenever he wants something, and what that something is is not always clear. Often combined with the pointing we can figure it out, but he is so diligent with his "please"!

38/52

From Hoffmaster State Park from a few weeks ago.

And a bonus of the family:

can stacking

One of this guy's favorite things to do here and there is to stack canned food. He is actually pretty good at it, too!

catch up on weeks

While I have been taking some photos, it has proven a challenge to put them on the computer and do much with them. Something about the last house made it feel less far away to do stuff like that in the evening, so I could do it and not feel like I wasn't around Sara. Anyways, here are some pics - one from Grand Haven on a really windy day, two from Hoffmaster State Park and one from this past Sunday at a you-pick farm. Oliver had a great time picking and eating his own raspberries and apples there!

Picking apples!

We went to a you-pick apple farm yesterday. My first time doing that and it was awesome. Oliver had a good time, too. First we picked some late season raspberries and he picked up pretty quickly on what we were doing and started to help himself to them. Same thing with the apples. He was really enjoying getting his very own whole apple!

Hoffmaster State park

We went camping at Hoffmaster State Park this weekend. It was quite nice and really pretty area. We had a great sunset last night, too. Oliver was being funny because he picked up a stick and then ever few steps he would bend over to make a mark in the sand before moving on.