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.

boxes

This kid loves containers these days. Boxes. Clothes baskets. Toy boxes. All of them. Here he was sitting in his toy box just throwing all the toys out to make room for himself. Pretty funny.

Lake Michiga

It is still crazy to me how big Lake Michigan is. It often literally looks like the ocean - especially in this part where there are actually really nice beaches. Well, today was a pretty windy day, so there were pretty good waves, too.

Dinner talk

catch up

Alright, I have been a pretty big slacker on the photo project thing as of late, but I have been taking and posting more than I have been putting up here.  So, here are three weeks worth.  Two of them are cell phone pics, which I count, and the third is one I finally got the real camera out for again.  Cheers.

First is Windmill Island. I was kayaking around and didn't know how far I went - nice gardens there (at least from the water)!

This is a dying flower. I thought it was funny because half is clearly very dead while the other half still actually looked really good and alive.  Surely there is a metaphor in there somewhere...

This is Saugatuck State Park on Lake Michigan. The beaches are actually really nice and there are great, tall sand dunes complete with dunes grass just off the beach. It was fairly windy when we were there so there were even pretty legit waves. With such a big lake it really is almost like being at the ocean except for the salt smell in the air. Oliver was enjoying the sand... takes after his mom (yet again).

31/52 Workin' (and video!)

As I put this one up I was thinking that I should really start to take a picture here or there of something other than the kid.  But then again, most anyone who looks at these would probably prefer to see the kid.

He is really having a good time living with our friends and knows where to find J when he is working in the office here.  Yesterday he went in there to find him, but J was gone so he just went in, closed the door on me and made it his own.  Pretty funny (and video below).

Video of this:

30/52 Sunday Mornings [et al]

Cell phone pic this time around!

And some videos!  I don't remember if this first one has made an appearance yet, and I don't feel like going back through blogs to look.  :)  

While in CO, he became a little climber...


He is finally getting into his little walker toy. Got going a bit too fast for himself a few times and was distracted by a dog, too. Maybe we should look into shoes...


He all of a sudden one day kept finding Sara's water in the house and dunking his whole arm in it. Apparently he has really turned a corner and is really loving the water...

29/52 Can't You See

I think I have missed some weeks, but things have been pretty busy.  Ehhh... This is one of my favorite "reject" photos from his one month pics.