Rambling

I took Asher to the park this afternoon while Ken napped. There was a boy there, Titus, 4-years-old, who took a liking to Asher and tried to teach him how to play soccer, helped him up when he fell down, picked him up (!) to bring him out of the flower beds, etc. He'd walk along the path next to him with one hand on Asher's back to guide him. It was SO cute. Made me want another boy.

Asher is obsessed with mandarin oranges. I get the kind in the little fruit cups, because he won't eat them fresh. Well, he probably would if I'd peel all the fibery parts off so it's just the pulp, but that's a lot of work. So I get the prepared ones and just dump the juice and rinse them in water to get the sugar off. He'll eat THREE of those cups in one sitting. Maybe more if I'd let him. His diaper is full of pulp!

We're supposed to go to the church's annual progressive Christmas party tonight, but Asher has a wet-sounding cough and Ken has felt bad all week, so we may not make it. Fine by me, really; I'd rather stay home and work on my photobooks. I finally got ALL Asher's first year pictures that came from my camera onto Shutterfly. Now I have to upload his professional pics and I'll be ready to go.

Sweet boy

Asher loves his stuffed doggie, which is being used most like a pillow
these days.

Hazelnut oil

I'm eating supper at Sky City, the restaurant atop the Seattle Space
Needle. The view is gorgeous!

My meal hasn't arrived yet, but they brought crusty rolls to dip in
hazelnut oil. Unbelievably delicious and flavourful. Yum.

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Virgin America

This airline is quite club-like inside...

Walgreens 31 cent special...

Walgreens had a Halloween special where if you bring in a kid in a costume, you get a photo, photos on CD, and greeting card for a whopping 31 cents. So here's ours! This is definitely the cheapest photo shoot we've EVER done!

Grandpa's boy...

Here's my little fighter pilot!

Punkin' Patch

Today we went to the Faulkner Family Farms pumpkin patch in Santa Paula. It was a lovely valley surrounded by hills/mountains. They had a hay ride, food booths, crafts, gardens, a petting zoo, and so on, in addition to the obvious pumpkin patch. It was a gorgeous day, and Chad and Danette joined us for the outing. 

Aren't they gorgeous?

This is one of my favorites... It just warms my heart right up (not that it was cold to begin with!).

Hard-headed

I'm so thankful for Asher's hard head, literally. The kiddo took a spill off his dresser/changing table and tried to break the edge of the window sill with his forehead before bouncing off the side table and landing on his head on a soft kid chair on the floor between the two. He wailed for 5 minutes, pouted another five, and was over it. I, on the other hand, am still feeling like the first place winner in the bad mom of the year award category.

He found a roll of wrapping paper under a cabinet and marched around with it a while. It was short-lived entertainment, though.

A rare sighting of Asher wearing shoes. He is NOT a fan, partly because his foot is so wide that it's a real struggle to get them on in the first place.

Denver

A few from recent weeks...

Taking after Daddy...


Look at that other gorgeous baby down there!

Happy baby

Took a break from the meetings in Denver to take Ash to the park. It
was cold (45ish), but he loved it. They had the best playground I've
ever seen.

Air Force Academy

I'm at meetings in Denver and today we're driving to Colorado Springs
to tour Focus on the Family. This pic is the Air Force Academy.

Asher's 1st Birthday!!

I can't believe my baby's a year old! We celebrated tonight, on his actual birthday, so that was extra special. He was about an hour old one year ago right now. Here are a few pics from the party:


Asher's favorite part of the night was having Brady lick the frosting off his fingers.

I made the cake. It turned out great, but I should've started earlier. In all, it took nearly five hours, and one of those ran into the party time. Oh well. Anyway, it's the Baby Einstein caterpillar. Each of those body segments is 6" around, to give you an idea of the size.

Not-so-green smoothie

For those who had reservations about the green smoothie, here's the
same base, only with berries instead. They turn it purple, so you
don't have to play mind games with yourself. ;-)

Green smoothies

My new thing; so good and so healthy! This one I'd OJ, collards,
turnip greens, mustard greens, spinach, plain yogurt, a banana, a
kiwi, a mango, plus a tablespoon of maple syrup. It's a little
earthier than yesterday's, which was spinach and berries. Anyway, a
full day of veggies in one meal!

Asher stands up!

Horsin' Around at Grandma's House

First taste of fish...

It's a hit!

Loving the luxury hotel bedding

First haircut!

Just got back from Asher's first haircut. It went well, though the lady who owns the salon was WAY too uptight to be running a kiddie salon. When I made the appointment, she made sure to tell me that she runs on time and that 4 doesn't mean 4:15. Then when we got there, we were eating ice cream cones (stopped at BnR on the way there), and she said, "Oh, are you coming in here with those? I don't really allow food. I hope they don't drip..." Then while Ken was standing in the doorway finishing the last of his cone, Asher was starting to get fussy and I asked him to come in and help entertain. So Ken stuffs all but the very tail end of the cake cone in his mouth (no ice cream left in it) and goes to put that last bite in her trash. She runs at him with a tissue to wrap it in so the garbage can didn't get dirty. Oh my golly. We are SO not going back there!

Nebraska trip scrapbook

CLICK THIS LINK to see the digital scrapbook from our Nebraska trip.

Chillin' at the beach

We had lunch with Chad and Danette Sabbath, then Asher and I went with them and their friend to the beach to hang out a bit.

10 months

MercyMe

Not that you can tell from the picture.

David Crowder Band rocks

Ken's shop builds their guitars, so he got to meet them today. Cool.

Fancy, fabulous feet :)

A day at Box Butte Resevoir Dam

Evil prickie grass

Asher did NOT like being on grass. He held himself like this for a full minute before the crying got intense enough that we rescued him. By that time, tears of laughter were rolling down our faces...

Made it!

Wheeler Road!

Watson windmills

Peaceful Prarieland

Fountain fun

Denver fun

Funny Bone

Something really struck Asher's funny bone yesterday and he only had to look at me to cackle. Perhaps my new hair cut is silly? He'd been going on a good minute before we grabbed the camera...

Giggle Guy

Watermelon Wonders

Bubble Buster

Thought it was time to upload a few videos for your entertainment.

Happy Boy

Can't... jump... Must... sleeeep......