fall leaves

catching up..

Wow! It's been a long time since I've posted. Here are a ton of pictures to help catch up.

This is a picture of Emanuel at the park. He went with some of his friends. Emanuel loves being outdoors.

Here's a picture of Emanuel brushing his teeth. It's never too early to take responsibility for your hygiene!

And here's a lovely shot of those teeth!

We went to the local Greek festival the other day. Here's a picture of Dustin sharing his greek custard with Emanuel, Even though his face looks funny he really did enjoy it. Yummy!

At the same festival Emanuel got a balloon all of his own.

He fell asleep on the way home, but maintained his death grip on the balloon. He surely loved that balloon, He loved it so much in fact that he was, uh, kissing it later that evening and bit a hole in it. And that was the end of that.

We went for a picnic yesterday. We set the timer to take a family picture. I had visions of Christmas cards dancing in my head, but after a careful review, I see that wasn't meant to be.

He wanted Daddy! He has no respect for cameras..

All his teeth are sweet teeth

Emanuel loves the yummy blueberries

rocking horse

His technique is a little odd. But he has fun.

Starting young

Daddy's teaching him the basics. They'll move on to the next lesson when his feet can reach the pedals.

Helping in the kitchen

There are a lot of dangerous things in the kitchen. Emanuel can find them all while my back is turned and be halfway to destruction (of either himself or some random breakable object) by the time I notice. I have started surreptitiously opening "the door" every time I have a kitchen chore that I know he'd love to help with, which would be every time I go into the kitchen. He doesn't know he's being baited, and I can have a little piece of mind to empty the dishwasher (knives), or cook (hot), or any other mundane task that he manages to introduce that dangerous, edgy feeling that I loved so much before I became a mother, into.

summer afternoon at park