November 2012

2012_11, a set on Flickr.

Here are some pics taken during the past month, including some taken at our Thanksgiving celebration at Grammi & Grampi Sherwood's. Toward the end, you will see a quick set of pics of Cathy and the kids meant to show off Mark's and Jessie's new birthday clothes. In these pics, you will see how Arthur has become Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes fame. Each photo was preceded by daddy saying "OK Arthur, now smile and BE STILL and don't make a funny face. Well....

Halloween trick-or-treating 2012

2012_Halloween, a set on Flickr.

We went downtown for trick-or-treating early in the day and had Sammy over for more in the evening. Way too much candy in the house.

Jessie "talks" with Mark & Daddy

Here's a cute video of Jessie showing off her peculiar communication skills.  Her communications here are much preferred to her normal screaming and screeching.  You might need to turn your volume up pretty high to hear all of her sounds.  She looks a bit like Dizzy Gillespie, don't you think?

Wiard's Orchard

 
 
Arthur and daddy had a fun time at Wiard's Orchard on Saturday.  Arthur rode a firetruck and slid down an inflated super slide and went on his first hay ride.  Cathy, Mark & Jessie spent most of the time inside because it was rather chilly so I don't have any new pics of them.  You can find the rest of the Wiard's Orchard pics here http://flic.kr/s/aHsjCxW86A along with the photos from last week taken at Jenny's Farm.

Fall Festival at Jenny's Farm

2012_10, a set on Flickr.

We spent some time today enjoying the perfect fall weather at Jenny's Farm in Dexter. Arthur rode a pony and climbed all over and inside the straw maze, and Mark & Jessie even rolled around in the straw a little. Mark loved it, Jessie cringed. She's so girly (Cathy's words, not mine). There are some other random shots in this set too. One of Cathy sleeping with Jessie (Cathy will be mad that I posted it so I'm in trouble now). So long....

We have a couple videos to show in this post, both taken during Grammi Bonnie and Grampi John's recent visit.  This first video shows Jessie crawling...and Mark eating which is where he focuses his attention.


This second video shows the little going away party held for Arthur by his classmates at Little Angel's Preschool and Daycare.  Arthur (and Mark and Jessie) are not going to LAPD for the next several weeks as Cathy attends night classes to learn about dialysis nursing.  Since they weren't going to see Arthur for a while, his classmates wanted to say "so long."  You'll see the names of the kids I know, but I don't know most of them so only a few get named.

Until next time...

Jessie is close to crawling

Here's a vid I shot today showing Jessie having a ball with a piece of Arthur's Hot Wheels track. Mark also makes an appearance, as does Arthur who tries to insert himself in every shot.  Watch closely and you will see Jessie on the verge of crawling.  We're not sure it that's a good thing or not.  Forgive the quality of the video - it was shot with the phone rather than the video cam.  And please ignore the daddy/son interaction early in the vid.  Until next time....

Mark & Arthur play & Jessie eats solid food (oh boy)

Two videos in this post! It has been awhile since we have done such things. And these on the heels of photos and a video posted just the other day. This is what can happen when the primary blogger is not so busy at work and has a holiday weekend. This first vid was shot just today and shows Mark on the floor wishing that Arthur would play with him some more. They had been "wrestling" and Mark was giggling like crazy. As soon as the camera was on, Arthur went into hamming mode and stopped playing with Mark. Oh well.

This second video shows Jessie eating "solid" food for the first time. It's not really very exciting or anything, but we were happy that she finally took some food. Enjoy...