Spaghetti

When dad is night flying we get to have whatever we want for dinner. Since he is not a spaghetti fan I figured this was a good week to try it. Chase loved it!

Gingerbread Cookies

I love this time of year! I especially love Chase taking everything in. He loves his advent calendar and the tree (it fell on him once and he hasn't touched it since). He is not quite ready for everything though. We tried gingerbread cookies this morning he just really wanted to eat the dough. So when we wouldn't let him he started crying. Also the frosting I tried to make didn't work out either - it just looked like it went on clear. Oh well there is always next year.

The finished product looks okay...

and tastes okay!

Thanksgiving - Normandy

As mentioned before we headed to Normandy for the Thanksgiving weekend. It was very sobering being on the beaches and seeing footage of the battles that took place there. We have a lot to be thankful for.


The beach near Arromanches. You can still see where the Mulberry Harbor and the bridge they made to send supplies to the troops were.

One of the German artillery bunkers.

The American Cemetary at Omaha Beach.

Walking Omaha Beach. I explained to Chase the significance. Obviously he doesn't understand but one day I think it will be neat for him to look back on the pictures to see he was there.

He just got a coat from grandma and grandpa for an early Christmas gift. He was a little unstable walking and he kept falling and getting sand everywhere. He eventually got the hang of it.

Point Du Hoc

There were a lot of bomb craters still there.

At one restaurant they didn't have a high chair, just a booster seat so we stole grandpa's belt. It worked great!

We were so excited to finally get our chocolate crepes. They weren't as good as the ones in Paris. We all actually liked the chocolate croissants better and stopped on the bakery on our way out of town. I was laughing when in the car Brad wanted his croissant and Mountain Dew!

Special Visitors

We are so excited to have Grandpa and Grandpa here for a week. We have been busy so here is a quick glimpse of the first couple days. Hopefully tomorrow we can relax a little because we are headed to Normandy for Thanksgiving. Hope everyone has a great Turkey Day!

Cambridge

London Eye

Trafalgar Square

Buckingham Palace

Stopping to play in the leaves!

Walking!

This was taken earlier this week. I would say he is walking (and falling) about 75% of the time. I went to the store this afternoon and was letting him walk around and realized I need to start working on "Come to mommy." Two times of getting out of line to go grab him for him to scream in my hands made that evident. Sorry for my super long yeeeeaaaahhhh in the video. Very annoying!

Gameday and Guy Fawkes Day

Sorry for the delay in posting. Our internet has been really slow. I attempted to upload pictures on Sunday but it was taking forever. Anyways last week was Guy Fawkes Day in the UK so we celebrated on Saturday. I had to wikipedia Guy Fawkes so feel free to as well :) Some friends from church invited us over on Saturday night for bonfire and fireworks.

Chase was getting tired so he didn't last long.
Watching the bonfire with dada.

He liked the sparkler though - he was too tired and cold to stay for the fireworks.

Under all of our coats we were wearing purple! We followed gamecast at our friends house and were so excited that KSU beat KU!! Go Wildcats!

In other exciting news Chase finally decided that he wanted to walk. On Sunday on his 16 month bday he could stand up by himself and walk 15+ steps. He still crawls a lot don't get me wrong but he can walk! I'll try to post a video soon!

Halloween

We took Chase to a kids party yesterday. This was on our way there....he was one tired little tiger! You probably think I don't let him nap. I do but he normally wakes up by pooping then won't go back to bed. It is so frustrating!

There was a cardboard box maze there that he loved! When 4 and 5 year olds would go in I was listen for crying but he never did and before long he would come out and go back in again!

Forget trying to get 3 one year olds to look at the camera. They were too interested in each other's costumes!

Ready to GO!

Church Farm

It has been so mild here lately so I took advantage yesterday and went to Church Farm with some friends and their kids. Here are the kids checking out the pigs. Chase loved all the animals. I had to remind him at the petting zoo part that not all animals are like Wagner and he can't grab them and try to crawl over them!

The trampolines were ground level - Chase loved that too!
Poor boy is getting tired!

This was right before he took about 5 steps to get to me! Hopefully he will be walking soon!

We didn't even play in the sand pit, tractors or indoor play area. Maybe next time!

Pumpkin Patch

Chase is feeling a little under the weather but we still ran out to the pumpkin patch for a few minutes. It was literally a few minutes as it was cold and windy but we got the few pictures I wanted :) We were using the wrong mode on the camera so almost all the pictures turned out blurry. Still learning how to use it!

I know these aren't in order but blogger is not letting me move them around. Carving the powercat! How about #1 in the Big XII North! We haven't been able to watch a single game this year and a lot of times we don't know the score until we check Sunday morning.

Chase loved the pony ride!

Our little pumpkin.

Saturday Morning

I feel the pressure to do something blog worthy this weekend! It is raining now but hopefully we can get out. This morning couldn't get any better, pancakes, pajamas, fire and playing. We are signing Chase's MLB contract tomorrow. Wait do you need be able to walk...we are still getting there. He's started taking a couple steps though so we are making progress!

Dummies

Is two really better than one? This is how I found Chase after crib time this morning. Please ignore the girly dummies. That is why they are his crib dummies!

When daddy doesn't want to grow up...

There is always the potential for disaster, but that's why we love him! By the way, I remember growing up bouncy castles were a big deal. At carnivals and fairs you would have to use 2 tickets to bounce in there for like 2 minutes. The Outdoor Rec. on base rents them out for like $35 a weekend so any event where there is lots of kids - there is a bouncy castle. Kids these days have it made!!

Lefty?

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. We have been enjoying our time at home more which is good for us but not so good for the blog!

At the grocery store today we got a coloring book and firemans hat for fire prevention week. I thought I would see if Chase was ready to color. He's not - he kept eating the crayon, I kept telling him no and he was not listening. So my "fun" activity idea turned into a discpline training session. Anyways he uses both hands for eating and playing but we have noticed that he tends to favor his left and sure enough he picked up the crayon with his left hand for the 5 seconds that he tried to color. I guess we will see!
Thanks to everyone who has participate in my poll. I feel better knowing I'm not the only one who doesn't want spiders in my house. The Brits make me think I am crazy!