Children's Museum

Last weekend I snuck away for a girls' weekend while Alex and Dad spent some quality time together. The boys spent Saturday at the Children's Museum and then went out for lunch and watched the Badgers play on tv. I'm pretty sure we all had a great weekend!

Up to No Good

Lesson learned: When you hear Alex making noise but you're not exactly sure what he's doing, he's probably up to no good. Alex thought it would be a fun game to take every single shoe out of the closet. Unfortunately he didn't think it was nearly as fun to put them back in!

Busted!

"Who did this? Wasn't me!"

"Since the shoes are already out, I mine as well

run through them like a pile of leaves."

Happy Halloween!

Alex was a member of the Lightning McQueen pit crew this year for Halloween. Rather than hitting up the neighborhood we went to Hallzooween at the Minnesota Zoo for trick-or-treating. It was nice because it was inside and they gave out a variety of things rather than just all candy. Alex did a great job going up to the stations to get his treats. If it were up to him, he would just hold all of his treats in his hands but he started to realize after awhile that there were too many things to hold and the bag came in handy. I think he was pretty tired out by the end of the day because he actually asked to go "night-night" tonight.

Ready to go with all of his pit crew tools

Yummy fruit snacks

Such a big boy!

More treats!

Checking out the loot!

Pumpkin Carving

Alex and I carved our pumpkin yesterday. He was intrigued by it and was a good little helper. He'd pick up the seeds that fell out but wanted nothing to do with touching the goop with his hands.

Wild One

Elk Mound

We spent a nice weekend at the farm visiting Andy's parents. These pictures didn't turn out great but you can at least see Alex in his new farm clothes.

Farmer Alex with his tractors

Playing trucks with Mimi

Alex & Papa John in their bibs

New Trick

I was surprised to walk into Alex's room yesterday morning and see him hanging out in his diaper. He has apparently learned how to take his pajamas off and has done it the last two days. He's so proud of himself for doing it too. I guess I should just be thankful that he hasn't attempted to take his diaper off too.