Halloween Festivities

It has been awhile since I updated the blog...we have been pretty busy with work, school, and trying to have some fun in our spare time with friends and family. Last weekend we went to Adrian Noel's 1st bday party and then Sunday, Gpa and Gma Eichmeier visited and attended Night Eyes at the zoo with us. This week we helped Preston carve his 1st pumpkin and then tonight was our Beggar's Night. We visited Eric and Laura Engels first and then our little lion got to hand out candy to a whopping 6 kids! Pretty sad! But, after Mommy goes to class tomorrow, Preston and Mommy are going to head to Greene to possibly trick-or-treat and go to a Halloween Carnival.

Here is the birthday girl in her Iowa cheer outfit Preston supporting the Hawkeyes
Adrian was pretty excited about this card-she must have known it had some money in it. Preston and Kamden enjoyed watching (and helping) Adrian open her gifts.

Preston stayed up until 10pm at the Noel residence. Daddy just had to stay and watch the entire Iowa game and then celebrate after. Mommy did enjoy hanging out with the girls, though. Preston did a good job going right back to sleep when we got home. Here he is the only child still up...just pushing Adrian's lion around.

Preston and Gpa Larry before Night Eyes

He kept trying to feed the goats his candy

Then Gma got some real food to feed the llama, goats, and whatever else was in there.

Then he tried to eat the goat food, yuck! "Here Daddy, eat some candy!"

On the train..where we got to see real lions

The zoo had a toddler area where little ones could climb in and jump/play around. We were a little nervous to put Preston in it because if he would have got stuck or cried it would have been difficult to get to him, but he did a good job navigating around by himself. He tried and tried and tried to climb up these stairs to get to the slide.

And he finally made it! Then he went down face first. You can see Mommy in the background trying to see what he is doing.

Family picture

Gma Sue, Preston, Gpa Larry, and Daddy

"Are we going to carve all these pumpkins!"

Digging out the goop

"What is this stuff?"

Getting waaay down in there

Here is the pumpkin that Preston "carved." Mommy held his hand and he got to draw his face..that is why everything looks a little crooked :) He did do the ear by himself though...just one ear.

Preston and his pumpkin

Preston and Mommy

Preston also dressed up tonight to hand out candy

This is a video of Preston walking. He is getting better and better at it. I just noticed today that he usually chooses to walk to get somewhere now instead of crawl.