Baby Spencer

Little Spencer is so not a baby anymore, look at him he is all grown up and walking and trying to run and is just so much fun!  He loves to laugh and play with his siblings, and wrestle and sword fight and climb and is just going non stop.  He is so curious and walks around and points at everything and says "mom", and outside everything is "bird", he is really good at giving high fives, big smooches, and blowing kisses.  He is always trying to hang with the big dogs and does a fine job at it I must say.  Little man is now 14 months old.

Other fun stuff

Spencer is super excited about being at the Lego museum as you can see!

This is us posing next to the racetrack where Gideon and Audrey built amazing racecars and sent them zooming down the track.  We are also standing next to a super cool ride that you have to pedal to go up and down.  

This is outside of the Navy Pier, they are chatting it up with a statue of Bob Newhart.  Hysterical isn't it, how they really were talking to the man and telling him all sorts of great stories.  What would have been even cooler is if the couch had a recorder on it and recorded all of the things that people do say when they sit down to chat with the statue. 

Then there is the American Girl store that we were only able to do a quick jog through on account of them closing in 5 mins when we walked through the door.  Probably a good thing, because now Audrey really wants one and talks about it and about saving her money to buy a horse with a pink carriage.  Oh and the horse and buggy story here it goes...  We are walking to this store, Richard and the kids just dropped us off and were going to get lost in the streets of Chicago while we browsed this store.  Across the street from us is a horse and carriage and Audrey says to me "Are those horses real?" me "Yes",  Audrey "they don't look real, they are not even moving, and they are standing so still, can I have a quarter?  I ate my lettuce.  me "no" Audrey but I need a quarter to buy my horse... with the pink thing on the back" me, "a saddle?" Audrey "no, a carriage.  My horse is gonna be named Kisses, even though the name is already taken, it is taken by a dog"   My baby girl makes me smile everyday, she is so funny and so witty and so full of funny stories.  I love her so much.

The Meyer Family

One of the highlights of our trip to Chicago was being able to visit with the Meyer family.  We miss them so much, they have an amazing house an a great school and all in all seem very happy, did I mention that we miss them very much, because well.... we do!  Here is the only decent candid shot we could get of the kids together, yes with Gideon pointing to his brain and all. 

These two were so cute, they didn't miss a beat when they saw each other they just chatted it up and acted like good ol' buddies, playing wii, and Legos and hanging out.  I hope they will always stay that way.  There is nothing like childhood friends.  Did I already mention how much we miss them?  Since Susan is probably the only follower I have left I just have to keep on sending a shout out.  

Chicago, the windy city

So we headed on up to Chicago at the end of August, to see cousin Jack graduate from Navy basic training, here is a picture of him and his friend that got him through it all.  And answered all of our prayers.

We all had to try on the hat

It was a great trip, we had a lot of fun, here is the family on the Navy Pier, a really neat place to see at least and at most once.  Unless you are going there to get some Garretts popcorn, then it is worth the 12 dollar parking garage fee and all, only we paid 24 dollars due to the fact that we parked way too far away from the pier and it was too dang cold to walk that far, and once you are in the parking garage well there is no way out except to pay the fee for the first 20 mins.  Outrageous! Not to mention that the roads are terrible and there is construction going on everywhere.  Other than these minor gripes, Chicago is an awesome place.

Summertime fun

We spent time with Aunt Allison, went to the Aquarium where we saw some of our favorite fish, and things among them were the Gideon fish, the leafy sea dragons, the jellyfish, and the beluga whales.  We were even able to play with our food that Brad and Aunt Allison treated us to at the Aquarium, next time we will bring our own snacks.  

Hanging with Allison

Mom Allison and I posing for a quick pic.

 

Spencer the next Jedi, sword fighting with Aunt Jennifer

Im trying...

I really have been trying to do a new post. I am working on it. It has been so long that I don't remember how to download pictures. Hang in there with me, I am trying really hard to figure this all out all over again. Thanks, I have been enjoying everyone's blogs though.