Santa Visit '09

This is what we expected. PJ has, let's say, reservations about men and I didn't really think that he'd go for Santa this year. He loves seeing Santa on tv and really enjoys the inflatable Santa in our neighbors yard but the real life man in the red suit...not so much. But you have to take a picture, right?
MOMMY, help me!!!

After the traumatic experience with Santa, we took PJ to see the small train in the mall. He was too little to ride it himself but enjoyed waving to the the other children.

And then he got to go to the play area for the first time. Even though there were some very rowdy kids there and PJ got knocked over a few times, he had a lot of fun.

Trying to catch up with blogging....

The last couple of weeks have been a blur of activity, so I'm trying desperately to catch up with our blog. I wanted to capture too many things but here are some of the highlights. The other day PJ watched dad use a screwdriver to replace some batteries in a toy. When he was finished, PJ took the screwdriver to another toy, turned it over, found the screw and tried to imitate what dad had done. We were floored at his thought process. He is such a sponge these days! (Ohh, and check out the tiny curls at the base of PJ's head..too cute)

Eating his snack off of his big boy tray. (I know it's random but as a mommy, I get excited about each and every little thing)

2nd Camping trip for PJ...but first family camping trip

We met up with The McMillin Family the first weekend of November for what I hope becomes an annual family camping trip. We had such a great time and those girls LOVED PJ and he LOVED them too.

PJ is swinging with dad while in the hiking backpack

Climbing with dad

PJ had a blast going on the slide

We also celebrated Granny's 80th birthday!

PJ and Uncle Mike

Granny holding PJ and Grace

Happy Halloween. Dad went to a Halloween party on Friday night dressed as a very enthusiastic Cowboy fan who got in a scuffle with a over zealous Redskin's fan.

On Halloween, PJ got to dress up as a lion and help mom and dad hand out candy. We all set outside and PJ would hold out the candy to trick-or-treaters but Mom would have to help him actually let go of the candy. He had a blast staying up passed his bedtime, which we thought would help out with daylights savings time...we were wrong.

He thinks he gets the whole bowl to himself

Mom and Dad took away the bowl of candy

Camping with the girls 09

PJ went on his first camp out with the girls in October. It is a tradition we started several years ago where I meet up with Clint's two sisters at Tyler State Park and we have a girl's weekend of camping. This year we all decided to bring our kids too. (Some pictures are out of order....) Maybe 10 minutes into our first hike
PJ loved to ride on Rylie's bike

And she enjoyed his car to

PJ eating his first chip

Roasting sausage over the campfire

Ready for bed, gloves and all. His little fingers were so cold.

Breakfast the first morning in the shelter.

Scarlett, Rylie and PJ

I'm ready for hiking momma

Going on our first hike

After watching the big girls washing their hands, PJ decided he wanted to give it a try

Pumpkin Patch and the State Fair of Texas

For my birthday this year I asked to go to the State Fair of Texas. I had not been in years and I thought it would be fun for us to go as a family. Of course, I could not have predicted that the only weekend we could go on would be when there was the TX vs. OU game and that I would just be getting over a nasty stomach bug, but the day turned out good. We had fun and PJ got to experience some new things. 1st trip on the train from Plano to Fair Park. We thought that PJ would sleep on the train since it was nap time but there was too much to see for this little one to sleep.
Looking out the window with Mom
First things first...let's eat!

About an hour into our adventure and PJ was out!

There was an indoor sand box but PJ was too young to actually go in it but we walked around it and explored.

Enjoying a dog show

Seeing all the crafty stuff that mom likes

Hey mom...What's that?

I think I'll take a bite too.

My turn!




Last year PJ was not quite a month old when it was pumpkin season so we thought we'd try it with a one year old. It turned out pretty good. We enjoyed feeding the animals, a hay ride, lots of pumpkins to explore, a miniature hay maze and of course, mom snapping up tons of pictures.

There was this windmill that PJ loved. Here we are on the hayride and all PJ wanted to see was the windmill.