My Little Pony

I have the best Mommy ever. She saw that there were tickets to the My Little Pony show and she got them for the whole family. I LOVED the ponies! They were having a big tea party, and even though I don't like tea, I thought it was a blast. I even talked Daddy into getting me my own pony, "Pinkie". Pinkie has to do everything with me, including eating my chicken nuggets at dinner. Unfortunately, I wasn't very happy when the show ended... I think I cried the whole way home!

Harrison's First Steps!

It has been a long time coming... Yes, my baby brother finally took his first steps! I'm not sure that he'll be running from house to house on Halloween, but he's going to be hard to keep up with any day now. Mommy and Daddy say that their thrilled, but I sense a little apprehension in their voices.




Not only have I been supervising Harrison's short little walks... I've been busy getting ready for Halloween. Harrison and I tried on our costumes for the MOM's Club Fall Party. In case you couldn't tell, we're 50's dancers (Mommy always was a big fan of Grease)! Even though we didn't win, Mom and Dad still told us we were the cutest kids there. I also supervised Mom and Dad decorating pumpkins... I have to say that the pirate and the cat wouldn't have turned out the same without me! (Maybe next year I'll get to use an actual knife!)

Race 4 The Cure

Yesterday Mommy took me out for a very special event. We participated in the 5K Race for the Cure -- supporting breast cancer research. Thanks to all of you who donated money to support our walk! We opted to do the walking version, rather than running. A bunch of our friends from the Mom's Club were there too. Mom did all of the walking while I kept up my energy by eating all of the snacks I could find. We even managed to finish in just a little over an hour.






Needless to say, Mommy was a little tired when we got home. I, on the other hand, was ready to go after eating my French toast sticks, apple, Pop-tart, Sun chips, banana, fruit snacks, graham crackers, and Brownie. Daddy and I were playing guess what this picture is... I got this one right away!

Pumpkins...again...

We went back to the pumpkin patch again with some friends today. I'm really becoming a big fan of Halloween season.

School Pictures

Just thought we'd share the proofs of our school pictures. We got some good ones (we think so, anyway). As you may have read in an earlier post, Harrison has the peek-a-boo game a bit mixed up and usually ends up putting his hand on top of his head instead of in front of his eyes. The photographer was playing peek-a-boo with him to try to get him to smile, so she got a great picture of his version of peek-a boo...

Playing School

Daddy was reading the paper the other morning and I was playing quietly by myself. When he looked over to check on me, he found that I had set up all my "friends" and was playing school. I did it just like we do at my school...they started out playing with puzzles and toys like we do when we first arrive in the morning and then I sang songs to them for music time. I laid them down for naps and covered them each up with blankies and then when they woke up I fed them snacks and read them some books. Then their mommies and daddies came to pick them up. According to Dad & Mom, it was very cute to watch!

Regatta

We had a fantastic day at the Regatta Festival. We watched the boats, but only for a minute because there were so many other fun things to do (and, I was getting a little upset that I wasn't allowed to ride a boat, so Dad & Mom kept distracting me with other things!). I absolutely had to spend some time on all the inflatable things and went down the slide more times than I can count (which actually isn't all that high - "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, EIGHT, 7, 8" - but I did go down a lot!).

Then I had a nice lady paint a butterfly on my face, got to pet a bunch of animals, and I met Cinderella...I'm not sure I know exactly who she is, but she was pretty and she was a princess and she had a box full of toys that she was giving out so I decided I liked her!Then we walked through a traveling display called a Luminarium. Apparently this thing was made in England and has been on display all over the world and made it's US debut here in OKC (imagine that!). Anyhow, it was pretty neat. A huge air-inflated thing (don't know a better word for it) that has all these different tunnels and chambers that are made with different colored materials (kind of like parachute or moonbounce material). Anyhow, with just the natural light coming in the whole place changes based on where you are in it. Hard to describe...but it was really neat.

And, last but not least, we had to take a picture of the gorgeous port-a-potty because this weekend I have checked that off of my list of things to do for the first time :). I've learned well...I kept telling Mommy "see Mommy, I'm not touching anything!"

Duck, duck, WAAAA!

Well, everyone finally got healthy and we made the most of it and had a fantastic week. Dad picked us up from school on Tuesday and followed Mom's suggestion that maybe we'd like to go feed the ducks. This apparently did not turn out to be a very fun excursion. Apparently the ducks were very hungry and Harrison and I were not exactly thrilled with how extroverted those ducks were!

This morning we walked over to the park to play. Harrison is finally starting to enjoy other things besides the swing (like following me through tunnels and down slides), but the swing is definitely still his favorite. Mom was shading her eyes from the sun with her hand and Harrison thought she was playing peek-a-boo, so he started playing too (only, you'll notice he kinda misses his eyes when he plays peek-a-boo and puts his hand on top of his head instead!)

This afternoon we went with our friends to a pumpkin patch. We got to feed some more very hungry animals in the petting zoo (again, not our favorite part!), we climbed all over some hay bales, found our way through a corn maze, rode ponies and of course picked out our first (probably of many) pumpkins. I think my favorite part was petting the bunnies. I even picked one out and told Daddy "I want to take this one home!" (I must have liked him because he was white like my puppies...)

The weather is still warm and gorgeous out here and there are lots of fun things going on around town this weekend. Tomorrow we're heading downtown for the Regatta festival and on Sunday there's a big children's event at the park across the street. We should have lots more pictures to share after the weekend! (for those of you who aren't tired of looking at all the pictures from today!)