City Museum and More

Our friend Dave came down from Wisconsin this weekend for Thanksgiving.  It was great to have company in our new house and an extra excuse to get out and see the town.  We had a simple, but great thanksgiving and spent a lot of time exploring and having fun with Davis.   The highlight of our adventures was a day out at the City Museum:

"Housed in the 600,000 square-foot former International Shoe Company, the museum is an eclectic mixture of children’s playground, funhouse, surrealistic pavilion, and architectural marvel made out of unique, found objects."

Davis had a blast, and by extension, we did as well.  There was:

1. An outdoor ball-pit
2. An indoor ball-pit
3. Slides
4. Blocks
5. Trucks
6. Art projects
7. Face painting
8. An indoor train track
9. Climbing
10. Lights
11. Caves
12. Mirrors
13. Marshmallows
14. Fire pits
15. Crazy fun

Here are some pictures from the day:

Outdoor ball-pit

Building with blocks

Making a mask with Mom

Glittering up the msak

TRUCKS!

Getting his face painted (awesome)

Tiger!

Tiger in the ball-pit!

More ball-pit

Tigers like marshmellows

Future visitors be warned, we will use you an an excuse to go to the City Museum again.

September Pictures

While Davis and Kristen are still sleeping, I'm catching up on posting pictures.  These are all available on our picasa albums as well.

Each Thursday and Friday morning, Davis goes into daycare at 9:00 instead of 8:00.  This gives us enough time in the morning to head to the park when the weather is nice.  I took the camera along a few times this month to capture a fun loving boy.

At the park on a Thursday morning

See-Sawing.  Looks like he needs a couple of brothers

More Thursday morning park time with dad.

We had a great time peach and plum picking with his buddy Charley.  Davis did a great job picking plums off this tree and then had a great time looking at the tractors and playing in the kids area.

On Thursday morning at the park, Davis spent 20+ minutes on the big boy swing.  He had a lot of fun swinging while I took pictures.  He can't make himself go yet.

Our neighbor gave us this small couch for Davis.  Here is Davis practicing being a teenager (before texting) an Domino being a cat.

On Friday, the 16th, the Town of Arlington had their annual town day celebration.  They bring in some ponies, bouncy houses, a tractor-pulled train, food and a few fire trucks and end the night with a fireworks display.  Davis spent a lot of time in the bouncy house and really liked his first fireworks show (watched from mom's lap).  

Apple picking a Shelburne Farms wasn't nearly as much fun without Charley.  Davis enjoyed running around and even picked a few apples.

On the 18th, we went to Burlington Touch a Truck for the second time.  Davis enjoyed getting his hands on some of the trucks and running around.  It wasn't quite as much fun as last year, but he had a good time.

That is the end of pictures for September.  Since then, we've been packing and getting ready for the move and I haven't had the camera out nearly as much.  I do have a lot of videos on YouTube since I almost always have my phone/video camera/mobile computing platform with me.

Patriots day Parade

Today we had our friends Brian and Clara over for lunch with their 19 month old Emily.  After the kids played and we all had lunch, we headed over to mass ave for the Arlington Patriots Day Parade.  We caught the last bit of the parade last year, and with Davis' intense interest in all things trucks and fire trucks, I was keeping a close eye on the town mailing list for the parade this year.

The parade got off to a late start, but the kids didn't seem to mind as there were rocks and other kids to entertain them while we waited.  After about a 45 minute delay to the start, we were rewarded with a lot of firetrucks, shriners, bands and other parade goers including live musket fire.  Davis had a good time waving to all the cars and trucks and quickly learned how to pick up the thrown candy.

I took some pictures and a video of the firetrucks for Davis to watch later.  The only downside to the parade was Davis had a very late, and short, nap that we are currently paying the price for with a very upset little guy.  He seems to have calmed down after an hour and is finally having his dinner.

Facing into the wind.

Clara, Brian, Emily, Kristen and Davis waiting for the start

Waiting very patiently

Cool Shades

I loved his hair in the wind.

I loved his hair in the wind.

Waving to a truck (or something).

Here is the firetruck video (just trucks, no frames of Davis or Kristen):

Abel and Sarah's wedding

Saturday evening, we took Davis to Abel and Sarah's wedding.  The wedding started at 5:30 and we were concerned Davis would either a) not last for the whole wedding b) break down during the ceremony c) break something in the Concord Art Association d) not have fun.  Our fears were totally unfounded, Davis did great during the ceremony, lasted until 9:30 and had a ton of fun.  The only incident during the ceremony occurred when Davis was on Kristen's lap and suddenly said "My Seat" and pointed at his empty chair.  Other than that, the rest of the time he was quiet.  It probably helped that it was a lot of unfamiliar people in an unfamiliar place -- it seems to take him a little while to warm up to new situations and places and he tends to be very quiet while he warms up.  I didn't take a lot of pictures, but I took a couple and a couple of videos.

Waiting for the ceremony to start

After the ceremony

Davis and Mommy

Davis really liked my friend John, he asked to be picked up a few times.

These two videos are from where the ceremony was held.  The reception was upstairs from this room, so this ended up being a great place to bring Davis to run around and play for a little bit.

We really enjoyed the wedding.  Sarah and Abel's happiness was very contagious and we had a great time catching up with old friends, making new ones and enjoying time with Davis in a new setting.

A New Shirt

Last night, we had friends over for dinner.  Mike grew up near me in Washington and also went to the University of Washington.  He brought over a new shirt for Davis and I couldn't help but put it on the little guy tonight.

Getting ready to jump

Practicing for Toddler Sports

Trucks!

Self Portraits

Self Portraits