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.

Weekend Wrapup

This was a busy, but fun weekend around the Naegle household.  Saturday we went to the Y where Davis is very happy to play in the childcare area while we workout.  After a nap, we went to Robbins Farm Park for a romp in the park and a picnic  Later, we went and saw our friends AJ and Susan before packing it in for the night.  Sunday, we went to Davis' swimming lesson, then came home to clean, play and have lunch before heading to the zoo.  I dropped Kristen off at work on the way back and Davis and I went shopping, then we all had dinner together before skyping with Grandma and Grandpa.  For the rest of the night, Kristen is finishing another job application, I'm cleaning and then we'll probably relax with part of a movie.

Here are few pictures from the zoo:

Hey had a great time going between the cutouts and playing peek a boo.

The truck by the lion is WAY more interesting than the Lion. There were probably 8 kids in the truck and all the parents standing around watching. 

He LOVES driving things. 

Not from the zoo, but this is what his bed typically looks like for naps and bedtime.

Weekly update

Time flies when you have a child.  I don't really know what happened to last week.  Davis is growing up fast and we had a fun weekend.

This weekend did not quite go as planned, but we still manged to have a good time.  Kristen and Davis both have a cold (runny nose + cough) so we weren't as active as last weekend.  We had hoped to go to a bar with Davis to watch the University of Washington (Huskies) football game, but the colds and a late start meant we decided it was better not to go.  However, we did wear our matching Husky shirts on Saturday - it was quite amusing to be asked "So, are you big fans of George?" when we were picking up pizza (the shirts simply said: Washington).

This weekend:

• Davis and I went to the Burlington touch a truck.
• I went to the Y for a work out.  Kristen and Davis stayed home sick.
• Davis had a 3 hour nap on Saturday.  He woke up after an hour and 20 minutes, then slept on me for an hour and 40 minutes.  I really enjoy having him sleep on me, so I did not mind.
• Davis had a 3 hour nap on Sunday.  This was his first long weekend nap where he did not sleep on me for part of it.  It was quite a surprise and blessing.

Davis:

• Can now jump.  It is incredibly cute.  He throws his hands up in the air and gets just a little bit off the ground. 
• Uses a lot more words.  He has said in the last week: "breakfast", "grandma", "hungry".
• He is starting to use short phrases including: "All right", "No Way!", "Where is Mom", "Read this"
• Helps put his toys away before bed
• Feeds the cats treats.  He tends to favor Domino, but Kristen makes sure Lilly is looked after. 
• Climbs into the dining room chairs and sits when we say it is time to eat
• Has a few more teeth.  He has at least 9, but it might be 10.  Its hard to get a look in his mouth.
• Almost, but not quite, needs his first haircut
• Pretends to vacuum the floor.  He connects 4 or 5 of his magnetic cylinders to a ball and walks around making vacuum noises.
• Pretends to play trucks with his mega blocks.  Last night, he handed me a block and said "truck" then we drove our "trucks" around the living room.
• Shows a lot more interest in reading.  He now brings us books and sits in our laps while we read him stories.  He really enjoys "The cat in the hat", "Mr. brown can moo", "Brown bear brown bear, what can you see" and his bedtime stories.
• Pretends to give his monkey water.  Pretends might not be the right word for it since he actually gives his monkey water.
• Gives wonderful hugs
• Is staying up later and sleeping in later.  He usually goes to bed at 8:00 and wakes up at about 6:30.  This is great as we get an extra half hour with him at night and an extra hour of sleep in the morning.  Some days, he sleeps in until 7:30 which is great on a weekend, but a little stressful for the week.  We've started setting our alarm clocks again which is quite a change.

Touch a truck

Davis and I went to "Touch a Truck" in Burlington today.  Davis loves trucks and we thought it would be fun to get up close and personal with all sort of trucks.  He had a good time, but was a little scared and startled by all the air horns going off.

He got to "drive":

• A public works truck
• A cement mixer
• A fire truck
• A dump truck
• An MBTA bus
• A tractor-trailer

He also got to touch a lot of trucks.  His favorite activity, and that of many others, was to sit and run around in the scoop of a front-end loader.

Honking the Public Works truck horn

Touch a truck

Driving a truck

Sitting the the wheel of the front-end loader

In the scoop of the front-end loader

Driving the dump truck