Favorite Toy

More videos to come... but Grandpa Worst posted a fun video from Christmas Eve! Isn't this a fun gift from Auntie Em, Uncle Ken & Cousin Owen? And we are still walking and walking and walking...

The Boys say HO Ho ho!

Fred had Noah over last week for a play date and to show his friends what a Christmas tree is. Click here to see photos. Yes, Fred is having fun learning all about Christmas, and we have many more adventures on this topic to share.

We have no idea

A silly night at dinner that just makes us laugh. Luckily we were able to get Aunt Molly on Skype to be part of the fun - I love when Fred perks up with the dial tones.



What are these babies thinking I wonder.

Nerd... its in our DNA

We were given this sweater by one of my mom's good friends, its handmade and you can't see it in the picture but there is a navy F knitted into the sweater, and the buttons are little crayons. We put him in it and it cracks me up. I think we found Fred Rogers replacement. Yes, I'm truly enjoying the power of "I'm bigger than you and will make you wear ridiculous things" - its so short lived I must take advantage! You will also notice some ridiculous faces he makes. My favorite is this "oh" mouth and he curls is tongue - it makes me laugh every time!

Happy Birthday Aunt Molly

So we dragged ourselves out of our infected sick beds to get down to my folks the Sunday after Thanksgiving to say goodbye to Aunt Molly before she went back to school. We had big plans to play with her, but alas it didn't happen this visit. As an added bonus Aunt Mary and Uncle Jeff were there too!

We gave her, her traditional chocolate Christmas count down calendar, and fashionable "going out" shirts which thank god someone else picked out for me - because Lord knows fashion and I do not mix. The baby (Aunt Molly that is) is now 21. How crazy is that?! I remember when she was Fred's age. So it was a fun party, rumor has it Fred was given a potato chip by the birthday girl and she also gave him a lick of chocolate frosting, thus the all organic streak ended in a burst of high fructose corn syrup, glucose, trans fat flame of glory. However this is DEFINITELY not going to be the norm - got it sneaky Aunt Molly?! No spoiling with food, toys sure, food no!href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRLRvjFqfgNZy8qhhJsmWTaStsKBrVsW_xq2Bi6shaSLHsfcGs3ocSC_bagyP_kgt7KWkQGCLIA3e6ObVosb0of7H1zjKwJ1f22bB2YF7Tot0ty4tpOp_qumIvoRq0SUynmHSV6482JNs/s1600-h/IMG_2725.JPG">

Co-Eds!

Fred is a ladies man. Well of course look at him! I have to be careful though. Fred has been able to gain almost unlimited access to the inside of sorority house on the Indiana campus, he's primarily been inside one of the girls bedroom. All the girls swoon over him and say hello whenever he is around. Its enough to make frat boys insanely jealous. Now how has this baby boy who can't even walk been able to get to IU? Aunt Molly and Skype. Whenever we dial up his face lights up with the ring tones! Now he has the appropriate college gear to wear to look like he belongs. Those thetas are in trouble, this cuteness factor is irrestitable!

WWM

Welcome to Saturday morning smack down on the WWM (Wrestle With Mommy)! Fred loves to rough house.

He and I are forever gnawing on each others face and tickling each other.

The funny part is that only myself and Grandma Lynn seem to be the ones channeling this more aggressive play.

Daddy is much more calming... except when it comes to laughing at burps.

Biscuits!

We love 'em!

I don't want to work...

I just want to bang on that drum all day!

Well, not really. I was feeling bad that Fred didn't have any toys that required batteries, nothing lit up or made noises (ok I never even bought him a toy). We were at a store getting a birthday present for some other little fella and I saw this bongo thing.

I thought this is perfect, it lights up and makes noises when you whack it or knock it over - perfect Fred loves to do both! I think these pictures are the only time he played with it. We are much more interested in using the wooden spoon and pot on the kitchen floor.

Oh well, so now you know for Christmas - toys that have been paid for will not be played, go the freebie route. Better yet just boxes and wrapping paper will be loved!

Halloween finally!

Halloween was fun, just hanging out in the front yard watching the kiddies go by. Fred did like checking them out. Also we think it may be the last year of our talking pumpkin, just because next year we will want to trick or treat. We'll see maybe we can figure out something next year. If you can't tell Fred was a bug, ahh what you can do with a $1.97 in felt, piper cleaners, and metallic pompoms. Grandma attached the antennas for us (aren't they so cute?)! I'm sure most of you will be seeing one of these pictures again very soon! Oh yes I also got the 'mom' hair cut, I think I might keep it for a bit.

We are back baby!

The external hard drive is in my possession and a lot of other technically geeky stuff I have fixed (thanks to the Apple store and my own personal genius bar you know who you are EO) and so now it is on to fun and catch up with the Fredmiester. I know we missed a lot of the fall so I will try to catch up as fast as I can. Fred loved the leaf pile, I'll try to get the video up of him eating it.


Election day rocked, see previous entry with new post to compare the campaign pics of fred aging click here or scroll.

Napping has been a strange business in this house this fall. Sometimes we hit the nap hard (see picture) and other times there will be none. I could justify this on the count of two new top teeth, yet again maybe it was because he was stressing over perfecting new skills such as pulling to stand, siting to belly crawl, pincher grasp, etc., or perhaps the wicked bubonic plague like cold that laid us all up for Thanksgiving and had Fred's nose ooozing some toxic goo like substance (its hard to breath and sleep with toxic goo in your nose), but really I think I have to just toss this hit or miss napping to the enigma that is babyhood.

I'll hopefully edit some video tomorrow and post Halloween pictures (which is really pathetic to do in December but what are ya gonna do?) So we should be frequenting the blog-o-sphere more often now!