Happy Halloween!

This year for Halloween we didn't do much but we did buy a costume for Jacob. We went to Grandma and Grandpa's house to "trick or treat" and to see Ed, Dani and Erik. It was fun seeing the boys together in their costumes. Jacob was a pirate and Erik was the Greatest American Hero. We just let them play there for a while and then we walked down the street to visit Great Grandma. It was raining so we didn't make any other stops.

We had dinner then headed home to hand out candy at our house. Jacob got some toddler-friendly treats and had fun playing with Erik. Maybe next year we'll let him trick or treat at the mall, but this year we didn't want him to have the candy anyway, so we skipped it.

I was a little disappointed I didn't get better pictures but here are the ones I got. Enjoy!

Need A Corona?

Earlier this evening Cody took the garbage out. That's not very interesting, but what he found when he took it out is. The garbage can had been out on the street since it just got emptied, but earlier today Cody brought it back up to the side of the house. When he opened up the lid to throw the bag of garbage in he was surprised to see the can wasn't empty. Instead he found a small black plastic bag with a brand new, unopened 6 pack of Corona and a pack of Marlboro Lights in it.

What do you make of this interesting find?

He Thinks He's A Cow

Jacob can't really talk, well not in words the rest of the world would understand, but he knows the meaning of so many words now! One of his favorite things to do at home is to look through all of his animal books. We can ask him where an animal is and he will find it in the book. He also has just started to be able to relate the name of an animal with the correct picture and make the sound the animal does. It's the cutest thing ever!

He can point out cows, goats, chickens, owls, elephants, dogs and cats. It seems there are more that he knows, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment! He can make the sounds of a cow, chicken, elephant and owl. All day today he was walking around the house mooing and bringing me all his toy cows.

Unrelated, but he also is getting really good at following simple commands. I can tell him to go put on his hat and he will stop everything, go find his hat, put it on and then resume what he was doing. It's funny because he tends to scatter his toys in every room of the house but if we tell him to go get something specific, he knows exactly where it is!

He's becoming such a big boy!

Bridge's Pets

As I've mentioned before, Jacob loves animals. He has several books about animals along with animal toys. We always talk to him about different animals and take him to see them in person when we can. We went to the pumpkin patch last week and we plan on doing that again before the end of the month, but we found a new place to go that is open year round........a pet store!

A lady at work told me about Bridge's Pets in Snohomish. She said it was the best pet store and told me I needed to take Jacob there, so we did. Wow, she was right. That place is huge and Jacob was so excited! The middle part of the store is stocked with tons of merchandise but the perimeter of the store is set up to house the animals. They even have separate rooms for the reptiles and fish. In the reptile room, along with the reptiles of course, they have a TV set up with a sitting area. The Jungle Book was playing and they had a huge stuffed gorilla and lion on the floor. Jacob would go and "crash" on the stuffed animals when he needed to rest after running several laps!

The fish room, or Water Garden, was definitely his favorite. The room was fairly large with a ton of different tanks. The bottom tanks were at floor level so they were perfect for Jacob to get a good look. The tanks are around the outside of the room and the middle part is full of waterfalls and greenery. Jacob ran laps in there looking at everything for almost an hour. By the time we left we could barely even stand up.....he was worn out!

We will definitely be going back there!

Pumpkin Patch

Jacob absolutely loves animals, so we thought it would be fun to take him to Carleton Farms today. Most of the activities are only open on the weekends, but he is too little for them anyway so since the weekdays are less busy it was perfect for him. Admission and parking are free so today's outing didn't cost us a thing, yet Jacob thoroughly enjoyed it!

They have a full pumpkin patch, a store with fresh grown produce and of course, farm animals. He had so much fun that he broke down into a complete tantrum when we tried to put him back in the car.