It's fun to wear things on your head! Here Kenton is modeling the plastic bin that we store his blocks in. He loves to dump all the blocks on the floor, scatter them around, then stick the box on his head and run around until laughing like a little maniac until he trips and falls on one of the blocks in the floor. Of course, we laughed the first time he put the box on his head, so now he thinks he's hilarious every time he does it.

I didn't have to work today because of the MLK holiday, so we took advantage of the great weather and took Kenton to the park. It was packed with families, so I guess lots of folks had the same idea. He enjoyed the slide and the swings, but his favorite thing was the little pieces of pea gravel covering the playground. I think he would have sat and played with it for hours if we'd let him.

I think we're finally getting back to normal around here after the holidays. We had a great Christmas, but travelling about 1,500 miles and being gone 8 days left us all pretty tired. Kenton discovered a new place to play tonight--in the kitchen cabinets! Edward was cleaning up the kitchen after supper and thought Kenton was just sitting in the floor playing with the pots and pans, until he heard him say "bye-bye" and turned around to see him closing the cabinet door as he crawled inside! I, of course, grabbed the camera and snapped a few pictures.

We went to a park in Tallahasse tonight that has a walk-through Christmas light display, and Kenton loved it. I don't think he's ever been as excited about anything in his life. He ran and squealed and pointed for the whole hour we were there. He kept saying "light, light, light" over and over, and stopped and yelled it at several people we passed, too. I think he would have stayed all night if we would have let him. It was big fun. I think we'll try to go back and visit again sometime after Christmas.

We waited too late to have a Christmas picture of Kenton taken professionally, so we decided to do our own snapshots at home last week. This one obviously isn't going to be used for our Christmas cards, but I still thought it was awfully cute. There's something about that smirky little face he's making that makes me laugh every time I look at it!

He's talking so much lately, adding new words every day. Today I heard him say "phone" and "hair" for the first time. Sometimes it seems like he's learned ten new things from the time I leave for work in the morning until I get home at night!

Edward and Kenton at the library Christmas party on Friday night. I got home from Warner-Robins (about a 3 hr. drive) at 6:30, and the festivities started at 7:30, so I was feeling very tired and not at all photogenic. I thought my two favorite guys were looking very handsome, though! :-)

Santa visited the library today, but Kenton was not happy to see him. This was the best picture Edward was able to get--in the other one he's really fighting to get off Santa's lap. One of the other kids there, who's about three, had insisted on wearing his Halloween costume so Santa could see it, so he was dressed as a shark sitting on Santa's lap. I'm a little disappointed that we didn't get a picture of that!

After a hard afternoon playing, Kenton and Tiger take a much-needed nap.

Edward and Kenton went downtown tonight to check out the Christmas parade. I'm battling a cold, so I stayed at home. Kenton really enjoyed the show! Edward said he clapped and bounced when the bands came by, squealed and pointed at the floats, and just had a great time.

Before we put up our big Christmas tree in the living room, we bought new shatterproof ornaments to replace the glass balls we'd used in years past. Kenton has been pretty good about not pulling things off that tree so far, but we let him play with the ornaments on the little tree in his room. It's decorated with plastic candy canes and stuffed Santas, and he really loves to take them off the tree and carry them around. At the end of the day, we find them all over the house!

We put the Christmas tree up last night after Kenton went to bed, so he got his first look at it this morning. In this picture, he's running over to tell me all about it, flapping his arms in a most excited way.

I think we need to buy more locks for the cabinet doors!

We got out our Christmas decorations this afternoon, and decided to kick off the holiday season by decorating Lucy and Kenton.

Happy Thanksgiving! We decided to make things easy and go out to eat today. We got to the Seminole Wind buffet right at 11:00, and got one of the last tables before they went on a wait. The place was really packed, but the food was great. Kenton sampled a little of everything but really enjoyed the mashed potatoes, rolls, and sweet potato casserole. They had turkey, fried chicken, and ham, but he didn't care for any of those. In the picture he's having pumpkin cheesecake, which he liked, but he wanted to eat it with his fingers rather than a spoon.

Edward and Kenton were horsing before dinner last night, and Kenton was laughing so hard. He was cute, but I couldn't ever seem to get a really good picture. This one was about the best. Not sure what Edward's doing here, but Kenton was amused!

Edward stripped Kenton down to his diaper to get ready to go take a bath, then he decided to grab a book and sit down in his beanbag chair. He seems to enjoy running around without his clothes on. He gets a real kick out of pulling his socks and shoes off now. I figure it won't be long until he's ripping off all his clothes and streaking through the house.

This pic's about a month old, taken when Grandpa & Nana were down visiting. It's one of my favorite pictures of him.

Another picture from our vacation--We had lunch at Frank's Pizza in Carolina Beach one day. If you every find yourself in Carolina Beach, you should eat there. It was really great. Kenton was being so cute I just had to whip out the camera and snap a picture. And yes, I do carry the camera with me pretty much all the time.

Happy Halloween!

Despite the cool weather, Kenton enjoyed a trip to the playground at Carolina Beach. The slide was definitely his favorite.