Wellness

Blake had his 15 month wellness appointment today. He is 22 lbs. (25th percentile - finally out of the 15th percentile!) and 32.5 inches, the 75th percentile. His head has grown to the 90th percentile - all those brains! I knew Blake was getting his molars, we found out today he is getting a whole mouth full of teeth, which explains our sleepless nights.

Now, if I can just keep him well...

Blake on his radio flyer car, which is thinks is a rolling step stool.


Sharing some milk with Louis, no germs there!

Bellevue Community Center

Blake and I stopped in to the Bellevue community center yesterday to check it out. They have an open play time for kids 5 and under three days a week. There were lots of things to play with, but Blake only wanted to drive the car.

Evidently head first is the best way to exit a car.

Pumpkin Prowl

We went to the pumpkin prowl at the Woodland Park Zoo with the Evatt's this evening. It was a blast, so many kids in darling costumes and thousands of pumpkins. We hope to make this a yearly adventure. There were vendors with treats for kids (and parents) all around the zoo, lots of candy, Top Pot donuts, caramel apples, cider and hot chocolate and a haunted house. Blake is still buzzing around from all the sugar and fun!

The Pittman Family

The Evatt FamilyLaurel and Blake

My little lion

Lots of pre-halloween fun!

Friday evening someone rang our doorbell. When we went to answer it we found two bags of candy and a note. We were to deliver two bags of candy to two other neighbors the next night. Well, of course the next night was the Husky game, so Blake and I were dashing around the neighborhood trying to deliver candy with out getting caught. It was pretty fun, but would have been much easier with Chad!
Sunday morning we got up and did a little pumpkin carving. Well, Chad carved, Blake watched and I cooked the pumpkin seeds.

Watching Daddy very closely.

Quick break to read Bingo, Blake's new favorite book. Chad and I have sung B-I-N-G-O about 1000 times this weekend - gets a laugh every time!

Lou is thrilled with all of the festivities.

Our family of pumpkins, Lou is the bone, Chad has fangs, Blake has the circle mouth with one little tooth and I have the smiley face.

Superman

Every time I try to fold the laundry Blake likes to unfold it and throw it around the room. So today I took one of Chad's clean t-shirts and tied it around Blake like a cape. He love it until the cape fell off, which he thought was pretty funny.

more pumpkins

Blake and I picked up a few more pumpkins for Halloween.
Helping move the pumpkin, he didn't get very far with this one.I'm not really sure what they were talking about...

"Touchdown!" Blake likes to do "touchdown" every now and again, for no particular reason.

All done playing outside. (Our front doors are the only doors he cannot open...yet.)

Beautiful fall day

It was so pretty today, Blake and I went to check out a new park in our area. He loves the slide.
The park has a train theme, pretty cute.
I was trying to get a picture of Blake with the pretty tree behind him...
...no such luck!

I need a uniform!

Chad and Blake did a little shopping at Toys R Us on Sunday. They came home with some new goodies, including this basketball hoop. Blake LOVES it and he claps every time he makes a basket. The other evening he went straight from the tub to shooting hoops :)

Born Free

Before Blake was old enough to try a sippy cup I bought him some "Born Free" cups with the "good" kind of plastic. I had researched, I was prepared...however, Blake seems to think it's a martini shaker. He likes to shake it until he is covered in milk.

Wilderness Hike

Saturday afternoon we thought we'd hike some of the Cougar Mountain trails near our house. We hiked and hiked to a "lookout" that was very unimpressive. Then we got lost and ended up in a neighborhood in Newcastle. Chad swore he thought the trail was a loop :) After around three hours in the woods we made it home. Next time we'll bring a map and more water. Chad and I were taking swigs out of Blake's sippy cup. We made it to the lookout.This was the view, just more trees!
Blake was a trooper, he was giving me high fives most of the way.
Even Lou made it okay. Bulldogs are supposed to be lazy, but I have always known we got the only energetic one on the planet. Good job Lou.

Pumpkin Patch

Today we drove out to Remlinger Farms to pick out some pumpkins for Halloween. We wanted to go when the doors opened at 10 a.m., however Blake fell asleep on the way, so we toured Carnation for an hour and got there just in time to meet up with everyone else from greater King County. But it turned out to be such a beautiful day, we had a lot of fun. Family tractor pic

First we hit the corn maze. Chad and Blake had fun, I thought it was a muddy mess with rotten corn!
Then we set out to find the perfect pumpkin.
"I found it!"
Blake found a pumpkin just his size...

...and then he gave it away. He has quite a way with the ladies :)

Tractor ride

Laundry Day

Blake was helping with the laundry...

I was actually in the kitchen when Blake decided to hop in the dryer. He is getting more curious everyday and I am continuously amazed by his climbing abilities!

Whitefish, Montana

Blake and I went to visit my parents at their home in Whitefish this past week. We had so much fun. We hiked Glacier National Park, went swimming and for walks. It was fun to spend some time with my parents and I got to have a little free time to get a massage and some extra rest!

Blake doing some light reading on the plane.
Blake and Buffalo Bob in the living room.
Playing by the river at Glacier.
Blake went up the hike in the backpack, but wanted to come back down on his own!
Rock climbing
Grandma, Grandpa and Blake

As we were driving back down the Road to the Sun we saw a bear!Blake and Mom in red. (I didn't intend for us to match!) Grandpa doing some entertaining at dinner :)

Grandma and Grandpa ordered Blake his first sundae, huckleberry ice cream with whip cream and a cherry. As you can see, he really got into it!

Glacier National Park