October/November 2014

Halloween in our neighborhood was a lot of fun again this year. Colleen made Miles a fantastic digger costume out of diaper boxes and colored duct tape. She outdoes herself every year with these costumes. Miles was really excited about it until he put it on, when he almost immediately decided he didn't want to wear it anymore. So we trick-or-treated as a guy in a flannel shirt with a hard hat. everyone thought he was Bob the Builder. The highlight of the night for me was when we got a trick-or-treater dressed as Spiderman and Miles thought for all the world that it really was Spiderman. He screamed and jumped up and down and followed this poor kid down the block saying, "Hi, Spiderman. Hi, Spiderman." It was pretty great. Miles loved the whole halloween season. He like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the pumpkins and spiderwebs people put out. 

Miles has been into superheroes for a while now, but it's really kicked into high gear lately. Our pretending games have really coalesced around a team of the Hulk, Spiderman and Iron Man fighting giant robots. He also has a bunch of Batman shirts and will tell everyone that he is Batman while wearing them. 

His language and development have been really great too. He recognizes emotions and will tell us when he's scared or sad. He also tells us when other people are scared or sad too. It's fun to watch that sort of thing evolve and grow in a person. 

Here are pictures and video for the month! 

I'm all tied up!

Geppi's Entertainment Museum. He chased this Batman logo around for a solid half hour.

Geppi's

Hellloooo!

Bees, man. Bees. 

Storyville. Hiding in a log.

Not how you use a slide, Miles.

Play-Doh time!

The Scuplture Garden is closed. Miles is displeased.

Layin' around.

Smoothie mustaches are so in right now. 

It's very hard to take a good picture of someone hanging from monkey bars.

Chair fort!

Making chalk outlines: A favorite Baltimore pasttime!

"I'm getting dizzy!"

Ice cream!

Checking out butterflies at the Walters Art Museum

Checkmate, daddy!

Little rock climber

Sand table

A bounce slide into a ball pit. Sounds germy!

L-R: The Hulk, Iron Man, Spiderman

Bathhawk!

A rare shot of Miles in his halloween costume

We are sick. 

He wore it for, like, 30 seconds.

Just long enough to take...

...three pictures

A pretty lady!

Fall foliage.

More fall foliage.

A silly guy.

I'll tell you something, mama!

Fingers are yummy!

September/October 2014

We had a real eventful early fall! At the end of September, we took a trip to Hershey Park with Granny, Gramps, Schuyler and Milena. It was so fun we forgot to take any pictures! So, you'll just have to believe me. The neat thing about Hershey Park was that they had really liberal rules about what a two-year old was allowed to ride on. Log flumes, the scrambler, this spaceship ride that went around really fast and you controlled its height with a control stick. There was even one ride that spun around 30 feet in the air, turning almost sideways, and he was still able to go on it. So we had a blast. 

We also spent a weekend in a cabin in the woods in West Virginia with our friends Mike, Julie and Frankie. We took some hikes, built fires, went to an apple butter festival and enjoyed each other's company, especially how Miles and Frankie kept each other (mostly) entertained. On the way home we visited the Paw Paw Tunnel, despite the best efforts of our GPS to keep us away. Following its directions down windy West Virginian mountain roads, we found ourself on a muddy one lane path in the deep woods, with no signs of civilization in sight. I turned to Colleen and said, "It says to look for parking." We couldn't find any parking. We managed to navigate ourselves back to the town of Paw Paw and find the tunnel from there, and it was really fun. It's a half mile walk into near-total darkness. Miles loved yelling "echo" and the shadow puppets we made with our iPhone flashlights. 

Anyway, here are some fun pictures of our month! 

I'm gonna jump! 

October is ladybug season on Guilford. Miles made a new friend.

Hot dog delivery

Hiking in the woods in WV

He pushed this tree over. 

Fetch! 

Check out these mushrooms, Frankie!

Helping carry firewood.

This chess match got intense.

Real intense

Paw Paw tunnel, on the C&O canal

It turned out that we were not allowed to do this. 

We were definitely not allowed up here.

Creeepy! 

I had to go pick up the car. So I put the car seat in the stroller. It worked pretty well

Stingray! 

Comfy!

Getting ready to slide.

Wheee!

"Do it self"

Hay Maze!

Miles' halloween costume. Colleen made it! 

It's fall

I can't take a straight picture. I just can't. 

Miles and Oliver

Upside-downzers

Animal book. Well, it's mostly animals. This page is obviously plants. I do know the difference.

Don't give me that look. I do know the difference.