Santa

We went to visit Santa last week and Heisman did surprisingly well!  Last year he was pretty afraid of Santa but this year he sat on his lap and told him what he wanted for Xmas.  It probably helped that he had his older cousins with him :)  If you ask Heisman what he wants this year he says movies and toys.  Funny!  We also have The Elf on the Shelf at our house and his name is Buster.  Heisman loves finding him every day and I will sometimes talk to Buster when Heisman isn't being the best listener and half of the time Heisman instantly starts listening.  I don't think he quite gets the whole Santa business yet but he is excited about all of the Christmas stuff.  We had a few Xmases over the weekend and he was very patient and waited his turn to open his presents.  He is getting so many neat toys from grandparents that I could probably take back all of the toys from us and he would be happy!  We have a few more Xmases this week but we'll be home in time to throw some cookies in the oven and get ready for Santa :)

Playing a hunting game with waiting for Santa at Bass Pro Shop

Serious hunter!

Caden, Heisman, Kinley, Cale and Carter

Christmas tree

This is going to be one fun Christmas!  Heisman is just so excited about everything... lights, ornaments, snowmen, Santa, presents... :)  He really enjoyed putting the ornaments on the tree.  He put them all on and took them off and put them back on again at least twice.  He is such a helper these days too!

Happy Thanksgiving

Heisman gets to do a lot of fun crafts at daycare and here are a few examples....

~Heisman says he's thankful for his mommy, blankey, cars and daddy :)



First snow

A few weeks ago we got our first snow and Heisman was so excited!  First he said that it looked like fun and asked if he could play in it and then he said, "Mom, Christmas!"  Super cute!!  We did manage to go out after school and play in what was left of the snow.  I think we will be out a lot this winter :)

Heisman is usually pretty good about going to bed but every once in awhile he tries to procrastinate by asking for a drink, story, toy, etc... This is what he said the other night....
Heisman:  Wait Mom.  I went to bed last night.
Me:  So you don't need to go to bed tonight?
Heisman:  No, I'm good :)
Silly kid!!!!

Happy Halloween

We had a great time trick or treating this year!  Heisman's cousins (Carter, Caden and Cale) came to our house so we all went together.  Heisman loves being with his cousins and tried to keep up with them all night.  He probably only did an hour of trick or treating and ate way too much candy!!!

Wearing uncle Jeremy's Darth Vadar mask

More fun pictures......

Phineas and Ferb

Morgan's state cross country meet :)

Carving pumpkins



Parade

The big Band Day Parade was the first weekend in October and Heisman had a blast!  He was a little slow at picking up the candy the first few minutes of  the parade but once he figured it out, watch out!  He danced and clapped for the bands and definitely worked his cuteness to get extra candy :)

His most common phrase lately is "What are you doing?"  He says it all the time!  If I leave the room he yells out, "Mom what are you doing?" When we're driving in the car, making supper, doing laundry, etc.... It's also kind of funny to hear other phrases that I know he's picked up from me and Tony and we didn't even realize we said them that often until he started saying them too.

Last week we went to the open house at the fire station and he got to sit in the firetrucks, which he thought was really cool.

Pumpkin patch

Heisman and I visited the Center Grove Orchard a few weeks ago and had a lot of fun!!!

Loves the corn pool!

Looking for the horses and showing off his awesome Iowa jacket

Hi goat :)

Soft lamb :)

Jumping pillow

Getting some air

He insisted on going down this slide by himself and it was really fast!  He got a little turned around but still went down a few more times on his own.

Tractor hayride

He had a great time but I think he was tired of me taking his picture all morning.... Seriously Mom!

Go Hawkeyes!

Even though Iowa lost the big game, I still wanted to post these great pictures!!!

Busy summer

We had such a great time this summer!  There are days when I really don't want to go back to work and I want to stay home with Heisman all the time but then I think about the long winter months and wonder if I would feel the same way.  We spent a lot of time playing outside this summer.  We would go to the park, to the pool, play with the neighborhood kids, do sprinklers, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, bike rides, walks, etc.  One of Heisman's favorite things to do this summer was "hit the ball."  He has a little T ball set for outside and even a little bat inside.  He would only hit the ball a few times off the Tee and then he wanted us to actually pitch the ball to him.  We got pretty good at throwing the ball directly at the bat but he actually does a decent job at hitting.  When we weren't busy at home, we visited the zoo, science center, Triad gymnastics and finally the fair.  I have been back to work for almost 2 weeks now and it was pretty hard on me and Heisman.  He still went to daycare one day a week during the summer but now he's back to 4 days a week (I don't work Fridays!!!).  The first few days he would say, "No mom work.  I want to play with Mom."  Awww :(  I'm sure it will just take a few weeks to get back into the swing of things.  He really loves daycare when he gets there.  Anyway, here are a bunch of pictures of our busy summer.....

Triad gymnastics.....

Action shot on the trampoline

Science center....

loves his sunglasses!!!

Heisman and his BFF Ty

Heisman and his girlfriend, Laura

At the zoo...

Heisman thought this was really fun until one of the birds landed on him!!

Did not want to get off the train

Finally the fair....