Happy Holidays

As you can guess, we've been very busy this holiday season! We have lots of pictures and stories, but not very much time to get them posted here. I'll get some good stuff up soon, though, so bear with us.
In the mean time, happy new year!

Road Trip!

RoRo took his first REALLY long car trip last week. We drove to Tennessee for Thanksgiving. He was in the car all day Wednesday! But he kept himself entertained by playing with his Viewmaster, books, and of course his DINOSAURS!

 

Playtime!

We had an unusually warm day last week and decided to visit the lake. You all probably recognize the playground, right? This time, RoRo was brave enough to try the "dark" slide-- the tunnel slide. (That's the one he's in front of in the last picture.)


 

Sensitive Artiste

Every Thursday, Ro and I go to the library for storytime. After about fifteen minutes of total chaos while the children's librarians try to read a storybook to twenty or so wiggling, squirming, running, yelling, distracted two-year-olds, everyone goes over to the tables to make a craft related to the story they just "heard."
Sometimes RoRo is more interested in finding a dinosaur book to read than in gluing and coloring, but this time he and I managed to make a Thanksgiving scarecrow. Ro worked the glue-stick and then told me where to put each of the shapes. He's very proud of it- in fact when I suggested that we take it to Daddy's office and let him put it on his door, Ro yelled, "No! Go home and put on the frigerator!"
So we did.

Twix or Treat!

RoRo may not remember his first trick-or-treat in the years to come-- but Daddy and I most certainly will! Ro was very polite, and while he didn't always say "Trick or Treat," he did squeak "Tay-Too!" every time he got candy.
In fact, he was almost too polite at one point. A little girl about his age peered into his treat bucket and started sifting through his candy. Sujit and I didn't know quite what to do, so we just watched to see how Ro would handle it. The little girl pulled out a shiny gold Twix bar and promptly asked me to open it.
I wondered whether or not I should try to get the candy back. Ro didn't seem to care, really, that his loot had just been pilfered, so I just said, "No, you need to ask your mommy or daddy if you can eat it."
Disappointed, she turned back to RoRo's candy, maybe thinking that the problem was with her initial choice, and that I would maybe open something else for her. But lo and behold! There was another Twix bar! What luck! She looked them both over carefully, and finally decided that one of them was a little beaten-up for her taste, so she dropped it back into Ro's bucket.
"Tay-Too!" he chirped.

Happy Halloween!

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's RoRo!

Sooooo far away!

What else can slide?

It's all mine! Mwa ha ha!

Sliding on his belly.

What's this?!?

Homecoming and Diwali

RoRo went to the university Homecoming parade Saturday morning, a Diwali party Saturday afternoon, and a Homecoming banquet at the AKL fraternity house that evening! The highlights of his very long day were seeing horses and Shriner's cars at the parade, playing with two little girls at the party, and hanging out with a brightly-colored Godzilla toy at the fraternity.

RoRo is catching up with an old friend.

Hanging out at the AKL house while Daddy works the crowd.

He was a big hit with the ladies...

Happy Diwali!

No pictures, Mom!

Do you see Thomas? RoRo did!!

And another train!

All smiles

Everyone loves a parade!

I'm with the band!

Seabiscuit Hat!

Today was a cool forty-degrees, and I thought I had better start getting out our cold weather gear. I pulled out a box full of gloves and toboggan hats, and RoRo immediately pulled out a grey newsboy hat that his grandpa had sent him last year.
"A Seabiscuit hat!" he yelled, trying to put it on. He recognized this as the sort of hat worn by the jockeys in one of his favorite movies.

What a Day for a Playgroup!

Today was the first day of RoRo's Parents-as-Teachers playgroup. He remembered the little play house they have there, but didn't realize how much he'd grown over the summer-- he tried to walk in and bumped his head on the doorway! He really enjoyed playing "Suppertime" with the toy food and he and another little girl pulled out some drums and gave us all a little concert.

Come Back, Squirrel!

Here's RoRo chasing squirrels at the Truman campus. They let him get pretty close, but he didn't know why they wouldn't let him pet them!

Eating Bana-ma!

Sunny Day September

There aren't many warm, sunny days left in September. We really enjoyed this one!

RoRo the Big Red Boy

RoRo has a fascination with Clifford, and one day saw a piece of red fleece that I had in a scrap box. He asked me to make a Clifford for him-- and was very surprised when I turned him into a Big Red Dog!

Froggie Friend

RoRo asked me to take a picture of the frog (toad) that lives under our porch. Here s/he is.

Bubble Trouble

One of the best memories I will have of this summer is of RoRo playing with his bubble-gun in the backyard. Today, every time he shot off a round of bubbles, he yelled "Up, up, and away bubbles!"

Ahoy Matey!

RoRo has discovered pirates! And is it any wonder? Since the new Pirates of the Carribean movie came out, no landlubber can avoid images of the Jolly Roger, gold dubloons, and miscellaneous swashbucklers. We often hear RoRo say, "Arg, I'm a pirate!" and asking "Savvy?"