Beautiful day, part 2

Today was another beautiful day. I just can't believe it is November! Miles and Quincy wanted to go back to the same park today that we were at yesterday. So off we went this morning and had a great morning at the park.

Miles climbing up one of what he calls "funky ladders"

Quincy trying to climb up like Miles:

Miles being silly:

Checking out the river from the bridge:

Playing in some big piles of big leaves:

Miles sliding down the spiral slide:

And Quincy sliding down it on his belly:

Beautiful day

This past week has been mostly cold weather, yesterday morning we woke up to frost on the ground. Today though, it was in the high 70s, sunny and just a beautiful day. Here are a few pics of the boys at one of the local parks.

First Miles did some fishing, the plan was for Quincy and I to play at the playground while Miles and Mike fished, but Quincy did not want to leave the fishing.

Then over to the playground equipment. Lots of climbing and sliding

Quincy just loved climbing on this thing, he spent quite a bit of time on it, and kept going back to it between sliding.

This is the bottom of a good size spiral slide. I didn't think Quincy could do it himself, and Miles didn't want to do it himself, so here I am going down with both of them. Turns out, Quincy had no problem going down by himself. He went down many times, and many different ways - on purpose. He loved it and loved the thrill of doing it different ways. After Quincy had done it on his own a few times, Mike 'helped' Miles go down on his own, then Miles decided he liked it better that way too. Unfortunatley the camera battery died before then, so no pictures of Miles doing this slide himself.

New sweaters

The boys and I went outside to play in somewhat dreary weather the other day. We just received these adorable sweater and hat sets from my Mother-in-Law (she knit them herself), so I figured it was a great chance to try out the sweaters and hats. Miles was actually excited to try on and wear this new set. I brought my camera out to get a few pics of the boys to email out, but got a bunch of pretty cute pictures, so I am sharing them here for everyone to see.


Miles stomping through puddles. The sweater and hat are cute, and cute on him. The rest of the outfit however he chose all by himself, so hence the mish mosh look. But hey, we were just out playing in puddles and around the neighborhood.

We go on a walk many times a week. I give Miles the choice of wagon, bike or walking. He always choses the wagon, and only rides in it for the first 10 steps of the walk, then he gets out and walks, plays in puddles, pushes the wagon, and pulls the wagon. Quincy absolutely loves it when Miles pushes or pulls the wagon, apparently it is a much better ride when your big brother is helping.

Quincy can climb up the ladder by himself now, and this is how he choses to go down the slide, every time. It is a great way to clean the slide. Not so great for the front of his pants. Especially after rain, like in this picture.

And, this pic. He is just so darn cute.

Apple picking song

I was uploading some more pictures the other day and found this little video from our trip to the apple orchard. It's Miles, singing his (very short) apple picking song. And, by the way, this is about the average length of one of his songs. Short and sweet.

Halloween

Ahh, Halloween night is here at last. Miles has been looking forward to this night for several months. So the kids got dressed up in their costumes

and out we went into our neighborhood. This hat had no chin strap, and it was windy tonight, so the hat spent more time being carried than worn.

I'm not sure Quincy really knew what to make of it all, he just kept looking around at everything and everyone, he didn't say much or make many noises at all.

Miles was excited, he loved seeing all of the decorations, especially at night with everything lit up, and some of the things moving and making noises. He was a bit nervous though and couldn't manage to say "trick or treat" at any of the houses, but he did remember to say thank you to everyone, so at least he remembered his manners!

After we got home, I resumed handing out candy, with Quincy right by my side for every trick-or-treater until it was his bedtime. Quincy loved seeing all the kids coming up to our door. Once Miles finished his treat, he joined us at the door and soon took over handing out candy. After Quincy went to bed, Miles and I sat out on the front steps and Miles was even more excited then he had been when he was out getting candy. He loved having trick-or-treaters come to his house, and he loved giving them candy. He got so excited for each and every set of trick-or-treaters that he thought were coming. It was just so unbelievably adorable.

A bib hat

The other day Quincy got ahold of one of his bibs, and he was trying to put it on as a bib. His bibs have a bottom section that snaps up to form a large pocket. This particular bib was snapped up on one side at the time he got it. He quickly realized that when he tried to put it on it was going on more like a hat, and he was a getting a great reaction from Miles and me, so he kept doing it for a while, and was having quite a bit of fun, from a bib!


Then, of course, Miles had to try, in his own way:

First day of pre-school

I just got back from dropping Miles off for his first day of pre-school. sniff, sniff. It is just two hours a day, three days a week. I thought I would be fine, since this is just pre-school and not regular school or all day or anything like that, but I have to admit, I teared up after I walked out the door of the school. He barely turned his head to say goodbye to me, he was already involved in something with his friend. My little guy is growing up so quick. Before I know it he will be graduating.

He is still saying he doesn't want to learn at pre-school. This morning he said that he will want to learn at school when he is Tyler's age. Tyler is his 12 year old cousin. I do hope that Miles decides to start learning in school before he is 12!

Hopefully today goes well, we will see in a couple of hours.