Monday, May 28, 2012

Posing for the camera or our next Hugh?

Caswell in his leisure suit

  

A note to my friend Jill - I know you are saying right now "That is so Karen".  

Friday, May 25, 2012

Another fun evening at the park

First we stopped at Centennial Lakes Park - we got to look at some fishes a remote control sail boat




Next we stopped at Caswell's favorite park with all the slides
You can tell by the expressions on our little guys face that he was having a great time







Monday, May 21, 2012

19 Months Old

You are such a cute little guy.  All of a sudden you were not just walking around but running all over the place (in your size 7 shoe).  You love to play outside and go to the park with all the slides.  You eat pretty good and get crabby like Mama if you need to eat.   You like all berries and Bumpa's spongebob eggs (scrambled egg w/cheese on top).  You still enjoy your favorites (pizza, french fries, McDonalds and daddy's casseroles) and you LOVE chocolate.  You will eat a whole Lindt chocolate ball with no problem and look for more.   You started  a while ago learning your abc's (you only need to learn 24 more letters).  You say "b" when someone says "a".  You will also say "2" when someone starts off saying "1".  I think you are just learning how to tell everyone how old you are at your next birthday.  You know a lot of your farm animals and can either tell us what they are or what they say.  Your favorite movie is Despicable Me.  You love to dance to the music in that movie.  

So to start our fun with the 19 month picture fest,  I thought I would let Caswell play and try to sneak the sticker on him.


Well he noticed right away and did not like it.  


All he wanted to do was take it off.  


But all of a sudden I look at him and he is smiling, laughing and dancing all around because he was so proud he put it back on himself.  

So I thought this is good and maybe I can get some great shots after all.  


Well that did not last long.  I put it on his back to try and get a few shots.  


Here he is giving me look like, "I know it's there mom, you can not fool me".


He thought I'll just get into my books.  Looking at this picture you can really see how tall he is getting.  


He loves to pull his books off of his shelf (still).  He really does like to read them too.  He has a few favorites that he always goes for and seems to always find them even if they are buried. 


Back to the monthly sticker..."Wait I think that darn sticker is back here somewhere".  


"Ah ha...it was.  Here is is.  We'll try it up front again".  


I gave up after a short time and you will see why in another post.  I don't blame him.  All he really wanted to do this morning was play with his cars and trucks.  

Caswell, I hope you always have fun and play hard!!  
 

Lounging Around Now and Then



May 2012

February 2011

Monday, May 14, 2012

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Our first visit to the MN Zoo

We decided to head out to zoo because they had free admission for "moms" over the weekend.  Thanks MN Zoo!  I forgot how big that place was.  It was a beautiful day to be outside.  We went down the Minnesota Trail, the Tropics Trail and Russia's Grizzly Coast.  Caswell loved being able to run all around.  He really liked the turtles.  



Like father, like son
I was surprised at how long he kept his sunglasses on.  


Caswell and Daddy checking out the snow monkeys


Mama and Caswell - that is a daddy expression for sure


Looking at the fish


Checking out the Cougar checking up on their beauty sleep


Looks like Daddy is happy he may have a new fishing partner 


Caswell LOVED the turtles


Look at this huge frog I see


Monkey See, Monkey Do


Looking at the pretty pink flamingo's 


Stolling with Daady


Going In 


Surprise!!  I am coming back out


Another thing that is nice about the MN Zoo is that children 2 years and under get in free. I am sure we will be heading out there again.  We had a great time!!  

You can't go to the MN Zoo without taking your picture on the Turtle