"Happy" Halloween

Being the great mom that I am, when it was time to think about Halloween costumes, I went to Kate and asked her what costumes she had in Henry's size. (who wouldn't want a free costume, right?) Henry's cousin, Ella, wore this costume when she was Henry's age.

He isn't that excited about his too small costume.

After playing a while in it....

... his "duck feet" went from hovering above his feet...

... to shin guards.

"Quack! Quack!"

"Wildlife" of the Waco Zoo

My sister, Sarah, and I met today in Waco (halfway point for us) to spend a little quality time together.

After eating a so-so Mexican lunch (served by a terrible waiter), we made our way to the Cameron Park Zoo.

Here are some of the very interesting animals we saw:

a komodo dragon sculpture,

giraffes, locked in a big garage looking thing,

half of a dead fish, a turtle,
a dead frog,

and several pictures of the animals that were supposed to be on exhibit... here, the elephant.

ALL THE ANIMALS WERE LOCKED UP!!!

(Well, I take that back, we did see a lemur (that ran away when we walked up) and a huge rat looking mammal)

And did the ticket people tell us that we weren't going to see any animals when we paid admission- NO!

While leaving, we inquired where all, excuse me- most all, of the animals were, and they gave us vouchers for the next time we visit.... we'll see about that.

They did have this neat "chime panel thing" on which Henry enjoyed making music.

Sweet Liam

Cousins in orange... not planned, surprisingly.

I love me some Sarah time.

(I love you too, Elizabeth. We missed you)

Weekend

The Louis family had a busy weekend.

We first met our friends,the Pettkes, at the pumpkin patch so we could take each other's pics. This was quite an adventure. The boys, Henry and Luke, didn't want anything to do with family pics.

Here are Tom and Michelle trying to corral the boys... before they ran into the street.

I was trying to get Henry to hold the pumpkin... he didn't. I look silly.


His face makes me laugh.

The 2 crazies playing in the parking lot.... don't worry, it was a safe environment.



After the pumpkin patch fiasco, we headed over to the Huntley's to bring them dinner and meet sweet Baby Ava Grace.

I couldn't get Henry to stand next to her.... I guess that's better than him poking her eyes out.





On Saturday, we were productive. We cleared out the guest bedroom (yes, there is a mattress sitting in the middle of our living room floor until it finds it's home- Henry enjoys jumping on it, thinks its the best thing).....

Henry helping Tom take the headboard apart.

... And we put together Henry's new crib.

All ready to sleep in his new bed.

We moved Henry's old crib to the nursery and I finished her crib skirt. I'll post those pics later.

After church on Sunday, we met my mom and my grandparents in Dallas for lunch.

Henry enjoying some after lunch literature with Mimi (I've given up on M'Dear... no other grandkids call her that, so it was getting confusing)

Henry showing Papaw the Elmo Dog book.

As always, so nice to see my grandparents. They are so special to me.

Pumpkin Patch 09

Henry and I went to visit a pumpkin patch on Tuesday.

It was too sunny, too windy, too crazy.

I just followed Henry around to see if I could snap some good shots... didn't get many.

Giving hugs to the pumpkins

This could have been the best picture... but seeing that I cut off half his face, guess we'll never know.

This year's grumpy pic

Found some his size

So excited!

Found one to buy

Last year's pics weren't any better.

Sick Kiddo

Last week, Henry came down with something nasty. Flu? Maybe.

When we went to his 18 month well checkup on Monday, I told Henry's doc how he had been exposed to the flu (my poor sister-in-law and niece had it). Since I'm pregnant, he went ahead and gave me a prescription for Tamiflu and told me symptoms to look for.

Wednesday afternoon, he woke up from his nap with all the symptoms.

I rushed to the drug store to get the prescription filled and looked apologetic to everyone we encountered. Henry looked miserable- red cheeks, runny nose.

Luckily goldfish and dried apricots kept Henry somewhat happy while waiting for the prescription to be filled.

When we got home, I took these photos.

I think the flash hurt his eyes.

Thank goodness for Sesame Street online.... all the Elmo videos a kid could ask for!

He woke up with fever the next morning, and luckily we didn't see it again.

Now he is back to his old self!

Wedding of Jana & Britt

This past weekend we traveled to Shreveport to celebrate the marriage of my good friend, Jana, and her beaux, Britt.

The happy couple at the rehearsal dinner

Jana lovin' on baby girl Louis



bridesmaids with the bride




Jana looked absolutely radiant on her wedding day!

The reception was at a venue on the river. It was beautiful! Food was so delicious! Cakes were beautiful! Fun dancing! Good times were had by all.

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Thanks, Jana, for letting me a part of your special day!