Antema's swings

I spent time visiting family over the Thanksgiving week. I spent some time on Antema's swing set, and am getting the "hang" of the big boy swings.


Here's some video of Mama and I

Here's Antema and I

Here I am doing some belly swinging

Overcoming fear

For most of my life, I have been afraid of the vacuum. So this represents quite an achievement for me. Sorry about it being noisy.

Thundering elephant!

Me in my Halloween costume. (It came with a box of hand me down clothes from someone)

We went to a fall festival with some games and trick or treat stations. I totally rocked the "toilet toss" to the point where the fellows running this game loaded me down with all the rolls of toilet paper and laughed themselves silly as I dumped them all in.

Daddy and I did the cake walk. We didn't win anything, though.

Nicole's family came to the festival, and here I am with my cousin Patience, who dressed up as her favorite character, Elmo.

Mama took pictures of some of the creative costumes--like this hot dog hat.

The USS Enterprise won the costume contest.

Tickling the ivories

I was at Antema's house and began to play her piano (although it might technically be Aunt Jaki's)

This video was taken as some visitors were leaving. So ignore the other comments, but if you listen closely, you can hear me sing a little bit.


I started to get a bit tired and play with things other than my fingers. So I got in a little bit of trouble.

Marty McFly in training?

Here I am sleeping like Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future. Mama wonders what I'm dreaming about (because I really was asleep when she took this picture.)

Tuesday night brought SNOW!

This is a picture of our patio, taken before Mama came outside. She is estimating about 8" is on the wall.

Daddy shoveled a path to the sidewalk and out to the Big Blue Car (aka Cody)

I did much better in the snow with my hat and new coat. Mama didn't push it and expect me to build a snowman.

She is very glad that we got to play in the leaves on Sunday and Monday, because they have all fallen off the trees now and are WET. Wet leaves are not as much fun as dry crunchy leaves, or so she insists.

A lot of the trees fell down in Fort Collins. We have one branch in the tree behind the apartment that cracked and came down. Mama went out with her shovel and knocked more snow off the branches. She says that next time she might try tossing snowballs at them instead, because she might not get snowed on that way.

It has been warmer for the last couple of days, and a lot of the snow has melted. I guess there is probably more to come.

Fun with leaves

Yesterday was a beautiful day, and Mama used the snow shovel while I used the broom to make a pile of leaves. It took me a few minutes to warm up to the idea of jumping into the pile, but I finally decided that it was fun.

Mama let me have the camera, and these are some of the more interesting shots I took.

Mama finished the day with this shot