If You're Happy and You Know It

Race for the Cure

This Saturday was Race for the Cure. It's crazy how many people come out for it! Such a great event. Patrick ran it in under 20 minutes! (Super fast!) And Charlie enjoyed the treats. Chocolate for breakfast? I think I will:

Pumpkin Patch

The Pumpkin Patch is back at the Arboretum. It's really awesome this year. Charlie and I had a blast there!

Checkin out a big one!

A couple attempts at a decent pic:
Running through the hay maze:
Uh oh, bit it!
Standing on the hay
In a pumpkin house.

Look Who's Back!

Charlie got his cast off last Wednesday. Patrick took him. He said that Charlie just sat next to him and held his hand while they sawed off the cast. He was a little scared at first, but then was more intrigued as to what they were doing. He didn't even cry! (Through that part, at least). Then came the x-rays. Enter tears here. For some reason, Charlie REALLY hates getting x-rays. But, luckily, there shouldn't be anymore for a while. (Fingers crossed.) X-rays showed that Charlie's leg is healing nicely and they don't even want us to come back for a follow-up! Yippee! Charlie is still limping a little as if he still has the cast on, but that should pass quickly. The night he got it off, we had a bath party... he even ate dinner in the bath!! The leg was a little funky after 4 weeks of sponge baths!

Fair Day

I mean, really... who doesn't love Fair Day? In Texas (or in Dallas, at least) all public schools get off one day for Fair Day. How awesome is that? Ours was yesterday. But, we opted to go on Sunday so that Patrick could enjoy Charlie's 1st Fair experience.

The highlight... the kids farm where they get to pick peaches, milk a cow, plant some seeds, ride a tractor, get paid for all of their hard work and buy something at the General Store.

Charlie enjoyed his first caramel apple. Yum!

Big Tex.

Charlie's first corney dog.

Other hits... seeing a horse show, seeing a 1200 lb. pig, eating a fried latte, riding a car ride, and going through the petting zoo.

Trips Visit

Julie and the triplets got here last Wednesday and stayed through Sunday. Patrick, very kindly, babysat so that Juls and I could go to dinner on Wednesday night. This is something that I am not sure we've done since the babies have been around... and even long before given both of our bedrests during pregnancy. We had a wonderful meal at York Street. Delicious!! Friday night we took the babies to the TCU/SMU tailgate. Lots of fun, but crazy! Charlie and I had to leave early because all of the triplets where going into the bounce house. No bounce house for Charlie these days.

The highlight for the babies was the Airplane Museum on Saturday morning. We've never been, but it was SO fun that we will definitely be back!

And look how well Charlie is getting around these days:

Go SMU

We took Charlie to his first-ever football game a couple of weekends ago. He LOVED it.... even if it was 100 degrees. At baseball games now, he will act like he is throwing out a pitch as the pitcher throws and will act like he is hitting the ball as the hitter does it. Pretty cute. At the football game, he just sat in Patrick's lap and took it all in.

Julie and the triplets were in town this past weekend. We took the kids to the SMU vs TCU tailgate. It was pretty cute. The trips were in their red and white gingham and Charlie was in his purple gingham. We missed the opportunity for a cool cousin pic... but, they were all pretty frat-tastic looking!

Learning to Walk

Here's how the first couple of days went on the walking front.

Not there yet:

Getting closer...

We made it!!