Howell's light parade

The day after Thanksgiving Howell has their Christmas parade. It starts at 7 in the evening. So I bundled Alex and Grandpa up and we went down. I had gone downtown earlier in the day and set three chairs down. So we had front row seats. Not sure if you could see but the whole route was packed several rows deep. I had blankets to sit on and to put on our lap. Hot coco to sip on was a must for Alex. They had several bands who also had to be light up. And of course the big man in red arrived in the last float. Even Grandpa was amazed by all the lights. After the parade we packed up all the blankets, chairs, coco and walked home. We then watched the traffic just stream by the house. It was a steady flow for at least 45 minutes.

firetruck

gingerbread house

radio flyer

raindeer

sheriff display

snow plow

Kitty kisses

Sam and Widget do get along some times. They are doing really well. They both come out and about during the day. Widget spends her time either in her bed in the diningroom or on dad's bed. Sam is found on all the chairs in the livingroom.

11-10 First snow of the season

Today we woke up and we had some snow on the ground. Alex could not wait to get outside. He ate his breakfast and got dressed while I was in the shower. Ready to go... But mom had not found any snow boots yet. So he got dressed in this snowpants and coat and then had to put his shoes on. I let him go out for a bit that way. I had the day off of work, so Grandpa and Mommy went and found some snowboots at the store for Alex. Now he is ready for the cold weather.

Goodbye pic's

Carey took this great picture of Dad and Craig.

11-8 Craig and Carey had to leave. But not before we went out to breakfast and took some pic's.

Alex wanted to show us the money!!

Alex showing off his new teeth.

Visit with Craig & Carey and Katie & Dan

On Friday 11-7 Katie and Dan stopped by on their way to the airport. We had a nice visit for a couple of hours. Will see them on there way back on Thursday.

While Craig and Carey were here Alex spent a lot of time raking leaves.

We also spent some time playing the Wii.

11-5 Wii time with Craig and Carey

Craig and Carey came in 11-4 in the evening for a visit. They spent a beautiful day on the fifth hanging out with Dad, while the Smiths were at work and school. But after dinner we got out the Wii. We had fun bowling and chatting away.

Alex and Craig

Nice form Dad !!!Line it up Craig.

Alex in blue, Dad in green, and Craig in red. Notice that Alex got a turkey in his first three frames.

11-3 Lost another bottom tooth

At dinner again, Alex said his tooth was to loose to eat. So he pulled it out. I thought about calling the dentist about the lack of teeth in his mouth. But the dentist showed him how to pull out the first top tooth. And you can see tht they are already comming in. So Alex has a big gap on top and a little gap on bottom right now. The tooth fairy must be going broke on him.

10-31 Misc. pics

This year Alex dressed up as a house painter. We had great weather for the eaving. Did not have to wear a coat over his costum and did not get cold passing out the candy. Great time for the whole family.
Mom and Alex

Waiting for more kids. When Alex was not out getting candy he was passing it out with Grandpa.

Still waiting,

10-31 Party at school

At school they had a school wide parade. That is Alex's teacher Mrs. Baron with the purple wings.
Alex dressed up as a house painter.

Party in the classroom.