At the park- Henry.

Yesterday, we headed out to a new park to meet some other families from an online mom's group we're members of.

The park was great. And the swings were very fun.

Even Junery loved them.

The best part of the park was that it was full of sand. I'm so glad we took my loader and dump truck.

Later, we headed down to the lake and fed some geese. These geese must be used to being fed, because they were very friendly and very big!

Later, we ran up and down hills.

Then we all took off back to the playground. We also got our first taste of a child who has never had rules. This kid was really a trip. He stole my dump truck and loader and insisted before he left that it belonged to him now. He also shook June and woke her up in her stroller and then took her nuk and threw it over the fence and down a hill- all while threatening to hit Juner. His mom shrugged it off because "boys are just like that." We're glad that in the 3 years since I've been around that this is the first kid like this that we've ever met (and hopefully the last). And we want to thank everyone with kids we know for not raising your kids with rules and structure. Because all of the boys (and girls) we know don't behave like that.

8 months-June.

You may have noticed that I recently turned 8 months old. Things are looking pretty good from where I sit.

I can now pull myself up to standing if the conditions are right. The bathtub ledge is the perfect height, but the tile floors are not very forgiving when I fall back down.

My favorite things are my red toys- the red block, the red spoon, the red foam N from the bathtub, and the red hammer. I also like crawling into the tupperware cabinet and throwing all of the tupperware out (after I lick it and wipe my runny nose all over it).One of my favorite activities is finding little bits of paper to stuff in my mouth as fast as I can. Mama says that I can find a dust bunny under a couch before it even knows it's there. For the same reason, I am no longer allowed to play on the ground outside anymore. Too many leaves and dirt.

Mama and papa are also debating whether I say hi (or "aaaaaaye.") They think it correlates with when someone enters a room, but aren't sure if they are just trying to find something where nothing is there.

Still just two teeth, although the drooling has really kicked up, so maybe something is going on. And I still weigh 18 pounds (according to mama's inaccurate calculations).

Last night mama and papa took us out to eat to celebrate my monthday. It was great, until I reached over and threw a whole plate of appetizers on the floor (all those glorious boneless wings!). Then I was banished to three feet away from the table to chew on my hand.

Cold season-Henry.

Both Junery and I have colds and runny noses. We're doing okay except that mama insists on spraying this stuff up our noses and she says it will make us feel better.

As you can see I don't like it very much.

Mama recorded me talking about our day so you could see how bad I sound.

What will June tolerate?- Henry

We've got a couple games we like to play in our house. "What will June eat?" (everything) and "What will June tolerate?" are two of our favorites. Since June eats everything and can put up with an awesome older brother, we've had to get creative. So mama decided that June was going to get a shower.

We tried the shower because I'm really afraid of showers and mama doesn't want two kids with a shower phobia. Plus mama really stunk from working out, so everybody benefits. June had a great time. She hung out in the shower for about 20 minutes until the hot water ran out and she got cold. She even crawled around and tried to play with the water in the drain.

A T. Rex is on the loose-Juner.

We've been having some problems lately with a rogue dinosaur that is loose in our house.

It primarily feeds on sleeping victims. And if they are not sleeping, he demands that they go to eat so he can pretend to eat their faces.

Happy Birthday Aunt Elizabeth!

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Today is our Aunt Elizabeth's birthday. We sure with we could be there to help celebrate! It looks like she's having a great day- High School Musical style!

Fun dip and baseball-Henry.

Aunt Jenni sent me some Fun Dip for Halloween. It was great.

I started eating it while mama ran upstairs to get the camera and when she got back, I announced that I had already eaten the stick.

So I had to finish up the dip with my finger. Thanks Aunt Jenni!Mister Paul and Miss Susan came over for supper. I adore them and showed off by taking off my clothes and showing them my baseball skills.

I'm really going to start a revolution in the Majors with the vertical swing.

Here I am in action.

Our civic duty fulfilled- Henry.

Mama thinks it's important that we understand how important it is to vote. So this morning, we decided to take advantage of early voting and headed down to the community center to cast our ballot. Little did we know, everyone else thought it was a good day to vote and the line was over 2 hours long. Regardless, mama said we were staying, because she doubted that the line would get any shorter before election day. We waited in line and three good things happened to us:
1. People felt bad for us and let us cut in front of them, shortening our wait to only 1 hour and 45 minutes.
2. Mama bought us animal crackers from a vending machine to keep us occupied. (Mind you, she didn't ealize the wait was so long, so we literally went into this fiasco with just a stroller and a nuk for June.)
3. Mcdonalds for lunch! mama says it was a reqard for our good behavior, but we really know it was a reward to herself for managing two kids in line for two hours.

And after it was over, we even got stickers.

Now that our civic duty is over, mama said we aren't going to watch any more campaign adds and asks that Barack Obama and Kay Hagan please stop send flyers to our house. We couldn't fit them all in the recycling bin this week.

Don't forget to vote!