Fire, Pumpkins, and Milestones

One quiet Sunday afternoon, Logan and I were reading stories when there was an urgent knock at the door. My friend, Stormi, told us that there was a fire in the field next to us. I had heard the fire engines but thought they were just passing by on the main road next to our place. Nope they took a little meander down our street and parked themselves right in front of us. Logan and his buddy, Korbin, had a blast watching the firefighters. There was a total of 8 firetrucks, 3 police cars, and 1 ambulance. I ran to grab my camera. By the time I got back, the fire was no where as big as before. The fire was as tall as the trees in the picture below. Kudos to the fire department for putting it out fast. Logan got to touch a real fire engine. I got some cute pictures of Logan and the fire engines. For Internet safety reasons I won't share them. You can just imagine the HUGE smile and pure joy my little boy expressed.

Stormi and I decided to let the boys have a little fun one cold rainy afternoon. We went to the local craft store and picked out a wooden pumpkin for them to paint. We weren't sure if we were being crazy letting an 20 month and 17 month year old loose with paint brushes.

We strapped them in their highchair and covered the tray with newspaper. They were really confused at first.

That confusion quickly evaporated and our budding artists went to work.

The artist did a lot better than I thought. Both were able to completely paint their pumpkins with minimal assistance from the parental units. They surprisingly didn't paint themselves. Only once did we had to stop them from painting each other.

This is what happens when you leave Logan out to play while you unload the groceries from the trunk...

He just smiled proudly when he saw me. Yes, he climbed into the truck. Then sorted through the sacks until he located the one he wanted. Then he happily snacked on grapes until I caught him.

Last but not least...TAYLOR! Taylor has grown leaps and bounds in just a few weeks. Really one day he just decided to roll over and the next he was rolling across the floor.

Well that milestone didn't last very long. So one to the next one, feeding time. We started Taylor on solids a few days ago. He loves it. Loves it a little too much. We have a hard time keeping him from lunging at the spoon. He just gets so excited when the spoon gets close that he starts kicking and rocking.

These are from the very first time he tried rice cereal.

He wasn't so sure the first spoon full.

But after he got it down...

SUCCESS!