Granny Visit...

John Hall, Dad, Jamie, Jacob, Sam, and I went to Tulsa for a few days to visit Granny. We all enjoyed seeing her as well as Erin, Aunt Sandy, Uncle Ken, and Oliver (not pictured).

Here we are on getting settled into our traveling positions after a yummy lunch at Feltmon's Whattaburger in Russellville...Not the chain...

A few days prior to our trip, the adults received an email from Jacob with a detailed description of the height requirements for driving a car on your own; he wanted to be sure we didn't' forget to go to Incredible Pizza and let him drive a car!

Traveling with a baby is tough; mainly because of all the stuff and constant attention they require. I was happy to have Jamie and Dad there to help with JH! This picture is so funny to me because there is no WAY I would have EVER thought my dad would be seen carrying a purse...but he was so sweet to carry mine while John rode a few rides.

The next day, JH was up bright and early ready to go see Granny and have lunch with Oliver. We went to a home cookin' place that served the best fried chicken. The only problem was it was filled with trains and JH was distracted from lunch. There was no way my little boy was going to eat anything with so much going on with the "choo-choo's" all around.

After lunch, JH was in need of a nap so we went back to the hotel to sleep while the rest of the crew went to do a little shopping and to Tulsa Aquarium. Later that night, we met up with the rest of the family for dinner. John Hall was TERRIBLE the entire time we were there. I assumed it was because he was totally out of his routine. When we got back to the hotel, I changed his full poopy diaper. While I was bagging it, he slipped off the bed and ran into the adjoining room...I grabbed the phone to take this picture to send to Jason. (I titled it "oh, yes they call him the streak, boogity-boogity") After I snapped the picture, I picked him up and took him back in the our room to put on a diaper when I noticed the trail of poop in the floor of both rooms! I called for Jamie and she came running stepping in a pile herself! We cleaned up the mess and I put JH down for the night. In about an hour, I heard him crying and found him on all fours in his pack-and-play puking everywhere. I immediately picked him up and put him in the tub with me, leaving Jamie to clean up the throw-up mess that was all over the place. I had medicine for him from a previous illness with me and luckily I had a pharmacist for a roomate and janitor, Ha! She was very helpful nursing JH all night long! Thanks to Aunt Jamie!

The next morning, John Hall seemed to be feeling better, but we decided it would be best to stop by and say good-bye to Granny and head straight home. While we were there he had a couple runny diapers and had go without his jeans. I makes me worry looking at these pictures today, I sure hope Granny doesn't get sick! She just can't help herself from kissing all over everyone!

We had to a couple of pit stops on our way home...some at gas stations, some on the side of the road....

John Hall woke up this morning very sick. He has had at least 15 runny diapers today and doesn't want to go down for the night. He hasn't really eaten anything and pretty much has just sat around all day. We had to cancel our plans to go to the Village for the annual Halloween carnival and to play with all the cousins. It seriously breaks my heart to see my baby like this...I hope he feels better tomorrow!

Mr Brown can_______fill in the blank....

We read a lot to John and lately I've noticed when we're reading, he'll typically add in a word or sound from each page. Of course, in John Hall style, he won't perform when the camera is out...so here is my best attempt to capture this on film...He also started saying "no" when he doesn't want to share or when he doesn't want to do something. He does this in the video as well. Here he is with three of his favorites, Moo Baa La La La, But Not The Hippopotamus, and Mr. Brown Can Moo.

Way to go, J!

Saturday Jason ran in another half marathon that benefits a local children's home. The race goes past the entrance of the neighborhood, so JH and I went to watch him run by.

Jason finish 69th overall out of 1300 registered racers. He said he felt awful at the end the race because it was so hot and humid. He finished 6th in his age division.

Jason and our friend, Wes, trained for the race together. Wes finished 72nd. I think they both had pretty impressive finishes....better than I could ever hope to do! Way to go, boys!

John Hall says he's very proud of his Daddy!

Pumpkin Patch 2010

We took John Hall to the pumpkin patch yesterday. It was such a beautiful day and it wasn't such a huge surprise everyone else in town decided to make a day of it too....man, it was crowded!

Inspecting the picked pumpkins.

John had a good time playing in the corn trough. He liked it even better when I hopped in and played with him. I cannot tell you how much corn I poured out of my shoe, but we sure had fun!

The weather was a little chilly when we left for the pumpkin patch, but by the time I put his costume on it was a little on the warm side. He wore it for about 5 minutes and it was quickly off. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for cold weather Halloween night.

The pumpkin patch does hayrides out to the actual pumpkin patch. The trailers are pulled behind tractors and John Hall thought that was so unbelievably cool. He couldn't wait to get on the trailer! Maybe I have a future farmer on my hands!

After we found the perfect pumpkin, Jason and John raced back to our ride. John thinks racing his daddy is so funny because he's so much faster than Jason, ha!

John is such a wiggle worm and car diaper changes are a nightmare! (totally forgot to mention the diaper change in JH's muddie's car when we picked him up...he peed all over the back of her pathfinder. Luckily, she thought it was funny...her only comment was that should be loads of fun when the TX weather hits 100 degrees....oh, I can only imagine! Yuck!) Jason got the luck of the draw and got to change him when we left.

When we got home, JH got another bath to get ready to go to a Razorback watching party. We decided we would wait until today to carve his pumpkin.

He thought scooping out the pumpkin was cool and kept tasting it (basically putting the gunk to his tongue and making a funny face) saying "mmmm, mmmmm." He would try to lure Jason or me to take a bite, but he didn't have any takers. It was so funny!

"No, seriously Daddy, you should really try a bite!"

(JH looks like he's missed a few meals in this picture, huh!)

After carving our pumpkin, JH had a little snack. He likes to tell you all about his facial parts and will point out yours when he is eating in his highchair. He would point to his eyes, Jason's eyes, and say eyes...same with ears, nose, hair, teeth, and tongue...

"Here's my tongue, where's yours?"

Later, we had a mini lighting ceremony. He thought the actual fire inside the pumpkin was something else! In all seriousness, I probably had more fun carving the pumpkin than anyone. This was his first pumpkin and it was a special day for us.

All lit up!