A Party, Pumpkins, and Some Hat Love

Hey friends and fans! It's me this time! The cool guy with the super fun mommy (she made me say that). But we did do lots of fun things this week even though she is broken.  I didn't know before that people could get broken but everyone keeps telling me that "Mommy's feet broke" when I want her to follow me places. The best thing to come of Mommy's broken feet was a visit from YaYa! Daddy was out of town for work all the days that he is normally just gone during the day so YaYa came to help out. I think a lot of the helping out was because I am so fast and awesome now (and Mommy is so super slow in her big boots). 

Soooo other than regular fun things we did at home and going to school here is what I did this week.

I went to a birthday party! It was my good buddy William's birthday party! And it was a campout party which was especially fun because of the tents! William (properly pronounced by me as "Weeyumm" but you have to say it crazy fast!) and I really love to throw things, so we did that for awhile. Our friend Owen came to peek in but he decided it was a little bit too intense in that tent. And it was intense with all the throwing. You see William would throw something...

...and then I got to throw! I throw everything so my arm is crazy strong for throwing.

We had hot dogs (yuummmm) and stuff before we played so pretty soon it was time for cake. DIRT CAKE!!!!

I took mine away from everyone else because it was Mine. And I am serious about dessert.

I am also serious about taking big bites.

Hey! Here's William and me! It was okay for him to get close because he didn't want anymore of his dessert so I thought mine was safe. (and look closely, Mommy made his birthday shirt)

We played in the tents some more but I made our tent roll and it collapsed on us so William left to play in a car. I thought the tent was still okay for playing.

Peek-a-boo!

Whoa.

Later I opened William's present for him because he was too busy doing other stuff.

I took it over to him and said "Present".

He didn't look so I poked him.

THEN he looked!

And the first look made him want to look closer. I knew he would like it because Buzz is on the box.

YaYa blew us some magic bubbles that don't pop so fast as regular bubbles (some of them don't pop ever!)

And we did a puzzle together.

On Saturday I found my hat. It wasn't ever really missing but I found out that I LOVE IT! Mommy is so confused because she was wanting me to wear this hat forever. I didn't used to be in the mood for it, but now I think it suits me. And it goes with EVERYthing. Daddy and I went for a walk in the yard to say bye-bye to YaYa.

On our walk I found Emma ("Em-MA!").

So we went on a walk together.

This is the pumpkin ("pump.....kin" make sure you pause for a minute between the first and second part of the word. The opposite of when you say "Weeeyum".) that I decorated. I actually did that the week before last week. I stuck things on it and painted it and then glued on the face Mommy cut out for it. Daddy put it at the top of the stairs at the front door. I like to push it down the steps. In this picture he's in the middle of the sidewalk where he stopped after rolling for a little bit after his trip down the stairs. 

On Sunday we went to a pump...kin patch! I was extra cute while we were there so Mommy took lots of pictures. I couldn't really decide which was my good side. Pretty much all of me is the best part so here are lots of pictures of me being extra cute like I said. My hat came too.

I threw this pumpkin.

But Daddy gave it back! He said "No throwing the pumpkins."

So I set it on my lapped and rolled it off.

Then Daddy didn't give the pumpkin back and I was bummed.

But soon we played a game that was hilarious!

THen I picked out these two little guys to bring home.

I didn't want to sit on the hay bales and take a picture with my new pumpkins. So I stood. But it seems Mommy took my picture anyway...

I also played a ton of baseball this week. I am getting pretty good at hitting line drives. And Mommy says she likes it because I shag my own balls. And because it matches my strong throwing arms to hit the ball so well. I was going to put a surprise video after the pictures of me playing baseball but Mommy can't figure out how to do it. Hopefully there will be videos soon. There is an especially awesome one of me playing baseball.....

There I am marching up to the plate.

Uhhhhh, Mommy? The ball has fire ants on it. (New fact: I do NOT like bugs.)

So I hit a blue ball instead.

WHACK!

This afternoon I got creative and decide to hit a big ("beeeeg") ball. That was fun!

Check out my swing!

Here's the surprise!

Wild Wedding Weekend

The three us of spent last weekend in San Antonio for the wedding of Knox's godfather Uncle Keith and Elizabeth. They were awesome enough to ask Knox to be the ring bearer (I'm thinking it's his charm and good looks that convinced them he needed to be seen in a tux) and Chris was the best man.

We got up there Thursday night to start the celebrating with their friends and family and a delicious dinner. There was lots of running around making friends by Knox and a loss of pants. Why is it so hard to keep this kid dressed? If he isn't removing clothing himself he's spilling on it, leaking into it, and making it otherwise disgusting and unwearable. We kept extra pants with us for the rest of the weekend.

Friday morning we had the most delicious buffet breakfast at The St. Anthony historic hotel in downtown SA where the wedding guests were staying. Knox took advantage of one of the perks of being 2, free buffets, and ate enough that they probably wished he could be charged. A muffin, french toast, strawberries, cantaloupe, honeydew, sausage, yogurt, several strips of bacon, some omelet, 2 cartons of milk..... After the feast we ran some errands. Initially we were hunting for a shirt for Mr. K to wear to dinner, but Chris left his pants (what is it with these guys and pants!) in Corpus so we got those as well.

Knox was a superstar at the never-ending rehearsal and walked down the aisle like a champ (if only everyone could have seen!) with the three flower girls. Eventually we made it to a very well decorated, fun dinner where other than not eating a thing, Knox was awesome. He partied, he played, and in the middle of someone's toast he threw up on the floor. Apparently he got the stomach virus that every other kid in his class at school ended up with as well.

Lookin' snazzy and hanging on to his airplane

 Such a stud at rehearsal

 Sharing chips with his Uncle Big Mike

 Cheese with Daddy! (the kid NEVER looks at the camera)

 Uncle Keith and Elizabeth!

 With Claire the flower girl and his walking partner

He was mostly better Saturday other than not eating and Buelo, Uncles Andrew and Aaron, and I took him to the zoo.

Strollin' along

 In the termite tunnels with Uncle Aaron (sitting out of the rain)

 "Beeeg bird"

 Lucky he had three big guys to carry him around

 ... and hold his hand

 The little monkey on the left is a baby. It was hilarious jumping around and falling off the rocks. Knox found it extra funny with Buelo's sound effects.

 Laughing at the baby monkey.

 Just being cool in his boot shirt

 Buelo, Uncle Andrew (tio), Uncle Aaron, and the star of the show. And a tiger (over Andrew's shoulder)

After nap we rode a trolley to the cathedral. And then there was the wedding! He tried his best. He stood with 4 year old Claire and had 9 year olds Lucy and Abigail all set to walk behind him. He went about 3 feet and froze. After a nudge from behind he took a few more steps before freezing again. Serious stage fright. After several seconds and another nudge he broke off from the pack to run back to me. I told him to go ahead (there was a stash of marshmallows at the end and we'd practiced a lot) so he went back to aisle and laid down playing with the pillow. Chris and the maid of honor were walking last so Daddy scooped him up and he cried the whole way down. At least he didn't puke.

On the trolley! (with the groom behind us)

 Inside San Fernando Cathedral

 Explaining his life as an international spy

 Chattin' up the older girls

We al had a great time at the reception. Knox went up to bed with Gram and Buelo about midnight and Chris and I stayed to party, dance, and eventually break both my feet and fracture my ankle. Oops. at least it was during the second or third to the last song that the failed hop occurred so I didn't miss much.

It is so difficult to get a picture with this guy. This was my favorite!

 Cocktail hour = time to rest up

 "but wait there, I might need another drink"

 "and then I punched the guy"

 Getting late and looking sleepy

 My favorite picture of him all night

 Down the steps with Uncle Aaron

 And back up them with Uncle Andrew

 Right after the unfortunate hop. Arrows showing the breaks- you could see the swelling almost instantly

Sunday morning Chris carried me to brunch with everyone before heading back to Corpus. We made it home. Not exactly in one piece but at least we survived.

A New Plan

Ok... here's the new plan. As Knox has become an insanely active crazy jumping running wildebeest, I am going to take over for awhile and HOPEFULLY keep this updated better and gradually catch up on all the things he was too busy to share over the past few months! The catching up will include: seeing Ania in Maryland, YELLOWSTONE, field camp in Wyoming, starting his new school, Austin City Limits music festival, and LOTS of other outings and non outings... and potty training. And will probably be told with lots of pictures and videos!