Reuben H. Fleet Science Center

After visiting the airplane, we took Holden to the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. The kiddie room was his fave, but he also enjoyed the big-kid exhibits with us. It will be fun when he's old enough to watch a movie in the I-Max theatre.

Daddy's New Airplane

Trey's bosses just bought another new airplane. He is in hog-heaven, having a choice of different airplanes to fly. We took Holden to see the new one, a Cessna Caravan, this weekend. Holden has been to the airport enough now that he says, "Daddy's air-pane" when we pull into view. It's pretty cute.

Playgroup - November 12th

Since we didn't have school on Monday, November 12th for Veteran's Day, we played at the park with our friends. Holden loved seeing all of his friends from school in a new setting. We frolicked for a couple of hours and then went home for a great big nap!

Holdenisms

Holden is talking up a storm lately. During the fire week, he seemed to double the amount of talking he was doing. His caretakers even commented about his talking when he returned to school. Here are some of his favorite sayings:

"Where Papy Gene go?" Replace Papy Gene with Daddy, Houton (Can't say the /s/ in Houston yet), Lupe (childcare), Cicole (Nicole at childcare), Calvin; you've got the gist of how often we hear this.

"Whassat?" He likes to quiz us now on things. If we get them correct he says "Yes! Whassat?"

"Jump?" (off the table, chair, etc.)
Mommy replies, "No."
"Sit down?"
Mommy happily says, "Yes!"

"Holden read it."

"Holden's!"

"Mines!"

"No!"

"Holden do it!"

"Go pay (play)!"

"Rock a bit." When it's time for bed, he asks if I can rock him for a bit longer.

"B-ush Teef" Brushing his teeth is his all-time favorite thing right now.

I can't believe I forgot these originally, he sounds so cute when he says them:

"No yike it!"

"I yike it!"

Happy Halloween!

Our little frog, taken right before his Halloween parade at school.

The Wojtkowski's hosted our neighborhood Halloween pre-party in their backyard.

Holden and his buddy, Aidan Wojtkowski

Screaming and banging is even more fun in costume!

What's a party without a pinata?

A monster froggie!
After the party, we all went trick-or-treating together. Since we were all together, nobody was home to pass out the candy. One parent would run ahead of us, run into their house, and pretend to have been there all along. We would ring the doorbell and be so excited to yell "trick-or-treat". Then the "at home" parent would leave with us to go through the neighborhood.

Our little trick-or-treater was shy. He wouldn't say "trick-or-treat", but he would say thank you when they put candy in his bucket. His reflection on the whole thing....said with a huge smile, "Bucket.......candy....!" Glowing with happiness.

We love our horse-shoe shaped neighborhood. No traffic in sight - ever!

Most of the kids made it to neighborhood picture taken at about 8:00 pm. Notice how none of them are paying attention to the picture being taken? Bedtime followed.