Happy Halloween and Happy Fall and all that jazz....

Here are some pictures from Halloween- Nate wore his Tigger costume to school and then he also wore it in the evening to go trick or treating with mom, dad and the Ohlson's! Chrissy came over for an hour before she headed to her Halloween party to hand out candy at our place so that we could both go with Nate. Not many of the neighbors participated in the trick or treating, but it was just the right number for Nate to have his first experience. It took him about 4 houses to really "get" it...and by the end he was saying "trick or treat- CANDY!" :) Enjoy the pictures!


Here is Nate wearing his costume in the morning for school!


Ok- test your knowledge- which one is Nate and which one is John?

This one was not planned- both Nate and John were Tigger- why am I not surprised????

Just for the heck of it, I wanted to throw in here a picture from last year of Nate and John at Halloween!

(Halloween 2007)

Here is the boys' favorite teacher- Miss Jessica- this was their last day with her as both Nate and John will be moving up to the next classroom....

We were afraid that it might be cold, so we put tigger in a jacket! :)
Nate was carrying Mike's trick or treat bag that he had as a child....


The first house we went to! Nate was just not really sure of what to think....



Mom was playing with the camera and lighted pumpkins!


Mel letting Nate pick out a goodie....

Alayna, Kirsten and Nate!


Nate was patiently waiting for Daddy to pick out a treat for him...

mmmm, chocolate....Nate took about 20 min to savor the treat..heehee....

Kirsten as the White Rabbit! :)

Here are a few other pictures from the last week.....

Nate with the Halloween treat bowl on his head.....

Nate-Houdini- once again getting out of his shirt after nap....actually- see- the neck of the shirt is around his waist...heh

He is so proud of himself....

Dad- no more pictures!

And finally, here are a bunch of pictures from the Way Fruit Farm Fall Festival

Some things to catch up on....

Ok, so I'm going to go in a bit of a jumbled order, I realize that I don't have the Harvest Festival pictures on this computer...sigh... so that's from 2 weekends ago and I'll have to post that tomorrow! For now, here are some shots from the last 2 weeks...including PSU homecoming -
8-0 YEAH! And our houseguests for the game....as well as a family adventure- enjoy!


Nate is saying all kinds of things, and sentences! I got "I can do it myself" when trying to change him on Saturday morning...and he's getting so much better with his words! He was saying "Go Penn State!" all weekend....and he clearly says that he wants his PSU hat to wear in the morning. Last night sitting on the couch he said - I have snack- he uses have instead of wants at the moment...then I asked him what he wanted, he said "um, whale crackers"- Grandma had brought 2 pouches of whale crackers when they were briefly here last week, and he had one this weekend, and asked for the other one last night! The "um" before he says something is REALLY cute. He can pick out and say- Fire engine, fire truck, garbage truck, dump truck, cement truck, pick up truck. He was getting near the road at the end of our driveway, and I told him to come back and he said "No Way Momma!" now as defiant as that was, I was busting up inside...
Ok, too many words! On to the pictures!


Front door decorations left over from Fall Festival at Church- very homey :)

I loved this shirt on Nate, its a "fall shirt"- however, its a bit big, and he kept getting his arm out and up through the neck hole, so they changed him before he came home....

I still love the outfit though... :)

Nate and Daddy at the Homecoming Parade!

This picture if for Granddad- its a New Holland Tractor! They had a few of these in the parade...



More parade....when Nate saw the marching band, he definitely pointed out the Tubas and said "Tuba!" ah, he is my son after all... :)

So after his day of practicing getting his arm out through the neck hole of the fall shirt- and then he had a whole day in his PSU gear where he was fine... this is how I found him on Saturday morning....Houdini...

This is the adorable Hannah- she and her parents were house guests this weekend...isn't she a cutie pie??? She's just about 1 year younger than Nate (her b-day is the day before Nate's)

Here are the 3 kids who watched the game with us on Saturday (with their moms of course....) Abigail is in the pink- I must say I forgot to take pictures earlier, and Abigail was wearing an adorable PSU cheerleader outfit- missed it.... Nate of course, and the cutie pie Hannah, and Max- who really isn't sure of what to think of the 3 little humans crawling/running around....

We tried to get them all to do the touch down arms- both girls were doing it earlier in the day...but we lost the moment....

Dapper Nate with the ladies. Oh, Abigail's birthday is also a Nov birthday- so all the kids have Nov b-days...weird eh?

I swear Hannah was trying to give Nate bunny ears....look at how innocent she looks....

Nate caught her!! :)

The next set of pictures were from Sunday afternoon when Mike wanted to get Nate out into Nature, so we went hiking! We let Nate walk too. He wasn't crazy about the rough terrain at first, but then once he realized that he could pick up some of the smaller rocks and throw them into the stream, he was fine! :) Of course he wanted to pick up the "BIG ones" that he could really get ahold of....he is his mother's son after all! :)

I can't get him to look at the camera worth a darn....

He just runs away....
Nate walking on the trail...

Daddy and Nate on the trail...

Action shot - mom was just playing around....


Piggy back ride!

He climbed the little rock- though if you think about it, its kind of like a rock up to our knees and this is what he said......

All in all we had a great weekend! On another note, we found out that Max, our cat, is highly allergic- we had him allergy tested and it seems like he is allergic to fleas (we're sure he doesn't have any though), dust mites (so is Mike), 4 types of molds and fungi, and golden rod- which happens to be in season right now...sigh....who ever heard of an allergic cat??? If people say they can't come visit because they are allergic to cats, I can just say, well that's alright, our cat's probably allergic to you too! HA!

We are......... PENN STATE!

Here are a few random photos from the past weekend....




This grey/lt blue fleece really brings out Nate's eyes...too bad you can't see it! HA! Squint Boy!





Throwing things.....

Looking cute....should I enter him in the Gap Baby casting call???

Touch Down!
No idea....

Helping Grandma out...

Showing Grandma what weeds to pick up....
Nope, not sure what he was doing here either.....

Here are a few videos.. haven't put up any for a while, but he just doesn't like to perform....

We ARE......

Touch Down!

Hamming it up....

I'm really trying to be better at posting...I tried all last week to remember to post something from the weekend before....heh...didn't happen. At least I'm only a week and a half late this round! Enjoy the pictures! I'll post some more of the weekend that I got from Grammie- they are on a different computer...sigh...

Grammie and Nate playing with stickers...


Even the Monkey got in on the action....


Ms. Melinda (Alayna's mom) taught Nate how to do "POW!!"- here he is demonstrating to Grammie and Papa....


Another action shot of "POW!"....(definitely need to capitalize that so you could get the 'feeling' of it! HA!)

The "POW!" aftermath...

And here is Nate just hamming it up... Yes, Daddy decided to give him a whole piece of ham (granted this was his SECOND- the first one we cut up....)- he decided to bend the piece of ham in half and eat a hole through it....which of course led to....

.....a one-eyed ham mask! HA! See his eye peeking through??? heehee

Lets see how many of y'all read down this far...no more pictures beyond this point for today. A couple of things.... Nate used the potty for the first time at school last week. We're not officially "potty training" but Nate is showing interest in it. He also used the potty at home one time this weekend! Growing boy! He also learned to blow his nose on his own in the car much to my chargrin....there he is playing with the boogies on the kleenex in the car where I can't reach him...sigh...boys will be boys! And finally, Mike and I were still in bed on Saturday morning and we were listening to Nate babble away on the monitor....you can only understand about 75% of what he says, and that's only if there is a specific context with it.....so we couldn't understand anything that he was babbling on about until.... we heard clearly, not once but TWICE - Nate distinctly yelled out "I LOVE PENN STATE!!" We have no idea where that came from....heehee- maybe its in the air around State College..... I also got Nate to do the "WE ARE..... PENN STATE" echo last night.... and he still says "Touch Down!" I also found out that he knows his signs for colors- so he can say and sign- Black, red, blue, yellow, green, brown, pink, and orange. Pretty cool huh?

Anyway, that's all for now!