My Hoi Polloi

The weather has been so nice lately. I am both sad and happy that it is finally starting to turn colder. We've had to rake up leaves the past two weekends...i hate raking leaves...but Kaleb makes it interesting. He messes up all the piles before we can pick them up. It doubles the work but he has fun.

He would just tromp through the piles until they weren't so high...then he'd move to another pile.

He told me, "i needa bing da wagon in da leaves".

He was good help though. He did stomp the leaves down so more would fit in the garbage (and yes, he is inside the garbage can)

He loves to pick these and try to blow the little floaties off. He's not very good at it though, since when he tries to blow he usually just goes "ffffffff". I am trying to teach him not to blow through his teeth, without any luck though.

Another stomping-the-leaves-photo...does the fact that the garbage can is "green" make it any less gross that he is in there??

This pic was shot on the beach of Stone Island (which is actually not an island at all) in sunny Mazatlan, Mexico in November, 2005.

This is also where most of my family is right now. at this very moment. without me.

I tell ya, it is no fun being the prego girl whose doctor says it's not a good idea to go to Mexico this late (i'm not sure they would have let me on the plane anyway). Well I say BOO to him, what do doctors know anyway.

What a crazy week it has been! We threw a baby shower for my sister Emily last night and I am feeling pretty relieved that it is over. It was awesome though! She got some great gifts and it was a blast. I made her this cute diaper cake:

It turned out way cuter than I thought it would so I was happy about it. It was also much cheaper than the yuck ones you can buy at the stores (and they weren't very cute).

Here is my sister opening some presents (if you look closely at the background you can see me in all my chubby glory...i was trying to hide my tummy with that notepad)

It was such a fun shower and I am so excited for her and her hubby to have a little screaming baby soon!

ON A SIDE NOTE: my child became a man this week...he officially likes to read while sitting on the pot when i took this picture he was right in the middle of telling me to "go 'way" and let him have some privacy. nice.

Kaleb was a boxer for Halloween this year. I tried to get him all dressed up and take him around during the day to show my fam and Corey's work but he refused to wear the costume. When we finally forced it on him that night I tried to put black makeup on him to give him a black eye and he refused that too...so Corey got the black eye instead! He finally forgot about how much he hated wearing the costume when people started giving him candy!

Sad to say but the whole day just reinforced how much I really don't love Halloween. Bring on Thanksgiving and Christmas!