Happy October!
We've been having fun, and as you'll see below, eating a lot of sugar.
Ira has been obsessed with cars for months now, so I've been looking forward to making a car cake for his birthday in January. That is, until he's broadened his horizons to include trains and trucks, both of which would also make really fun cakes. So, I wanted to clear the car cake space in my brain so I could move on with other January plans. Below is Ira's non-birthday cake: my second attempt at using fondant.
Ira was especially thrilled with the eyes. When he ate the headlights he started calling the tires eyes and just sat at his high chair talking about them, not really eating anything.
Ira helping Dad fix his bike. Ant's bike has had a couple of run ins with the insane pot holes around here.
Dirt pudding!
We had lots of fun with our pumpkin carving party. Unfortunately I forgot to take pics of our friends that came, but a couple from the ward and a friend from work showed up.
Jello Brain. Maybe it's all those psychology classes in college, but I really look forward to making this thing every year. When Ira's old enough I'll use it to lecture him about the difference between the prefrontal cortex and the occipital lobe.
Cookies: Ira seems to young to be spooked out by anything that's supposed to be spooky...fortunately. He's recently kind of grasped the idea of monsters, loves the scary giant in Obiyoyo, and when strangers try to get him to smile and say hello, he usually responds with a little roar.
Back to the party. Here are three of the final products. Left to Right: Anthony's, mine, then Maurice's. My owl turned out kind of lame in comparison. I even forgot the beak. But in my defense I was putting Ira to bed and making sure everyone had enough cider.
Anthony's pumpkin not lit up. I know, looks kind of crazy. So cool when lit up though! He found a way to take a photo on the computer and morph it into a pumpkin stencil. He picked a kind of piggish picture of Ira and worked from there.
Ira playing in the leaves after church.
In other news:
* We've been bowling every Tuesday night with Anthony's co-workers. One of his teem-mates has never showed up, so I'm the sub. Everyone's really nice despite my low average. But this week I broke my record with 116! Woohoo! I think my average is 75, and somehow our team is in first place right now...out of maybe 15 teams?
* Ant's project is moving along. He has a big project that seems to be progressing.
* The pregnancy is going well. I feel pretty great, just sleepy still. We babysat a friend's 3 month old this week and Ira was really cute with him. He spent most of his time bringing toys to him, blowing him kisses, and talking about his eyes. Hopefully he'll be as excited when our baby comes.
* Ira's cute as ever. Not as excited about the potty lately, but saying a bunch of new words. I'm worried I won't be able to get his Halloween Costume on. Every time I whip it out, he runs away with an assertive "NOOOOOOO!" Oh well. Have a good week everyone!
Sharon
