The zoo, updated pictures

One day we went to the zoo as a whole family, something that does not happen very often. It was a very busy day there but we managed to see quite a bit of stuff anyway. We wanted to go on the train ride since Seth loves trains right now. It is a short ride, but you do see quite a variety of things when on the train. We managed to get a free ride because of our membership, so that was a good deal!

Here comes the train!

Waiting for the train ride to begin. Seth looks quite sleepy here.

Seth and mom, he was exicted for the ride to begin.

We also had Seth sit on the covered wagon that was being pulled by bulls. He wasn't so sure of that.

We saw an elephant show to end the morning and the trainers were bathing the elephants. Seth LOVES elephants right now, so he was in his heaven. Also didn't hurt at all that him and dad got a front row spot to see it all. That was great! It was a hot morning but we had fun as a family, we really need to do this more often.

"Shimming"

Seth loves to go in his kiddie pool with dad. So, one hot day that is what happened and I was able to get some pictures. Seth also loves to use his watering can to water many things, even stuff we don't want him to. It is just really fun for the little guy!!

Mother's Day 2010 at the playground

It was a beautiful day on mother's day this year. After Seth's nap, we all went to the park to play. Seth has decided he likes to walk by himself instead of riding in the stroller, so he walked to the park, we had to carry him home, he was quite the tired boy.

Climbing on the rocks is just about as much fun as the play equipment!


Walking over the bridge...

and going down the slide. So happy!!

Seth did not want to sit still to take a picture with mom. Somehow we convinced him.

Tired boy on the way home. Snuggling is very nice when you are getting a ride home!!

Fun with cushions

We had to buy new seat cushions for our outdoor patio furniture this year. Seth had a great time playing with them and having dad build forts out of them. He loved it!

In this one, we built a tunnel with the help of the couch. That one was especially fun!!

I could sleep here, dad!!

Trying to muscle the cushions into place. It is a hard job for a little boy, the cushions are so much longer than he is!!

Raking leaves

I had to rake some leaves today that had accumulated over the past few months. Seth had a great time helping me, and he gave some pretty neat smiles too for the pictures I got to take.

We had a really good time, even though the weather was a bit cooler today than we expected. It was a good job done for me, next is the garden.

That's my boy!!! What a precious smile. Seth loves to be outside for doing pretty much anything. I think in the future we may have problems getting him to come inside for bedtime he loves the outdoors so much.

Trains

Seth is turning into quite the boy. He is all into trains lately. We have received quite a few from our friends who are done with them. Seth loves Thomas the Tank Engine and will also play with other train cars. We have a set of tracks for him, but he usually just takes them apart when we set those up. Seth and I went to a train show a few weeks ago and I managed to take some pictures. Hopefully you can see them OK.

Seth LOVED to look at all the trains, there were quite a few sets there. They were mostly all moving around on their tracks. Sometimes I had to lift Seth up so he could see them, other times they were on his level.

Below, Seth had to look at that train b/c he was just the right height to see it. It went round and round on a longer track. He just loved seeing all those trains!!

I am glad we went, Seth had a good time. Wonder if he dreamed of trains that night??

Opening Christmas presents

We had quite a few presents under our tree this year, we don't know how they all got there. So, on Christmas morning, we let Seth open them all while breakfast was baking in the oven.

It took Seth a bit to figure out exactly what he was doing and how much fun it was, but once he got it, he had a good time ripping all the paper.

Oh, these are cool, Seth got a set of building blocks from the cousins in Omaha. They are wood and some are painted and some not. We have had fun building with those blocks lately. They will be fun for a long time I would imagine.

I was glad Christmas presents were done so I could put away the tree. Seth COULD NOT leave it alone, so I was glad to get rid of it from his little fingers.