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.

Zoo lights

The other week we went to our zoo at night for Zoo lights. They had quite a few different lights set up to see. Some parts of the zoo were off limits, but most we could see quite well. I wanted a family picture but it would not have turned out so well, so here are the pictures we did take.

It was a chilly night even though we were there around 5pm. The temp was in the low 30s which is kind of cold for just sitting like Seth had to do. We did warm up in the reptile building; that helped quite a bit.

They had all kinds of displays like this one. The spider has his web and catches a fly, then goes and eats it. Kind of cool to see it all in motion. They also had one for the elephants, but I couldn't get those to post. We walked thru the Hippos' mouth, that was pretty neat.

We had a good time despite the cold, Seth was all eyes and ears. We are glad we went right after they opened it for the night as when we left there were flocks of people entering and not a close parking space in sight!

Oranges!

The other day while in the grocery store they had samples of oranges in the fruit dept cut up with the peeling on. So, I picked one up for Seth. I did not imagine the joy that one little thing caused. I have since done this at home, Seth goes bezerk!

They are pretty yummy, mom, you can give them to me anytime!!

Sledding

Today we went sledding at a hill in a park Jason knew about. It was a good sledding hill. I had to brush up on steering a sled, I haven't done it since I was a kid. Seth had a blast, the hill was long, and we all had a good time.

Ready to go down the hill!

Jason pulling Seth up the hill in the sled. That was the hardest part!!

Seth had to be a part of the action, he pulled the sled very nicely, but didn't always stay on the path but wanted to go in deeper snow.

Going up the hill with Seth in the sled on his stomache, that was really fun!! We wore out the kid, he was in bed by 7:30 tonight!!

Ready to go play in the snow

Seth loves to go and play out in the snow with whoever will go with him. We have had to get him all bundled up to go b/c it has not been so warm around here lately. But, given from his smiles, I think it is well worth all the extra work.


The other weekend, Seth and Jason went out to play in the snow and built a fort and a snowman, that was pretty good b/c we didn't have that much snow outside at the time.

I'm going out again mom, see you later! We will have to brush up on our skills to play in the snow, b/c this little one sure likes it. And, we get our exercise too!!