Train up high!

Rand is very proud of himself. Last week, he figured out how to set up his train on top of his bed. Pictures were in order!

Again, more underwear pictures! He will be so embarassed when he's 13.

Thankful!

Rand is thankful for.....

Graham crackers

Rocks

the park

Things that go round and round (like music boxes!)

Macaroni and cheese

Bella and Brayden, his little friends

Crocs

Stickers

Washing machines

Ice cream (the first words out of his mouth this morning)

Magnets

Play-Doh

Hugs

Babybug

The Wiggles

Spiderman pajamas

Tents!

Rand got a tent -- among a zillion other things -- when Grandpa and Grandma came out for a visit last month. It's always the highlight of his week when we set it up in the living room for him!

Please excuse the underwear. We're still working on potty training and Rand does a much better job at remembering if he's not wearing pants.

Okay then....

Me: "Rand, how's your graham cracker?"
Rand: "Pretty."

Me: "Okay, Rand, you take off your shirt and I'll be right back."
[leave and then return]
Rand, struggling with his shirt: "Help! Can't open it!"

Candy!!!!

I woke up this morning to a shower of Mike and Ike's candy being poured on my head as I lay on Rand's floor. Good times!

Last night I went to my first business mixer, thrown by our local Washington Mutual. It was great! There weren't a lot of people there, and two of the "small business owners" were actually MLM people (it was hilarious seeing them go head-to-head about how much better they were than the other guy), but I met some really nice people and made a few good contacts. The nice thing about dog training is that everybody knows somebody who needs their dog trained.

I also won two prizes and came home with $20 in Starbucks gift cards, $20 worth of movie gift certificates, and a whole bunch of candy. Which leads to the Mike and Ike's. I sent most of the candy off to Werner's school, but ate a few of the M&Is and left them in a safe (ha!) place on my dresser. Rand's had a cold the last few days so he has been waking up a lot at night. I finally gave up at 3am about sleeping in my own bed and camped out on his floor.

Apparently I was a lot more tired than I thought, since I didn't hear Werner leave or Rand get up. What a mom, huh? Somehow Rand found the candy, sampled it, and thought it was so delicious that he wanted to share it with me. So he poured it on my head, shrieking, "Candy! Stuck in teeth!"

Such a lovely way to start the morning!

More Halloween!

On Halloween night, we decided to keep with the Fisher family tradition and go to a Harvest Festival at a local church. Our church doesn't do anything for Halloween, so we found a great church nearby. It had a ton of rides and games, food, and candy! Rand ended up being too young for just about everything, but we still had a nice time looking at everybody else's costumes and the exciting rides.

Reason #48271 why Rand is his daddy's child: I got some cotton candy for Rand since he'd never had it before. What kid doesn't like cotton candy, right? Nope -- Rand tried a taste, said he didn't like it, and practically screamed when I tried to offer it to him again. But when Werner got a hamburger, that boy was all over it.

The evening started with Rand falling asleep on the way to the church!

This is Rand going, "Oh my goodness mom did you see that?!?!"

Rand kept saying that he wanted to ride on the ponies, but when we went over to the horse he started climbing up me like a monkey and yelling, "No! no! no!" Obviously he didn't get the horse gene from mommy! This was the fearsome beast that we wanted him to ride:

The petting zoo was a big hit. There was a Miniature Horse, goats, chickens, a donkey, sheep, and a little calf (sooo soft!).

But the highlight of the evening? A dirt pile. Sigh.

Our little astronaut

Thanks to an awesome Great-Uncle Thom, Rand got to be an astronaut for Halloween! He loved his costume and especially liked the hat.

I love his blue eyes.

Laughing!

"Pushing" the rocks is Rand's newest obsession. He knows he's not supposed to throw rocks, so he pushes them instead. It's uncanny how early they learn to bend the rules.

I need to work on my self-portrait skills.

Pumpkin carving!

Okay, so I am waaaay behind on posting. My excuse is that I had taken tons of pictures that I wanted to share, but our computer was having issues. Now the computer is fixed and we have an awesome camera (thanks, mom and dad!). Now I will post a bazillion times a day until I'm all caught up. Onto the photos!

Rand and I carved his first pumpkin so we could have a little jack-o-lantern for Halloween. It was a very exciting process and he especially liked the candle ("fire!") that we put in it at the end.

This is Rand telling me that our pumpkin is heavy and that he is very strong.

This is Rand making silly faces at himself in the mirror.

This is Rand scooping out the pumpkin seeds! He was kind of grossed out by it and would scoop it with a spoon but wouldn't touch the pumpkin guts.


He liked taking the pumpkin's "lid" on and off.

Hmmmm. Let me see how mom did.

He approves!