One of the biggest buckets of sidewalk chalk ever keeps Boyd busy. He likes to lift it and announce, "Heavy". Today I taught him to flex his muscles to see the results of his chalk lifting training.
At the race with Papa, getting ready to cheer for Mom. He liked the cow bells and the post race VIP kids area complete with fruit snacks and trucks. I think we ended up with 5 packs of fruit snacks for the drive home. Boyd is sneaky.
Life on the farm in Virginia. We spent part of last week at my teammate Jackie's house in Virginia with her donkeys and cats. Boyd was pretty much obsessed with the donkeys and insisted on saying hello and goodbye to them every chance he could get. He-haw is his new favorite animal noise. Boyd also made sure he gave equal treatment to each donkey hugging them all and feeding them an equal amount of carrots. Playing in the barn was also lots of fun, along with climbing the fence-go gross motor skills. Hay is cool too and Boyd thought he had a great find later in the week at starbucks when he started pulling out the shredded paper from their display buckets and yelling "HAY".
Back in Maryland Boyd enjoys the park which at times serves as a resting place for a bus, playing with cars and trucks, and following and harassing Tiger the cat. Tiger is Boyd's idol. Boyd mimicks his movements scratching against walls, rolling on the floor, crawling through tight places, etc. Now if only Boyd would stop imitating the storybook character David from David Gets in Trouble (Boyd pulls the cats tail like David and lets out a loud "Meow".
Boyd's been awesome through all the craziness and deals well with change. He has been out on the town in Washington D.C., visited Mount Vernon, points out American Flags on monuments when we drive by, etc. His vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds. This week he saw kids playing football and kept saying, "hut hut hike" we called dad, and dad was very proud. He reads many books especially I love you Through and Through, and Go Dogs Go. He really like the moon and looks for it whenever it is getting dark and in all his night time books. During prayers at night Boyd does prayer hands and finishes the prayer with an ,"AMEN". He does nice kisses and hugs and kisses characters in books when the story talks about kissing, Especially D.W.'s Lost Blankie. Cars is his favorite movie and he likes to be a DJ if the CD player is within reach. We may have ruined a CD or two here. I wish I were better at documenting daily he really is something.
Boyd, or Elmo, loved Halloween. He repeated the word over and over, even in the weeks prior enjoying the sound of the word. On Halloween he joyfully told others "Happy Halloween" and "thank you" while mom and dad heard, "Halloween Candy!" We didn't snap any pictures while trick or treating but Boyd had a blast. He wouldn't let anyone else carry his bucket and when he saw other trick or treaters he shared his treats from his bucket with them. He also received a Candy apple from the police officer and was thrilled. A bucket of candy was filled and we only visited 7 houses (8 including ours. Daddy didn't have any trick or treaters during the first bit so we had to stop by). Boyd also enjoyed one houses spooky display. Enjoy the few pictures we managed to take before dinner Halloween night. Boyd is playing On your mark, get set, go! in the first one. Excuse my behind in the third one. Wasn't he the cutest Elmo?
