The Adventures of Will and Sam

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Beautiful Fall afternoon with Grandpa Jim

One of the best parts of home is getting to spend time with my Grandpa. He is the most amazing man and is always filled with fun little projects. He came over in the afternoon one day with a airplane in tow ready for some flights!

Handcrafted by Grandpa Jim - to scale to the actual airplane. It is amazing!!!

Swimming at the Y

Will and I were at my parents house for 7 days and we probably swam 6 times :) - ok not that many but when Will woke up every morning at 5am - by 7:30am when the doors at the Y opened we were ready to go!!! We had the whole pool to ourselves every day and it was so much fun!! I wish we had a warm pool like that near us in the city - we would be there every day. Not to mention the amazing 2.5 hour naps Will would take after his swim workouts.

Checking it all out!

Crawling up the ramp - I think he did this for 30 minutes

Learning to jump in with Grandma

Pure Bliss!

Two little buds

Will had the best time watching his crazy cousin Jamesy run all over at my parents house. It was so cute to watch how excited Will was every time he caught a glimpse of James. Here are a couple pictures of the two buds together. Can't wait to see you soon Jamesy so you can baby sit Will again for me.

"Hey James we are best friends right?"

"You bet buddy - get right up here on my lap!"

Rubba dub dub two dudes in a tub

To cute if I do say so myself!! (Just missing our third little bud Deccie)

"Jamesy what ya doing...I am coming over to play!"

Sharing a hotdog at Shady Glen - well at least Jamesy was trying to share with Baby Will

Facing backwards is the cool thing to do

Monday, October 24, 2011

Fall Days at Johnny Appleseed

It has been the most beautiful fall in Chicago - the day before we left for Ellington we went for a run and I just loved running over the fallen orange leaves:

But we packed our bags and headed to Ellington for the best week ever filled with fun fall activities. First up was apple picking with Em, Jamesy and my mom.

One apple for Mommy, one leaf for Will

Jamesy picking the perfect apple

Best view in Ellington

Will's first trip to the orchard

Will and Justus - playing at the park

It has been so fun watching Will and Justus becoming more and more curious in each others existence and the other day at the park they were really play with each other. Lots of toy snatching but luckily they still don't care that much. Someday boys Jenny and I will be breaking up the fights but until then steal away!

Snip snip goes Will's hair...spike spike goes his hawk!

At 8 Months old (10/8/2011)- Will got his first hair cut at Snippets on Southport. We walked down to the salon and I was debating if I was actually going to go through with it until we walked into the door and there was no turning back. The women who cut Will's hair was super nice and a little scared of me because every time she brought the scissors to his hair I would say "NOT THAT MUCH." So needless to say we only had a trim - but it made huge difference and it came out so cute!

A little off the front...

...ok thats enough!

Brave boys sit in their mom's lap during haircuts

Final Product! So Handsome

MoMo (Grandma) and BobBob (Grandpa) come to town!

Finally we had awesome weather when my parents came to visit! Without fail every time I had a visitor the weather would be awful and all those plans Will and I had would go out the window - but not this visit we did everything!! Walks to starbucks, swings and more swings, trip down to Michigan Ave, Dora birthday party, tailgate at Northwestern and finally a trip to Home Depot!!

During the trip Will learned all kinds of new tricks - crawling everywhere, eating lots of finger food and crawling everywhere!!