Bugs

This little guy is way into bugs these days.   He loves bugs.   It kind of started with the show Monster Bug Wars.   To bad there was only 6 episodes and we've seen all of them about a hundred times.   

He loves  finding bugs, watching shows about bugs, books about bugs and playing with his bug toys.   

He identifies all the bugs he finds too.... this is a bulldog rescue cricket, a cellar spider, a black-widow spider....we've found all kinds of species : )

We found a bug cage at a sale - perfect for him right now!   He couldn't wait to go on a bug hunt and fill it up.  

It was also perfect for fireflies.  Something he couldn't wait for was the fireflies to come back.  We finally had our 1st firefly night a few nights ago.

Boys and bugs, what can you do.

Not a Pumpkin Year

Last year was a good pumpkin year.  We grew lots of big ones and Hunter was so proud.

2009

This year not so much.   Bugs or slugs or some such thing destroyed my big plants and the only ones that survived were the little bitty pumpkins.     Hunter helped me find them amidst the weeds and as soon as picked them he wanted a picture on the porch with them.   Funny he remembers that from last year.

You can see he's equally proud of these pumpkins : 0

2010

Hunterism's Today

Hunter is always cracking us up...today he seemed especially full of one-liners and funny things to say.   I have to remember some of these.
(He made this garden stone this past weekend...now we just need a safe spot for it where Aidan won't try and chuck it against a rock!)

I was carrying him and asked him why he was so big and if he was all grown-up.   He said "I not big yet, I don't have any fluffy's yet like Daddy!"   Too funny... and by "fluffy's" he means hair like Daddy's facial hair or arm hair.   He's also referred to Daddy's facial hair before as "sprinkles."

Him and Aidan keep having screaming contests, happy screaming contests and reach octaves that make my ears ache!    We were eating and told him to be a good boy he told us "I don't want to be a good boy, I want to be a silly boy."    Oh and he is a silly boy!

**this one is a little graphic** 
He made a little poopy and he looked at it and said "it looks like a tadpole in a puddle."    Adam confirmed that it did kind of look like a tadpole!   Hunter also does this frequently by saying what his poopy looks like : )
After what we went through a few days ago with him we are just happy to be seeing poopies : )

He found a little marigold flower with a bunch of big ones and said in a little voice "what a cute little flower!"   He's always saying how cute things are and likes to use a little cute voice when he does.

 He also likes to disarm a situation now by trying to hug me or saying "because I like you Momma."

Oh another one... he told me this morning "look at my hair (long pause while I look and try and figure out what's going on)   I need a hair cut!"  he says and then walks away.

I know I'm forgetting some of the things I wanted to remember because I'm tired, but he definitely cracks us up and keeps us on our toes!   

Baseball Game

We took Hunter to his first MLB game this past weekend.    It was Cardinals vs. Brewers in Milwaukee.   Guess what.... Daddy's a Cardinals fan.    We got there early and had time to walk around and see everything.   We took lots of pictures and Hunter got to play around the kid zone.  

We went with Pa, he actually took us and we had really good seats!   3 rows from the field.   It was crazy to be so close.

It meant we were close for all the extra stuff, like the sausage race.  Hunter was really waiting for this!

I wasn't quite sure how Hunter would do since baseball isn't the most action packed sport.   But he really did good and was really interested in all the extra stuff and how big the stadium was.   It was a night game and we had already had kind of a long day so he was getting really tired by the end.   We ended up leaving a little early and the Brewers were winning and had been the whole game.   Sure enough we left and missed the Cardinals come back and win.      

Hunter woke up the next morning and said "baseball is fun"  so I was glad he had fun and it was a good night!