Happy Thanksgiving

Definitely not Harrison's best shot but a fun family pic nonetheless!

Doing his best impression of the cousins playing Wii Tennis - nice swing!

Checking out his new friend Pilgrim Barbie

Our Thanksgiving trip to Santa Barbara was waaay too short this year but we still had a great day with everyone at the Kopers!  Insanely good food and always such fun to be together.  Harrison had a ball and was on fantastic behavior, which always makes things that much more enjoyable!

Playing with Tyler

Harrison and I had a blast meeting Kelly, Brad and Tyler in Davis for brunch and some fun in the park.  The boys were all over the play structure and miraculously even stayed still for a few minutes to catch a picture!  We love when are friends are only a few minutes' drive away!

Cousins Thanksgiving in Sac

We celebrated Thanksgiving a bit early with the Nor Cal family.  Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he never quite woke up from his nap but Harrison was definitely being a little bit quieter than normal and in what I call "fake shy mode"...the child is so not shy so it's always funny when he tries to pretend that he is!  He ended up spending the afternoon rocking out to reggae in the backyard before attempting to sit down for some "Panda Bear, Panda Bear What Do You See" before bedtime.  He lasted about five animals before he needed to go check out the rest of the action!

Day at the zoo

Say what you want about zoos but we have so much fun every time we go to the Sacramento Zoo and are so happy to be members!  Harrison is at the perfect age for a quick zoo trip - he walks almost the entire time, enjoys trying to climb the railings, talks about the animals we see (okay, babbles but in my Baby Whisperer role I know what he is saying!) and has just a long enough attention span to cap off the afternoon with some climbing on the toys.  

I don't know if it's a coincidence but Harrison currently asks me to read "Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear" about 8 times a day so we always have a chance to talk about some of our favorite friends and remind H that the animals in the book who make such cool noises are the same ones we see at our zoo!  

Rick or Reat

The year of the pirate was so last year...2008 in Harrison's world is the year of the firefighter!  Firefighter Z'berg, owner of a shiny red birthday fire truck, amazed us all by actually wearing his hat for longer than 5 minutes and totally looking the part.  He followed the big kids next door to trick-or-treat at Inge's and worked hard to say pumpkin - "da-puh-puh" is what we got!  Oh, and out of costume desperation I grabbed the pink wig to pull off a last minute Britney Spears...I am absolutely planning a costume in advance next year, I promise! 

There's a wild animal on K St...

I finally tried on the giraffe costume our neighbors gave us...I was positive Harrison would hate it and tug at the head part immediately but he actually ran around in it for about an hour.  It was hysterical and I seriously could not stop laughing.  

Side note:  something is wrong with my camera right now because these pictures really don't come close to capturing color like they used to.  Aren't these pictures really washed out and white?

We love three day weekends!

We spent the entire Columbus Day holiday Monday (thanks State of California for a three day weekend!) relaxing, hanging out and playing outside.  Harrison and I took the wagon to McKinley park for some duck feeding action, which he was very into this time - he insisted on holding the bread bag and managed to throw bits far enough to really impress me.  He has a serious arm!  Of course he had to share with his number one friend and food begger Karly, who was on her best behavior and did not even try to hunt down one single duck!

Harrison and the ladies go pumpkin huntin'

Harrison and Madeline discover the wheelbarrow

Goofing around in the dirt

H has this obsession with lifting extremely heavy items (or trying to lift as the case was at the pumpkin patch).  He, of course, had zero interest in the small pumpkins for little people his age

Kate joined in the fun, too...the three would have stayed in the wheelbarrow all day if their parents didn't get a little tired of pushing the thing around!

We finally checked out Soil Born Farm for their Harvest Festival celebration.  The kids had a ball in the dirt playing with pumpkins picked straight from the nearby fields and also enjoyed a little farm tour to say hi to sheep, chickens and the pig.  He had a great time and I think will love the whole experience even more next year when some of the kid activities like face painting and mask making aren't quite so over his head!

Fun in the East Bay

Rockin out with Riley at the Pleasant Hill Art and Wine Festival

The more maracas the better!

Napping on the way to the big birthday party

H got into the action with Grammy Lynn and Tyler on the trampoline

Tyler and Harrison on the balance beam

Lovin the ball bin

Harrison went absolutely insane for the bubbles - "buh-buh-buh-buh-buh"

The boys spent the car ride home yelling and talking about how much fun they had at My Gym celebrating their pal Tyler's birthday

What a fun weekend with our friends!  We played with the McHale gang and kiddies at Andrea's song and story show in downtown Pleasant Hill, took over Bubba and Amanda's house and joined Tyler and his friends and family for a crazy afternoon of climbing, running, swinging, singing and playing.  Whew!

What happens with Papa Jim, stays with Papa Jim

Harrison spent the day with Papa Jim, the ducks at the park and his new friend Chuck E. Cheese.  This for a young man who eats all organic food, primarily fruits and veggies...not that he completely rejected the pizza offered to him by any means!  He looks a little wild-eyed on the ride and I'm sure was so utterly overstimulated that he was semi crazy.  BUT he was a totally happy camper when I saw him after work and after some extremely interesting substances (read:  grease and processed stuff) in a few gnarly diapers, he slept very well!

Congratulations Jessica and Noah

Fancy little man outfit

Mom, Toni, David, Danny and Amanda

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson!

Harrison modeling his man clothes

Um, yeah, thanks JM's for not taking the SECURITY TAG off of this little outfit...it was especially lovely when the blue ink seeped all over the place!

Harrison and I had a wonderful time at Jessie and Noah's wedding in San Diego (we missed Matt who had to stay in Sac to work).  The whole event was just great - beautiful setting, sweet ceremony, intimate reception with tons of family and close friends, fab flowers.  Congrats you two!