One More

Simon learned to say One More...

What drawer?

What, mom? What drawer am I not supposed to open?

Daddy's Shoes

This morning Simon carried my slippers over from the back door and carefully put them on my feet. He ran back to the door and returned lugging Alan's black shoes. He asked my help in putting them on and walked around the living room wearing them. He was surprisingly good at walking in them, unfortunately I didn't get that recorded, but I did get a short clip of him trying to walk and then trying to put the shoes back on. 

Halloween Part 2

Today we headed over to Roscoe Village to do what we thought was more trick or treating, similar to what we did on Lincoln yesterday. Boy were we wrong. 

There was a parade.

With a marching band, flag core, baton twirlers, fire trucks with sirens and even a classic car with both Romney and Obama riding in the back (ok, maybe they were locals in costume, but how can you be sure?). Tons of kids in costume and every store for a few blocks was giving away candy. We didn't go to the stores for candy but Simon LOVED looking at the other kids in costume and dancing to the marching band. Most of all, Simon loved having his dad back in town.

So many teeth! He got the upper left and lower right eye teeth in a few days ago.
The other two are going to pop any minute.

A serious split bottom lip from tripping and landing full out on the hard wood floor earlier today.
It was bloody, but he was pretty good about it all.

So tired, but still playing!

Most of the day the shirt was hidden under his Spider Man sweater,
but it was so cute I wanted to make sure it was here. 

Halloween Part 1

We went trick or treating on Lincoln at the stores on Saturday afternoon. My friend Morgan joined us, Alan is in Boston celebrating Cindy's 60th birthday. 

Simon loved getting candy and putting it into his bucket, but he wouldn't take it from any of the strangers at the store. He would look at the strangers with suspicion until Morgan or I took the candy and put it in his bucket. Then as we were leaving he'd always give a huge smile to the person ... usually a smile that they missed. We stopped at dinkels and they were giving away cookies, Building Blocks was giving away stickers AND we got to play with their train set for a long while. After the walk up and down Lincoln we went to Burrito Park for some swinging and sliding - only fitting for our little spider man. 

Oatmeal

We both were eating oatmeal, me with my spoon and him with his. But my spoon was better. The smile is for when I finally just gave him my spoon.

Grandpa and Grandma Sweeney Visit 10/4 - 10/7

Grandpa and Grandma Sweeney came to visit at the beginning of October and Simon immediately identified them as 'GaGa' when they arrived. They were down on the ground reading books within minutes, which is Simon's favorite way to snuggle. We did a lot of reading, a lot of running, some park play and some zoo play and of course a lot of learning. By the end of the weekend Simon was saying Kiki - with the K sound a cross between a hard k and an sh sound. The intention was clear and has repeated on future Skyping sessions. It's amazing how fast he learns! It was a pretty wonderful weekend.

Lots more picture and details after the jump.