First Halloween

Ethan and Orrin had a good time during Orrin's first Halloween. Orrin passed out candy for only a short while before his eyes were sleepy. Although we have tons and tons of kids in the neighboorhood not many came to our house. Orrin as you can see dressed up as a pumpkin. Or should I say "super" pumpkin! Ha ha. Him and his Daddy love the remote control; it must be a "man thing."

Rappahannock Winery

Fall is here! Ethan just loves the time of year when the leaves begin to change. Well now they have pretty much completely changed and are falling to the ground. This was the second part of our trip out toward West VA. As everyone knows how much we like to wine taste this was right up our alley. It is a young winery, starting its' first vines in 1999 and first harvest in 2000.

We took many candid picutres. Here are a few from our day excurision. My favorite is the one where Ethan is kissing Orrin and he is just a smilin'. The last part is a video we took while on the drive back into Maryland. We had to stop for an Orrin dinner break. He said, "Da-da" for the first time while Ethan/Daddy was feeding him. It was great, Ethan of course was all smiles. Orrin then decided that he was not going to say it again for a few days later. :) But anyway, thought you guys might want to see the lil man in action trying to feed himself. He doesn't like to do it often himself but it is a work in progress. Enjoy.

Day Trip to the Caverns

We decided it was time to take a family trip. There is so much to do around here. We usually always say we want to this or that but never get out butts in gear and just go and do it. So the other day I told Ethan let's just pick something to do and set a date on the calander and do it. That is just what we did. We had lotsl of fun. The choice was as you can see was going to the caverns. It was only an 2.5 hour drive which was beautiful not much traffic either. The sun was shinning and the temperature was perfect.



Inside the caves it was a little chilly. It stays a low 54 degrees all year long. It sounds really cold but it wasn't that bad. Taking a trip with children is a lot different than just going with the two of you. We had a young tour guide and several of the lights in the cavern were out. The tourguide had a flashlight and all but he was in front. We stayed the back with the stoller and all. By the time we got to the place where we were soupossed to be looking at the tourguide was just about finished talking and turining out the lights to go to the next stop. At times I was like, "Hey can you please shine your flash light over here so we could see." He was like, "oh, sorry." So for what we payed for we saw and heard like half of it. That must be the beauty of having kids. I do mean that in a good way. I found it quite humorous myself at the time and even now.

Found a friend in the basement

This is what Ethan found in the basement the other day!!! Yikes!!! When Ethan showed me the picutures at first, I did not have any frame of reference. So to me the snake looks huge! He then told me that the snake was in a VCR cover box. We all know how big those boxes are. But still it was in our basement. It was next or behind the big water boxes we have down there. I was just there not too long before Ethan found the little critter. He has been safely caught courtesy of Animal savior, Ethan Abbott and returned to the wild. No animals/reptiles were hurt in taking of these pictures. :)

Fun in the BIG sink

Orrin has graduated to the big kitchen sink. He is too long for his "baby" bath tub. His arms in particular have grown so much. He can now reach and grap at the teddy bears on his swing. Ethan said he never thought that he would be able to ever reach them. Orrin loves to take a bath. He knows exactly where the water comes out from and which nob turns it on.