out on a rainy day

So, we have had a pretty fun day today. It's raining outside, but that didn't stop the boys from wanting to go out. I tried to pick the least wet time (which of course quickly turned into the hardest it had rained all day), and we went out and jumped in puddles.

Dec jumped right in


And here he is saying "cheese!"

Pickle did his share of jumping too, but I didn't get any pictures because he can't jump by himself yet. Nevertheless, here he is in his rain gear

And here is Dec when he really got into it

Other than that, we have been doing loads of fun stuff, but I hardly have any pictures! We went to Thanksgiving at mom and dads, and the food was great! Mom has left for Kenya. I will have to ask her if it's okay to publish the pictures she sent. She is amazing.
We have also done a lot of hanging around the house. We have all been playing with Declan's pretend tool set, and tried on his saftey goggles.

Declan

Me
And Pickle

Well, I didn't actually get any pictures of him wearing them because he decided the camera was more interesting, but trust me, he did.

And I will leave you with some more of Dec-man's "cheeses." If you would like to see more, email me. I have about 3,458 pictures of Dec saying "cheese." Almost all of them are blurry.

Grandma's House and Halloween

Sorry that these are a little late, and they also don't include any pictures of Pickle's birthday party! We forgot our camera, so mom took the pictures. I have to get them from her.
We have had a fun couple of weeks though.
We went to Grandma's (the D-men's great-grandma) house, where she made us a yummy lunch. Mom helped make a salad.


Uncle Mike came over for a visit, but we didn't get a picture of his face.

D-man and Pickle had fun playing with a new toy.

They were also playing with mom.


HALLOWEEN! It was so much fun. The boys both loved the decorations.



And they looked so cute in their costumes!



The picture with dad didn't go so well :(

They were so excited to get out of the house!

D-man could hardly sit still for a picture.

Here's a close-up of Pickle though.

VACATION!!!
We were going to go to Spaghetti warehouse and COSI.
We got the spaghetti...

but COSI was closed. So we went to the park. Joe and Declan hung from a tree.

Then Declan wanted to do it by himself.

We sort of lost the camera in Cleveland and don't have many pictures. Pickle's birthday party was Saturday. We will have to get more pictures soon!
After we came home, we just spent some time hanging around the house.

And playing with Pickle's new presents.

"Pickle, where you going?"



Hope everyone is having a great week! I'll post more soon.

The Baus trip to the Pumpkin Patch

Okay, first of all, I had to show off Declan and Joseph's amazing feats of strength. They can both hold that post for 30 seconds or more :)


Also, besides the pumpkin patch, Declan got a bike this week. It doesn't have any pedals, and he sort of just walks with it, but it's a great toy and we've had a lot of fun.



I can't get any pictures of him looking at me because our neighbors have such cool Halloween decorations, and he would rather look at the witches, pumpkins, and ghosts (anyone know what a pumpkin says by the way? Dec would like to know).



This weekend we got out to the pumpkin patch. Here are Joe and D-man #3 enjoying a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.



Pickle had a good time playing in all of the pumpkin's too. He is making a very picklish face here :)



Dec and Joe had fun petting the donkey owned by the farmer.



Finally, we got out to the pumpkin patch.



Which one is a pickle, not a pumpkin?



Joe is showing the boys around.



How do you get the seeds out?



I hope everyone is having a great fall! We are going to visit my grandma tomorrow, and I'll have some more pictures later this week.

What we've been up to August and September

Well, I sort of forgot to post for a couple of months, but we were still out and about and very busy. I wanted to share some pictures of everything we've been doing.
First of all, I can't lie, we spend our share of time hanging out at the house.

(oops...Joe was moving in that picture.)

Playing with toys:
And playing with things that are not toys at all :)


Here is Pickle going through the diaper bag to see what might be tasty to eat :) He's found, and opened, the puffs.



And Dr. Currel gave us a very cool train set that his son used to play with when he was a kid. Declan loves it.
Here is Joe getting it out of the box:


And here they are playing with it together!


Speaking of trains, we all went to see Thomas the Tank Engine.


And we got to ride Thomas too!


Pickle was a little tired when we got home.



We also went to the zoo, more than once.


And Daniela took the boys to an indoor playground. Declan had a great time bouncing on a trampoline.


I hope that everyone is having a great fall!