Birthday Fun!

We have had a busy few weeks...enjoying the fall weather and celebrating a VERY special birthday!

 

Fernie loves playing in the dirt.  This is right before she ATE a handful of dirt.  I know what you are thinking..."how could you not stop her?"  And I would say SHE IS VERY FAST!

 As tradition would have it, Jack received a birthday muffin for his birthday breakfast!  Pretty low key on his birthday since he was having a party on Saturday.

 This picture is to show how you how resilient Fernie is...she just fell off the slide (head first).  She is of course holding her head like it hurts but has a smile on her face!

 Jack has become very protective of Fernie over the last few weeks.  At times he is VERY helpful with her. 

 We are becoming VERY serious about sidewalk chalk.

 We are working on writing Jack's name...see if you can find it....

 For Jack's birthday we asked him what he would like to do.  We encouraged him to have a friend party but he was adamant he only wanted family AND he wanted to go bowling.  Well can't argue with the birthday boy!   So bowling we went.  He had a BLAST. He even got his own bowling shoes!! Here he is helping Nana bowl. 

 Dad's got some mad bowling skills!!

 Fernie was content watching...She did feel the need to take off her shoes though!

 

Jack took his bowling very serious...

 

 ...Until about the 5th frame!  Then he wanted to play the arcade games...what 4 year old wouldn't??   

 

 

 While we waited for the pizza to arrive we played in the leaves. 

 

 

 READY TO PARTY!

 

 

 Of course we had to read EVERY Curious George book he received!!!  Seriously Jack LOVES books. 

Jack's newest thing is to look at toy magazines (if those advertisers only knew!).  He asks me every day, "did I get a new toy magazine in the mail??" 

 Barnes and Noble was kind enough to send Jack a free dessert for his birthday.  So this Friday I took Jack and Fernie out for a treat! 

Fernie and I settled for a cookie...not as messy! 

 This girl is full of SPUNK!

 It's apple picking season! 

 

 While Jack was picking apples, Dad was raking leaves.  We got home just in time to help move the leaf bags.

 Zack showing off his leaf crunching skills!

Every since Jack was little he and Zack would play "Up high" (Jack's name for it) and now Fernie enjoys the same game!  (some days she lets me do her hair and others she does not...today was a NO!)

Can't believe Zack and still lift Jack like this! 

 So glad Zack enjoying rough-housing with the kids...that is so NOT my thing!

 What happens when you give Fernie chocolate in the carseat...glad she's washable!

 I think our trips to the zoo are coming to an end but we had to sneak in a quick trip this weekend!

 

 This picture is blurry because Jack is jumping up.  I share this picture because this is a genuine happy face from Jack....the prairie dog ate the corn kernel he threw in the cage!

 Football buddies!