Mickey Mouse

We had a lot of fun this weekend with Mickey Mouse, aka Clayton. He didn't mind his costume at all and even left his hood up the whole time.

Deerfield Town Center had trick or treating on Friday night. It was so neat to see all the other children in costumes and just stroll around the shops.

They even had a small petting zoo!

Clayton was fascinated by the tall man on stilts that was juggling.

Clayton's first piece of candy was some Smarties. He loves Smarties and he clutched them the whole night - would not even put them in his pail!

Then on Saturday night we stopped over at Jeff/Vicki's. Here's Mikey Mouse and the Little Bumble Bee (aka Emme).

Clayton's First Haircut!

Today was the big day - Clayton got his very first haircut!! His hair was so long I was afraid they might charge me extra. :-) We went to Cookie Cutters and they were so nice. He got a little certificate that says "First Haircut" on it with a little bag that has some locks of his hair in it and has a place for his picture. He was a little unsure at first, but did really good sitting pretty still. He sure looks like a different boy now!

Sickness has struck!

The little man is sick. I hate to see him not feeling well. When he woke up the other day, this is what his hair looked like. I did have to chuckle. I was so looking forward to his first haircut last week (since he's now one), but of course we have to wait until he's actually well enough to go out.

It's amazing what you do for your child when he's sick. He wanted to ride in the bed of his dump truck and it's getting much harder for me to lean over and push him around the house. So, Aaron rigged up this handy-dandy way for me to pull him around without having to bend over! :-) Clayton LOVES riding around like this and doesn't want us to stop. (I think this boy needs a wagon for Christmas!)

This is for Aunt Cindy: While I was waiting for the video to load, I had to look at some old pictures of when Clayton first "played" with his dump truck. This is when he was only a month old!

First Birthday!

Clayton got to celebrate his first birthday twice!

The first celebration was in Indiana at Aaron's parent's house.

Yeah . . . a Colts ice cream cake!!

Time for presents!

Clayton was delighted with the little barn from his grandparents!

My favorite picture!

The second celebration was here in Ohio. It was so nice to have my siblings here (thanks to GBS Homecoming - and we missed you Kendall & Leanna).

My first attempt at a birthday cake!
(too bad Marianne B. lives too far away, now!). :-)

Kaley's birthday is 3 days after Clayton's, so they celebrated together.

Enjoying the chocolate ice cream!

All his cousins were just as interested in the presents as he was!

Caught the end of Kaley's.

Jiggin' at Old Fashioned Day

Clayton loves music and he certainly demonstrated this for us at Old Fashioned Day at UBC a few Saturdays ago.

It was pretty cold, so we did our best to make sure Clayton stayed warm.

It was so good to see my cousin, Rachelle.

Sarah (Rachelle's youngest girl) and Clayton enjoyed playing together.

Going inside to warm up!

The end of a long day.

The Little Monkey

Clayton recently discovered his monkey house shoes. He usually just carries them around and plays with them like a toy. I tried putting them on his feet yesterday and he loved them!

Homearama!

I love going to Homearama and we always enjoy seeing the new homes with Mark and Kristin. This year the homes were "scaled back" a bit and cost around $700,000 - $850,000 instead of over a million. Still way out of my league, but it's still neat to see how people decorate.

We started off by meeting for supper at this really cool restaurant called Mimi's Cafe. They have great food and since it was our first time there they gave us a box of huge muffins to take home with us. What a nice touch!

The chicken pot pie that Kristin and Aaron had was soooo good! Wish I could make this at home.

I had salmon with asparagus and so did Mark. Clayton sure enjoyed the mashed potatoes!

This was the neatest thing. These music notes were filled with scraps of sheet music. It looked so amazing. This was actually in a bathroom and there was an old saxophone in the corner of the shower!

The cribs for these twins were so pretty. And I just loved the names and sayings on the wall above the beds.

How cool would this be for a game room in your basement!

I thought this was a neat idea! This was in the entry way off the garage.

And what neat pictures for a laundry room!

I loved this gigantic fork and spoon on the wall of a kitchen.

Wouldn't an outdoor fireplace like this be cool?

This shower had a remote control so you could turn it on to warm up before you ever got out of bed!!

These were only a few of the many pictures I took. Some really neat stuff and some really strange stuff. :-) But, we had a lot of fun.

Clayton update

Here are some of Clayton's 10-month pictures.




. . . and he's off!



Clayton is walking! He's now 11 months old (no teeth yet, but he sure can move)!