The Garbage Man

Gabriel's fascination with the taking the garbage out reminds me of my brother, Adam's, fascination with the garbage man as a child. Adam was so excited to watch the garbage men come and collect the trash. He even got to ride on the back of the garbage truck with one of the garbage men! Can you imagine that happening today? Well, it looks like it is a boy thing. Gabriel is so happy to take the garbage out with his daddy. Mommy doesn't dare enter the garbage shoot room. Gross, disgusting, and whatever else I can say! Roaches, need I say more??? Here is our champ...(Oh, and check out his new flip flops, or flippies as my dad says)
Get on up the step to open the door...

And, with a little assistance...out goes the trash!

Yet another fun trip to the trash shoot! Gotta love it!

Halloween Weekend

Halloween was an eventful day at our house. On Saturday we had a birthday party for one of my old friend's son, Luke. He was turning 4 and his grandma who lives her in FL was having a party. Gabriel had so much fun in the pool, kiddie pool, and bounce house. The party was filled with food, cake, and snow cones. A 4 year old kid's dream! Here is Gabriel with his new friend Brady who is older than Gabriel by a couple of weeks.
And here is Gabriel and William in the bounce house. Gabriel loved to bounce with us.

And here is the crew of Westminster Academy alumni. Quite a group came for Tyson's son, Luke's, birthday celebration!

And, all the kids, of course....

What would Halloween be without a little trick-or-treating? Gabriel got to go trick-or-treating for the first time. We went with Kristin and her daughter, Adriana. Adriana was a great teacher for Gabriel. Adriana the hippy and Gabriel the pirate.... The funniest part was Gabriel wanting to go inside everyone's house. Of course, what else do you do when someone opens the door...you go in! How silly to stand outside and wait for them to give you candy???

As you can see, he go the hand of it pretty quickly! It was lots of fun, as you can imagine!