Zoo Boo

Jonathan went to Austin this past weekend for a "Guy's Weekend" with some friends, so I took the boys to Houston to stay with my sister. I'm sure it's no surprise, I don't have any pictures or details from Jonathan's weekend, so you will only get to enjoy photos from my trip.

Saturday morning we met my dad at the Houston Zoo for their Halloween celebration, Zoo Boo. The rest of the weekend was packed with family fun!! We came home Monday after stopping to have lunch with my grandmother.

I posted some pictures below, but for some reason they are all out of order. I didn't feel like fixing them, so you will have to use your imagination a bit...

Hullabaloo, Caneck! Caneck!

This weekend we went to the Texas A&M vs Arkansas game at Cowboys Stadium! Jonathan's mom was so nice to come stay with us and kept the boys all day Saturday while we were in Dallas. We had so much fun, even though the Aggies lost.

Family Fun Weekend

Jonathan has been working like a dog the past couple of weeks and will be gone almost all of next week, so I decided we needed some family fun this weekend. Saturday morning Jonathan took William to do some manly things together...go to the donut shop, get my oil changed and a car wash, grab some cash for the weekend and some baby food. We then drove about 15 miles north of Waco to a place called Homestead Heritage.

If you are ever traveling on I-35 between Dallas and Austin, I highly recommend stopping in for lunch. Homestead Heritage is a community of people that call themselves "Almost Amish." They live by all of the Amish principles, except they have running water, electricity, cars, cell phones, etc. (my kind of Amish) The women wear homemade dresses, no make-up and hair pulled back in buns. The guys wear jeans, plaid button ups and work boots. The place was really impressive, it looked like a movie set. The cows were right out of a Blue Bell commercial and the goats were pristine. William kept referring to them as donkeys. I think he is so use to seeing the run down goats at petting zoos, his little mind couldn't grasp the concept of a well groomed goat. They also make beautiful furniture, pottery and lots of other crafts. You can watch demonstrations on everything. Their restaurant was wonderful...all homemade breads, desserts, ice cream, etc. They only use all natural ingredients and a lot of it comes from their own operation. Here is the website if you want to know more...

http://www.homesteadheritage.com/







Saturday night we had our little babysitter, Samantha, come over to watch the boys. She is the perfect babysitter...she's 16, has her own car, lives in the neighborhood and I know her mom. William also loves Samantha, he waits for her at the front window.

I did some research on the Internet and found a drive-in called The Last Drive-In Picture Show in Gatesville (25 miles west of Woodway). We picked up Subway and made it there in time for the 8pm show. It's only $10 for a double feature, but we could only stay for the first movie. It was so much fun, we sat in chairs outside the car and could see a billion stars. The drive-in is one of the oldest in Texas, it first opened in 1950. They had a little putt-putt green at the front, a cute snack bar and the original sound poles. Afterwards we hit up the Gatesville Dairy Queen because that's what you do when you live in Small Town U.S.A. If you are ever in the Gatesville area, you MUST go to The Last Drive-In Picture Show!

We concluded Knickerbocker family fun weekend with church, lunch with some friends, feeding the ducks and playing at the park. I think we got all caught up on our quality time which is good because the rest of October is jammed packed with stuff.

Are you ready for some football!!

William's favorite thing to do these days is each lunch and watch football with Jonathan. He feels very big getting to eat at a TV tray in the living room. We also let him stay up late the other night to watch the Aggies play OSU. He was super excited because we had our neighbor over and the guys got really into the game. Jonathan does really good keeping his language in check, but there was one incident when he yelled at the TV after the Aggies blew a play. He said something along the lines of..."You losers!!! Why do we always have a bunch of losers playing for us!! Ahhh!!!" I had to remind Jonathan that small ears were in the room. I can't have William calling some kid a loser at Mother's Day Out or when we start soccer in the spring.

9 Months

Logan was 9 months old on Tuesday. Not a lot has changed since last month. He is still majorly teething. I'm pretty sure he is getting all of his teeth at once. He has about five coming in right now and already has four little chompers in the front. He has progressed to experimenting with cruising between furniture, standing by himself for a few seconds and climbing. He has also started saying Dada and Da-Dee. His favorite game is "Get You." It's pretty cute, he tries to crawl as fast as he can while we pretend to chase him, he laughs the whole time.

I took the boys to the pediatrician today for Logan's check up and flu shots. The nurse asked me if I had any questions or concerns and I answered with a very confident, no. I thought Logan was doing great, just some trouble with teething. Well...come to find out my mommy radar must be jammed AGAIN! Logan has another inflamed ear/possible ear infection, the doctor was a little concerned about his weight (10-25th percentile) and based on a survey I filled out his communication skills are a little behind. I've always thought that my pediatrician was a bit of an alarmist so after consulting with an expert...my sister...I felt a lot better. Here is what we came up with...

Ear Infection: The doctor left it up to me to decide if I wanted to give him antibiotics or wait it out. I went ahead and got the prescription filled to make sure Logan wouldn't be in any unnecessary pain.

Weight: He's a little guy, what can you do? Sign him up for gymnastics or karate some day? I force feed him bottles already to try and get the required minimum in and how do you put weight on someone who literally never stops moving!?!

Speech: I'm not worried about the communication issues, he knows what's going on and babbles all the time. When I tell him to "come here," he crawls the other way as fast as he can laughing at me. We both agreed that speech problems are not diagnosed until closer to 2 years old. But don't think I won't be in his face constantly saying mama, dada, baba, lala, haha, etc.

All joking aside, Logan is a really healthy guy and I am very thankful!! I just have to protect him from his big brother who tends to go overboard when it comes to tickling, wrestling and attempts at carrying Logan. Now that I think about it, William goes overboard in almost everything he does. Good Times!!!

8 Months

Logan was 8 months old on August 28th. As I said before, he's crawling and pulling up on everything. We are also in major teething mode. He has two bottom teeth already and two top teeth coming in right now. Logan loves finger foods and screams when he sees a banana or puffs. Logan's favorite activities include crawling in the tunnel, wrestling with William and Jonathan and hanging out in his swing in the back yard while watching William play.

First Day of Mother's Day Out

William started a new year of Mother's Day Out this week. He was super excited to get back to "school." He has come a long way from last year...



Today on the way home from MDO William told me how he met a new friend. He explained, "I go, my name is William. What is your name? She say Katy. I say to her, we are going to be good friends." I told him how proud I was of him for taking the initiative to meet new friends. Jonathan and I were laughing about it later, that's a good line for picking up ladies. He's off to a good start! ;)