eleanor was too sleepy (ie. cranky) to stay up for trick-or-treating on halloween, but she did help hand out candy to a couple of kids. here she is, already in her seasonal jammies (with ghosts, pumpkins and cats). you might think we caught her sneaking a treat in this shot, but she was just taking all of the candy out of the bowl piece by piece and putting it on the seat next to her. that's big fun for a 16-month-old!
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
caught red handed
eleanor was too sleepy (ie. cranky) to stay up for trick-or-treating on halloween, but she did help hand out candy to a couple of kids. here she is, already in her seasonal jammies (with ghosts, pumpkins and cats). you might think we caught her sneaking a treat in this shot, but she was just taking all of the candy out of the bowl piece by piece and putting it on the seat next to her. that's big fun for a 16-month-old!
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Punkins!
We took our annual trip to the Kroul Family Farm pumpkin patch today to stock up on seasonal gourd action!
It was a beautiful day... almost too warm for me and Eleanor seemed to have a great time. She really enjoyed walking amongst the pumpkins and also checking out the small "petting zoo" that they have there. She seemed to particularly like a small pony (miniature horse) named SAM and the cows. The little pig and Elk babies she wasn't so sure about.
We came home with a 5 pumpkin haul and will hopefully be posting something about carving a couple of them soon.
It was a beautiful day... almost too warm for me and Eleanor seemed to have a great time. She really enjoyed walking amongst the pumpkins and also checking out the small "petting zoo" that they have there. She seemed to particularly like a small pony (miniature horse) named SAM and the cows. The little pig and Elk babies she wasn't so sure about.
We came home with a 5 pumpkin haul and will hopefully be posting something about carving a couple of them soon.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Much Too Early
Two nights ago... a friend of mine and player on our City Sluggers softball team passed away while actually playing softball. Many of you know him as he was a 1985 (i believe) City High grad who owned the Heyns Ice Cream store on 1st Avenue in Iowa City. It was some really sad news and came as a complete shock. Paul was a really nice person and always seemed to have a good attitude about everything. The laid back way that he seemed to deal with things always made me a bit envious... it's a personality trait that I wish I showed more of. It seems cheesy and lame to express the same old things that everyone else is saying about him. Mainly what I know is that the world isn't as good a place without him in it. I'm sure things will really begin to settle in next year when he isn't around as the season begins.
His obituary can be found HERE
Times like this always make one reflect about things that they are thinking and doing at whatever point they might be at in their lives. I guess, simply, that's because we're all going to get to this point some day. Hopefully not as early and as tragically as Paul... but it's quite obviously inevitable.
The world is such and interesting and dangerous place right now. There is more apprehension and worry than I can ever remember... and probably more than many people far older than me can remember. People, economic markets, religions, governments, etc... are all in a state of flux, if not upheaval. It's hard not to feel like things are on a very dangerous precipice right now. Things like this, however unrelated, really make you think about all of these things.
I hope that Paul is in a better place and I hope that the ills of the world can slowly begin to right themselves and all of us can feel safer and more kinship to our fellow human beings.
His obituary can be found HERE
Times like this always make one reflect about things that they are thinking and doing at whatever point they might be at in their lives. I guess, simply, that's because we're all going to get to this point some day. Hopefully not as early and as tragically as Paul... but it's quite obviously inevitable.
The world is such and interesting and dangerous place right now. There is more apprehension and worry than I can ever remember... and probably more than many people far older than me can remember. People, economic markets, religions, governments, etc... are all in a state of flux, if not upheaval. It's hard not to feel like things are on a very dangerous precipice right now. Things like this, however unrelated, really make you think about all of these things.
I hope that Paul is in a better place and I hope that the ills of the world can slowly begin to right themselves and all of us can feel safer and more kinship to our fellow human beings.
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