Chick-fil-A fun!

Last Thursday Chick-fil-A hosted a Western Night and the Dirk's family mosied on over to check it out. There were pony rides, games, free chick-fil-a, the cow, crafts and line dancing. Maggie tried out her cowgirl skills on a pint-size, no quarter necessary pony. She was super cute and really enjoyed herself.
Right before we went inside Tyler noticed a potential deterrent to our evening of fun. It seemed Henry was having some stomach issues and had completely messed up his outfit. And, me being the oh so prepared mom that I am could not muster up a change of clothes. (I mean he is almost one and I thought we were over this phase in my defense.) But, nevertheless we had a situation on our hands. Normal folks would have counted their losses, packed their bags and headed home, but not the Dirk's crew. We stripped our boy down cleaned him up and headed inside for some fun in the buff.
It was hardly noticeable.

The BIG day

On Sept. 18th Maggie spent the day with one of her best friend's, Sam. They played in this box for the majority of the day pretending it was a bath, pool, car and just hiding in it. They also ate pizza for lunch and hit the PG (that's pre-schooler slang for playground..).
Sam was staying with us because his Mommy and Daddy were at the hospital having his baby. So to get ready for the big arrival we decided that it would only be appropriate to make this new baby a birthday cookie cake. And here are Maggie and Big brother hard at work and concentrating mighty intensely for two year olds.
They made sure that the presentation was impeccable...nice sprinkle work Sam.



Here's the Hunt family the day before Foard's arrival.And this is the Big guy that was hiding out inside my warrior friend Melissa. Sweet Malachi Foard Hunt, 10 pounds 5 ounces, 21.5 inches long...that is a whole lot of baby. Go ahead scroll back take a good look at Melissa (it is quite impressive). But, truly the glory goes to the Lord and we are so thankful for another sweet Hunt baby to enter into this world.

An apple a day...

Last week we joined some Charlottean friends for a fun field trip to Carrigan Farm's apple orchards in Mooresville NC. Thankfully the rain held off long enough for us to enjoy some good ole' apple pickin' fun. The above photo shows all the kiddos that were involved climbing on some random boulders just outside the orchards.
Henry and Maggie enjoyed some sibling bonding over some dirty...yet freshly plucked apples.

Maggie demonstrates perfect apple picking form.
Me and my apple pickers...the apples were so delicious that neither one of them could put them down to say cheese (and one of them can't even say it yet so you must understand my predicament).
The cousins showed up all the way from Columbia to join in on the fun. Trooper won the prize for youngest apple picker and also for having the head mostly closely sized to the biggest apple plucked.
I'm pretty sure there was more apple eating involved than actual apple picking, as demonstrated by this motley crew.
And then we found these randomly corralled goats, baby pigs and a single calf in front of a pumpkin patch...hmmm?

Also, a hen with her chicks and a rabbit with her bunnies. It really was a cool place and we had such a fun time.

Harmonica Henry

Ballerina Maggie

Dad Camp-courtesy JH productions

"Henny"

Our little Henry has grown so much in his tenth month. He is walking quite a bit and getting into everything. Case in point this picture. I turn my back for all of ten seconds and all the wipes have been pulled out of the box one by one. He is concentrating so hard here that he didn't even mind being photographed in the midst of his project.
At least he wasn't eating/sucking on them as he's been known to do. You'd think I would learn my lesson and move the wipes out of reach.
This picture is for you Grams and Dog. Henry is sporting his K-state sneakers and I wanted to be sure and post a picture for you before he outgrows them. There is just something irresistibly cute about a beefy baby boy in a onesie.
Couldn't you just eat this little guy up?
Maggie has been enjoying play-doh time so much lately. She loves to make shapes and letters. On this particular occasion she wanted to make some "D's" for Daddy. And they made perfect glasses.