Today David took Davey fishing.  I was not able to go because I had class, but David took lots of pictures. They met Davey’s friend up there (and her mom). They had a great time and caught a bunch of fish.

Davey reeled them in all by himself!

He also enjoyed watching Olivia reel in her fish.

Serious kid proudly holding up his fish.

Davey told David, “There is NO way that I am touching a worm.  I don’t want to touch a worm.  No Way, I am not touching a worm!”

So after they began fishing, after awhile David turned around and saw this:

Olivia got right in there with him.

I’m looking forward to joining them next time (well maybe I will pass on playing with the worms).

I also had to post this picture.  Davey arranges all his little guys into different scenes.  For example last night, he had a big party in the Millenium Flacon.  Apparently C3PO was the life of the party!

Today Davey and I took David to a trail that Davey and I had first explored on a letterboxing trip.  Davey wanted to show David the letterboxes we’d found before.  I wanted to show David this pretty trail along this small creek.

Everything is just golden around us right now.

Davey had found the letterbox here, and he was reaching down for it.  I just loved the light in this picture.

David and Mr. Expressions walking onto the next letterbox.

We stopped by the creek for the snack.  Davey wanted me to take a picture of the “beautiful water”.

As usual, Davey found a stick to wave around.

On the way back, Davey found a big fallen log that he wanted to play on.  There was lots of big chunks of bark around which he thought was great fun.

Every walk usually includes a “ninja tinkle”.  This one was no exception.  Here, they were running back from way deep in the woods.

I tried to get Davey to walk down off the trail abit so that we could get a picture in front of this beautiful golden tree.  Davey decided to try it out, but as you can see from his expression, he changed his mind.

Walks also often end with Davey on David’s back.

I’m sure loving Fall!

My brother and his wife stayed with us the past couple of days.  They came through on the way from New Jersey where they lived, to San Francisco, where they are moving to.  Quite a haul across the country, and we were glad they could stay with us for a short time.

They have a young dog named Nora, and Davey had so much fun playing with her.  All day long it was, “come on girl. here girl.  let’s go girl.  good girl.  go girl.”

So on Wednesday evening we went to Green Mountain so that David and Michael could do a hilly run.  I had had to teach most of the day, so I met Holly and Davey there, and we went on a nice walk with Nora.

It’s hard to tell exactly what he is doing here, but he is shaking Nora’s hand, which he loves to do.

Davey liked playing on these rocks, and he agreed to pose for a shot for me.

We were trying to work a picture with Aunt Holly, Nora and Davey in it.  Holly was very cooperative.  Nora and Davey took some work.

But then he wanted to have fun with it.   “Take my picture Mommy!” Here’s Davey being so silly in silhouette.

David will readily admit that he is a show out (Before David, I knew this as “show off”, but he calls it “showin’ out”).  It seems that Davey has inherited these show out tendencies.

He looks just like David in this picture!

Goofy

Funny kid.

Saturday we went to Cider Days.  I can’t believe it has been a year since I wrote about last year’s Cider Days.  We covered pretty much all the same things we did last year.  Bouncy house, burro ride, barrel ride, magic show, and just generally enjoying about the best organized festival we’ve ever been to.  It’s a lot of fun.

I looked at the pictures from last year.  Here’s Davey on Nestor last year.

Here’s Davey on Rambo (yes Rambo!) this year:

Hard to believe he was not quite 3 at this time last year.

They were giving out bottles of bubbles too this year, and Davey enjoyed playing with those.  He tried to blow them for awhile.

Then he found it to be more fun for me to blow them while he chased them around (and sometimes tried to karate kick them).  I love this picture that David took.

It was a beautiful day.

Now it’s starting to cool off more and more each day.  The leaves are really starting to turn here (apparently they are in their full glory in the mountains).

Davey and I were able to play outside today though.   He really wanted to rake leaves this afternoon, but there were only about 12 leaves to rake so far.

He’s fiesty that kid, and I think that sometimes I have to blog about the more trying times and not just the easy times.  Today we were at the post office and he threw a gigantic fit.  Now in hindsight, I can identify several mistakes that I made which might have mitigated or prevented the fit.  But it happened, and I know it does happen. But as he was throwing his fit,  I was feeling helpless and uncertain.  (I’d waited in line without incident for 10 minutes, and I was the next person in line – I wanted to get my postal errand done!) So as I tried to deal with Davey, I found myself asking myself what was worse:  When Davey threw up on me twice in the grocery store or this.  Really.  Covered in Davey puke versus tantrum.  It was a close one.  I think the tantrum was slightly preferable, but only slightly.

But we survived it, and soon Davey and I were recovered and happy again.

David’s dad was here visiting for the last several days, and on Friday we took him to Breckenridge.  We all enjoyed it, but it was a big fun day for Davey for sure.

We had lunch in Frisco, and then we had a little photo session with Davey.  He wanted to take pictures of us.  I was fairly nervous watching him hold that heavy camera, but for some crazy reason, I went with it.

He liked taking pictures of us.

Sometimes he didn’t quite get his aim right.

Some were better:

Davey made some canine friends.

He discovered newspaper boxes, and it looks like he wanted to climb right in.

We went up to Breckenridge where Davey got to pan for gold.  He was so careful about shaking the pan, and then he’d turn it very carefully to set it back on the tray thing.

He rode his very first pony all by himself.

He was really concentrating.  His pony’s name was Disco.

While Davey was on the pony, all the other ponies decided it was time to poop.   Davey was not too thrilled with this.  The smell soon got the best of him, and he was ready to get off Disco!

Davey then moved on to a maze with Daddy.  I watched from above.  I still have bad memories from the corn maze last fall.  They did great figuring this one out.

Then they played putt putt.  This was also a first for Davey.

He didn’t want to be bothered with long shots.  He took that ball, marched to the hole and placed it carefully about a foot away.

I was kinda surprised to get an action shot of Davey on a putt putt course.

I took a break from all this activity and knitted on my purple blob for awhile.  I am getting very close to finishing my Girasole.

And then (well there was also a ride in the gondola – but Davey is quite comfortable with that now, and also Mary’s Mountain Cookies (where as usual Davey ate only the icing between the cookies))  we went on a carriage ride.  Davey really liked this too.  Another first for him!

Oh and then he found another newspaper box.  He was quite interested in these today.

After all this, Davey played chase with David.  I guess the icing must have energized him once again.

Whew what a day!

I blogged about getting ready for the wedding.  Now here’s after.

Davey was ready for the party!

Before the dancing we had dinner, and the nice lady let him use the mallet on the keys to announce that dinner was beginning.  Davey thought this was pretty darn cool.

Then he needed some energy.

And cake of course.  He had to have cake.  Or as usual – icing.

Energized once again, he was ready to scope things out.

We watched the bride and groom start off the dancing.  It was dark so the photography was a challenge.  But David got some cool looking pics.

This was a Greek wedding with Greek dances.  I didn’t know what I was doing, but we got together with our Aunt Liz (who is also mother of the bride), joined hands, and off we went.

We went round and round and round.  Davey kept going and going and going.   I tried to get the hang of the steps, but my sad attempt at mastering the dance steps pretty much equated to my playing Ring Around the Rosie.  Oh but it was a fun time though!  Davey wasn’t at all concerned with perfect dance steps which was as it should be!

Davey was a ringbearer at my cousin’s wedding this weekend.  He had such a fun time (we all did!).  I took almost 400 pictures, so I’m thinking I can blog about the wedding weekend just abit.

I learned that dressing wiggly wriggly Davey in a tux required at least two people, and it still wasn’t easy.

Then I was reminded that I usually photograph him in just candid shots.  He’s not a fan of posing with a smile.  Here is what he does:

(He is standing here with his cousin.  He loves hanging out with her!)

We went outside to wait for our rides to the church.

He decided to have a good ole time posing with Daddy.

And a little of this:

Followed by abit of this (David is blurry, but Davey is in fine form):

After all that, he needed a moment of rest.

It didn’t take long though until he quickly perked up.

I like this one of him looking up at his Oma.

And finally, here’s a little of what the wedding photographer must be sorting through.

Davey smiling at the flower girl.

And this (minus the red-eye).

We went on another letterboxing hunt yesterday.  It was at a small park in Arvada.

I always love to get a picture of David and Davey walking along.

This hunt involved finding 5 boxes.  We think that one was missing, but we found the rest.  It was a fun one where you had to use clues from the first 4 to figure out the clue for the final box. Since we were missing the box, it made figuring out the clue a little more difficult, but it was a word puzzle so I  had a lot of fun with it.   So here they were approaching one of the boxes.

The park had a playground, and so after the first box, Davey was really more interested in the playground.

He still helped us though, and here he is helping me with the last stamp.

And a hug to finish things off.  Can’t beat that!

So that was another fun excursion in which we discovered a really nice little park. (David would add that he did get a mosquito bite.  If David is around, Davey and I don’t typically have to worry about mosquitos.  They love David best.  It was also a little brushy and itchy reaching for some of the boxes.  I need to add a pair of gloves to our letterboxing supplies!)

After our letterbox hunt, we went for lunch.  While we were eating (Qdoba), Davey decided that he wanted to get a  haircut.  That kid loves to go get a haircut.  We decided he did need a trim, so there just happened to be a place a few doors down.

I had not taken any haircut pictures for awhile – maybe none with my camera since his very first haircut:

I also always have loved this picture where you can see in the mirror how he is smiling up at her.

So back to the present day.

He had some interesting expressions.  He’s very watchful.

And another one – now in this picture, his eyes look just as brown as can be.  But they don’t always look like this.  I just checked and I could see the blue in there.  If people ask me what color his eyes are, I still don’t know.  I’ve asked other people to help me decide.  I just asked Davey and he said, “Tangerine”.

He worked hard to hold his head down.  At first, when she told him to look at his toes, instead of lowering his head, he lifted his feet.  Makes sense!

He was so proud after his haircut.  We’d put the camera away by then, but I wish I had taken a picture.  He was looking around as he walked out, just a grinning away.  Pleased as punch.