Ah Fall! That wonderful time of the year when temperatures drop into the mid 80's instead of mid 90's. I do love Fall. I wish we had the leaves changing colors etc. but I love all of the fun activities that come up with the change of the season. We made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. Henry had fun picking up pumpkins and throwing them. Nolan did a lot of saying "cheese" but that resulted in a lot of funny faces when it came to pictures.
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| Funny face by Nolan |
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| I will throw you pumpkin! |
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| The Brock Boys |
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| Henry enjoyed playing in some puddles. |
We made a trip to the zoo. Zoo Boo is going on right now. Many kids go in costume and there are candy and craft stations set up throughout the zoo. We didn't bother with costumes (too warm out!) but the boys did like getting some candy.
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| An orangutan eating a pumpkin at Zoo Boo |
We also went to the SJV annual bazaar. Unfortunately it rained again this year! Luckily it didn't really rain while we were there. Nolan got his face painted and spent about an hour in the bounce house. Henry went in the bounce house for a little while too but he was a little unsure about the whole thing. We also played a few rounds of Bingo.
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| Nolan's longhorn |
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| enjoying a sucker |
This past weekend Jersey Village had their annual open house of the police and fire station. Nolan went all decked out in his fireman costume. He got a lot of compliments on how cute he was. He kept calling his axe a taxi which was pretty funny. There were so many cool things to see and do! We were able to take a ride in a real fire truck with lights and sirens (2x's!). Nolan was able to try on some of the gear that firemen wear. We saw a police robot; sat in a holding cell; had fun with a police line-up; sat in a SWAT team truck; sat in a helicopter; saw a life flight helicopter take off (so much wind!); got a lot of freebies and so much more! Pegby and AB both came out too so it was a fun morning!
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| Henry liked the Dalmatians they had. |
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| Brock family in a holding cell! |
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| Hopefully this is the only time they will be in a police line-up! |
Mr. Henry is doing well. He is learning to say a lot more words. His new favorites are "mine" and "no"! He is silly and knows ways that he can make us laugh. Going to bed at night has been pretty easy, knock on wood, he likes to read a few books in his crib and then I just turn out the light and leave. He might cry a little but for the most part he puts himself to sleep. Most nights he is sleeping soundly without a peep but if he does wake up he likes to go downstairs for a little bit of milk. After his milk he will just lay back down and go back to sleep.
After we got back from FL he went to the doctor for his 18 month check up. A few days later he had a cough and was running a fever. We initially thought the fever, which was low grade at the time, was a result of his shots that he received. Within a day or so his fevers were running really high. Just like he was a few weeks before he was running fevers close to 105. First trip to the doctor just said it was probably a virus, we did a breathing treatment there and were sent on our way. The fever continued the rest of the weekend and his cough was bad. Back to the doctor we went where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. A prescription for antibiotics and instructions to do breathing treatments from here to kingdom come got him back to himself again. Poor little guy!
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| Wearing daddy's shoes. |
Nolan is doing well too! He is still in love with all things sports. He is also getting into superheros now and really likes spiderman. We have made a couple of trips to the library and he loves reading the books we checked out as his bedtime stories. Over the past two weeks or so we noticed that he was having a hard time hearing. He would even ask us to say some things louder. At first we kind of laughed it off thinking that he was too engrossed in other things to hear us but then we started to become a little worried. Kevin brought him to the doctor and we found out that he has some fluid in his ears from a recent cold so that was hurting his hearing some. We were told to do Nasonex for a few weeks and that should clear everything up. If he still seems to be having issues we need to bring him to the ENT. I think his hearing is already improving though.
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| Spiderman face paint from a birthday party. |
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| Henry doing his breathing treatment. |
