Back to Work...

On December 1st, I started working part time at Reynolds High School. Yes, Sean and I work at the same place, and yes we do see each other "hard at work" sometimes.  However, my job is completely opposite of Sean's :).  I'm in the Community Preschool.  The high school offers a child development class where high schoolers develop and teach lessons to children who are enrolled in the preschool.   I never thought in a million years I would work at the high school level.  I absolutely love it and the other teachers I work with!

 So, with Sean and I both working, Taylor had to start going to "school" too.  It was SO difficult for me to leave him!  Taylor only had a few tears but now he LOVES it. 

Here's a few pictures of the "Christmas party".  

He goes to one of Sean's player's mother's... whom I might add watches 3 other BOYS!?  Poor Lady.

The Horn

 I turned around one way and found this little guy tooting away.....on Grandma's antique tea pot.

Playing a song before we go to Daddy's football banquet.

Halloween 2010

The Bog

My sister and I laughed when we heard our parents were going to buy a cranberry bog.  The bog they purchased hadn't been harvested for many years. It was over grown and needed a ton of work.  This year they were able to harvest their first crop to Ocean Spray.

My father is now in LOVE with it and my mother...well, she has entirely too many recipes that involve cranberries.

 Working hard at the bog.

He likes Grandpa to pick up the sticks.

2010 season comes to an end...

The Seniors.

The high school football season has come to end at our house.  Reynolds went 1-10 for the season.  Nearly every game that they lost was by just a few points.  Those poor boys played their hearts out.  The last game brought tears to everyones eyes.  The next few years look very promising according to Coach:).

He absolutely idols the players.

 The end of game speech.

 "We will never give up"

Bad News and Fantastic News

The bad news is that Sean's team has only won one game this season.   The kids have been doing a fantastic job. However, during the last 30 seconds of every game the other team does something miraculous.  I just don't get it!?  They have a play-in game tomorrow against Forest Grove.  This game will determine if the season continues or not.

Ok, on to the fantastic news!  Taylor has been using the potty!  He is growing up so quickly I just can't believe it.  I won't be taking him out of the house wearing underpants just yet.  But, we are well on our way!  Woo Hoo!

He went for his 2 year check-up (or in our case his 2 year and 3 months) and he weighs 28.8 lbs (43rd percentile) and is 3 feet and 1 inch tall (85th percentile)!  The Doctor was slightly concerned about Taylor's speech.  He suggested we take Taylor to get his hearing checked.  I was never concerned about his speech before so this came as a complete surprise.  Unfortunately, we can't get into the audiologist until Dec. 13th. We will now be encouraging Taylor to pronounce dump truck correctly instead of "d@mn f*ck".  Wish us luck. :)

Pumpkin Patch

A few weeks ago Sean got the day off so we headed to a pumpkin patch.  This was Taylor's first trip a pumpkin patch and it took him a while to actually enjoy it.  It was about 30 minutes outside of Portland and there was so much to do!  A corn maze, tractor rides, a petting zoo, and a fantastic produce market with fresh apple cider!

Not happy about getting woke up.

 He kept saying, "Eeww, Yuck!"  

It was so muddy our boots stuck as we walked.

 Dada made it better by carrying me.

 "I want that one way over there!"

 Riding the Cow Train

 So muddy!

 He was using the flowers as a microphone singing, Life is a Highway.

It's a song off the Cars movie.    

Eating our fresh picked corn for dinner.