Circus

Dat Dat dadadada dat dat Circus Dat Dat dadadada dat dat Afro- Circus Afro Circus Afro polka dot polka dot polka dot MOVE IT!   (Ares' favorite song - from Madagascar 3).  OK, so his favorite song is really Taylor Swift's 'Never Ever', but this is the next best thing.

We took Ares to his first ever Circus!!  Who was more excited?  Mommy, Daddy or Ares???  A tie between Mommy and Daddy!  Ares was just excited to see Davis.   But of course, they fought the entire time - as usual!

We started the morning off at Bob Evans, where they fought over the straw colors, bacon and who was first at nearly everything.

The circus was fun too.  We went to Davis' cousins house to pick them up, and the four adults took the four boys to the Circus.    Ares didn't ask for a single piece of food, Adam and I bought him a $22(!!!) toy, which he LOVED!  Possibly more than the Circus itself.

This was Ares' favorite part, the dragon shot green fire out of it's mouth. 

Ares' second favorite part of the Circus.  8 motorcycles in that tiny ball. 

Ares' new toy in light. 

Ares toy lit up.  

Mommy's favorite part of the Circus - The ELEPHANTS!!

And because it's MY blog - more elephants!!  =)

The Start of a Table

Here's in progress pictures of Adam's work on our new dining room table.  This table is SO Massive it takes 4 grown men to move just the top.  Adam's took the week off to work on this.   We still need to get it up on the stand and stained, (men need to help with that) and then once it's stained and poly'd then it needs to get into the house (men needed to help with that too).  

Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rai....

One would think, being in Cleveland, that we would be used to all of this rain.  I mean, we have fewer sunny days than Seattle, for crying out loud.  Last post was after I had an entire 80* beautiful day off last Thursday.  Friday started the low pressure system and rain.  Usually our weather goes West to East (duh), but with Hurricane Sandy, the hurricane caused some massive wind storms (many people in my office lost roofs, trees, furniture, etc) that kept this low pressure system (RAIN) over us for many days.  It hasn't stopped raining but for a half hour in the last. 5.5 days.  Halloween was pushed off another week in any city that didn't do it in the rain on Sunday, and our rain boots have gotten a lot of wear.  I'm SICK. OF. THE. RAIN!  I'm not even going to mention poor little Ballpark.  We bundle him up in a rain jacket, but we still have to endure pushing him out the door, closing it behind him, and watching him give us the sad puppy dog eyes as he begs us to open the door up before he does his duty.  Sorry buddy, just pee and we'll let you inside again.

At least it stopped raining for about an hour Friday night, so we participated in the Trunk or Treat in Streetsboro.  His buddy Lukas met up with us.



On the plus side?!  Adam is building me us me a dining room table.  I am beyond psyched!  I'll try and post pictures soon, along with pictures of the circus that I got.  I can't believe with all of the rain we've had, that I haven't even been blogging much!  Sorry everyone!

A Wish for a Late October Day

It's 80* on a Thursday in late October.  However, unfortunately, my mother is in the hospital for a currently unknown reason, so I had to stay home from work with Ares.  We actually had a pretty nice day, including visiting my mom at Hillcrest. '

Outside, I'm on my work laptop running queries, playing with Ares at the same time.  He finds one of those puffy cotton things that blows around in the wind and asks me what it is.  Obviously, from my description on the blog, I don't know what to tell him. 

Me: Uhm, well, you take it in your hand, and hold it out while making a wish.  *holding it out* I wish Ares to grow up healthy and have a very happy life. *and I let go, it flies away*

Ares: Oh, here's one!  *holds it out*  I wish mommy to grow bigger and bigger and bigger and get so big she's a giant!!  *and let's go*

It sticks to his fingers, so hopefully that doesn't come true. 

Home Depot

This was a pretty interesting stop while in Cincinnati.  We were driving to meet Adam's grandfather for lunch, when we passed Home Depot in Harrison, which had many fire, ambulance, sheriff, cop, tank etc in the parking lot.  My father in law called his dad and told him we'd be late, as he pulls into Home Depot.  

Who's more excited, daddy or Ares? 

Definitely Daddy!!

Ares got to put together uprights for football.  The fire trucks were all gone. 

But the uprights did not use the hammer, so he just hammered some nails into the table. 

He also got fingerprinted.  He thought it was cool, and I now have his prints in case something terrible happens. 

He thought holding the fire hose was pretty cool too.

Mom! I'm Allergic to Cats!

Last night, Ares had something in his eye.  A spec of dust or something was irritating it.  Here's my drama queen:   Mom, something is in my eye.  It's because I'm allergic to cats.  Uncle Justice's cat.  'Pakoda'  (Dakota) made my eyes itch.  I can't go to Uncle Justice's, I'll get bumps.  Mom!  I'm allergic to cats!!

Note: He was not near any cats that day. 

I. LOVE. FALL.

I have always loved the Fall. I always knew I wanted to get married in the Fall (October 25).  It was a 5 minute argument between Adam and myself back then (me: OK, fine, we can have a Spring wedding, but then you have NO say in anything else that goes on.  Adam: OK, a Fall wedding it is).    I love Fall colors (except Topaz, my birth stone).  And, as any gemologist knows from my prior statement, November is my birth month.  
The best thing about the Fall (in the North, at least) is the changing of the leaves!  My favorite pictures of my son, three years in a row now,**update:  Holy hell, it's been 4 Fall seasons for Ares now, where has the time gone?!?** all come from pumpkin patches or playing in the leaves.  This year included.  We went to my in-law's house (which has A LOT of trees) about a week early, but the leaves were still falling.  Instead of having a 10 foot high pile of leaves, the pile was only about 3 feet high.  He didn't know the difference, and neither did the camera.

First came blowing the leaves into a pile.  Grandpa held the blower, Ares was the trigger man. 

 Next came Ares acting like a leaf.  He did this for about 5 minutes, and wanted more, but were afraid it was going to leave some wind imprint on him. (j/k)

 Finally came the jumping into the leaves.  Such fun, such great pictures.

I love the tongue that sticks out!



I wish this one wasn't blurry



 And because there's never any pictures of me...

 I only wish I were wearing lip gloss.

 And last but not least, my mother-in-law and Ballpark. 



Can't you see why Fall is my favorite?  What awesome pictures every one of us took.  These photos are from Adam's camera (hence, no Adam).  I have photos from the other day (walk in the park, Police/Fire Dept/Bomb Squad pics) on my camera. That'll be another post when I get those pictures together.

3-Year Pre-School Pictures

This is totally what I imagine when I think of pre-school pictures.  Does this look like a 3-year old or what? 

I hate long shorts on boys like that, but I had already put most of his shorts away in storage, and we had a hot day in the middle of the week, of course, for fall picture day.  Ah well, he took nice pictures again, even though I can't get him to smile for me.  I love this kid!

Lanterns Light Up Night Skies..

We went to Kent's International Festival this past weekend with Darah, Devon and Davis. There isn't much to it, aside from lighting some lanterns on fire, and seeing if they catch any trees or buildings on fire (no excitement this year).  The photographer from the paper must have taken 60 pictures of our two families, sadly, only two of them made it in.  See pictures below.   If you want to see the article here,  read at your own risk, the grammar is appalling.   I believe this is the 4th newspaper Ares has been in, in his 3 short years of life.

Ares and Davis both chose the purple lanterns.  (They looked blue in the package though.)  It was really cool to see so many lanterns up in the sky at once.  It was only too bad it took 2 minutes to light the lanterns, and very few people had lighters on them.   So it took about 10 minutes to get them all in the air, but it still looked awesome.

My mom still hasn't given me, or uploaded the gymnastics pictures to Facebook. I'll update the prior post once I have access to those.

A picture

I realize I've posted today already (a long post) but it's been 5 posts since I've had a pictures, so here's one of him at gymnastics today.  It was his first day (once a week for 4 weeks).  My mom took this picture with her cell phone and sent it to me, hopefully she took more, as they also did things on the beam and bar too.