My crazy little man...

He has learned to go to the door when I say "Are you ready?"

Helping us rake leaves

His first bus trip, Boulder to DIA.

Uncle Bill

His first Sam Moon Experience

This shiny packing material was his favorite toy of the trip. It kept him busy for a good half hour!

I'm pretty sure he is checking Hannah out.

Two classic toys

Helping Mom and me wrap a present

A boy after my own heart (and in my old chair).

We went to Bass Pro Shop to see Santa (and his elves, reindeer, and 4-wheeler).

For some reason, I don't think this is what the manufactures had in mind.

A Day of Thanks

We spent Thanksgiving at Shane and Sean's house outside of Vail.

Football in their backyard/golf course

Miles loved the sled

A Skunk, A Frog, A Bat, Oh My!

My plan was that Miles would be a bat for Halloween. Imagine my surprise when I put him in his costume from last year and discovered this...

His amazing, created by my mom, skunk costume still fits. In fact, it fits better than it did last year!

 But what to do with the frog costume I picked up at a garage sale?

And the bat costume I had planned?

He was a bat in the morning, a skunk in the afternoon, and we loaned the frog to a friend.

I left him in the childcare room at work to go to a class and came back to this... 

Sound asleep with kids playing all all around him!

My parents came for a surprise visit (they were planning on being in Guatemala but weather/flight cancellations forced them to come see us!). We went to the Pearl Street Mall to go trick-or-treating, but they did that on Thursday. Who would've known?! Miles got exactly one Snickers that lasted maybe 5 minutes in his basket before John snaked it. 

We had a big blizzard last week that left us with 13 inches of sparkling snow. Miles had a hard time walking in it, but he loved to eat it!

Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have a Walker

As of Monday, Miles is officially walking! He has been taking steps here and there for the past month but we finally decided he is a bona fide walker. He loves to dance and "sing." He also loves anything with wheels. He likes to laugh when others are laughing. He has finally started to sign back. He signs milk, more, ball, hat, and please (even in the middle of a fit so huge I had to abandon my grocery cart and leave the store). He still loves fruit. The grocery store fit was over the fact that I would not let him have an apple. Currently his favorite food seems to be pomegranate seeds. He is also obsessed with books. He has started picking books off the shelf, bringing them to me and crawling into my lap. So sweet! And before you worry too much about him playing with dolls, check out the following video...

Pumpkins, Snow and Sun

Beautiful weather at the pumpkin patch...

And then it got COLD!

Rock Climbing with Shane

We flew to Houston to celebrate my great-uncle's 80 birthday. 

Cousins!

Jennifer, Rob, Kelly, Cynthia and Hutton, me and Miles, Bryan and Michael

Miles and Hutton