Monday, September 17, 2012

A Few of His Favorite Things...

I mentioned that Eric is a monkey.  Well, his climbing skills are only improving with time.  He has learned how to get himself on the piano bench, where he loves to play the piano.  I think it is cute, until he gets bored playing the piano and stands up and tries to get on the piano, or tries to get the things off the top of the piano, like my violin.

"Yeah mom, what's the problem?"
Then he figured out how to climb onto our benches and onto the table.  This is perhaps his favorite place to be.  Here he is eating a key lime bar he claimed after getting on the table.


And finally, his favorite pastime, drawing.  He is turning into quite the artist, and for the most part only intentionally draws on the white board.  Unintentionally, as he walks around and climbs on the table with the lid off of his markers, we have colored on quite a few things...including his clothes, the walls, the furniture, etc.



Except for clothes, it seems dry erase markers come off pretty well.  He gets so excited with his artwork, I can't take the markers away all of the time.  He points at his drawings and babbles away.  He even has a drawing stool he likes to sit on.  If its not there, he'll carry it over and sit himself on it. Oh he's a handful, but so much fun!

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

My Monkey

Eric is a monkey.  He has taken to climbing on everything he can lately, and falling from the things he can't yet climb.  He definitely keeps me on my toes, but we love him to pieces.  If he wasn't ours, we'd probably have to kidnap him.

He loves to pack around a tennis racket and a ball.  If he can, he'll get a second ball and try to drag it on the ground with his racket.  This little man loves tennis...and mini golf.

Here he is after climbing up on my sewing desk all by himself.  

Eric loved corn on the cob!

Super cool!

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Back to School

The first day of school!  The girls both had a great first day and like their teachers.  Yeah for school!













Family Reunion

Last week we had our Hallam family reunion up in Rexburg.  We had a great time and can't wait to see everyone again soon.  Here are some of the highlights:

Steven came home and gave a great homecoming talk!
Playing on the sand dunes
Exploring the cave
An awesome slip and slide
Hiking to the tressel
Great frozen custard from BRC
Swimming at the hotel
An awesome treasure hunt and minute to win it games















Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for lots of fun

Friday, August 3, 2012

Picnic with Nel

Today we met Nel for lunch up by Bridal Veil Falls. It was so nice to be outside and break up the day a little bit out of the ordinary.  Eric loved having lunch outside where he could run around, and the girls had a great time feeding the fish at the bottom of the falls.  Thanks for the fun, Nel!