We have a baseball player on our hands

I think Kevin is ecstatic with John David!  John David is 16 months and throwing better than Austin is at 28 months!  See for yourself below! 

I think it's time to start making his promotional video for the major leagues ;-)  When did they start throwing? Maybe he'll be a pitcher?  or if Kevin has his way, we will need to beef him up some more so he can be a QB!  For Michigan ;-) Ha!


Not much else going on with the Artinghelli Clan.  Boys are great!  They amaze us each day and are beyond fun!  There is never a dull moment, that's for sure.  

Oh and in case you were wondering if I got cuddles from Austin yesterday.  You bet I did!  When Kevin was playing "baseball" with John David, I was getting extra cuddles and hand holding from Austin while watch Little Einsteins.  Take that, Alice! ;-)

Stop it, Mommy!

 Austin is quite the talker these days.  He repeats most things you say and adds his Austinisms to them.  As you know he says butterfly but calls it a budderby, school bus is ool us and ire uck is Fire truck.  It's great to have a conversation with him.

With that said, I do not like his most current saying, "Stop it, Mommy!"  Most recently, he said it to me last night as I was trying to cuddle with him. Austin can be quite the cuddlier, when he wants to.  He loves to give kisses and hugs!  Actually he always says "One more"  numerous times for hugs and kisses!  So I'm all about getting in the extra cuddles.  But for some reason, last night, he didn't want to cuddle with me.  He actually said, "Stop it, mommy!" :-(  Austin is also sweet on a girl named, Alice at daycare!  How fitting, Alice! :-)  So maybe he doesn't want the extra cuddles from me since he's saving them for Alice!

Let's see how tonight goes!

Pumpkin Farm

Today we went to Edwards Apple Orchard in Popular Grove, IL and Goebberts Pumpkin Farm.  It was a long day, that's for sure!  Boys did well for the most part. We packed it up and were on the road by 8:40 and got home after 3!

We went on a wagon ride.  Austin was amazed by the horses that pulled us.  His new word is horsey and he tells us what a horsey does, neiiighhh.  Too stinkin cute, I'm going to need to keep the video camera on me at all times, that's for sure!

 After the wagon ride, we went on the ponies.  Morgan was so excited to ride the ponies and we thought it would be a good idea to have Austin and John David ride too!  Austin loved the ponies, John David, not so much!  I actually had them stop so John David could get off.  He was much happier watching, maybe next year we will try again.

There was so much to do there, pony and wagon rides, animal feeding and watching (which Austin loved!), playgrounds, climbing on tractors were a few things we did.  They had apple picking but we decided not to participate, I'm not sure the boys are quite ready for that, maybe next year!

We took this chance to see how "tall" Austin is.  What would you say?  Almost 3 feet?  We will have make this a yearly picture so we can watch him grow!  We will start the tradition with John David next year.  He was very content with watching from the stroller, and I didn't want to jinx that!

The one thing the apple place didn't have was pumpkins, so we went to Goebberts.  This is my favorite picture of the day!  Grandma took it (thanks!)  and I think it's great.  Must be his blue eyes!  Don't you just want to squeeze him?!?!!

So both boys, only got about 30 minutes of nap time!  They wouldn't nap when they got home and have been sleeping since 6:30.  Let's hope they sleep in for mommy and daddy tomorrow.

Here is a picture of me and Kevin riding the tractor!  Hey, the parents gotta have fun too!

And maybe tomorrow, I'll post a picture of the apple cider donuts that were a MUST!

Weekend Fun

It's been a great weekend!  A busy one at that, which I like!  Saturday morning, I took the boys to the park right by the house.  We decided to take the trail behind the park, where the frisbee golf course is, it was beautiful.  I can see us doing a lot of walks back there.  Their was a mom and her son feeding the ducks in the pond.  So cool.  Here are some pictures at the park and a video of Austin with some of his new words.

 John David sitting on Grandpa's bench.

 Austin pushing John David.

 Austin and John David going down the slide together!

Austin riding the dinosaur!

Kathy, Sean and Vince came over.  Sean sure made the boys giggle, he has a way with getting them to laugh.  On Sunday, Grandpa came over to watch the Bears game and brought the boys a truck and a taxi.  Austin loved calling it a "tuck"

I'm looking forward to next weekend.  A visit to the pumpkin patch and possibly a visit to the movies so Austin can see his first movie at the movie theater!  He loves to watch movies!