Falling Into Fall

Graham, Cookie, Bompa, Zach, and I went to a Fall Festival at one of the local nurseries.  Graham loved all the Halloween themed sights! 

Checking out the vulture

Pumpkins

Cruising around

Graham and Mommy (LOVE this picture of us together)

Graham and Bompa posing in the train

Graham and I posing in the train

Graham's Elmo balloon

Happy Fall!

Graham and Bompa getting ready for the train ride to start

Graham and Bompa checking out the vulture

Checking out a big pumpkin

One of These Things is Not Like the Others...

Field Trip of Foliage

My sister, Angie (nicknamed Abe in our family...G often calls her Abey) and I took Graham to the Denver Botanic Gardens after I received some free passes. Neither of us had ever been there before, and we were so glad that we had the opportunity to go. The gardens are absolutely beautiful, and Graham really loved running around and looking at the different plants and flowers.

Me, Graham, and Angie

Love G's face...he's looking at a bird flying over



The Gardens currently has a Japanese influenced exhibit being shown.  Here is Angie by one of the bamboo sculptures



G checking out the flowers

Pretty yellow flowers...these were everywhere in the Gardens

These are called Lamb's Ears.  They are incredibly soft.

G checking out one of the water features

Another water feature

Another bamboo sculpture

This was beautiful with the mist rolling over.  Garden workers were also manicuring the area.

G taking a closer look

Beautiful view

Hibiscus flower

Another neat water feature

And again with the water feature

Very cool and unusual path, although it was a little bumpy for the stroller

Orchids

Close-up of a plant in the tropical enclosure

Checking out the tropical frogs with the help of Auntie Abe

The kid's garden

Running across the bridge in the kid's garden

Putting his feet in the water in the kid's garden

Thomas & Friends

We were lucky enough to be able to take Graham to A Day With Thomas at the Colorado Railroad Museum.  We had a seriously GREAT time!  A photo recap of our day:

The Pretekin Family with Thomas

Grandma and Graham

Papa, Michael, and Graham checking out one of the trains

G's first tattoo

Awesome electric train setup

Thomas pulling Annie and Clarabel

Tent setup for playing with all sorts of trains

Thomas coming 'round the bend!

The petting zoo

Napping after a fun and exciting day

ABC's & 123's

I always try to catch Graham doing his "tricks" on video, but as many parents know, once that camera rolls out, they just stop and stare at you.  Luckily I was able to get a little piece of him showing off his smarts today.  We've been practicing our ABC's, and while G doesn't have the song down perfectly yet, he is able to identify some letters.  He's also been able to count to 10 (and sometimes a little higher) for a while now.  He didn't really do much for the video, but he started too!

It's Baaaaaack

Just when you thought the cracking up was over, we're back for video 4 of Graham cracking up!



See here, here, and here if you missed these three the first time around.

From Big Boy Bed to BIIIIIG Boy Bed

Graham has also moved out of his pack'n'play.  This is him at my parent's house in Evergreen!