Next time you're in Baltimore...

Unfortunately, we never tried it. Nate's not a seafood fan, and I'm not in the best state to safely enjoy seafood. It was sure fun to see, though. I wonder if there's a special discount for relations or having the name on one's driver's licence. I should have asked. The problem is it didn't seem like a popular place. We drove by it a couple of times and never saw more than one or two cars.

Pedal Boat in Hermann Park

Josh loved it.


Caleb wasn't sure how he felt about it. He held my hand for a while.

He finally smiled. Sort of.

Was it worth the money? Yes.

Plus, Nate got a thirty minute leg workout.

Happy Birthday, Caleb!!!

Thank you, Grandma Wright, for use of the plastic train and the trees. Caleb love the cake.

He loves trains, dinosaurs (Dinosaur Train is a favorite show), animals, Thomas the Tank Engine movies, playing with Josh, running, parks, bitting things, Lightening McQueen, oranges, pineapple, raisins, milk, juice, and ice cream.

It's a girl!!

It is a girl!

We're excited!

Utah

From Dec 13-20, we were in Utah. It was a last minute decision. The opportunity came up, and we took it by the horns. Nate was already going to be there. He had a residency interview at the U. Josh and Caleb saw all their great-grandparents and one grandparent. Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of them with my Grandma Eunice. I thought I had!

Southwest, our airline of choice

Great-Grandma Eunice's front yard in SLC
Josh loved the snow. Caleb only loved it when his hands weren't in it.
Caleb doesn't like to be cold and wet. Josh could care less.
I'm more like Caleb.

Great-Grandma and Grandpa Allred in Provo


Great-Grandma and Grandpa Wright in Pleasant Grove

Grandma Wright

It was a fast trip. Everything seemed to whiz by. I'm glad that I went and loved everything that we did, but there was so much more I wanted to do!!!

Oh, well. Next time...

Josh's Birthday

We gave Candy Land to Josh as an early birthday present (we re-wrapped it for his birthday). He really liked playing it, and I found this idea for a cake that I wanted to try. I tweaked it a bit and googled candy land cakes for more ideas. I didn't use fancy cake decorating stuff. I just threw on a bunch of candy, and it worked! Josh loved it!

I thought the picture would be rotated, but for some reason it's not. Well, you get the idea. It was fun. After a day, the candy canes and dumb-dumbs start to melt and drip, though. It still tasted good.

In the grocery store, Josh told me he wanted a blue cake. I had already started buying candy for it, but I tried to dye the inside of the cake blue. Well...I bought a yellow cake mix and...blue and yellow make green...no matter how much blue food coloring you put in. I didn't get a picture of it, but the inside of the cake was a nice shade of green. Oops. Next time I'll know.

Halloween Fun

I know this post is coming late, but better late than never...I say.

On the Friday before Halloween, our zoo had a special hours where toddlers/preschoolers could wear their costumes, trick or treat, get their face painted, and do other Halloween activities. I don't remember what those other activities were because Josh wasn't interested in doing anything besides seeing the animals. The first thing Josh wanted to do once we got to the zoo was take his costume off. After much persuasion, I got him to pose for a picture or two before taking it off.

Based on how Josh didn't like wearing the skeleton costume at the zoo and how much Caleb and Josh love running around with capes, I was planning on Josh and Caleb going to our ward's "Trunk or Treat" as Supermen or Spidermen. Nate noticed, however, in the stash of costumes we got from his mom that we had a bat costume...
Needless to say, Caleb was the cutest bat I'd ever seen.

Like last year, we loved our pumpkin. Mom, Dad, Josh, and Caleb all took turns scraping out the innards.


This year I made Halloween pillowcases for candy bags. They worked well. We'll see how many years we'll use them. I hope as long as there are Wright kids to use them.

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!