The sky afire...

I know there are a million sunset pictures out there but I think there's a good reason for that. There's something magical about a really good sunset. When the sky is all afire with colour and you can't help but admire it.

The other night I stepped out onto the deck to let the dogs back in and the sky was just amazing. I wished so badly that I was over by the water to capture it from there but, even though we're close to the water, I knew it would be over before I got there. So I settled for some shots from home. And I'm glad that I did.

So this week we headed off to check out our new surroundings. And found the pumpkin fields. Pumpkins as far as the eye can see.

Okay, not quite that far but there are a whole lot of pumpkins out there!

So the other day we went for a little walk down by the river, just enjoying the nice day. The monster was having great fun, jumping as the gulls flew by and getting into everything within reach. Thank goodness for his backpack with the leash attached! Because he definitely wanted to jump on into the river and we just weren't going to play that game.

I took a few pictures along the way and was enjoying all the sounds, including the rustling of the grass in the breeze so I naturally had to try and get a picture of it. I was trying to catch the motion of the grass and the monster was surprisingly cooperative with my attempts!

The running of the ducks...

Wow, I can't believe it's been so long since I posted anything here. How does so much time just slip away?

Anyway, I'm trying to get back into "it", so to speak. And I'm even going to try and takes pictures of things other than the light of my life. But I had to post this one.

Taken at a recent wedding, the monster man was utterly and completely fascinated by the ducks and kept trying to capture one.

I have no idea what he thought he was going to do with it if he caught one but fortunately, he never did.

My little monster is 11 months old!!

Holy crap. I'm just... baffled at how this happened.

He's 11 months old. In a month he'll be a year. I can't get over how big he is... and so mobile. He's not quite walking yet but he really wants to! He's cruising along on the furniture and changing his diaper is... well... a challenge.

As I do every month, I took his pictures today with the stuffed dog his Grandpa gave him.

At first, he looked a bit distrustful of his friend...


I did get some great smiles from him though!! Ah... but you might notice that in the first picture we have socks. In the second and third pictures, no socks.



Which brings us to our photo of this months technical difficulty. One of my little monsters favourite games is sock removal. No sooner did I get him sitting down then we went after the socks. He's a determined little man too!


Happy almost birthday, my little man!

Not the baby but another halloween post...

All right. I just had to post this. As one of the reasons I love the WB.

A while back, there was a post from someone about a rainbow cake and it just looked so cool I had to try it. I waited for quite a while because I couldn't find any gel food colouring but I decided to try it with regular food colouring. I just used a little less water to balance out the extra fluid from the food colouring.

And since it was halloween, I dyed the frosting orange and used some chocolate chips to make him a bit more halloween-y.

I know I know... sad cake decorating skills!

It's been a year?! Halloween pumpkins..

I can't believe I've had this blog for a year now! My god... this time last year I was a month and a half way from giving birth (I thought I had more time) and taking pictures of fake pumpkins because I hadn't managed to get any before they all sold out.

This year. My son's first Halloween. And I bought three pumpkins two weeks ago. Hah! Learned my lesson, didn't I?

So... since I posted pictures of my pumpkins this time last year, I need to post them again.

Although... technically... I think this post is going to show up as a November 1st.

And tomorrow? Perhaps a picture of my little man's first Halloween costume!