I love to eat, eat, eat, apples and bananas...

A couple of weeks ago I came in the kitchen and saw Trey eating a full on apple.  I thought he must've used his amazing houdini skills to get it, and immediately tried to take it away (tried, because this kid has an amazing grip!  He could've won the battle if it had gone on much longer :).  Dale heard the ruckus and came in and admitted he gave it him.  Oh.  Nice.  So, now Trey's most favorite activity in the world is eating an apple.  In fact, tonight I caught him with an apple core and I couldn't figure out where it came from.  At first I thought Dale gave him an apple to eat until I noticed how nice and brown and old the apple core looked...ew.  Then I realized Trey went dumpster diving in Dale's garbage can in the piano room.  Yuck!  Time to find a new place for the garbage. 

My apple eating machine. 

Hip, Hip, Hooray for Baby Trey!

Our little Trey bunny L-O-V-E-S to be praised.  He grins when we say "Good boy Trey!" and claps his hands when we call out "Way to go buddy!"  He shouts YAY when we say it first :).  We've been trying to deter him from using "NO" which has been a frequent visitor in our household the last few weeks, by giving him constant praise when he does something we like.  Is it working?  Absolutely!  I guess only time will tell for how long though :).  Other than saying "NO" Trey hasn't really said many new full-on words.  He sure gets brownie points for trying though...ba is ball...shhh is shoe.  It's been fun to see that he actually understands what we're telling him, even if he still struggles communicating back.  He will go get his shoes, help put his toys away (if we praise him :), pick out a book for us to read to him, and sometimes stop doing something if we tell him to stop, or when we use the N word.  He sure knows how to make us happy!  We love this kiddo!   

Trey and his daddy...we LOVE it when he says "daddy"...it's super high pitched and pretty much adorable :)  

 I thought it was funny they're making the same face in this one :)

Lions and Tiger and Bears, OH MY!

This year I shopped early for Trey's Halloween costume and found the cutest little tiger costume I'd ever seen.  Up until I found it Trey was going to be a monster.  Even he loved the tiger costume though...at least he did the first 5 times I made him try it on :).  I just couldn't get enough of him waddling around in it.  The tricky part was deciding what Dale and I were going to be to match him for Laura's annual family Halloween party.  We ended up as "Lions, and Tigers, and bears, Oh My!"    

Trey on Halloween night...we went to Carl's Jr. for dinner...yummy french fries! :)

On our way to trick or treat!

Enjoying the loot :)

Pumpkin Patch

This year we took Trey to a pumpkin patch.  We were so excited!  Trey didn't share our enthusiasm.  All he wanted to do was run laps around the outside of the patch.  I had to pick him up and place him inside a grove of pumpkins and then quickly take a picture so I could get some with him even near a pumpkin.  We decided the first pumpkin he picked up would be the one we bought him.  By the end of the night we had no pumpkin.  He finally decided he enjoyed knocking on them, but wouldn't touch them other than that :).  I ended up getting him a tiny little pumpkin that fit in his hands.  He tried to eat it like an apple :).