Our September

Man has September been crazy! We have been really busy with hanging out, Jeff has had many shows, and more just hanging out. It's been a great month. Here's some of the fun stuff we've been up to this month:

More dance class. We signed Cale up for 4 weeks of dance class and each week we have gone he has enjoyed it a little more. Here are some more pictures from dance class:


Practicing his shuffle kicks

Reaching the sky and touching his toes


We went with Gaga and Papa to the Forest Park Balloon Race

It was so hot!






One worn out little guy resting on Papa


Free night at the Magic House with mommy and daddy

Shopping at the grocery store

Fishing with daddy. Cale loved this!!!

Putting phrases together

It amazes me that Cale is starting to put things together when it comes to words. He is completing phrases and it's awesome! He is putting a few words together at a time. Here are a few examples:
Sit with you
Cale big boy

They may not quite be sentences yet, but it's so cool to watch his vocabulary grow!

And Cale has started to recognize himself as "Cale." He can point himself out in pictures and will point to himself and say Cale and then point to me and Jeff and say mommy, daddy, and then Cale!

Playdoh and Dancing

Cale loves playdoh and he loves to dance. We are trying a dance class that a friend from church recommended for young ones-it's a parent child class. Tonight was the first night of class. The beginning of class was great-he had a great time. Then it came time to put on the tap shoes and he threw a fit and would have nothing to do with the class from there on out-pretty much cried the rest of the time. I am hoping that he will like it a little more next week. We are going to try it for a month and if he likes it, that's great, if not, then that's totally cool too. Here are some pictures from tonight before the melt down. They do ballet, tap, and some tumbling. Here's also some pictures of him playing playdoh!


Doing a somersault

reaching to the ground, then touching the sky in dance class!



Playdoh!

Race

I ran my first race since 1998 in preparation for the Lewis and Clark 1/2 marathon. It was the JCC Labor Day run 10K (6.2) miles and man was it a race full of lots of hills!!! My brother in law, Andy, actually ran also and he won the whole race! Way to go. Then he ran back out to find me and helped me finish my last mile. He was calling the hills "happy hills" and although I didn't quite see them as happy hills-I think he was joking around-it was encouraging to have him help me finish the race! I finished at 1hr 2 minutes and 4 seconds-about a 10 minute 7 second mile average! I was really excited about that. Here are some pictures from race day.


Andy and me

Me walking with my little man after the race

So close to being done!

Here we come!

Baby Judah

Kristi and Jason welcomed baby Judah Peter Atkinson into the world on September 1st. He was 7lbs 14 ozs and 21 inches long. Congrats to the new parents! Jeff and I are now an uncle and aunt and Cale has a cousin! How cool is that!