Walking and Football

Ty is officially walking now.  He's been taking steps for a while, but around his 15 month b-day (October 9th) he started walking all the time, both inside and outside.  Every once in a while he'll scoot a little bit, but I think walking is his thing now.  Hooray!

 Now that Ty has mastered his walking skills, he's working on his football skills...

Jack has been playing a lot of basketball and football these days.  His new thing is to get his football ready for him to punt it in his "holder" made up of a duct tape roll and a toilet paper roll.  Then he kicks it (towards the door, not the tv). 

 We gave Ty his own tape roll to use too, since he likes to kick his football.  And he's learned how to cheese it for the camera.

Game Preparations

Jack has been busy today getting prepared for the BYU vs. USU game tonight.

He made this great sign...

 Then Jack worked on his football game a bit...

And Ty was happy trying to be like Jack...

Homecoming Parade

 Homecoming at the high school is a big deal here in Los Alamos.  The elementary schools let out at 1:00, so everyone can get ready and go to the Homecoming Parade. 

Kate and her friend Nina (pictured to the left of her) got ready by wearing their gold and green to school and then sprayed gold glitter on their hair and arms.  Jack is showing his Topper Spirit by wearing his green "Varsity" t-shirt. 

Then we headed to the parade...and found a spot by our friends the Nye's and Nina's family...

The goal of the Homecoming Parade is to get enough candy, so we don't have to buy any for Halloween...

 Ty LOVED sitting on the curb.  It was his dream come true to by able to play in the gutter and road for an hour.

 A sucker appeared at Ty's feet near the curb, so being the great parents that we are, we let him have a little taste.  Just enough to dribble some pink slobber on his new shirt and get his hands and face sticky, then we took it away.

Dave took Jack to the football game that night, but they came back home before halftime because the game was so boring.  They were losing badly.  Jack was ready to come home since he'd eaten his bag of popcorn and was ready to play with his new football that they gave him. 

Jack wanted to write his name on his football.