Well, here we are!  Junior here… sorry to have kept you in suspense for so long.  We’ve been quite busy, as usual.  We had a great Fall, and an exciting week of vacation, which was kind of a first for us as a family.  We’ll try to bring you up to date over the next couple of blog posts, but for now let’s work on October thru November.

This picture was taken before October, but since we’re just so cute we thought we’d put it in here.

For All Saints Day I dressed up as St. Edward the Confessor, and Bumblebee was St. Rose of Viterbo.  Mommy made my costume, which she said took hours, and Bumblebee’s costume is mine from last year (after spending all that time on my costume Mommy didn’t have time to make a new one for Bumblebee).  Anyway, here we are, all dressed up and ready to party!

For vacation we first went to see Squeaker’s Godparents in the Quad City area of Illinois and Iowa.  We had a blast there – we got to play with their kids, Clare and Peter.  Clare is my age, and Peter is Squeaker’s age.  Here are a couple pictures from our visit with them.

After leaving Clare’s house we were going to go to St. Louis to see Daddy’s sister and her family, but I got a nasty cold, so instead of sharing it with them we decided to go home for a couple days and hope the vitamins C and D would work quickly so we could still enjoy some of our vacation.  It turned out they did work, and I was over my cold in just 2 days, so we spent those two days back in Kansas City, seeing some things we haven’t bothered to see in our own area.  These pictures were taken at Liberty Memorial, the World War I museum in Kansas City.

We also visited the KC Zoo while we were home.  Here’s a picture of Mommy and the three of us kids, followed by one at Crown Center, where we visited Fritz’s for lunch, and the train brought us our food – sure wish we had a picture of that to share.

When we took off for Arkansas to see Mommy’s cousin and then on to Oklahoma, it was lots more driving, but Mommy and Daddy said we did a good job in the car, all things considered.  I guess this next picture proves it.  Well, you can only see so much road and trees before you get a little tired of it… literally.

Anyway, in Oklahoma we spent a couple nights at a really neat hunting lodge in the rolling hills of the northeast corner of the state.  Even though it rained that first night we still had a lot of fun.  The next few pictures show some of the fun things we saw there – including the pet deer that “attacked” Bumblebee… well, it was trying to play with her, but the deer didn’t know how to play gently, so he knocked her over and pawed at her, but she was okay, just a little spooked.  She still hasn’t forgotten it.  Anytime we mention “deer” she starts pointing to her shoulder, where the deer pawed at her.  I think it’s her badge of courage – she’s pretty proud of it anyway.

The hunting lodge was a log cabin that used to be someone’s house many years ago.  It was neat.  And here are Bumblebee and I running on the “moving” bridge.  At first we were scared, but then we had fun.

So after we left the hunting lodge we headed home.  It was a good vacation, and we hope to go back to the hunting lodge when the weather is warmer so we can enjoy the outdoors even more.  But not sure if it will happen this year, as this will be the first Summer that mommy will have a big pregnant belly!  That’s right, we’re going to have a new baby brother or sister in September!  We just found out a few weeks ago.  Anyway, we will try to blog again very soon and catch you up on Christmas and birthdays (I’m 3 now, and Bumblebee is 2).  Until then, God bless you all!