Return from Missouri

We had a lovely trip to visit my brother and his family. It went by super fast...I wish we had more time to spend with them. I'm not going to bother with a day by day list of activities, there were too many to remember! Pietro did most of the picture taking. It was liberating to not take pictures, to not cook dinners, and to not worry about entertaining Amedeo all day. Finn is 9 months older than Amedeo. Finn taught our boy to scream. Lucky us.

Occasionally, we'd get a little exercise in our day. This is a little park that has caves and a natural bridge.


Finn enjoyed feeding Amedeo. No fingers were lost here.


We did lots of playground activities. Finn is a very active fellow. Very active. VERY VERY active. Consequently, his mommy and daddy get very very tired. I learned that they spend lots of running around time outside at many different times of day...early in the morning, after dark, right before bedtime. The picture below is from a gigantic playground that has many different levels of equipment. It's probably 4 times as big as the scrap tire playground.




Here are the three kids swinging.


And, Morgan, our chef for the week...not only does he draw excellent cars, but he cooks a fantastic turkey...and almost anything else. We ate like kings.



Here's a picture of Finn wearing his Halloween costume. It's awesome! Next year, I'm going to be a tractor too!