Orange!

Lately, Gage and I have had some crazy weeks, all jumbled and stuff going on all the time. We've been having lots of fun, but I decided that a theme for the week or something would be fun and maybe give us a little more structure! I think maybe a little of my motivation for this comes because Gage hasn't had therapies for probably 4 months now. With the move and all that, we really haven't pushed too hard to get them up and going again, yet. Not gonna lie, it's been kinda nice! But I still want to give him opportunities to learn. So we are on a mission to learn colors! Orange probably wouldn't have been my first choice on a color to teach Gage, but since it is Halloween this week, I decided it would be fun and there seems to be lots of orange around!

We woke up this morning and dressed Gage in an orange shirt. Then for breakfast, we had mandarin oranges, and peach yogurt!

Then we put Gage's orange apron on and colored an orange picture to send to Uncle Kaden in South Africa! (Any time we start coloring, Gage asks for a "fish" so I get to show off my drawing skills for him :) )

For a snack, we had orange goldfish! Then I didn't take a picture at lunch, but we had grilled cheese sandwiches with orange cheese.
We've had a lot of fun so far, I think we're going to like doing this!

Pumpkin Pickin'!

As Gage and I were driving last week with Gramma Jill & Papa Joe, we came across this house with pumpkins piled all over the front lawn. We decided to stop there and pick our own pumpkins!

I think Gage thought the whole pumpkin thing was pretty cool, going around and knocking on them and seeing what they are all about.

But when we decided to plop him onto the big pile of pumpkins, it wasn't his favorite thing. That is, until Hewie joined him! Then I think he was too distracted to care!

It was fun checking out all the crazy pumpkins and choosing our favorites!

Cousins

We got to have our family come visit us for the weekend, so we had to get some cute pictures of the kids.

::: Paisley & Gage :::

::: With Gramma Jill :::

AHH! A spider!
(not really, but that's totally what it looks like!)

Fun Fact

another fun fact:


Gage loves playing on playgrounds. As long as there aren't other kids around, he goes up and down and up and down. If there are other kids around, he is completely fascinated by them. Especially the older kids that are all over the place. So he stares in amazement.

And because he watches the older kids all the time, he thinks the monkey bars are so much fun. He hangs on for dear life (even though I don't let him go) and gets so excited.

And this toy thing, whatever it's called, is super fun. Gage is demonstrating how you are supposed to play on it. In his eyes, this is totally the way you do it, and it is way fun. Reach up as high as your arms will let you and then stick your belly out.

We live right next to an elementary school right now, so we've loved being able to just walk to the park whenever we want to go play. But now almost every time we go to walk out the door, Gage looks up at me and signs "play" with a questioning look. As if he is trying to say, "so we are going to play, right?" :)

Fun Fact

Another cute little fact:
Gage now understands the "real" purpose of dandelions.
(I think Papa Joe might have had something to do with this new fascination)


first, ya pick it,

then, you blow on it and watch the seeds fly away!

It made my day the first time I watched Gage bend down to pick a dandelion. I remember getting so excited when I would find one, it is so fun to watch the same excitement come from Gage!

Party Month!!

It's October, and that means it is the month to CeLEbRaTE Gage! October is Down syndrome awareness month, so I am going to try really hard to be good about blogging this month so everyone can join us in our celebration of Gage!

I'll blog random facts about Gage and the joy he brings into our family every single day!

Gage keeps me on my toes, that is for sure! He loves to play outside. These pictures are from a cute farm near our home.
Fact 1: PuDDleS!! Puddles are the coolest thing ever, just ask Gage! If he sees one, we must stop. He may be soaked by the end of it, but man are they fun!