Kentucky Part 2 - Cooking Lesson

Big Daddy Manoo gave the boys a cooking lesson on how to make a Persian dish with grilled ground beef, spices, onion, and tomatoes. We even got waited on once the cooking was complete. We are looking forward to Dan re-creating the delicious dish.

Kentucky Part 3 - Uncle David and Silliness

Nickolas and Lucy were entertained by their Uncle David quite a few times. Nickolas enjoyed climbing on him, swatting flies, and just overall silliness.

Lucy's Crawling!

Lucy is getting mobile -- flipping over during diaper changes, standing, creeping, and crawling.

Our little inch worm.

Nickolas's Jam Session

Nickolas loves to pull from the bathroom the toilet paper roll holder to sing into it like a microphone. We have no idea where he would have seen anything like that to do -- it's as if he's an Aerosmith fan. Sometimes, he uses the trash can or the toilet seat as a drum set. This time, we had the privilege to have all of the items dragged out to the kitchen for a special performance. You can see his number 1 fan watching on.

Reston Zoo

We went out to enjoy one of the last few warm and sunny days outside at the Reston Zoo after a solid week of rain. We saw zebras, camels, kangaroos (roos), an owl that flew right at our heads (but was luckily behind cage bars), a turkey (that truly said 'gobble gobble'), ostriches, emus, spider monkeys, goats and sheep, among others. More exciting, Nickolas went on a donkey ride and thought it was pretty cool.

Nickolas and Greta being silly.

Lucy is 8 months

and had a chat with daddy to discuss it.

Fall Festival at Cox Farms

Nickolas went to Cox Farms with Greta. Since Halloween has passed, they offer a pumpkin drop if you bring your own pumpkin. Greta and Nickolas brought theirs even though Nickolas grew quite fond of his (it was beginning to get moldy, anyway). We didn't even cover half the farm including the hayride, so we'll definitely go back next year. Cox Farms is just too much fun (can you tell mommy likes the Fall?).

We're here! With pumpkins and firetruck in tow.

Honoring the Wisco heritage.

No, the cow doesn't really care about the fire truck.

Checking out the pumpkin drop as it goes up even higher.

Whoa, look at our pumpkins go up!

Lucy and Henry hanging out taking it all in.

A cozy Lucy with Nickolas in the background going down the slide.

Weeee!!! Giant barn slide with mommy, Nickolas, and Greta.

Picking out their parting baby pumpkins.

Leaf Pile!

Happy Halloween!

Nickolas and Lucy had a fun Halloween at Sue and Wayne's; however, oddly enough, it was so warm outside, the outfits they were ready to wear were too heavy. Lucy got as far as her pants for her little bunny outfit from Aunt Linda and Nickolas's fireman coat was too warm. He was also too busy having a wild time passing out Halloween candy and playing with pumpkins. He especially enjoyed the coolest purple birthday cake ever and helped Patricia blow (spit) out the candles.

Trick or Treat!

Happy Fall

We (mommy) carved a pumpkin and roasted (burnt) pumpkins seeds. We've been enjoying the fall temperatures and Nickolas is getting eager for trick-o-treating in 2 days. One thing nice about the D.C. area is that Fall lasts a long time and all of the various trees are ever-changing.

We're just about at peak for fall colors.

Nickolas a few days ago pre-carving.

Burnt pumpkin seeds -- good thing for Penzey's Seasoned Salt!

The kiddies with their Jack-o-lantern