Future superstar....

OK, so I bought our next years costumes at 75% off.....Tucker tried them on. Maybe I will have some luck and get him in his next year, he really seemed to like having muscles.

Gorgeous day for outside

Cars , Cars, and MORE Cars

Tucker received a "mother load" of cars from a family friend. He absolutely loves his cars and trucks...and that is what we play. Usually it entails putting them down the slide and then collecting them after each and EVERY SINGLE ONE is down at the end...not one left that hasn't gone down the slide. Then we pick up while we sing the clean up song and we start all over again. NOW, it takes a while longer to get through all the cars....3 tubs and some bigger ones that don't fit. (thank you Nina for the cars) We also make our car noises and make the cars crash ...all great things for Tucker's imagination and growth. I LOVE to see him pretend play...it makes my heart soar.

PS-we work on our colors as we hand him the cars, stating and having him repeat the color of each one. I am hoping one day he will start saying the color of the car before we tell him the color.

How can you resist such a face....

Tucker had class retakes today....He is really working on his "cheese" when the camera is put infront of him so I will be anxious to see what they turn out like. Isnt he just the cutest thing ever, sitting there, legs up chilling out....you cant see it in the picture but there is a "berber" and "ies" infront of him that he was eating. We stopped on our way home from daycare--just me and him tonight so we McDee'd it.....Tuckmans FAVORITE. (well that and pizza)

Halloween

Tucker didnt go trick or treating but he sure passed out the candy. He waited at the door and even said his own version of "trick or treat" to the kids. He was very dissapointed when we would have a lull in the kids coming by.....but he waited and helped with the next bags that came. He wouldnt have anything to do with putting his costume on, so we just stayed in normal clothes and enjoyed the other kiddos. I think maybe next year he will be ready to go door to door and get his own candy. (maybe not in a costume though) He enjoyed eating some candy during all the excitement.

Hunter went door to door collecting cans for Harvesters. She got about 30 canned goods to donate. No costume for her either. We will have to find a drop off for the cans today...I think our local grocery store collects them.

I L O V E the dollar store

Look at this great find......too cute huh? Baker in training. I think I will go back and get a few extras to put into hiding for gifts....perfect for the daycare, yeah? Dress up and cooking in the play kitchen. OHHHH yeah.

How we play......

Tucker has this fascination with the slide. EVERYTHING has to go down it....all the match box cars, all the ball pit balls, dinosaurs, bears, and then finally....Tucker. It is amazing how far a ball can go when coming down the slide, or how a car can turn and flip coming off the tip of it. We collect all the items after we run out and go again.

Just a little tidbit. Tucker is learning more and more words each day. He now knows: straw, cheese burger (berber is what he says), car, truck, bus, Whitney, Brett, sissy, Daddy, MOM, Grandma, nigh night, excuse me, help, up, play, eyes, nose, belly, juice, milk, bites, yogurt, ham, and he tries many words without knowing exactly what he is saying. He sings in the car to the songs we play all the time...like Money Money Money on the Mamma Mia cd, and Josh Groban's "You are Loved". He wears his hat each day and takes his coat off when he gets home and goes to hang it up..not quite tall enough but sure stretches up on his tippy toes to try.

Step up For Down Syndrome

Yesterday was our Step up for DS walk. Our team was smaller this year but still had great turn out. This year we tried something a little different....we grilled ourselves. Now that we know exactly where we can and cannot do that, next year should be even better. I think that is the way to go....take a grill and do a full blown tailgate party!

It was amazing how many people, tents, signs of loved ones with DS were there. Each year it gets bigger and bigger. I think they said they had 7000 people signed up to walk. That is almost double our first years numbers. We started walking the year Tucker was due, 2005. It was such a great day.....nice weather, nice people and family that support Tucker and DS 100%. Thank you to everyone who came out ....!

Thank you to Kim and Nick for the AWESOME new sign!!!!