Trip to the Christmas tree farm

Another trip to Crown Center to go Ice skating.
CJ lucked out and there were a bunch of mascots there. He loves his mascots. The hardest part is making him wait his turn.
We finally found a thing that he didn't jump into full blast - ice skating. We will try again in late winter, or next year. He could stand up, but he didn't like the cold ice when he fell down.

We went to Crown Center and ate at Fritz's last weekend.

Pic #1 - toys setup for Christmas. If it has a wheel, he has to try and drive it.
Pic #2 - Still wearing the engineer's hat from Fritz's
Pic #3 - Where did that train go??
Pic #4 - In front of the Crown Center Christmas tree.

Gotcha day 1 year later - We went to the T-REX restaurant. D0 you think that he liked the dinosaurs??

1 Year ago today was Gotcha day. Actually the 15th.
Pics 1 & 3 were his last minutes in the orphanage. Pic #2 was at the hotel. It was his first taste of freedom other than the 30 minute cab ride.

More fall fun.
Pic #1 -Notice the snow boots. CJ is still fascinated by shoes. He found the Winnie the Poo snow boots down in the basement. He proceeded to wear them most of the weekend.
Pic #2, 5, & 6. The first attempt at flying a kite. It was a good day for pictures, but not enough wind to keep the kite in the air. We went again this weekend, and I thought that CJ was going up with the kite. The kite is 5 feet in width. I will give him credit, he did hang on - even as he was being dragged across the grass. He decided that it was more fun to throw the kite in the air after it would crash.
Pic #4 - The monkey at work. We just spot him, he does all of the climbing on his own.

Trick or Treat - He got the hang of it real quick.
Pic #1 - Sassy kept him company on the 1 1/2 hour candy hunt.
Pic #2 - Trying a 3 Muskateers after he got home.
Pic #3, 6 and 7 - Cutting pumpkins Sunday night.
Pic #4 - I like the Irony that CJ is dressed up like a dog, and the dogs are dressed up like super heros. It is hard to keep the mask on Sassy
Pic #5 - CJ and the dogs were getting hot, so not the best picture.

Fall fun at Worlds of fun. - He lasted for 6 hours, about 2 hours longer than I was expecting. He really is going to be happy when he grows 10 more inches and can ride the really good rides. He wanted to ride the Boomerang so bad. I finally had to pick him up and walk away. He wasn't very good at the kiddie bumper cars, since he kept avoiding the other cars.
Pic's 1, 2 & 3 - Posing for fall pics at Worlds of fun.
Pic #4 - The kid version of the Detonator. Other kids were crying, he loved it.
Pic #5 - On the Viking Voyager. Not really a roller coaster, but a pretty good drop down into the water. We had to ride it 3 times in a row.
Pic #6- He wasn't afraid of the wizard at all.
Pic #7 - After the octopus ride. We had just finished eating so I sat this one out. It didn't bother him however.