Catch-up!

If you are going to make it through this blog post, you better grab a drink. It is loooooong! I will just quickly caption each pic to keep it short. :o) Here are Owen and Izzy after playing at the spray grounds at City Park.

Owen loved his pool!

Hudson and Owen at Paradise Park this summer, playing in the wood chips instead of on the playground equipment. :o)

O and Hudson in the water room

If you want to make Owen happy, just put him in a ball pit!!



At Paradise Park, they have tiny sinks....which Izzy and Owen loved, of course.

And they also have a toddler room. Apparently Owen thinks he is King Kong or something. He literally tore that room apart with the help of his lil friends.



The secret to keeping toddlers happy when they are still rear-facing in the car? Give them snacks.

Owen and Mommy at the Platte County Demolition Derby! Owen had a blast!



He even went on his first fair ride!


And shared a Hawaiian Ice with Mommy while we enjoyed the derby.



We also went to Deanna Rose Farmstead this summer. After Owen ran out of goat-feed to feed the goats, he tried picking up poop pellets and feeding the goats that. SICK.



Deanna Rose has a little school house, and the kids got to play with slates and chalk! A few pieces may have been eaten. :o)



And the hilight of the day....feeding baby goats bottles! Owen LOVED this.

Not scared at all! He chased those goats down, and all together fed them 4 bottles.



Here are the kids at the waterfall!



We also went to St. Louis for a weekend in July to visit my wonderful Uncle Jerry and Aunt Marlene and my sweet cousins Tara and Ian. We all took Owen to the zoo and it poured.down.rain the whole time. Owen and his cousins went to Build a Bear and he made a Polar Bear that Tara and Ian named "Slusky Jr. II" There is a story behind that, but we won't go there. Not today.

Owen had a blast playing on Tara's balance beam!



We also went with Hudson's family to the new Chuck E. Cheese, and had fun! Owen loved driving the cars.



Here are Owen and Hudson in the monster truck! What big boys!!

Behind the scenes...

I thought it would be fun to share some "out-takes" of sessions I have done for friends that I have brought Owen to so you could a.) see pics of Owen, and b.) see what he does while Mommy is working! Here he is, playing with Izzy during her session.

Here is Owen, enjoying some of Izzy's snacks/bribes.

He is a perfect model to use to set my exposure! And you can plainly see why I had to watermark these pictures...they are so amazing that someone might steal them and claim them as their own. Right? Right? Just kidding, please know that these are OUT-TAKES! :o)

And here he is again eating my model's treats. He is definitely NOT shy when it comes to fruit snacks. We went to St. Louis this weekend to visit my Uncle Jerry, Aunt Marlene, and my cousins Tara and Ian (and my brother, Adam!). I swear that Owen mooched more fruit snacks off of Aunt Marlene! She never saw it coming, poor woman. :o)

Here he is, hard at work, distracting Izzy from smelling the flowers. Clearly Owen is more interesting than posing for pictures!

And here he is with daddy at my last session. What a goofball! He is getting so big! I have a lot to post later this week! I have pics from St. Louis, pics from Deanna Rose Farm, Paradise Park, etc. I have been a total slacker!