Egg Salad

Yet another entry on the battle of wills with food.  We tried feeding him good old fashion Filipino food.  Food as a one year old he would gobble up, but once again, our picky eater has reared its ugly head.

Becca says she has never seen a little boy who loved egg salad. In fact, Scrumpy is an equal opportunity egg lover, enjoying every form of it. He was eating an egg salad sammie for dinner and I could not resist capturing his joy.

Ballon boy

I was listening to the news and they said that the balloon boy was 37 pounds and six years old.  Scrumpy is 37 pounds and just over two years old.  I am still trying to figure out how that can be.

Terrible Twos

We are definitely experiencing the terrible twos! Its not so much terrible as much as it is a battle of wills. Never mind the fact that genetically we were bound to have a stubborn child based on his parents, we still find ourselves wondering at times where our sweet compliant little boy went. Of late, he has been very clear with us what he wants to eat and when. Usually that means he only wants cookies and chocolate milk. While we try to lay down the law it is hard to do so at Gramma's, especially with all his aunties around. He finds his allies quickly. At Grandpa's birthday, refusing to eat, Auntie Michelle patiently sat with him and "fed" his backyardigan friends so that he would eat along with them. I cannot wait for threes.........

If you look closely you will see Austin and Tyrone have pizza

The worse part is he tries to be charming while being difficult and it often works

Ardenwoon Pumpkin Patch

Every year, we try a new pumpkin patch.  This year, we ventured to Ardenwood and Perry's farms.  We weren't sure how much fun it would be, but that was just naive.  I think he shot out of the car and went barreling down the rows of pumpkins without a second thought to his family, much to his parents' chagrin.  The only thing that stopped him was the tractor that was hauling visitors around.  Of course, when you bring a Grandma with you to places like this, you are bound to do things that you wouldn't normally, hence the family went on a tractor ride.  Have no fear that Scrumpy would be startled by the rough ride, he actually tried to make the tractor pull bounce more!  All boy that Scrumpy!

After the tractor he climbed the hay pyramid and even took a stab at the kiddie corn maze.  If he had his say in the matter, I think he would have been there all day.  Alas, all good things must come to an end.  Here is another sucessful trip to the pumpkin patch.  I wonder where we will wind up next year.