Visit to the Forney Museum of Transportation

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The Smithsonian magazine recently had a museum day one Saturday, where you could get free admission to a bunch of different museums across the country. Josh’s co-worker, who has a wife and a little girl a little older than Carson, invited us and some other friends to the Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver – a kind of cool museum that we probably would never have found otherwise, but we’re glad we did. There were mostly lots and lots of cool old cars, bikes, trains, and all sorts of modes of transportation on display. It was kind of a quirky museum; you weren’t allowed to touch ANYTHING – I guess that’s normal for a museum, but hard with a big open floor of awesome cars to look at when you have kids under two. So though Carson was a little fed up with all the walking and only looking by the end, we had a lot of fun. And they did have one room with toys where the kids got to play, and, randomly, one old jeep that you could actually climb inside! Definitely the highlight for Carson (and where all the pictures were taken). The highlight for Josh (and, okay, Paige too) was a room kind of hidden in the back where a bunch of old men build amazingly huge and intricate hobby train tracks. Carson liked that, too, because they had working trains that he and Josh followed around and around… All in all, a really fun day.

Dad’s little helper

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Carson has this toy phone that he loves, but one day a while ago he dropped it on the floor and it hasn’t made noise since. :( (Sorry, Mom! It was a great birthday gift, and still is – Carson loves it even without the music.) One night Josh tried to fix it, sadly unsuccessfully, but I did get these adorable pictures of Carson being dad’s little helper. Carson loves tools and wants to use them, especially any time he sees Josh with a screwdriver. Josh was so nice to let Carson help:

First snow of the season

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We got our first snow of the season a little bit ago! Since then we’ve had more, but there’s something special about that first coating of white outside. Carson was pretty fascinated with it (he’s technically experienced snow before last winter, but I’m sure he doesn’t remember it). We couldn’t resist heading outside to play for a bit.

He actually didn’t really like walking around in the snow/grass like this. And he really didn’t like when he fell and ended up sitting in it:

He did like touching the snow on the porch, where he didn’t have to walk through it, and holding the little snowballs I made him. We’ll have to get some real snow play in soon!

Halloween 2012

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What a great Halloween it was. We took Carson for his first time trick-or-treating, and he definitely liked it. (We went to a ward trunk-or-treat party, too, but we didn’t stay for the trunk-or-treating part, and and we didn’t have any good pictures to post.)

Trick-or-treating in our neighborhood the night of Halloween was a lot of fun, though. Carson dressed up as a monkey and Josh and I were zookeepers (though I don’t think anyone could really tell – oh, well. People could tell at the trunk-or-treat and that was fun). Josh carried him most of the time, and Carson held onto his candy bucket but became increasingly interested in the brightly-colored wrapped things people kept dropping in his bucket. All he wanted to do was pull all the candy out and hold it in his hands, ha. I don’t think he even knew really that you eat candy and it tastes good. He just like the bright wrappers.

After a round around the block we headed home and Carson got to dump out his bucket and hold all of his candy to his heart’s content. He loved picking it up, inspecting it, showing it to Mom and Dad, and finding a new piece to hold. And then we let him try a Milky Way and things just kept getting better. Now that he knows that all of that stuff in his bucket is actually edible and yummy, we’ve got to keep it hidden. ;) He caught me sneaking a piece from his bucket hidden in the pantry the other day and was a little hurt, I think. I admit I felt pretty guilty…but I did share. Does that make it okay?

Hope you had a happy Halloween, Carson! Here are some pictures of costumes and Carson enjoying his candy afterwards. He must have been kind of tired that night or something because he had this kind of blank glazed expression on his face the whole time, but we know he had a great time.