New York... Central New York that is.

This past weekend I went to Syracuse with Mommy and Daddy! We went because Daddy wanted to go to a perfusion conference and, since Mommy and I had never been there before, we thought it was as good a time as any to go. We got there on Friday around noon and it was cold. Around 50 during the day and at night it was in the 20's. We stayed with Daddy's good friend John Kleis in Cicero. I had fun crawling all over his house. It was really nice. Thanks again John! I was also able to spend some time with Aunt Jane, Uncle Gary, Amy and Amanda up at their house in Constantia. We played around inside and walked around outside and down to Scriba Creek. It was great meeting them and playing around in the living room! I also went over the O'Dell's new house. Jeff and Diane had recently finished building it and it's really nice. I met Shane and Jen too. There were a lot of people there for a party so I was ready play! Then on Sunday we went to the Pumkin Patch in Cicero. They had a Corn Maze, a Hayride and places where you stick you head in and take your picture. We had a blast! From there we met Uncle Alan, Aunt Jackie, Megan, and Monica at Hafner's for a late lunch. I last saw them on the 4th of July, so it was nice to see them again. Then on Monday before we left, we took a ride and spent some time in North Constantia at the old Serley Homestead and the area around there. Daddy showed me where he grew up playing baseball and basketball with his friends. He walked me around the old ball field and up Spookey Hill, and over to the back side where it is steeper. That's where all of those leaves were! For some reason he was crying a lot, I'm not really sure why. He was telling me a lot about my Great Grampa Serley. But it's really nice up there; quiet, lots of space, no busy roads and the leaves were really pretty! It was Mommy's first time up there too. She really enjoyed seeing where Daddy comes from. We also saw the Chick's house across the street, Great Gramma and Grampa's old house next door, and we drove up to the Chick's new house in Parish that Grampa built. Really nice, and big!! From there, we took a little trip to Central Square, had lunch at Jreck Subs, saw Paul V. Moore High School, then headed off to the airport. A quick trip, but it was great! Here are some pics!

Carving the Great Pumpkin

I had a lot of fun helping Mommy and Daddy carve my first pumpkin the other night! I can't wait to dress up for Halloween too!!

And here are some pics of me playing around in my hat and then sitting with Mommy and Mocha on the couch while Daddy finished vacuuming.

Sunday Night at the Fair

On Sunday evening, Mommy and Daddy took me to the Columbus Fair. Being my first time to a fair, I didn't really know what to expect. But as we got out of the car and made it closer to the fairgrounds, I began to smell the funnel cakes, cotton candy, saugages, and pizza, and I knew this was going to be cool! Then I saw all of the people and all of the rides with the flashing lights. Lots of cool sounds and loud music for me to bounce around in my stroller and bang my arms too. Needless to say, this was quite an experience for me! As we strolled around the fair, Mommy saw this funny little game where you have to guess what color hole on the outside of a big wheel, kinda like Wheel of Fortune, that a little mouse (a real mouse!) was going to run and fall into! After watching a few rounds, Mommy wanted to play. So we placed four quarters out on the board and the lady tossed the mouse into the wheel and he went into the Cream color hole, which was one that we picked! So we won and Mommy picked out that pink fishy for me! Isn't that cool!?!? After that we made it over to the kiddie rides. The only one I could ride was the carousel. Mommy got on it with me, while Daddy took a video and some pictures. It was alot of fun and pretty scary too! That thing went around really fast! I also went down one of those long wavy slides with Daddy. I wasn't really sure what to think of that, but it was fun! Then it was getting late and time to head home. I really enjoyed my first time at the Fair! Check out this video and some pics!!

Some Fun Times..

The past couple weeks have been pretty fun times for me. I've been doing a lot of stuff. Grandma and Grampa Serley were here two weeks ago to visit and put down the tile floor in the kitchen. Grampa did a great job and worked his butt off for us, and Daddy helped a little bit wherever he could. We love the new floor! Since then, I've been getting into pretty much everything around the house. I'm still pulling up all over the place and standing really well. I can stand by myself, not holding anything for a few seconds too! Still don't know when I'm going to be walking though. Last week Mommy and Daddy took me to Cooper Creek Park to play on the playground. As you can see from the pictures I had a lot of fun on the slide, the swings and in the tunnel! I even met a little boy who wanted to be my boyfriend so he was giving me hugs and kisses! He was really nice! Mommy has also let me get into some of the stuff in the bottom of the pantry. Check me out with the Coke can and empty box of noodles. Don't worry, Mommy is supervising me so I'm not going to get into the cleaning supplies or anything that will hurt me. I've also got some more teeth coming in... the one on the top left is almost all the way! The one next to it on the top is ready to break through and on the bottom, one is barely out and another is pushing through! I love to hang upside down, so we thought that would be a good way to get a shot of my teeth!! Well that's pretty much it for the past couple weeks... Have a good weekend everybody!