All Hallow's Eve

We are up in Minnesota visiting Kathee's cousin's family. And tonight is the traditional trick-or-treating. So, per the pictures from a few days ago, we dressed up Gideon in his outfit, and along with second cousins Katie and Kristina, we went from door-to-door to about 8 or 9 houses in the cul-da-sac. The best part was listening to Gideon say "dank you" and "bye-bye." It was pretty awesome. Here are some pictures of Gideon's first night out.

Gideon's First Halloween Outfit

As we are going to be in Minnesota for Reformation Day...err Halloween, and Kathee was in Mississippi last week, I got to pick out and purchase the first outfit for Gideon. Here's a few shots of him this morning.

Gideon and Kathee on the Plane

Last week and until yesterday, Kathee and Gideon were in Mississippi visiting Kathee's sister Sharon and our nephew Will (our brother-in-law Jamie is serving the Air Force in Iraq right now). Here are some pictures from Kathee and Gideon on the fllight back to Moline. I have to say, the kid is cute as they come! Here's how Kathee figured out how to get Gideon to sleep on the plane. She got him ready for a nap (they shared a seat) and then played like she was sleeping. He'd crash in a few minutes and then she'd be up. She's a genius!

Kathee and Gideon Coming Back From the Grocery Store

Each Monday Kathee takes Gideon and walks up to Aldi's for some groceries (it's about 2 blocks away). She normally takes up the wagon with her. Kathee and I often laugh about the crazy lady bringing the kid's wagon in to the store, parking it by the check out, going through the store to buy the groceries, and then loading up the wagon, putting the kid in the wagon, and then heading home. Kathee had a good laugh telling me that the one rule for the ride home was, "Gideon, you are not allowed to throw items out of the wagon on the way home." Oh the joys of having only one car. We make do, and make TONS of memories along the way. Our God is so good to us, isn't He?

Guitar Hero

Gideon loves playing guitar with me. So today we played a bit of Hallelujah (Your Love Is Amazing) before Gideon couldn't take anymore playing and had to get down with his bad self and cut a rug. I love it how the boy loves to dance. Take special note of the foot-tapping, he's been working on this special move for some weeks now and has perfected it so much that he rarely falls over when he does it now!

Spoon Man

Gideon's working with using a spoon as of today. I think he's picking it up (pun intended) quite nicely.

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