craving pumpkins and the enchanted forest

Axel and the witch during the hike
Axel's pumpkin



Axel and dad walking on the trails

Axel playing in the yurt
Axel and mom on the way to the yurt
Hi Mom, the party is here!
Axel went to a party at the Eagle River nature Center. He got to dress up in his costume, play games, have snacks and hike through the enchanted forest. He had a great time. He wore his Ratatouille costume. It was nice and warm for the hike. The party was in a Yurt. My pictures are sorta out of order but you get the idea. We also craved a pumpkin tonight. Axel thought it was fun but the pumpkins guts were yucky. On the potty training front-we had an accident free day! Even at the party, going to Wallmart and pumpkin craving! Way to go buddy!!! I'm sure I'll have more Halloween pictures tomorrow.

Potty training!

Axel showing off his undies!


Finally I think Axel is starting to really want to potty train. He has been using the potty on and off for a while but would rather just use a diaper. When I would ask him if he wanted to use the potty he would say "No, I pee in my diaper mom." Then when I would change him he'd say "I poop in this one!" So I've been pondering if he's smart enough to verbalize all this he is smart enough to use the potty. On Sunday we just put him in his underwear and haven't used diapers since-except for naps and bedtime. He's actually doing really awesome! He had a few accident's on Sunday but the last two days he's only had one or two. He's been telling us now when he has to go! Yeah! I hope he keeps it up. The next step is to see how he does once we are busy doing some thing away from the house. I'm almost ready to do the no more diaper dance!!!

Winter boots and spiders!

Dad and Axel sporting their new winter boots!
Axel's spider and web that he made in class this week.
I'm 2!
He sure loves his new Sorel's.

Playing with his cow puppet.
Axel and dad got their winter boots this weekend. I hope they don't have to use them any time soon, but just in case we have them now. I can't believe how much Axel's feet have grown since last winter. Axel had his Kneehi Naturalist class today again. This week we learned about spiders and webs! He thought it was fun counting all 8 legs that spiders have. He does really good counting to 5 then he'll get quiet and suddenly say 8! It was cute watching him count on his hands with the teacher. We went outside on the trails and found spider webs in the tress and hanging from different signs. Axel thought it was really fun.

Girdwood

Today we went to Girdwood. It's a cute little town about 40 minutes south of Anchorage. It was a nice drive with amazing ocean(called the turn again arm area/inlet) and mountain views. It was fun to check out another new town. There are so many places to see here! Work is going well and I think we are starting to feel like things are getting more normal feeling. The weather has been getting cooler-like 30's in the morning and only getting to 40-50's during the day. The mountains are starting to get more and more snow on them-it's call termination dust. I guess you watch the moutains and as the snow get lower on them the closer we are to getting snow here. I think it has been getting lower every day. I've heard that we should have snow by Halloween. We'll see....
Axel started a kid group called Kneehi Naturalist. It's at the Nature Center by our house. The group learns about nature and animals. The do coloring/crafts, read books and them go outside on hikes to find the stuff they learn about. Today was Axel's first day. He is the youngest in the group but he did really good listening and following the teacher during the hike. (of course we were there too) Axel learned about trees and leaves today. He thought it was really fun to go outside and find what we were reading in the book. He also thought the bear poop we found on the track was super cool! Of course...he loves talking about poop. Once the teacher said poop Axel was hooked! Axel has been learning about poop (because we keep trying to attempt potty training) and he loves to tell you about all the things that poop-like birds, bears, dogs, people..he would just keep going on and on. The potty training hasn't been going very well. He just has no intrest. I'll ask him about going and he jsut says "No mom I'll pee in my diaper". Okay if he can say this I think he should be ready to not pee in a diaper any more. All we can do is keep trying I guess. He's smart enough, he's just to stubborn, he'll do it when he's ready not when mom wants him to-I hope.