busy boy and dog

Two really funny things about this picture- Dennis is trying to get the long wooden rod down the shoot- he was getting pretty frustrated that is wasn't going down. And, Dennis is wearing one of Ryan's socks. He must have told his dad that that is what he wanted to wear. The heal of the sock is on the back of his knee. tired eyes from being sick all week. still cute.

This video was intentionally so that I could show you how he head bangs his big blue ball- but it ended up being several things- he is so hard to predict these days.

When I was a kid they let us play with the pots and pans... now a days, leftover- broken technology. :)

Dennis LOVES our dogs and our dogs LOVE Dennis. I could hear Dennis squealing under the table for quite some time and I warned Buster to get out of his way and even tried to nudge him with my foot thinking that Dennis would cause some unwanted dog behavior but when he didn't move, I peeked under only to find Buster totally enjoying the occasional hit on the neck.

Common Cold- Ear infection- Roseola

(Dennis not pictured)
Yup, this is what Dennis went through in the last week!!! Starting Tuesday with goopy swollen eyes that ended up being a side effect from his bad ear infection. Then just as we thought he was doing better, Saturday afternoon he gets a fever (and a bad one) until Monday morning. He would do nothing but lay on my lap- poor Dennis, lucky mom. (Until I got really sick with achy bones) Anyways, I just wanted to make sure that Dennis's ears were better so we went to the Doctor this morning even though his fever is gone. And, at the Doctor's we noticed a bad rash from head to toe... sound familiar? ... its Roseola. The Doctor was relieved and so I am too. I guess its not a big deal... you just have a crabby baby for a day or two after the fever is gone.

Shoes

Dennis continues to try to put on his shoes and just doesn't have the coordination to do it yet... so, in the mean time- He puts on mine~

crazy fun

We are having a hoot with Dennis... you can see why- he is just so darn cute.

Wednesday was Veteran's day and so I got to stay home from school. Luckily for Dennis, it was beautiful weather for a trip to the playground. We don't have any trees on our end of the block so Dennis' first encounter with the leaves was then. HE LOVED THEM!!

Here are some videos of other fun stuff we did at the park. This was 4 days ago now and Dennis is already walking soo much better now.

I am sure glad that his desire to help around the house hasn't changed!

He is even cute when he whines.

notice the garbage can ontop of the piano and Dennis's "toy" from the recycling. :)

Want to go for a walk?

THICK

Webster's Dictionary:
thick (thik) adj. 1. of relatively great extent from side to side 2. measured between opposite surfaces 3. close and abundant 4.viscous 5. dense 6. husky; hoarse; blurred 7. stupid

You can imagine my reaction when one of my students said, "Mrs. Funk and I are getting thick".
With some clarification from the class I guess calling someone thick is a good thing and means that you have weight where you want it (where guys like it). hmm... news to me.

lets add one-
8. voluptuous

Eating with a fork

The Monster Dash!

Also, on Halloween my brother Randy, My mother-in-law Maree, and Ryan and I ran in the Monster Dash half marathon in Minneapolis around lakes Harriet and Calhoun-it was beautiful.

Ryan had a good race... though he didn't train, he got really good time.

My race on the other hand was disasterous. Ok. So, I didn't train as much as I should have either... but my biggest problem was me knee. I knew it wasn't going to be a good race when my knee started killing me at mile 1~ I ran through it... though it hurt the whole way! And, my time was way better on the full marathon that I ran 3 years ago than this half. But all in all it was fun... and I finished the race under 3 hours! wahoo!

Here is my beautiful family.

Halloween