Santa

I met Santa today. That guy gives me the creeps.


He arrived to Fell's Point on a tugboat this morning. Mama, Dada and I gathered around with a bunch of other kids and their parents waiting for him to pull in to the pier.


When he arrived, he went into one of the restaurants so we could take pictures with him. Mama actually tried to put me on his lap. I was not having that. I made my legs super stiff so that he didn't think I'd just sit on his lap like that, not even knowing the guy. I showed him.

Feeding the ducks

Halloween

You may remember that last Halloween I dressed up as a pirate. Well this year I went as something far more formidable - a ferocious elephant. This costume choice was in large part due to my uncanny impersonation that I have been perfecting over the last 4 months - see evidence here:



On Sunday, the day before Halloween, there was a kid's parade in our neighborhood by the ponds where I go to feed the ducks. There were lots of other kids there, and we were all sizing up each other's costumes and eating treats.




On Halloween day Mama, Dada and I met our next door neighbor Cullen and her parents to go trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. She was a pumpkin and together we made a scary pair! Mama went a bit overboard with her ghoul costume - she was worried I'd be scared but I thought it was hilarious. We stopped at a few houses and knocked and when the people opened their doors they handed Cullen and I candy - how crazy is that?! Dada didn't like the candy I chose though - I liked the brightly colored ones - he told me I needed to get more Reese's peanut butter cups. Whatever, Dad.




Then we went home so I could have dinner, but we kept getting interrupted by kids in costumes asking US for candy. We had a big pail of candy to give them, so that was okay.

At the pumpkin patch

I am loving this autumn weather! The other day we enjoyed the sunshine and hit up the pumpkin patch. There were some farm animals there - a cow, a pig, a goat and a few turkeys.



We also went on a hayride and Mama and Dada got us lost in the corn maze.



And of course we picked out a few pumpkins (I call them keukas).

Bakfietsin'

Now that the weather has cleared up, I've gone out on the bakfiets a few times. I'm definitely the coolest kid in the neighborhood riding in that thing. I am pretty comfortable in it, it's Mama and Dada that work up a sweat driving up the hills. My helmet is pretty rad too.

Hoppin tots

On Tuesday mornings I go to Hoppin Tots, my baby gymnastics class. Every week there is a different theme and we learn a new trick - like forward or backward rolls. There is an obstacle course and everything is padded so if I fall I don't get hurt. My favorite is the trampoline, I'm getting pretty good at bouncing on it. I also love the tunnels and the parachute game we play at the end of class.

Fish

Today Mama and I went to the National Aquarium in the inner harbor. We saw stingrays, sharks, sea-horses, octopus, puffins (aka ducks) and all kinds of other fish.



Mama taught me how to make a fish face, so I was basically doing that the whole time. I was also yelling "wow-wow-wow!" and the other patrons got a kick out of that.