Shopping for pumpkins at the outdoor wholesale fruit and veggie market

My friend Katie and her 2 girls, Priscilla and Lydia.

Thanks Priscilla for picking her nose in this picture but I was trying to get all the kids in the shot with the Qatari guy.

Lydia and Daniel with their free carrot! yummmy...

The biggest Shawarma in Doha

It is hard to tell really how big this shawarma was, but if you take it from the size of my eyes trying to eat it, you can kinda get the picture.

OOPS

This is what happens when you or shall I say, Daniel shakes a ziplock of cheerios way too hard.

New use for an empty candy bucket....a HAT anyone?

I had to eventually throw this fun toy away as Daniel would put it on his head, it would get stuck, he would cry, and then he would do it all over again till I would hide it. It made for some cute pictures though and a lot of laughs!

Pumpkin Carving Party

Some good friends invited us to their annual pumpkin carving party where they made a delicious pot of chili and cornbread.....then to work it was. This was the finished results of all of our pumpkins together and our kids. Our pumpkins were moldy before Halloween, so we had to throw them away, but it was fun to carve them anyway....oh and ya it is hard to find a pumpkin that looks traditional. You really have to take what you can get here unless you want to pay a fortune for one...No Thanks!

Oct 31st....Halloween

My lovely decorated door....made good use of nap time!

He had to be bribed with a loli-pop in order to get him to stand still enough for a picture.

Daniel dressed up as a cute little Chinese boy for Halloween. We took him to a Fall Festival party with some friends from church. He had so much fun playing the games and eating WAY TO MUCH candy for a 1 year old. We went trick or treating around the compound after and I am kicking myself for not getting pictures or video. Every house we went to he would go up to the door and knock...and then as soon as the door opened he would run inside the house......needless to say it was both cute and embarassing having to chase him out of everyone's house. Oh and he was smart enough to not know how many 1 is....so when he was to take 1 candy, he took a handful....luckily his cuteness paid off and mommy even got some candy that was imported like tootsie rolls! YUMMMM....

NEW YORK CITY - October 2008

Time Square

MOM, MOM, CHOO CHOO!!!!

NYPD

New York City Hotdog

Daniel was hungry on our journey so we stopped to get him a NYC hotdog....I was so excited because everyone raves about them, but I am guessing we pick the wrong vendor. I spent most of the time picking weird animal parts out of the hotdog before Daniel could eat it. YUCK!!

Empire State Building

Yes, nice double chin, Amy.

This one to me looks like what Dan looked like when he was Daniel's age. I searched for a picture of Dan to compare with it, but couldn't find one...I am sure you would all agree though.

I have come to the realization that in order to get your picture taking in front of the Empire State Building and be able to see the entire thing, you have to use a VERY unflattering angle......oh well...you get the idea.

Oops missed this one

This was the entrance we took to Central Park....it was so beautiful there. Now I know why people living in a large city would want to live by the park.

Statue of Liberty

ok, so the Statue of Libery looked closer than it appears in these photos, but if you look for the tall pointy looking thing over Daniel's shoulder, that would be it.

A aircraft carrier in the background and Daniel saying "cheese"

Another professional "cheese" moment

And of course, I was there too!

Central Park

Daniel giving it a good try to climb the rock....

Yeah, thanks Dad, we made it!

Checking out the squirrel in the tree.

Father and son going for a walk,(I think it was Father chasing son before he runs onto the road not too long after this shot.)

Yes, I know, I captured the ultimate father/son moment.

Little Italy

Yummy GIANT sized meatball, just like your mamma makes.....

I guess the only pictures we took of Little Italy was in the little restaurant where we stopped for lunch. It really did feel like you were in Italy till we went to order our food and the server spoke spanish not italian. hahaha

Kelowna - September 2008

On the flight to Kelowna

The perks of travelling with kids is that you get to board first. Once Daniel got on the plane and realized the cockpit door was open, he was up and in there before I even realized it. The pilots were good about it though and even signed his Log Book.

In the park

The first day we went to a park in the afternoon to enjoy the warm fall sun. Daniel thought the low lawn chair was pretty cool since it was close to his size. And of course I thought he looked so cute sitting in the chair.

Poor sick baby

A few days before we arrived to Kelowna, Daniel came down with a bad cold. He seemed to be getting better until the night when he started to burn up with a fever. The fever lasted 3 days and though the Doctors couldn't find any infection, he was a sick sick boy. The only nice part though was that he was extremely snuggly and tired. It was nice to hold him and care for him until he was back to his normal self. So in between sleeping and cuddling, he LOVED watching movies. He had a favorite one too and it didn't take him long to figure out the VCR and get the video going on his own.