Happy monkey on his way to school

A lesson in tree climbing

Learning to cut. He thanked me over and over for buying him scissors.

Eating the last fig of the season

A lesson in cracking walnuts

Yep, he sleeps in this costume too

Iron man at the library

He spends a lot of time in here...I'm not sure what he does, but he loves it

Iron Man: the chicken whisperer

He lasted one time around on the horse. The rest he was in dad's arms. Anton got sick going around and around. Merry-go-round FAIL.

Walnut gathering with Colleen

Iron Man waters my cucumbers. He's a little a little sloppy but gets the job done.

Iron Man attacked Colleen for quite some time today. She made it out alive, but barely.

Iron Man lives at our house now. We traded Toren in for him. He's a bit more destructive.

We hired a personal chef. He doesn't wear pants, just like the house cleaner.

Children's museum...they have the coolest stuff

We still build some pretty great forts

Working on the scarecrow

The farm stand has so many pumpkins and that makes Toren so happy

Ever since our trip to Southeast Asia where you get to hold every animal, Toren believes he should get to hold all living creatures at all times. This duck wasn't having it.

Toren wakes up a lot during the night lately. So every day needs to start with caffeine. (Joking...of course the caffeine is for mom, not T)

You get cool bugs out in the country

He says, 'Mom take a picture. I'm big.' (Referring to his shadow)

Late night frozen yogurt trip

Saturday nap time. The best.

At the Italian festival, hiding from his parents. He thinks it's funny. We hate it. One of the guys selling wine had to tell us where he was. You could just see his little eyes through the crack in the door. Whew!

This is Saturday: naked, in a box, wrapped in a Bob Marley blanket. I had nothing to do with this.

The making of a 'fierce butterfly'. That's what he said he wanted on his face.

Our first egg from the chickens! There were two but Toren isn't very good at carrying them...so now there's only one.

He made me work hard on this one to get it just the way he wanted it. It was hot out. He sat in the shade while I worked my tail off.

This is a big hit at the children's museum...a big hit

Hey! Whose tongue is that?

The scientist

Father-son fishing trip in the living room

This kid can't get enough of these I Spy books

Sort of terrified, super intrigued. He kind of loves being scared.