Like Grandfather -Like Father -Like Son

Here he is... our cute mini airman!

Steve's Dad was an Air Force pilot when he was born, so baby Steve was proudly given his own little matching flight suit. It was lovingly preserved all these years to be passed down to his son. We are truly grateful for our own time in the Air Force, and, thanks to a masterful Grandma Packard repair, hopefully this precious uniform will last another generation or so :).
Steve sure loves and admires his Dad and enjoys following in his footsteps. Skylar, you have tremendous examples before you on both sides of your family. There's no limit, little buddy, to the great things you can do too :).

Where on earth did October go?

Another month seems yanked out from under me.

Steve made two different trips (Boston and San Fransisco) to present two seperate research projects -one taking him away for his b-day, so we celebrated early with dinner at Texas Roadhouse Grill.

For Micaela's birthday we made a quick jaunt to Steve's parents and enjoyed celebrating with the family there. The card says that Caela, Lexi and Mom get a girls night out to dinner and to see Disney's Princesses on Ice show. Can't wait!
-Enjoying the cake I prefer not to reveal to the world, but sure tasted good :).
It was chocolate and yellow cake swirled with whipped cream, strawberries (right from Grandma and Grandpa's garden) and a chocolate frosting.
~ Stylin' with her new goods :)~
As you can see she's been having a blast in preschool.

Here's what Sky's been up to this month...

...and he thinks it's hilarious!

AND he now navigates up the stairs with ease. Luckily he hasn't tried to turn around on them yet. (uh, can we say "shirt stretched out")

His 7 month pics...

-Handsome bug!-

~And then it was hurry and get costumes done time. The girls once while playing dress up put their tutus on their heads and it gave me an idea. They looked like flowers and our "garden family" concept was born :)...

Lexi -a rose; Caela -a daisy and Sky -the little bumble bee :). Steve and I are the not so obvious gardeners, but we were a hit :). ~Here we are at the school Fall Festival~

-Lexi busting a move on the cake walk-

She kept lucking out in the drawing.

Okay, I don't know what made Sky pull this face, but I LOVE it! Right on cue with his halloween face :0!

Oh, and his pumkin sports the three teeth he's sprouted (one on top and two on the bottom).

~And then suddenly it was the last day of the month -Halloween! We got together with med-school friends for dinner then hurried home to don our costumes once more.

Caela kept making up a funny song about trick-or-treating.

And little Sky zonked. True, buddy, all that excitement can tucker one out.