Happy 3rd Birthday

Saturday night we celebrated Paul's birthday with a party at the house with lots of family and friends. Here are 2 pictures with more to come later in the week...Check out the homemade tractor cake

Happy Birthday Uncle Ryan

I picked Paul III up early from school and we rode up to Susquehanna University this afterboon.

We spent the evening with dinner at BJ's and then cupcakes in a dorm to celebrate #21 for Uncle Ryan. Here is a picture posted right from the dorm room from our dinner.

Picnic

I got home tonight and heard about some picnic that Leigh-Anne, Paul and Kaitlyn had for dinner. Here are some pictures...

Lets go Mets

I haven't posted to the blog in a while so I got motivated to actually be the one that posts tonight.

(side note)
We are downstairs and Mommy just asked about going for a jog now and Paul said "no go after Paul go to bed" He knows how to work his Mom and Dad huh...

Anyway we have had a great couple of days here in PA. The other night the Mets were on ESPN for some reason so we watched the first 2 innings together on the couch with our hats as I tried to explain why the Mets batters never hit the ball and the Mets fielders never catch it.

Over the last week or so Kaitlyn has taken a really keen interest in our table food at dinner so we have started to try to work with her on some baby cereal.

Apple or orange juice

This is from a few weeks ago when Uncle Chris came to visit and Paul couldn't decide what juice he had...

Welcome home baby Kate

We welcomed home baby Kate today. Paul did a great job being a good big brother. You can see him holding Kaitlyn on and playing with her in a "gentle" way. Before he went to sleep he had to come out and give her one more kiss goodnight. Here are some photos from today.

Snowman cake

Sunday at lunch with Uncle Ryan we had snowman cake...see the video to find out more:

Paul's first date

Last Friday Paul had a date with his friend Elizabeth (20 months old), who is the daughter of mommy and daddy's good friends Mary and Rob - which meant mommy and daddy got to have adult company for dinner as well! Not only did they get to play on Paul's bed and read some books together but then they shared a romantic dinner together. Paul has been pointing at the chair where Elizabeth sat for dinner all week and saying "Bet chair" (Elizabeth's chair).

Clementines

We bought clementines at the store the other day and Paul has been obsessed by them ever since. He can eat 3 or 4 at a sitting and loves to peel them himself.

One Two Three Applesauce

Here is a short video from last night with applesauce...

Making Cookies

Nana and Pop Pop are visiting this weekend and this morning they decided to make Christmas cookies with Paul III. Enjoy the video.

How do you give milk to a pumpkin?

Paul wanted to use a cup tonight for his milk without his sippy cup top, and it went quite well. After a little spill, the pumpkins on his placemat even got to have a little milk!

Cooking (and eating) with daddy

Here are some pictures mommy had from a few days ago- Paul helped daddy grill some hamburgers (wearing his favorite "mi mi's"- mommy's flip flop oven mitts, which he wears whenever we're using the grill or oven so that he can "help").

And then Paul helped Daddy eat some halloween-colored cupcakes (most of which went back to college with Uncle Ryan).

Cookies and a fork...

What do they have in common? Some of the pictures mommy happens to have on the camera.

Here daddy and Paul share some fresh cookies (always an evening favorite).Last night Paul was showing his thumbs up sign after mommy gave him several "thumbs up"s for using his fork very well.

Lunch with Paul

The Redferns venture into the world of video....

Daddy has a fun new toy that he's testing out for work (a Flip Video camera), so we've tried it out at home to capture so fun footage of Paul. It may take a second for them to load, so just bear with it (especially those of you on dial-up internet, Gram :) When you load the video, hit the pause button, wait for the red line to fully load, and then hit play.

Tonight's first video is of Paul playing with the tissue paper from a birthday gift mommy got in the mail from Nanna and Pop Pop Redfern- clearly the paper was totally exciting as he could barely speak during the entire video.


The second video is Paul III discussing his football preferences with daddy... usually he's not doing such "positive" things at the dinner table.


Sorry about all of the "booger" talk - as Paul's had quite the cold this week we've been talking a lot about snot, blowing your nose and the such....

Chocolate and Banana

What a great combination and a yummy snack on a hot day- a frozen banana with some chocolate on it! Bananas are one of Paul's favorite foods, and he was almost surprised at the difference in this "special" "nannah". Paul's bottom molars have started to come in, so this was an especially yummy snack.

When you leave daddy alone...

This is what you find........ need I say more?

Earlier in the evening there was some good tickling of little Paul.....

My first popsicle

Gram had grape, Paul had orange and mommy's was cherry.
oohhh--- Paul took too big of a piece :)

Shish kabobs for dinner - or "bahbs"

Saturday monrning daddy decided to make shish kabobs for us to have for dinner Saturday night... it became a family event as we all helped to prepare the "bahbs," as Paul described them. They were quite yummy, although we may have given Paul a few too many peppers which we realized this morning.....