Midnight Shennanigans

We've got ourselves a sleepwalker. Who knew a toddler could sleepwalk?? I love this kid! Ben and I were up fairly late sometime last week (we're "night owls" so this is nothing new), just cuddling on the couch watching some show on Hulu, when a little man child appears in the hallway. With out a peep and eyes closed, he toddles down, turns the corner next to the highchair, walks into the middle of the kitchen and stops. Ben and I look at each other completely confused. "Didn't he go to bed like 5 hours ago?!" We laughed as we figured out that he was still asleep. Ben calls him over to the couch, and he comes like a little zombie, still eyes closed. Ben pulls him up to his lap, where he opens his eyes to spend a few minutes staring into space, unblinking... I think our laughing woke him up, but it was impossible to stifle the hilariousness of the moment! It took a few minutes, but it was so funny to watch him slowly wake up, blinking and squinting, looking absolutely bewildered. We put him to bed pretty quickly after that, still chuckling days later about the silly incident.

A few nights later we found him sleeping in the recliner in his room, instead of his bed. I know he didn't start there! He was exhausted before our bedtime routine even began.  He was so cute though, his feet propped up  on one arm rest, his head on the other. I don't know if he sleep walked over there or just decided to change it up for the night, but it was funny anyway. 

A few weekends ago we went out to Beaver Dick Park to try out Ben's new birthday hammock. Malcom had a fantastic time splashing around in the water and mud. Sooooo, picture time!

It's like a giant, muddy bathtub! Life is so good! 

(This is his splashing-really-fast-face.. Haha! It makes me laugh everytime!)

The sun set came, and luckily the man child was wise enough to get out and play on the shore instead.

Last week Malcom and I went with my brother and his family to the straw maze out in Archer. It was a lot of  fun! It was huge, too, esepcailly for someone like me who has absolutely no sense of direction. Here's Malcom taking a break.

It was all over! We made it out! Woohoo! And then we climbed on to some hay bails, where my bro Kevin was nice enough to snap a picture for us. Thanks Kev!

Becca and Kevin headed home after the straw maze, but I wasn't ready to go home yet. Instead, Malcom and I headed out to Heise (since we were already so close), and just chased each other around and explored. Malcom kept picking weeds and brandishing them like swords- the funniest thing was that he would stick it out infront of him, then run and scream like he was saying, "CHAAAARGE!" This isn't a very good picture, but I love it anyway. Here he is, mid charge.. 

Anyway, I have a whole bucket more of pics to share, but this has been a long post already. I'll just save it for later. Till then, hope everyone has a great week!