randomness from awhile ago

spotted while shopping in August, its in his room now.
His 'friend' from across the street, he always wants to 'go hello Wesley' but then he runs away because Wesley is a crazy boy and Coryn doesn't like getting touched by kids his age. Here Wes is enticing Coryn to join him in a ride in his birthday present, but Coryn's also afraid of the sudden noise and motion of the powerwheels.
Hand chair... yes you can get weird stuff here too.

Finally, a sleepy boy.

Happy Birthday!

He's a terrible two now, and we celebrated the event, complete with cake, which he again ate the frosting from. We invited a couple of neighbors who's names he knows over, one of whom he's taken on as a kind of surrogate grandmother.
Opening his first present he was gentle with the paper, not wanting to hurt it, but then he got the hang of it and he rips mercilessly. Here he has his first real game, matching bears. He calls it 'the same game', and though he's not quite ready for the flip two at a time to find matches, he does like having them strewn across the table so he can find the bears, most of which have affectionate names now (ie: grumpy bear, green bear, binkie bear).
We got him a CD player we found in one of the Japanese stores here, the CD goes in the tree stump, honey pots for speakers, and dancing Pooh characters. He also got a couple of airplanes from the neighbor boys, and takes them everywhere.
Usually in the back of his tricycle, which he rides in circles around the house. He also sings songs about his trike now too ("riding a bicycle, riding a bicycle"). He loves all of his presents!

Halloween

Halloween was a smorgasborg of fun filled times for Coryn. Our playgroup had a trick-or-(healthy)treat session the Friday before, Coryn's first memory building experience with the matter. It was super windy that day, so I had to stow his hat and attach a chin strap later.
One of the ladies made cupcakes... Coryn ate the frosting.
Later that evening was the company party which I was in charge of. It went fairly well, and Coryn got to decorate his own candy bag. We had a pumpkin carving contest and a door decorating contest as well as a huge potluck and tp mummies.
Here's the whole ensemble, he was really good at saying trick-or-treat and thank you to everyone. He only got scared once at a dummy of a guy lifting his head off. There were a ton of kids, about half of which were Japanese, its not really something they do as a culture but the kids have fun dressing scary and taking candy from Americans :)

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