September

The highlight of September happened over Labor Day weekend.  We headed to Minocqua with some friends and had a great time cooking out, sitting around the camp fire, paddle boating and visiting a petting zoo. 

All of the pictures below were taken at Peck's Wildwood Wildlife Park.  This place was awesome for Corbin and for us.  John got to give huge bears a drink of "cola", we got to pet tons of animals and see many more.  There was this cool enclosed bird area where we were able to feed all sorts of birds.  They were so used to people they landed right on our hands.  I would make the trek back to Minocqua just to go to this place again.

 Petting the goats

 A huge pot belly pig

 I couldn't resist this picture, I'm not gonna tell you what to look for...

 Petting the bunnies

 Running through a tunnel with Landon

 The birds eating out of John's hand

 Boys giving each other a dap to conclude an amazing afternoon

August

Corbin turned 2 in August.  We had a great monkey birthday party with lots of family and friends.  Corbin definitely turned 2 on his birthday.  I commented many times that it was like someone flipped a switch.  My calm, easy going child turned into an emotional, and more than I would like, whiny boy.  My perfect child couldn't stay perfect forever, he has us for parents :-).  Since August we have learned to deal with these new emotions with patience and of course time outs!

This picture was taken on Corbin's actual birthday.  Daddy had to work so Corbin and I decided to take a trip to the local splash pool.  He had a great time watering his feet with the watering can and sliding down 2 different whales that spray water. 

Here are the birthday brownies that Corbin took maybe 2 bites of.  Notice I did NOT light the candle this year.  If you remember last year, Corbin stuck his fingers through the flame of his #1 candle... I will never live that down by the way.

Here is the big boy at his birthday party.  We had great weather to celebrate with family and friends.

This is the monkey cake Daddy baked, frosted and decorated.  No kidding, my husband may be the next cake boss!

Ah! Yum!