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Chris was actually able to come home for a few days and break up his trip! During his "visit to Austin" we found Holden a Nintendo Toad Costume and a nerdy Yoshi for me. So excited! Chris also had the awesome idea to use the branches we cut from our trees to make Blair Witch sticks. So going to do that manana and make some yummy fall tea courtesy of Chef Jaime. Speaking of chef, I made Holden green beans AND we made our own sun dried tomato pesto. I used it for our amazing chicken dish and it is exceptional. I don't know what is going on with our grill though, every time I light it a huge flame shoots out at it and heads straight for my hair. I have yet to experience corporeal flamage from it but it is some scary biz.

Holden and I went to the zoo yesterday. He seemed to be fascinated by the goats...who wouldn't be fascinated by creatures with devil eyes that eat fences?




I also remembered how to say "hello" in prairie dog from my time as a prairie dog keeper, much to the delight of the little ground-dwellers at the zoo:




We saw some awesome signage:



And a newly erected memorial at the exact spot where Chris and I witnessed a full-on chicken orgy last trip to the zoo:



That had me in stitches. I also saw a baby peacock for the first time...it was brown and stringy. I pointed it out to a little nearby boy with blonde curls just like I hope my baby will have and he ran for it. Oops.

Today Uncle Andrew and H-bomb and I went to Town Lake and walked. After yesterday's lugging of our crappy stroller through mud and having to continually pick it up, and today's broken back carrying him in the sling during our walk, I have determined I am going to need a jogging stroller. I go outdoors too often and the baby is too heavy to have just the slapstick stroller and the sling in my back o' tricks.

Later I pretended to crush my little chubbo and he of course loved it!




I love seeing him hang out in just his dipe sometimes. Just amazing to see such a perfectly miniature body.

Oh and for those people just itching to buy gifts for the most perfect creature in the world, I have started Holden his own Wish List. More like a tally of things I would like to get for him in the future but whateva!

I will take some pics of the Blair Witch Sticks. Also started writing a kid's Halloween book called "Holden and the Haunted Hullabaloo." :)