Jory has skipped books...

He's moved straight to Mama's kindle... which means he is reading "50 Shades of Grey" (and very appropriately wearing a shirt from Melinda and Lee of Google House fame!)

Straw Man

I have no idea where Jory learned to use a straw (maybe daycare?), but he sure does love it! Here he is at In N Out, enjoying one of KC's "lemonades." His little hand postures are very cute:

And yes, we had our son in a fast food restaurant - it's right next to the medical center where he gets his shots. And yes, we "let" him eat animal-style french fries. When we moved him to the high chair, away from the french fries, he went completely berserk and the other patrons started shouting at us "Give him a french fry! Let him have it!"

It was very embarrassing.

Traveling by wagon

Our next-door neighbor Jeremy gave us a big wagon that his kids used to use, and we used it to drop off Mommy at her dance class.

As you might have expected, Jory insists on helping to drive the wagon!

Pre-Halloween costumes

Kids are really cute when they're dressed up (especially in pictures, when you have no idea what was actually going on while the picture was being taken).

We know it's not Halloween yet, but we've given Jory some pre-Halloween costume time.

Here he is driving the car, which is one of the scariest things I can think of. This is his cape from last year's Assistant Professor Chaos costume.

And here he is in his real Halloween outfit, which glows:

The foreshortening of the skeleton image contrasts a bit oddly with his huge head, but what are you going to do?

Counterpoint: foodie

An earlier post on this blog may have led you to the conclusion that Jory has a refined palate. Allow me to present photographic evidence to the contrary:

As you can see, he was really working those toes!

At least he's happy!

Short trip to Santa Cruz

We recently took a short weekend trip for a retreat near Santa Cruz. After making it really hard for us to get on the road, Jory promptly fell asleep in a position that looked so uncomfortable that I held his head up most of the way.

Unfortunately it was a bit damp to spend much time outside, so Jory spent a lot of time with the pumpkin display in the main hall of the resort.

We took our second-least-exciting hike ever:

Had some kisses:

And then on the way home, Jory hoodwinked us into buying him this enormous "busy zoo." How could we resist that smile?

Unfortunately, Jory went completely berserk when KC dragged him away from the toy so I could pay for it. I've got an MP3 of what ensued, but fortunately for you I can't figure out how to post it. You're welcome.

Go Cardinal!

As you can see, Jory takes his football very seriously:

  

Seriously enough that at the last game he rifled through a Coach purse (that did not belong to Mommy), tried to grab some guy's burger out of his mouth, ate a shocking number of garlic fries, and threw his toy boat into some ketchup in the row in front of us. Mommy ended up watching the end of a very tense game on TV in the stadium shop, while Jory played with the Stanford-themed stuffed trees and Hello Kitties.

It's exhausting being a fan!