A season of balloons

Starting on October 2nd with my college roommates baby shower, we have 6 birthday parties (not including Skylar's school party today) and 3 more baby showers to go for the month of October. Needless to say, it is going to be busy and I will probably be broke by the end of the month. :)

One good thing about all of those parties?? The BALLOONS!

Remember the Carousel festival a few weekends ago? And how much Grey loved the balloons? Well, when we got back home, Grey spent an hour outside on the back deck playing with his balloon, while Skylar ran around the back yard like the crazy girl that she is.

Of course he had to taste the string first:

Then he learned how to pull the string to bring the balloon within reach.

And then comes the hundred-mile-an-hour arm slapping to move the balloon up and down. I love the motion of his arms in these! Notice the plural "arms". Evidently he needed the other one to move simultaneously to keep his balance.

And the inevitable hit to the face! These crack me up! The last one there is my favorite!