Mirror, mirror, in the exersaucer...

Alex. 3 months. Exersaucer. Monkey jammies. (11/2009)

Max. 3 months. Exersaucer. Monkey jammies. (3/2008)

Notice any resemblance?

Max having fun

This is the base of the light in the boys room. Let me rephrase that. This is the base of the light in Max's room AFTER he fell off his bed and smacked his head on it. It's metal. It's cheap metal, but it's metal. Ouch! He was reaching to turn his light on (for the 16th time) and missed the entire wall. On a good note, he slept over 10 hours that night!

We've been finding Max like this a lot lately. Yes, he HAS to have his helmet on. It's not usually buckled and it's usually on backwards. But the "Ah-Thomaaaas heaw-met" is a favorite. (If you click on the picture you can see the bruise from the fall a few days earlier, above his left eye). Alex's baby things are also a favorite. Max is determined to find a way to fit himself into any baby seat/chair, car seat, wrapped in any blanket, climbing into the crib, etc.

We are all looking forward to the time when Alex is big enough that they can really play together. Max still gives him hugs and kisses all the time. He says good night to him and that he loves him, ( "I wovel uuu, bee ache" translation: I love you Baby Alex). I hope it stays that way.

Adding that Max just came to me banging his helmet into my leg saying, "Mommy peeze fix bike riiiide." After the third time and me trying to figure out what to fix I asked him if he wanted me to take his helmet off. There was a huge nod and a big sigh of relief after it was removed. Too cute.

Packages

We found a package on our front porch a few nights ago. It was addressed to Master Alexander. It was incredible! We opened it and had to take a picture of him with these beautifully wrapped books. He liked them too! Erik was reading them to him as we went...

The cutest little bookend ever!

Thank-you Jerry and Marilyn Burke! What a fun surprise!

The Real Story

Alex will tell you how it really is around here.

Trick-Or-Treat

It's Halloweeeeeen Time!

It's Halloween!!!!!

We have pumpkin bread baking, candy apples in the fridge (we made them last night with the Kapele's), two kids sleeping

to rest up for Trick-or-Treating,

Erik is getting the saw ready, we're getting the supplies ready to

take to Napa...and...Mom finally

snapped photos of the whole family with

FANGS!!!

Max is dressing up as a pumpkin and Alex will be a bat.

Thank you Kelly and Betty for sharing your costumes!

Happy Halloween!!!!

P.S. John and Carla are borrowing the saw for trim on their house. I just thought I'd add that in to sound a little spookier for the holiday. BOO!

Halloween Fun

The Kapele's and the Mills came over last night to have dinner and decorate Halloween Cookies. Everyone had fun and got to take their cookies home to enjoy!

(Max pouting. Can his cheeks get any cuter?)

We had a lot of fun making new memories!

Pumpkin Patch. Part 2.

We went back to Cool Patch Pumpkins. This time we got to go with Payten and Riley. We had a great time, the wind wasn't going to stop us! It tried, hard. But we won!

I love this time of year!

Shoo Fly, don't bother me...

We got new windows in our home a few days ago, meaning there were 9 huge holes in our walls for several hours.

Enter flies!

Gross. Flies are just gross.

Erik and I both feel like we've killed a thousand flies the last two days. And they keep coming!!!! Now, we know why...After the photo shoot, they were killed. Together. Awe.

P.S. Our windows are BEEEE-YOOOO-TI-FUUL!!!!
P.P.S. Does anyone else think of Encino Man with the title of this post? Can anyone tell me who the fly belongs to? Probably just my brother, Ryan.

Jar-Heads

Kristen and I were feeling crafty the other day. We started a project that should have turned out like THIS. But it didn't. Ours weren't looking right so we added our own touch to them (that and we didn't have orange tissue paper. I think a group of pumpkins would be super cute).

I will explain. Left to right: It's a Mummy. Not a roll of toilet paper or a mess of tissue paper. It needs something...arms? different eyes? We were both really excited as we were making them and how cute they were. Then about an hour later we couldn't stop laughing at how funny looking they were. The second guy is a bat and he's perfect. I love him. Then there's the witch. The witch that looks like a clown. She was done last and in a hurry. She may end up living with the garbaaaaaage. Poor thing. Then there's Frankenstein. Frank sort of looked like Shrek to begin with, now he looks like a green Bart Simpson. They were fun and easy and it got some craftiness out of our systems. Kristen made a really cute ghost, witch and mummy. Some other craft sites I like are THIS ONE (gooood food too!) and THIS ONE. Thanks Kristen for letting us destroy your house so we could play!