Crawling!

Garrett started crawling and now we can hear the cute pitter patter of little hands and knees on the wood floor. He is so curious and it is fun to watch him learn and explore...we did find the need to go get another gate to rope off the front room where the sparkling twinkle lights and pretty ornaments are adorning our 'Charlie Brown' Christmas tree--the tempation was simply too great!
He is just too cute!

I'm grateful for...

We had a fun Thanksgiving at my parent's house, we had all the kids running around and after a run to Wal-Mart for more potatoes we enjoyed a beautiful dinner. I feel so blessed to have a wonderful, loving and supportive family. I am thankful for the wonderful blessings in my life and all I have to live for! We are truly blessed!

Countdown to Turkey Day

We are excited for Thanksgiving and the chance we have to be with family, to eat some yummy food and play games...It will be slightly amiss this holiday with the weather being so lovely. Don't get me wrong, I love 60 degree, sunny days, but for Thanksgiving it seems a bit mild. I wonder if it will snow for Christmas.

And not to any one's surprise, but we have been doing more "projects". The extremely functional, durable concrete has yet again been a medium of choice. We decided to do the kitchen counters this time. And, YES, I knew about it. Scott poured one section and had two neighbors help carry it from the basement to install it, then he reused the forms and poured the second half and put it in place this weekend.

(from left to right): picture from when we were looking at the house before we bought it; in the middle of the project; the completed view

are you comfortable?

As I was feeding Garrett this morning I could hear Cam in the kitchen eating his breakfast and then it was quiet, I wondered what he might be ransacking or if he had just gone downstairs to watch cartoons, but I came into the kitchen and found him asleep like this. After gulping down 2 glasses of milk then devouring two Eggo waffles and the half-eaten Eggo Jorden left, do you think he was hungry?..the poor kid was exhausted after eating everything in sight!

These are just a few of the other funny places I have found Cameron sleeping (don't ask how he got up on the dryer--I really don't know!)

"isms"

For story night a while ago Cam chose "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and "The Best Mouse Cookie".
Scott said, "I thought those were the same book."
Jorden chimed in with, "They are different books they just have the same actor."

Just now I was giving Garrett a hug when Cameron looking up at me with a look of disdain said, "Don't squeeze my baby brother."
So I went over and gave Cameron a hug.
Cameron: "Don't squeeze me I am going to pop."

Cameron: "I am a big, big boy, I am tiny boy too."

Cam has a unique style of dance, not to be equaled, well earlier he was jamming out swinging one leg out in front of him, I asked what he was doing and Cameron replied with, "These are just my piggies."

nananananana...

Scott's mom sent this to us and we died laughing--it just so happened that the big boys have been fighting over which cartoon character they are (Bugs Bunny or Elmer Fudd, etc.) and so this just hit home, especially with the amount of 'bodily noise' produced in our household...
P.S. if you can't quite read it click here to see it bigger :)

Debbie's B-day

So I just saw on my mom's blog her 'cake' that she made for Debbie, I had to laugh because it said "Happy Birtboy" I love my mom and I love Debbie--Happy Birthday Deb, hope it has been happy! And just so you know you can have a custom song anytime you want, we will even sing off key again if you like... ;)

Trick or Treat

It is so fun to see your kids get so excited about the holidays and seeing their anticipation and remembering the fun you had when you were their age. *sigh*

I worked Halloween night and was a little bummed by that prospect but it was okay, the school did their Halloween carnival the night before and so I was able to go with the kids to that and then I got the update on the evening...Cameron was pretty excited about all of the candy he got and both big boys hung out in their costumes all day.

Jorden was Optimus Prime, Cameron was Woody and Garrett was Jack-Jack, on our way to the school carnival Cam told me they were all cartoons and asked what Scott and I were dressed up as--we were decked out in Hawaiian garb. (I donned my coconut bra that Verdean brought back for me, Jorden and Cam both asked me what it was...hmm, umm, yeah)

It was a fun night even though it started raining while they were in the middle of the treat-topia. Work even went well, but I might need to find another Halloween-themed scrub top, apparently the one I made with material I bought at Wal-mart was too scary--really, it is Halloween, can anything be too scary, for sure the babies don't care.

I hope Halloween held all sorts of memories for you as it does for us...

P.S. isn't my little pumpkin cute?!