Monday, October 31, 2011

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

This was costume "try-on" the night before the daycare Halloween parade Friday.

Here is Drew in his buggy at school getting ready to line up for the parade, apparently the giraffe was a popular costume in his class amongst boys & girls.
Connor is consoling Drew.
 This one cracks me up, they are both looking at each other like "what in god's name is on your head?!"
 Jack with his class. 
Jack was demonstrating his "lasers".
 Look at those big blue eyes!
 Here is Drew's class going across the stage.
 Jack's class was not far behind.
 Jack was surprisingly animated and even danced a little on stage for everyone!
After the parade Jack convinced daddy to take him home for the day and they stopped off to pick up a few pumpkins.
Jack picked 2 winners.
 Apparently a frosty consists of "lunch" when you stay home for the day with daddy.
 After getting all hopped up on sugar and feeling a little sassy, this is how we found Jack in his room for his nap....everything that was in his bed was on the floor, including him!
Saturday night we went trick-or-treating at the zoo.  Jack had a blast, it was pitch dark by the time we left and we ended the night with a "spooky" train ride.  We will definitely do that again next year!
 Sunday was trick-or-treat in our neighborhood and we had done nothing to get ready so...let the pumpkin carving begin!
 ...well as long as it's not wet and slimy!
 Here's our little fireman ready to hit the streets in search of more sugar.
 He didn't even let the rain stop him!
 Back safe & sound, cozying up to mommy for more SUGAR!
 Dan's pumpkins, R2D2 and Yoda...pretty cool!
I went for the quick & easy batman for mine.  The weekend long festivities seemed never ending but all in all a good Halloween despite a little rain.

A Few Random

Dan & Jack hamming it up at the zoo.
 Jack's first "skyride" at the zoo (Drew's too), he was suprisingly not scared at all and even laughing at this "Scream" mask passing us by.
 Some fun with his froggy sunglasses in the car.


 Look who is eating in a high chair these days!

Thursday, October 27, 2011

My Little Pumpkin!

Here are a few pics from school.  They carved out a pumpkin like a bumbo seat and took pics of all the kids...pretty funny!  I love his picture in the leaves.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Blah, Blah, Blah and ABC's

Tonight Jack did a great job entertaining Drew for me while I washed bottles.  They were both fighting for the spotlight and cracking me up so I grabbed my phone to record the insanity which ends in Jack doing his abc's...or at least getting close!


Thursday, October 20, 2011

Dolly 1 / Jack 0

This morning Jack got a little overly excited during an episode of "Chuggington" and lunged in to give a sleeping Dolly a bear hug, needless to say he took her by surprise and she nipped him in the face pretty good...bloody nose and everything!  After the initial shock he was fine and they even made up before we left for school, where he showed off his battle wounds to all of his friends.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Who should Jack be for Halloween?

Jack couldn't decide on what he wanted to be this year so we've narrowed it down to a fireman, or Buzz Lightyear.  You can vote for your favorite with the poll on the top right of the blog and stay tuned to see which one wins!

Six Flags...More Flags, More Fun!

At the end of September Kohl's rents out the Six Flags in Gurnee, IL for their employees and their friends & family so this year we made a weekend out of it. It's great because there are no lines for anything and the park is decorated for Halloween. Our friends from swim met us there and Jack & Alex had a great time, I think they rode this boat ride 3 times in a row!  Jack was far less timid of the rides this year and went on pretty much everything he was allowed to.  He even went on his first "big boy" rollercoaster with mommy, The Little Dipper.  We spent a full 8 hours at the park and left shortly after the Halloween monsters started coming out. We stayed at Key Lime Cove which is right next door and is a crazy fun indoor water park hotel.  We had a blast!  Unfortunately we weren't great at taking pictures but here are a few...

Jack Hover...The King

Jack has been rocking a new leather motor cycle jacket and on the way to school a few weeks ago he told me "he matched Elvis", when I asked Who?, he told me "The King!".  Clearly the work of his father!

Drew's 5 months old!

While I was in Asia Drew turned 5 months old!  He is eating like a champ and rolling over all the time.  Here are some recent shots of the boys...