The Brown Brick Road

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Halloween!

Well, I just don’t think I could have asked for Halloween to have gone any better!  We had so much fun and my little firetruck and football player loved it!  We barely made it up from naps in time to get over to the parade at 4:00 but we made it.  This picture cracks me up because we were all a little frazzled trying to get there and Maxwell tried to squeeze into the stroller with his firetruck on and, well, it was just funny…

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Robert met us at the parade and it was great.  The boys loved seeing all the floats, dancers, cheerleaders and, of course, the fire truck at the end!

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Please look at Spencey’s face in that first picture – I hate that it got cut off but he was so excited!  ha!

halloween parade

and my football player even got a football!

football halloween

High five for that!

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The parade ended about 4:30 and the group we were with just decided to start trick-or-treating to get it in before the rain.  Luckily lots of others had the same idea so there were plenty of people all ready to hand out some candy!  Maxwell definitely got the hang of it quickly and got really good at saying “twick ah tweat!”…

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but he still wanted me to go up to most houses with him.  Fine by me!  🙂

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Spencey just had to check it all out from the stroller…

spencey halloween

but then when we stopped by our friend’s house, he got to get out and explore a bit!

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Just as we were turning onto the street to head back home, sprinkles started to fall.  We didn’t mind though as we had already done a lot of trick-or-treating and seen plenty of good friends!

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We got home just in time to eat some dinner and watch It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!  yay!  Maxwell loved getting to root through his loot…

halloween loot

and discover the joys of Reese’s peanut butter cups!  I asked him that night what his favorite part of Halloween was and his reply?  the chocolate.  Kid after my own heart!  🙂

What a fun, fun Halloween!

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Have a great weekend!

Happy Halloween!

Boo! It’s Halloween!!  I think this year is going to be fun because Maxwell “gets” it a little more – he gets the idea of trick-or-treating and dressing up and he definitely gets the idea of candy!  That kid has discovered candy corn and he’s a fan!  🙂

Unfortunately, we’re supposed to get some rain here tonight so hopefully we can get the parade and some trick-or-treating in before the weather turns.  Just in case tonight is a total wash-out, we went up to the little carnival at our church last night so the boys could get to wear their costumes at least once.  I attempted to snap a few pics before we went but, man, getting Spencey to sit still is impossible and getting them to both sit still and look at the camera? Not happening! Still, here’s a little preview of Halloween….

halloween 2013

Isn’t Maxwell’s fire truck awesome?!  He loves it.  Spencey was supposed to be an elephant but given that it got into the high 70s yesterday and is supposed to get up to 80 today, we decided to make a last minute change away from the full body fleece elephant costume!  Throw on a football jersey, some squeaky AL shoes and a little eye black and you’ve got one cute football player!  🙂

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Hope we get lucky with the weather tonight!

halloween 2013

Have a spook-tacular day!!  Boo!

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Spencey had his 1 year check up last week and everything looks great!  He’s a big boy – but mainly in height!  He’s tall at 31.5 inches which is in the 95th to 98th %  (Maxwell was 30 inches). He’s 23 lbs, 12 oz  (Maxwell was 21 lbs, 12 oz) and has a head circumference of 18 (Maxwell’s was 19.25). Both weight and head are in the 75th to 95th %.  We got the ok to start going forward with whole milk to I’m going so start giving him cow’s milk at night in a bottle and in a sippy cup during the day (I think).  I’m going to try to keep him going on a pumped bottle in the morning.

Looking back at Maxwell’s 1 year checkup just reminds me what an easy baby Spencer is.  Maxwell was a little challenging during his visit at 1 but Spencey just smiled happily the whole time…and did quite a bit of chewing on Dr. Walley’s stethoscope!  But, no tears except for when he had to get shots and those tears only lasted a minute.  I love this baby.

I’ll tell you one thing though – trying to entertain this wiggle worm in a doctor’s office is no small feat!  I finally pulled out my iphone and videos of Elmo kept him pretty occupied for a while – yay for Sesame Street!

Checking out the waiting room…

1 year checkup

Destroying the table paper…

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and being cute!

1 year check up

In other terribly exciting news, Maxwell went to the dentist last week!  He did great and let the hygienist clean his teeth and even take x-rays with no complaining!  yay!  Dr. Johnson said his teeth look great but they did mention we should really focus on flossing because his teeth are very tight and close together.  Ummm…flossing a 3 year old’s teeth isn’t exactly easy even with the handled flossers but we’ll give it our best shot!

dentist

dentist

Yay for healthy babies, healthy teeth, and good doctor reports all around!

Busy Weekend

This weekend was jam-packed with all sorts of fun!  Robert was out of town in Boston with some friends to see a concert so it was just me and the boys and…man, we went all out!  It was a gorgeous, fall weekend with cold mornings and sunny afternoons.  Perfect for plenty of outside play!

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outside

Since this was the last weekend the pumpkin patches were open, I decided to brave it alone Saturday morning and piled the boys into the car bright and early to get to the Great Pumpkin Patch in Hayden by 8:30am.  We went last year right before Spencer was born and I knew Maxwell would enjoy it again.  He bounced in the bounce houses, rode the little train, checked out the animals and sat on all types of neat tractors.

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pumpkin patch

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We then took a hayride out to where all the pumpkins are and I told Maxwell to pick any one he wanted!

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I think he got the best one out there!

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Spencer’s favorite part was definitely rolling around in all the hay!

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It was an effort to get us all up and out there so early but I’m glad we did!

pumpkin patch

We went early because I needed to get Spencer home to take a nap before our next adventure at 2:00.  Spencer had other plans.  He looked like this about 5 minutes into our drive home from the pumpkin patch…

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Sweet baby.  I took the long way home and he got about a 45 minute nap in the car…and that’s the only nap he got all day because we had to get to a fire truck party!  Before we left, I had to put both boys in their new fire truck shirts, of course…

fire truck shirts

(and please note that Saturday was Spencey’s first time in real shoes!  a hand me down pair of his brother’s beloved Elmo shoes!)

Maxwell’s friend, Luke, was turning 3 and had a party at a fire station – not the one where we had Maxwell’s party but a different one.  Maxwell obviously loved it…

fire truck

fire truck

and the firemen were very informative!  Probably a bit more informative than the 3 year old audience cared for but that’s ok!  🙂

fire truck

After they climbed all over the trucks they got to play at the park next door and eat some cake…which Maxwell clearly enjoyed!

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Spencer was so good for the whole party despite the short nap.  In fact, he was even this happy that night in the bath…

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He is just the best!

It was an early bedtime for two very tired and happy boys!  Yay for fun fall weekends!