Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Family pictures taken Saturday morning? check!
Afternoon walk on Saturday to take advantage of the late light before the time change? check!
Very early wake-up call on Sunday thanks to the time change? check!
Time at the tot-lot on Sunday enjoying the beautiful fall weather? check!
A great weekend all around!
ps – these pics taken with my new iphone! hooray! anyone know about these batch photos??
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…
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!
Please look at Spencey’s face in that first picture – I hate that it got cut off but he was so excited! ha!
and my football player even got a football!
High five for that!
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!”…
but he still wanted me to go up to most houses with him. Fine by me! 🙂
Spencey just had to check it all out from the stroller…
but then when we stopped by our friend’s house, he got to get out and explore a bit!
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!
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…
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!
Have a great weekend!
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….
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! 🙂
Hope we get lucky with the weather tonight!
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…
Destroying the table paper…
and being cute!
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!
Yay for healthy babies, healthy teeth, and good doctor reports all around!