Playtime & Pumpkins

There are a few shots of the boys just playing around the house.  Radley has become quite the poser.  It is so nice when the boys play together; I just wish it wasn't so loud!!  The noise level drives me crazy, and I can't just send them outside!!
 

Radley now has a cheesy face!

This boy loves things that move, whether it be trains or trucks or cars.  I would like them much more if he didn't have to play with them in the kitchen! 

Look at the grin! Kenney gets a lot of comments from patients or people at work about Damon.  They see his picture and say, "That one is ornery isn't he?"  It's that obvious huh?!?

CHEESE

One particularly long and stressful day, Radely decided to climb back into the bathtub AFTER I had just put on his pajamas and got him ready for bed!  Thanks Radley!! 

One day a friend of ours had a family emergency so we had another little boy with us all day.  I have to say, I didn't really notice one more little boy running around here!

These boys are obsessed with Halloween! They point out every Halloween themed object they see, notice every time someone says Halloween, talk about trick-or-treating and costumes constantly, tell me we never have enough decorations in our house or outside our house, etc, etc.!! Kyler is especially obsessed and has caused the others to be the same way! They love going places that have Halloween decorations, and Radley points them out just as much as the rest! It's pretty funny. Having said that, they have been bugging me about buying pumpkins for weeks now. So when they finally went on sale we bought 3 pumpkins and got to work!

I was curious how the cleaning of the pumpkins would go this year, because last year neither of the boys wanted anything to do with it.  We have made some improvements!!  Kyler and Radley both helped (meaning they would at least touch the stuff)!

Damon couldn't miss any of the action.  He just didn't want to touch it!

A 'normal' picture of our children.

Radley was crying and wanting me to hold him so Kenney said, "Radley smile!"  This is the face he gave, and once the picture was taken he returned to crying!

Radley loved climbing on the table and using the big spoons.  I'm not sure what Damon is doing.  Flexing maybe?

Scraping them out!

After a lot of carving, tears and way too many, "Are they done yet's" we finally got three pumpkins carved! 

Damon wanted a bat.  Kyler a ghost.  And Radley got the spooky one.

Carrying the pumpkins outside.  Look how strong he is!!

They refused to sit still to take a picture!

We may only do one pumpkin next year!  This took way too much effort!  However, they do get excited every time they go outside and see them.

Yes, this is the best picture we could get!

There is nothing of particular interest in this video. I just thought the Grandma's would enjoy it!

Nice October Weather

The last couple weeks we have been trying to take advantage of the nice warm (not hot) fall weather, before we are stuck inside for the windy winter! The boys love going to parks, and we have been bringing scooters and balls too so we can stay even longer. They are also getting ready for Halloween. We got a couple Halloween packages they were thrilled about getting, and we went to the Pumpkin Trail. Basically they fill a park with thousands of Jack-O-Lanterns and other fun things. The boys had a blast, but the mosquitos were a little too much so we had to walk quickly!

Kyler has decided he is too big for the baseball T and now pitches to himself.  He throws up the ball and hits about 2 out of 3 balls!

 

 

Mr. Independent cannot be left behind, no matter the cost!

 

 

He is proud of himself every time he reaches the top!

 

 

This happens at least once every 10 mins of Damon's life.  Something makes him angry, and then he gets over it!

 

This is from a different day just thrown in the middle of all these others, but these little monkeys are brave!  Heights don't seem to bother them.

 

 

He loves to climb any chance he gets.

 

 

My sweet little guy is getting so big!!

 

 

Typical!

 

 

Radley is pretty good at hitting the ball, but he hates it when Damon chases down his ball!  He screams every time; so naturally, Damon does it every time!

 

 

He's not quite able to climb to the top yet, but don't count him out for too long!

 

 

Kyler was excited to get these spooky things from his Halloween package.  We also got some other decorations so he decided to take down the ones he drew!

 

 

Vampire Teeth

 

 

He is so sweet when he is asleep. I wish it could last longer.

 

 

The Pumpkin Trail had a lot of cutouts, and Kyler insisted on wearing his skeleton mask to scare people.  Damon also wanted a mask ,so he wore an Ironman mask.

 

Pumpkins were everywhere and they had so much fun trying to figure out what all the carvings were.  Damon would point at one laughing and say, "Kyler (pronounced like Tyler) look at that one!" Haha Haha!!  It was really funny.

 

 

Radley wanted to walk up to each pumpkin, point at it, and grunt!  We would have been there all night if we went at his pace!

 

 

Yes, the boys wanted to be fairies, but we couldn't drop the mask for a fairy picture!

 

 

My Little Scarecrows

 

 

I would be terrified if he was actually able to drive that thing!

 

 

He kind of blends in!

 

 

I think the cutouts were a hit!  They wanted their picture in every one of them!

 

 

Radley pointed at everything, and Damon had to have his picture taken everywhere Kyler got his taken!

 

 

They really wished they could drive away!

 

 

The boys liked the "Inja Turtles" and the cool lights and smoke!

There is a kiosk at Sam's that gives out free samples, and the boys have to check it out every time we go.  On this particular day, there was gum in the machine.  Great!  They had never really chewed gum before so Kenney got this video of them chewing it.

A Trip to Nanny's

Oma made a trip down to Nanny's house, and the boys and I decided to crash the party and go visit Oma and Nanny. Well I guess you could say that we brought the party rather than crashed the party! (They both mentioned how quiet it was when we left; somehow the noise followed me!) The boys loved going to Nanny's house. They get to watch cartoons all day (Nanny has cable!!), eat treats almost whenever they want, and she has an iPad! Radley just got food everywhere he went. If he ever cried Nanny would say, "Give him something to eat!" It usually worked! The boys also got spoiled like usual!

On the drive down, we stopped and got a Slurpee.  All three of them had to get a straw and drink it at the same time.  It was pretty cute!

These two hung out on Nanny's bed quite a bit.

He tried to hang out with the big boys too!  He was into everything and was everywhere.

He had so much fun with Oma!  He loved her!

He also loved to steal Nanny's rocker.  He would rock his body back and forth trying to get it to move.

I asked them to get a picture with Oma, and they attacked!

Poor Nanny got the same treatment!

Nanny and I

Damon snuggled up with Oma pretty fast even though this picture doesn't look like it!

Oma got the boys matching pj's.  It was difficult getting a picture of the other side, and I thought this was cute too!

Surprisingly I got a decent picture with my phone...

and the 'real' camera too!

Oma took the boys to McDonald's and even got them Happy Meals (I never get them Happy Meals).  They loved getting some energy out at on the playground.

Damon is such a good climber.  He climbs to the tops and just bails off rather than climbing down!  Look at those calf muscles.

Right before we left, we went to a friends' house and they had Halloween decorations up.  Kyler wanted to decorate our house too, but I told him I wouldn't get the decorations out until we got back.  Well, he couldn't wait!  He decided to make his own.  This is his spider, bat and ghost!  I thought maybe he would forget about the decorations, but he reminded me while we were there and as soon as we got home!  Needless to say, first thing this morning we got the Halloween stuff out!