Halloween Fun

Every year we go to my brother's house for a fun Halloween party & trick or treating. Where they live they do trick or treating on the night before Halloween. So this means we get 2 days of trick or treating. We all had a blast, here are some photos, Jeff & I were pirates, Dominic a tiger, Collin a monkey & Aidan the Firefighter.
We got in late so I threw the candy buckets on top of the fridge knowing I'd have to move them first thing in the morning since they can get up there. They ended up waking up before me and they had their buckets dumped all over the floor with chocolate covered hands and faces at 9 in the morning. The candy is all locked up now, but my boys are wired!

Dominic's fully mobile now

Dominic woke up today and started crawling. He does the half scoot half crawl where he'll get on all fours and rock back and forth then tries to take off until he falls. Then continues by half scooting half crawling until he can get to what ever toy he wants. It's so cute, I figured he'd be crawling soon but of coarse we will really have to watch the floor for anything little, he's been rolling and pivoting everywhere but now he can get to anything anywhere and fast.

Yum

Don't you just love it when you are laying on the floor holding your baby above your head talking to him and suddenly you feel this cold, wet, slimy blob of slobber drop right into your mouth? Really, I almost threw up.

Daddy's Garden

Jeff put in a new garden on the corner of our front yard yesterday. The boys of coarse always want to help Daddy do anything. I stepped outside to see what they were up to and I had to get a picture.


The new garden will probably be short lived with this wrecking crew though. Here's our front porch garden/construction site, Jeff put the fountain down because he was afraid they'd knock it over. Our porch is always full of dirt, diggers and dump trucks. Boys!

I'm in trouble now

Collin learned this morning how to use scissors, he taught him self by watching Aidan. There was no way I was going to teach him any time soon. Scissors + Collin = major trouble. I keep them up but somehow Aidan always finds a pair of his kid scissors somewhere and cuts Collins hair on occasion. I guess it's time Aidan has his share of uneven hair cuts from Collin.

We love the Fall

We had a blast at the Pumpkin Patch this weekend with G-ma Gail, Aunt Tish, Uncle Ken, Aunt Michelle and cousins. Thanks again for all the help, so hard for me to do things like this with the boys with Jeff working on the weekends.

And for today

Well, not such a good day! Jeff & I were both busy today trying to get stuff done, I was on the phone and he was trying to paint the bathroom. Aidan knows much better but found a marker and drew all over the tv, the walls all have streaks, the table, the floor, he didn't miss a spot. He also found his kid scissors that were not put away from earlier and cut apart the netting on my bed rail for Dominic. I was pretty furious. I have a phone problem, when ever I'm on the phone I have a hard time paying attention to what the kiddos are doing, I try to follow them around but didn't today and well they know that I don't pay as much attention so I guess they decided to have some fun.

Had some fun at the Zoo

Yesterday we had a good time at the Zoo. Aidan was not very happy though, he only wanted to see the construction diggers and digger men, not any animals. I guess he thought the Zoo had them as well. Also, for lunch there I completely forgot to bring something for Dominic to eat. He was diving for our food. Normally with our other kiddos we'd just mush up our fries or what ever we had to give them, this is not an option since he can't have fat. I ended up giving in tiny pieces of my turkey and Jeff gave him Ketchup, we cannot leave home with out food again! There is not much he can have at most places like this. Poor guy!





Ah, our very own monkey likes to watch other monkeys

creative thinking 3 years olds

3 year olds can be such creative thinkers. Aidan always saying something that Jeff and I just look at each other and think how do they come up with this stuff.
For example today Collin came running into me crying "Anen, Anen" that's Aidan in Collin's language. And I knew Aidan hurt him somehow. I can't wait until Collin can tell me exactly what Aidan did to him so I don't have to guess or get twisted versions from Aidan. So today Collin is crying, I ask Aidan to tell me what happened, Aidan says "mom, the fire truck just bumped into him, that's all!". uh huh. I see. I had no clue that he'd be already telling fibs and twisting words at 3. What happened to the honesty, I loved that, I'd ask what he did to Collin and he'd say exactly what he did "I pushed him" etc. At least I get to see some creativity this way.

A few French words

When I lived in Belgium I learned a small amount of French, I really wish I would have learned more but I went to the American school so I didn't have to learn aside from French class. I had no idea kids are such sponges when it comes to other languages. I was going over some French words with Aidan and he was at first saying them back very well. He got bored fast as usual, I kept going, this is what I got out of him.

Sil vous plait - (please) - See poop plate

Merci beaucoup - (Thank you) - Messy poop


Then he said "mom, I don't speak Spanish"
I think I'll have to teach him French more often, it was interesting.

Heart leaf

I told the boys to find some colorful fall leaves so that we can make a fall craft out of them. One of my sweethearts brought me a leaf heart. Aidan runs to me all excited to find this. He also told me today that I'm a good Mommy, it was very nice to hear, I need that sometimes.



Of coarse the sweetness was short lived, I thought how nice they are playing so well together in their room a little while later. I came in to check and it was a mess, Collin had creamy Desitin that was up high in the closet all over him and everything, Aidan's new Halloween costume, clothing, and that stuff does not come out easily. I'm going to try Dawn dish soap, if it works on cloth diapers to get cream out then it has to work on clothing. Aidan had put all the toy bins stacked on top of one another to get to his camera on the closet shelf, he then knocked down the basket with the rash creams in it and well Collin couldn't help himself.

Grandma to the rescue

Grandma K. came over today and watched all 3 boys on her own. Grandpa was supposed to come too, he always takes care of the baby when sitting but he was sick and didn't want to chance getting Dominic sick. I had a wedding to go to and Jeff had to work. I called 2 times while I was out, both times it sounded like the baby was crying so I of coarse thought I need to get home asap. I come home and everyone is happy, Dominic is playing on the floor, the boys are sitting on the couch. No one is hurt, nothing is broken. She thankfully watches Collin & Aidan every Friday to give me a much needed break, and they do really well with her, they actually listen for the most part. But all 3 boys at once is not really easy for anyone and I was pretty scared when I was going out the door with Dominic crying every time he looked at Grandma. He's starting to have non mommy or daddy anxiety. Just when I'm thinking he's older, so good and happy, maybe we can actually go on a date, now he doesn't want us to leave him. Oh well we have what maybe 10 years and we can go out regularly on dates again, when Aidan's old enough to hold down the fort.