Foosball!

Ben and Conner have recently discovered a love for foosball!  We put up our old foosball table the other day and the boys want to play it all the time now!

Reminder...

On a Tuesday morning that began at 4:45a.m., I felt it was necessary to remind myself of how wonderful my children can be!  Hence the matching outfits and the posed picture....  I'm choosing to move past the way-too-early morning, the constant bickering that followed and the fact that my two cuties can't seem to stop saying the word "poopie" to describe almost everything today...

Dress Up...

Sometimes, on a boring Monday afternoon, you just gotta dress up...

 

School Pictures!

The boys brought their school pictures home so I wanted to share!  The aide in Conner's room had warned me that his picture might not be so good!  She said that they tried everything to get him to just smile normally, but he either screamed "cheese" with his mouth wide open or looked like this...!!!  He's not smiling, but this is definitely one of Conner's famous expressions.  I imagine he's thinking, "Seriously, just take the picture, or whatever it is that you are trying to do to me so that I can get back to playing..."

Our Ben was all smiles for his pictures and they captured his joyful expression perfectly!  His mouth is always open lately, either laughing or talking nonstop!  I love it!



Trick-or-Treat 2012!

The boys were more than excited for trick-or-treating tonight!  They ate a quick dinner and they were ready to get out there.  Conner was still on the mend from his latest cold, so we knew they wouldn't last too long.  After taking a few pictures, they were ready to go!

Conner insisted on wearing his IronMan mask to the first several houses, even though he could barely see out of it!  We finally convinced him to take it off so we could move along a little quicker!  Ben played the part of Simba perfectly and, more than a few times, greeted people with a roar...   After being told what a cute little lion he was by several other trick-or-treaters, he began telling people he passed by, "Hi, I'm a cute little lion!"  When our cute little lion and our tired little IronMan made it home, they dumped out their buckets to choose a few pieces of candy!

It was a great night and the kids had an awesome time!  Happy Halloween!

Pumpkins!!!

Ben made a spider hat at school today and was nice enough to help one of the adults make one for Conner who had to leave the party a little early! 

It was time to carve those pumpkins tonight and the boys were very excited.  They both wanted happy faces at first, but Conner changed his to a mean face when it was time to get out the magic marker and draw the face on the pumpkin. Ben was much more willing to stick his hand in the pumpkin and pull out all the "gooey" as he called it.  Conner pulled a little out, but mostly was not a fan of getting his hands dirty... I don't blame him...

Ben insisted on "helping" Dad cut out the face by holding onto Dad's hand.  Conner was content to watch Dad do the work while he laid his head on Dad's arm!

The finished jack-o-lanterns!!!

We took the jack-o-lanterns outside to the porch when we were all done.  Ben was very worried about leaving them outside all night long, but we finally convinced him that they would be okay!

We had a few more minutes before bed so we decided to have a little dance party with some Halloween tunes!  It started off great, but turned a little sour at the end...  (Notice how they keep looking at the dishwasher, because they can see themselves in it while they dance!)

All day long Ben had insisted on being called Simba, since that is his costume for Halloween.  I finally got the hang of it, so by the time the boys went to bed, I kissed Ben and said "Goodnight Simba!"  He then informed me, "Mom, I'm back to normal now, you can just call me Ben!"  Figures....  They are extremely excited about trick-or-treating tomorrow night so we will see how that goes in our new neighborhood!

Halloween Parade!

Today was the boys' Halloween party at school!  Conner chose to be Ironman and Ben found a Simba costume that he had to have so they were very excited to be able to wear them today!  They have a little parade at preschool so the kids can walk through the halls showing off their Halloween costumes.  The kids had a great time and I loved watching them having so much fun!

 

After the parade in the hallway, I brought Conner home because his asthma was pretty bad today and he couldn't stop coughing.  He wasn't happy to leave the party, but he took it like a champ and luckily, he felt much better by the afternoon.