Happy Halloween!

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Thank you to all who voted on my poll, but I decided to go with 2 firefighters! I did browse through Target in search of a dalmation costume, but did not see any, so I stuck with the firefighter costumes! Personally, I think they look adorable in their matching costumes!

Romzek Rock Stars!

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Pumpkin Picking

Click on the link below to view the video I made of our fun fall morning on Saturday. I learned about animoto in one of my classes, so I was experimenting with it, and have now fallen in love. Making this slideshow video was so easy and didn't take long at all! Enjoy!

Pumpkin Picking

Excuses, Excuses!

Owen likes to get away from family dinner time and sneak in a little alone time playing (without Max around) with the excuse that he needs to let his food cool. And sadly he does get away with this for ten minutes or so.

Well, tonight, we had Subway for dinner since we had to take Max to his 18 month check-up. Owen sat down with his turkey sandwhich and announced, "I'm going to go play a little while this cools down."

I responded, "but it is already cool, it was never hot."

To this he replied, "well until it warms up then."

At least he knows the opposite of cool is warm!

Life with Boys!

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Picture Perfect Moments

I am curious as to why picture perfect moments only last a millisecond.

This evening for example, Owen got out the Sequence for Kids game. We set it all up, he decided who got what color chip, we dealt the cards, and we were ready to go. He is the youngest so he gets to go first; he sat still, decided which card he wanted to lay, placed that card off to the side neatly (didn't throw it), placed his chip on the animal that matched his card, and then drew a new card. Then I took my turn, Daddy took his. And that explains the picture perfect moment!

Then the craziness started, Owen playfully put Daddy's chip on the board instead of his own, then said, "just kidding, daddy!" Next, he pushed all the other chips off the board. I put all the chips back in their original spots, just for Owen to take Daddy's chip and put his chip in it's spot instead, then when he got scolded, he took Daddy's chip, put it on top of his own on the same animal and said, "I'm just kidding, Daddy, we can share!"

Finally, he got up and started playing hopscotch across the board, that's when the game got cleaned up!

A few weeks ago, Gavin had to work late at school and so I had to eat dinner with the boys alone. Normally, getting Owen to sit at the dinner is a struggle, but this particular day he sat down with me, and for a millisecond I was eating and both boys were eating; it was a picture perfect moment and then.........

Owen threw his plate on the floor and said he didn't like it.

Oh the joys of parenthood!

Handsome Little Men

This weekend we found matching outfits for the boys on clearance at Target. It just so happened that the only two sizes they had were 5T and 18 months, which was exactly what we needed! We are planning on getting a family picture taken at the end of the month and these outfits will be perfect. Tonight, I tried them on the boys to see how they looked. I think they look so handsome! Owen is so excited to wear an outfit that matches Max and have his picture taken, hopefully, he is just as excited when the time comes!



This was Owen's interpretation of the pose I was looking for when I said, "look handsome!"