First Spaghetti

Everyone has it, the picture of your fist time eating spaghetti and everyone thinks it't so cute and funny. Well, it is! Look how much fun he's having, he loved it, and he loved spashing in the water trying to wash it all off!

Next up: turkey, mashed potatos, green beans, and pumpkin pie, Thanksgiving here we come!

Our Fall fun

Seems like everyone is having lots of fall fun in the leaves, and of course our kids are no exception. Our back yard has plenty of trees with leaves for the kids to romp around in. We even came up with two fun activities.

Ben came up with this all on his own, I think it's totally genius, Mother Nature is way smarter than me. Leaves on the trampoline, you don't have to keep raking them back into a pile, and you get air!


Jefferson enjoyed the outside too, just from the swing. He seems to think that leaves are a delicacy and can't keep them out of his mouth.


Hannah's had lots of friends over this week, with the half school days and such. Her game is to rake as many leaves as she can onto the slide, them swoosh them all down, also very creative on her part.


Hope you get out and enjoy it before the white stuff falls!

Halloween Cuties!

Halloween again, seems like I was just writing the blog on "Get Candy" last year. This year it's more like "yea, we're not sick anymoe and we can leave the house!" But, they did bring home loads of candy that will be rationed out daily.

The fairy, the dinosaur, and the monster.


Jefferson and his pumpkin, note the happy tongue (not on Jefferson)


Perfect in purple, a little girls dress up dream


Seeing who got what, Jefferson tries to get his fair share, he'll have to wait for next year, although he did try his first bite of chocolate.


Another successful year, here's to dressing up, asking strangers for candy, and eating it all before Christmas!

Jefferson's Happy Tongue

I have a theory. Let's start at the beginning. People everywhere comment on Jefferson's tongue hanging out all the time. They think it's funny and cute and probably wonder if he's half puppy, just kidding. What I think though is that it's the way he shows he's really happy. In all our pictures of him having a good time, there's usually a tongue out in one of them. Let me show you.

Playing in his room: happy tongue


Standing in his crib: happy tongue


Cruising on the couch: happy tongue


In the tub: happy tongue again!


There's plenty more photos of this, but you get the picture. Maybe we can add a verse to the old fave kids song, "If you're happy and you know it, stick out your tongue"! So glad I have a happy baby.