My Little Boy

Oh, Boston.

What can I say about my little boy.

Opinionated, stubborn, demanding, and yet so sweet. He wakes up in the morning and calls for me. When I go in and get him, he throws his arms around me and says "I wuv you mommy!" Then when Maddie wakes up, he runs into her room, looks over the side of her crib and says "Hi baby girl!" Then he demands to hold her, and when he's holding her he puts his face right up next to hers and says "I wuv you baby girl Maddie!"

Through out the day we have our little meltdowns, and battles, but over all I just love this little guy guy of mine! His new way to be funny is to say say "Hey Wachel, guess what?" Then I say, "I'm MOMMY" and he says, "No, Wachel" and laughs and laughs. He loves to make people laugh.

One of my favorite times of the day is bedtime. Usually, the two of us go into his room, and he picks a book for us to read. Then we finish, and he asks for another book. I tell him it's going to be the last one, but usually we end up reading 5 or 6. I love just having time with just him! The he gives me a hug, a kiss, double checks his lightening McQueen cars, and says " I wuv you mommy."

He also loves to be the bad guy. He puts his head down, and runs, while looking at the floor, scowling/snarling. Not sure where it came from, but it's hilarious.

His overall demeanor is so different from our little Miss Maddie, but he adds so much to our family!

He does not like having his pictures taken. Something about holding still and smiling is, in his mind, the worst possible thing we could ever ask him to do!

We tried to take big family pictures with Chris's side of the family over Thanksgiving and this gives you an idea of what we got out of him.

This is him telling me to stop taking his picture...




This is him running while we tried to get him to come sit down and join the family pictures.





Half of the time you just see his arm or leg in the picture as he's running out the frame. Maybe one day....

My Baby Girl

This post is all about Maddie.

She is coming up on 5 months, and it's amazing watching her change. Yesterday, I sat her down and she just kind of stayed there! I can't leave her, but she'll stay up on her own for about 1 minute or so. I already have the next pictures I'm going to take of her planned out in my head, but I have to wait until she's a little more stable.

She is finally on a schedule! Two naps and asleep from about 7:30pm to 8am! Granted, she'll wake up usually 3 times in there somewhere, but sleep is sleep!

She is honestly the happiest, sweetest baby in the world! I'm so glad she's my baby! She has such a calming influence on our home it's amazing! I seriously LOVE her SO MUCH!!

I know I've said it before but I feel so lucky I get to be her mom!

Here are some cute pictures of my cute baby girl!

My Sweet Sister

My sister has lived with me for a little over a year and a half. She recently moved out and boy do we miss her! But I guess since she's leaving for Peru in a couple weeks, so she wanted to spend some time with my parents. Heaven knows I tried multiple times to keep her home, by setting her up, but to no avail. We did some pictures for her missionary plaque, and here are a couple of my favorites.

What boys do

What's more fun than taking family pictures? (Notice the toddler hand in the bottom right of the picture?)




Throwing rocks into the water of course!

October

It's 12:42 am and I should be sleeping. Instead I'm blogging...there's something wrong with me. Really.

The thing is, October has been such a FUN month! I had to post some of the things we've been up to, as well as a few MOVIES I've taken with my new iphone (LOVE).

When ever we go anywhere with these two, people think they are twins.


Boston figured since nobody else was really watching he would get upclose and personal with the chickens. He was shocked when the fox popped up, it scared him pretty good.


He loved the wheels in the maze! He kept cutting through the corn so he could get to the wheels faster.

I wish I had a video of this, but I missed it. I tried to put Boston in the little cow tractor pull, and once he realized I wasn't riding with him, it was GAME OVER! He had a look of panic on his face as the tractor pulled around the corner and was calling "MOMMY!!" Every adult was dying laughing. Then he disappeared around the corner and I thought "I've traumatized him for life." Just then the tractor driver runs around the corner carrying a screaming Boston. I guess he's not ready for independence yet.





His favorite part of the whole night was this Hay jumping thing. He and Ethan had a blast. What you don't see is them throwing the hay all over me. They thought it was hilarious.


Next up is the family Halloween Party.


This year we were a few family member short, but everybody had a blast.


We decided to see what Maddie would look like as a Canadian...She wasn't a fan.


My mom is always so creative. She's a black widow.

David is also creative. He's Canadian. Big stretch right?


Boston's first time with a Pinata. He wasn't too sure about it at first, but once he realized he was ALLOWED to hit something with a stick, he was all for it.


My brother David ALWAYS wins this...he has since he was two. Watch the video and you'll see why.

NEXT is Halloween:


I got so many compliments on our pumpkins! I was pretty proud of them. I'm a firm believer that you should have a pumpkin for each member of the family. I thought I'd carve mine and Maddie's, Chris would carve his and Boston's, and Mary would carve her own...but I ended up carving mine, Boston's, and Maddie's. Oh well. I can be super proud of myself.

I was thrilled that Boston still fit into his Dragon costume this year! Especially since Monsters and dragons are the coolest for him right now. He loves his costume and for the last couple days wants to wear it all day, even during naps.


We decided it would be more fun to go with our neighbors, who Boston LOVES! I was thrilled that the boys held still long enough to get anything decent.


We stayed out for almost 2 hours! We were so glad the weather was nice! I was even working up a sweat towards the end which is bound to happen when your toddler demands to be carried from house to house.
Can you see how much Loot he came home with? I mean seriously! And it was all good stuff too! Lucky kid.
We didn't have nearly as many Trick or Treaters this year. Usually we're lucky to have enough candy with two Costco bags, but this year, we barely made it through one. No clue what happened.

Boston's figured out that he loves suckers. Go figure.



I think this video speaks for itself.



I'm so glad that I get to be a stay at home mom so that I can catch moments like this!

He had no idea the marshmellow was on his head. He had picked all the other marshmellows out of the cereal, and left the rest. We're working on eating non-sugary things. Halloween doesn't help much.



And Last of all Maddie has started laughing. Here is a little taste of her cute laugh. She's doing it more and more often, but only for Chris.

Friends

These are our friends. We LOVE them! We have been so lucky to have these kids as neighbors and friends for Boston! The two little boys on the left moved, and we're all bummed out over that. They were awesome little play mates! (I couldn't get Boston to get in the picture for anything. Oh well.)