Halloween Festivities

Harrison was Spiderman for the second year in a row - so we thought it only fitting to spend Halloween with his cousins who are also obsessed with Spiderman. Alex and Harrison are just six months apart in age and looked like twins in their costumes. Jordan and I put together his Doctor Octopus costume the night before and the boys LOVED it!

Our little pumpkin Ava made it to three houses trick-or-treating and then lost it. I was secretly thrilled - and she and I headed back to the house where it was nice and warm. This was Harrison's first year trick-or-treating and he just couldn't believe he could just knock on doors and they gave him candy! It was so fun to see the boys together - wrestling, shooting webs, and of course eating all the candy possible!

Halloween at PreSchool

Getting to wear his Spiderman costume to school, a costume parade with their decorated pumpkins, donuts and witches brew for a snack, and Harrison's best friend Bjork, came dressed as EVE from WALL-E. Pretty much a perfect day in Harrison's book.

First Snow

A few days before Halloween we had a lovely dumping of snow - Harrison was in heaven and spent most of the day outside. It lasted one day and it was gone - for now. He is SO ready for winter and asks every day if he can put on his snow clothes, I wish it would stay fall forever.

Football and a visit from the Greats...

Football season is upon us, which means Harrison wears his football helmet more often than not and is constantly holding some object up to my mouth as a microphone so that I can do the play by play of his actions. He tackles himself, fumbles, catches, runs, stiff arms imaginary opponents - all right from our living room. Ava gets in on the action occasionally....

My grandmother and grandpa Frank also came for a visit - we loved having them here. Frank wired our garage we built last spring for lights and plugs - we are SO grateful! Harrison was obsessed with Franks cane and used it as a fire-knife while he spun it around in the living room. I am so happy that my kids are getting to know their great grandparents - I hope we didn't wear them out too much!

9 Months

My little one is nine months old. She crawls, opens any drawer or cupboard she can find, and is keeping me on my toes. She has started to answer with her own little coos and sounds when you talk to her - and melts her daddy's heart on a regular basis. Love this little one.

A trip to Southern California

We spent 5 days in Southern California with Jordan's family(most of which I think we secretly spent wishing we still lived at the beach :) and had a great time. We went for morning walks on the beach, spent a couple of days at a very hot disneyland, saw old friends, met my Uncle Peter at the Santa Monica pier for lunch at our favorite place WAHOO'S, went to a USC football game, and just enjoyed being away. Doesn't that picture of Ava in her Minnie ears just make your heart melt?