Carpet Surfing

Why waste money on toys when you can have this much fun with old slick calendar pages?!?!  The boys (all of them) had a blast "carpet surfing".  Maybe Steve should patent this idea before someone steals it!  :)

Our First Pumpkin Carving Experience

We went to carve our three pumpkins tonight and two of them were rotten. I picked one up and the stem came off and underneath was mold - gross! Thankfully, we had one pumpkin that was "carvable" because we had been telling the boys all through dinner we were going to carve a pumpkin.

Steve did all of the hard work using a pumpkin carving templates. He was literally sweating within 10 minutes of it.  It's a good thing he chose an "easy" pattern.

This kid will eat anything.

The boys quickly got bored watching daddy so I let them decorate their little pumpkins. 

Trevor was pretty proud of his pumpkin.

They had a lot of fun doing this...until Ethan poked himself in the eye.

Trevor became pretty interested in the pumpkin carving.

However, that was nothing compared to how interested him and Ethan were when daddy was finished and lit the candle.

This is definitely a tradition we'll have to start!

Stinkin' Groundhog

A few weeks ago, I bought the boys a couple of small pumpkins for Halloween. Well, they decided to treat them as balls so I took them out back on our deck. The next morning I went to get the pumpkins and apparently the groundhog that's been living under deck decided to have pumpkin for breakfast and took a couple bites out of each. The following weekend we went to another pumpkin patch and got the boys a couple more pumpkins, this time I put them on our front porch thinking the groundhog wouldn't be brave enough to get up there - WRONG! We went outside a couple of hours later and the pumpkins had bites taken out them. Well, tonight we went to a friend's house and they had a carved pumpkin sitting on their porch. As soon as Trevor saw it, he yelled "Did a stinkin' groundhog get that pumpkin too!?!?". It was so cute!

Ethan's First Bloody Nose and Fat Lip

Ethan got his first fat lip and bloody nose yesterday. Big Brother Trevor knocked him off his tricycle and he fell face first right into the concrete.



I came home to Steve holding Ethan covered in blood. Thank goodness I wasn't home when it happened and thankfully, it (Steve's shirt) looked a lot worse than it was. Ahh, the first of many accidents, I'm sure!

The World Through My Boys Eyes

I love looking at the world through my little boys' eyes. Everything is so new and exciting. Taking them on car rides is almost a stress reliever because while I can get bogged down in my thoughts of what needs to be done or worrying about things out of my control, I hear them pointing things out to me that I never would have noticed. For example yesterday, Trevor noticed a small boat in a little pond and Ethan pointed out cows grazing in a pasture. Trevor is obsessed with fire hydrants and water towers, while I have to admit I can't get too excited about seeing those, I do enjoy hearing his excitement whenever he finds one, "Look, look mommy...a fire hydrant"! I'm so thankful I have these little guys to remind me to slow down and enjoy the simple things in life!