Abby Talking

I have been trying recently to get video of Abby talking. She is just starting to catch on to a lot of words and it is so precious I don't want to forget. So the other night I was trying to get her to talk to me for the camera.

p.s. she has rag curls in her hair. It was so stinkin' cute the next morning she had curly little pigtails.

Halloween 2009

Abby likes the M&M's
Everybody got to eat a little bit!! Even Noah ;) and then they traded the rest in for money.

I paid 10 dollars for their haul this year, 5 for each boy.

Posing with the storm troopers! They were letting him know that they were on the same side :)

Noah was assuring them that he was Anakin when Anakin was a good guy!


All of us together... sometimes it is just impossible to get everyone to look at the camera at the same time!! They were too busy thinking about all the candy they were going to get!

Carving Pumpkins

I had just decided it was too late for getting pumpkins on Thursday. We had just put it off and put it off. But Daddy surprised us all!! Friday afternoon he came home with 5 pumpkins (one for each of us) and put them on the front porch for the boys to find when they came home from school. So the night before halloween we carved up 3 of them and put our Mr. Potato head decorations in the other too. I am so glad he went ahead and got them. It just didn't feel like Halloween until we did our pumpkin carving!

Witches Brew!!

My clever little boy helped us start a new halloween tradition this year. The day before Halloween he came downstairs and told mommy that we needed to have a Halloween breakfast to get ready for halloween. I had no idea what he was talking about??? He said we can make a potion just like a witch.... "well okay, Gabe, how do we do that?" So he tells me that we can pretend that all our cereals are witches ingredients and then we just mix it together and have "potions" for breakfast. So that is just what we did!! I loved the idea so much we spent most of the morning talking about what other things we could put into our witches brew next year. I think we will have to make a special potion making shopping trip next halloween, so we can get all the ingredients. Here is a picture of our first mixture, this is Noah's potion. And a picture of Gabriel with his best SCARY WITCH face holding his "potion" boxes!!