Halloween 2009

Halloween just gets more fun each year as our kids get older and get more into it. We had 2 Thomas the Trains this year because our kids are train crazy!

Matthew with his pumpkin. I wasn't feeling all that great the week before Halloween so we didn't get out to get pumpkins until Halloween day and all of the stores were sold out! Luckily our neighbors had grown some and gave one to Matthew. It was pretty small and hard to carve but Matthew enjoyed watching me do it!

He was very spooky according to Matthew.

It has also been hilarious to see the boys with their candy. Brayden is very protective of his. On Halloween his bucket was pretty full but he wouldn't let anyone help him carry it, he wasn't letting it out of his sight!

When we get out the candy Matthew very carefully picks out 4 pieces (that is his favorite number, everything has to be done in 4s. Like when we are at the park I can't say, "2 more minutes and then we need to go" it has to be 4 minutes!). Then he unwraps each piece and slowly eats each one. Brayden on the other hand can't get the candy in his mouth fast enough. He doesn't always finish each piece because he is so excited to get another one in his mouth! It is too funny to see their very different personalities. It makes me very curious to see what number 3 will be like!

Disneyland Again!

So a few weeks ago we went to Disneyland again! We just can't keep away! It was fun to see it all decorated for Halloween. It was so crowded! We got there on Friday night and thought we would sneak in and maybe catch the fireworks but we couldn't get in because Disneyland park was full! I was shocked! I have been to Disneyland many times and I have never heard of them closing it because they were filled to capacity! Nuts! We just made sure we were there bright and early Saturday morning and it wasn't too bad. The boys didn't seem to mind the crowds. After every ride Brayden would get off and say, "That so fun Mom, I love that ride!"
One other funny thing that happened was we were getting on the Winnie the Pooh ride for the 3rd time (it was the only ride with no wait!) and the ride operator was going through her speech to pull down the bar as far as you can. Matthew stood up and said I can't pull on the bar because my mommy's tummy is too big and I can't pull it down. This girl started cracking up laughing along with Nate. It sure is nice to be reminded by your 4 year old that you are getting large.





Anyway here is my favorite picture from the trip:

This is the risk you take when you ask some random person to take a picture for you! Oh well, one day we will get a good family pic at Disneyland!

My housekeeper

He works for cookies, candy and tomatoes!

Seriously he switched the laundry for me with no help from me!

And he is a pretty good cook too!

1st day of his 2nd week of Preschool

So I couldn't for the life of me find our camera to take a picture of Matthew on his 1st day of the 1st week of preschool! Bummer! But here are some pictures from the second week!


I couldn't get him to just stand and smile he had to keep shouting, "Preschool!"


One of his many works of art.

And Matthew just being Matthew! I think that he likes preschool. Everyday when I pick him up and ask him how it went he says, "Sorry Mom I can't tell you!" Sometimes I can get him to tell me bits of pieces but he still wants to go every time so I take that as he likes it!

On the first day we were driving to drop him off and I was asking him if he was excited. He told me that the last time he didn't make any friends (the previous week there was an open house and he got to meet his teacher and classmates). My heart just about broke. I felt so bad for him and I felt really guilty leaving him there. But we talked about how to make friends by asking other kids to play. He thought about it and said, "Mom there was this one boy and he wasn't sharing. I am not going to ask him to be my friend!" He seems to be doing better and says that he plays with the other kids. I didn't think that it would be this hard to drop him off and walk away! I am not look forward to Kindergarten!

Here is our other crazy boy. He refuses to use any utensils but one morning he insisted on using a fork to eat his toast! Silly kid!

And here is what has been keeping Nate and I busy late at night! We canned about 40 jars of peaches! Whew! Now we have some pears, tomatoes, and some jam. I guess I know what we will be doing while watching conference!

Matthew's Joke

Matthew just told me a joke, "What is the oven doing in the fridge? It's in the butter!" And then he started cracking up laughing! Having a 4-year-old is fun, even if I don't get his jokes!

Kitchen Floor

I think he is a little tired!

Update

I am really bad at blogging lately! So here are some updates of what we have been up to:

In July we went to a Ahlstrom family reunion (Nate's side) in Morgan UT. It was totally beautiful up there!

Pretty, green mountains!

They had a portable audio system up there and of course Matthew was "helping" ok so he was just asking 20 questions of why and how everything worked! Poor Uncle Bruce!

Sweatshirts in July!!

Then in August we made another quick trip to Disneyland! This time Aunt Michelle and Aunt Carrie came along!

Aunt Michelle and Brayden

Aunt Carrie and Brayden (getting ice cream all over Aunt Carrie, this is how you know he loves you!)

Waiting in a long line at the end of a long, hot, muggy day. But this new ride was totally worth it! It was a Toy Story 4D ride where you get to play arcade games. Totally fun and worth the 40 minute wait! (That was about the longest line we stood in, not too bad for August at Disneyland!)

The whole crew with our favorite character, Lightening McQueen!

I think we are getting a little spoiled with our trips to Disneyland (adults included!). Gotta live it up now come April our passes expire and I think it will be time for a different, less expensive trip :)

Now we are back to normal everyday life! Matthew grows like a weed and is almost out of PJs. I had some coupons to Kohls so we went looking for PJs. Matthew loves Star Wars right now, so he insisted on getting these:

They only had 3 pairs left and the smallest pair was a size 8! He is growing like a weed but not that fast, these drown him. But he doesn't care and I am a cheap person and have a hard time paying 15 bucks for PJs so at least he will really get our moneys worth out of these for as long as he will be able to wear these!

This morning Matthew woke up at about 6 and I was tired so I laid back down for a "few minutes" when I got up again I found Matthew with make-up all over his face. When I asked him about it he told me that it was ok it was just girl stuff! He also ate a chocolate cupcake for breakfast! He is getting sneaky. Last night we were playing outside and he told me that he needed some water so I told him to go and get some. 15 minutes later I followed him inside to find him eating a chocolate cupcake, I started laughing and said "nice water break Matthew!" But he did get one out for me and for Brayden too. He figures that if he gets enough to share then it makes everything ok! One more story: I feel asleep again and woke up to find Matthew watching TV with my sewing basket in front of him. He had unloaded everything out of it. Pins and needles all over the floor and he had cut up all of my elastic into very small pieces. Oh and he had cut himself with the scissors. Yes, multiple violations of things he knows he should not be doing! I was pretty upset, hence there is no picture of this. So I sent him to timeout and then told him that he couldn't watch TV or play on my computer for the rest of the day. He then remembered that Star Wars was going to be on TV that night and he was crushed. He is getting pretty addicted to Star Wars, can you tell? Anyway, life is never dull and I am starting to worry about having 3 boys in the house, this could get pretty crazy!