Pictures from November.

The other morning, walking down the stairs, soon after Thomas woke up, he told me "I slept well, mommy!". I always ask them how they slept when they wake up and Thomas beat me to it. The boys slept in our room at their grandparents. One morning before we all woke up, Thomas stood up and said repeatedly, "Mommy, time to wake up!". I woke, motioned to him to come into bed, which he did. He immediately went back to sleep next to me. I love it when they use our expressions.

These pictures are all but ancient! They are from the first weekend in November, out in Albany for my Dad's 65th birthday. In the first picture at a 11th birthday celebration for John, check out the cute kid with the red hood up! It's Nathan and he looks adorable! The next picture, Thomas is showing you his big kid mittens. He's making quite the expression. The next two pictures are of Nathan....Nathan starts his photography career. The boys help their grandpa open his presents and blow out the candles. The last picture shows Thomas' new way of getting down!

Halloween

Unfortunately, I'm way behind putting pictures up. These are all from Halloween. I used the same costumes from last year and astoundingly they still fit. Thomas really wanted to be a chicken again and Nathan wouldn't wear the new one I bought for him. The week before Halloween, the town next to us had a trick or treat walk. Nathan wouldn't wear any costume for that but for some funny reason I heard people saying "look, there is the chicken and the egg!" Whatever! Matt had to work that night, so I took them alone. I wondered how it would go, but they were so stunned by all the sights, that they just happily sat in their stroller. Sunday night before Halloween, we carved 2 pumpkin faces with Lindsay and Norman. Halloween day, Conner came down with his mother for a visit. Conner is only 6 months older, but he towers over the boys! Halloween night, Nathan quickly put on his Halloween costume when I told him he had to to get candy. If you can see, the pooh costume has a puffy belly which he told me that he had a baby in there. We've seen my sister lately who has a decent size baby belly and of course they saw Sara several times this summer. We went down to the old town hall Halloween night. It was a little loud and not quite for the age group we have, so the boys trick or treated at the houses clustered in the center of the town. It was a nice evening and we're still eating candy!

Other Sources...

Shelly has posted a buch of pics from this last weekend where Jen's family celebrated her father's 65th birthday.

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Also, a link from Jen's birthday a few weeks ago...

We went over to visit Mamie and her girls. The boys were given pumpkins to paint. Thomas loves the color pink which is the only color I can make out on his pumpkin. He consistently knows the color pink and Nathan seems to know the color orange. Every other color, both boys just guess at. I'm not worried that they don't seem to get the other colors, I just find it strange that this is hard for them. They get so many other things. Nathan enjoyed holding their kitty cat. The boys chase our kitty, so she only curls up with them when they sleep on our bed. Yes, those are chickens in our house! I was vacuuming the mat outside the door and got distracted only to here cluck, cluck behind my back. Speaking of chickens, we are finally gathering eggs, just 1 or 2 a day. Although, Nathan did find a stash of them in the garage this morning.

Their new expression is "It's scary!" We carved pumpkin faces so I think that's were they came up with this. The boys are so much fun right now with their talking. I love the insight I get on what they are thinking when I hear them talk.

They absolutely love the song "the wheels on the bus". They learned it at story hour and now we sing it in the car fairly often. They rode on a bus in September going to the Bolton Fair entrance from parking. They now notice every bus on the road and point it out. Nathan is also pretty helpful in pointing out police cars. : ) Not that I'm worried or anything but I do thank him every time for doing that.