Thursday, November 13, 2008

Look Who's Three!





Last week our sweet Davis turned three! Amazing that it has been three years already! Davis is a loving, kind, coy, observant boy. He enjoys playing with his brother, digging in the dirt , hiding from his dad and with a little imagination he can turn anything into a gun (oh, you know this thrills me to NO end!).

For his special day Jed and I gave him a Tonka Bounce Back Racer, which kept both he and Owen busy for most of the morning. He was also showered with gifts from other family, neighbors and friends (thank you all for loving our boy!). In the afternoon he shared some time and cake with some of his favorite little buddies. Then for dinner Owen suggested that we all go to Applebees (no cooking! Sign me up!) where he remembered that on his third birthday they rang a loud bell and sang to him, of course with a dish of ice cream in hand as well. Davis loved the ice cream, but, and this is one way he differs from Owen, he told me that he was hiding when they were singing because he was embarrassed. He actually didn't even blow out his candles in front of everyone earlier in the day either...once again he was too shy. What can I say, not all of us are built for the spotlight. At any rate we love this boy and know that good things are going to come from him!

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Carving the Pumpkins...





I just looked out the window and noticed that it was raining...not a surprise for this time of the year, but it reminded me of what we were doing at this time last Sunday...we were all sitting outside carving pumpkins! It was so BEAUTIFUL--79 degrees--I just wanted to freeze these moments in time. Then, after we were done, we cut up a watermelon that our neighbor had brought only hours before. Are we sure this was really October? I want to rewind to last week!!! The giant pumpkin was also given to us by our neighbors, Joe and Shirley. They are always so generous and provide us with our best pumpkins. That one was carved with the Batman symbol. The others were the boys own designs. Too fun.

Halloween 2008

Halloween seemed to last for weeks this year. I'll admit that when it was over I gave a huge sigh of relief. This doesn't mean that we didn't have fun though...Owen and Davis changed their minds at the last minute and decided that they wanted to be SPIES. Is anyone surprised? I threw together what I had for a couple of Halloween parties, including one at the church on the 30th (Those of you from Dr. Hurley's office will be proud to know that I went as a dental assistant, creative, eh? And those of you from OHS will be happy to know that Jed wore my football jersey and went as a Mustang!). You will notice, however, that I have also posted a picture of Davis as Superman. Let's just say that Davis is fickle these days and decided on Halloween morning to wear Owen's Superman PJs and dress up as the Superhero! Whatever works, I just go with the flow...
Owen, AKA Agent OO5
Eli--Davis--Owen (They call themselves the "12-9-12ers". A spy team name derived from their shoe sizes. I love when they told me that--I think it is such an insight into their minds), playing in the leaves, with a black cat, before trick-or treating. We have gone trick-or-treating with Eli's family (my 2nd cousins--or something like that) every year since we moved here.
From Superhero to....
Super Spy!...Agent OO6

Happy Ballerina Girl! And this was BEFORE the candy. Oh, boy did she love trick-or-treating! Have you ever seen anything cuter than a little tu-tu toddling from door to door, thrilled to be getting candy for just standing there?
I hate to brag, but she was really precious!