Halloween

We started out the day going to Strollerfit in our costumes. Willow was not happy about the group picture we tried to do after class, don’t worry, I rescued her right after this.





Jayden’s best friend Noah was there.



They held hands as we did our parade around the mall.



Then we tried to get a picture of the 3 little ladybugs (Elena, Willow, and Joyce), but it wasn’t that successful. :) Have you ever seen Willow so unhappy in pictures???? Me neither!



Jayden and I made some pumpkin cupcakes today too.



And then it was time to get all dressed up again and head out the door. Willow was much happier about it this time.

Jayden Sings :: Itsy Bitsy Spider

Jayden did some singing while he was sick, laying around on the couch. You can tell he’s pretty plugged up and then he gets a little distracted by Willow dancing around to the music and his nose running and stuff. :)

Peek A Boo

We stayed home sick today. Jayden finally came down with the cold that Willow has had for the past week….boo. But at least we’ll get the majority of it out of our systems before trick or treating this weekend! Yipee!! So, on sick days, we spend a lot of time in the basement, playing with toys, resting on the couch, watching movies, reading books, wiping snotty noses, stuff like that. The game of the day turned out to be hiding behind a wall. Guess they are practicing their “tricks” for this weekend.

First, I found Willow doing this.





Then after a bathroom break, I came back and found the jumper like this.



I thought, “What the?” Then I saw :







I love this picture, it looks like Jayden is super-fast!

Helmet Hair

Willow got a new helmet this weekend! We’ve already hitched up the trailer to my bike a couple times and rode down to the park. Jayden’s gonna have to master riding his own bike soon because he is almost too tall to ride in the trailer anymore. Although he gets pretty excited about riding in there with Willow, so he scrunches himself down so he’ll fit. He tells me that he has to ride in there and hold Willow’s hand so she doesn’t get scared. He’s the best big brother ever!

And can we say that Willow’s eyes have officially turned from blue to green???

Carving Pumpkins '09

We carved up our pumpkins from the pumpkin patch tonight. Royal LOVES carving pumpkins, me, well, I’m indifferent, so Royal does the majority of the work. I carved my own and Royal did all the rest. :) And you just can’t have enough reasons to wear cute pumpkin hats, so I made my kids wear theirs while they carved pumpkins. That’s just the kind of mom I am. :)













Jayden had a specific plan for each of the pumpkins and what they needed to look like. So, he told Royal what to do and Royal carved out the face.
This is Nana’s pumpkin. She picked it out at the patch and didn’t take it with her, so Jayden said that the pumpkin needed to look like her. What do you think?



This is Willow’s pumpkin. It is the smallest of the bunch and it too needed to look like Willow.



This is the scary pumpkin.



This is Royal’s pumpkin and Jayden designed it to look like Royal because “dad is so happy, yeah”



And this is my pumpkin. I think it looks like me, shiny face, big smile. :)

Jayden's Pics :: 2

Here are some more of Jayden’s pictures. He’s even named some of them this time!

“Sad Willow”



"Little Miss Willow"



“My Toys & Willow’s Little Bear”



-no name-



"Fan"



"Flowers and A Lamp"



“Kitchen” (guess he didn’t notice I was in the picture :) )



“Banana & Cheerios”



-no name-



"Willow Sleeping"



-no name-



"Me"



"My toesies"

Jayden Sings :: Clementine

Jayden loves singing songs. He sings All. The. Time. If Willow is ever freaking out in the car, the only thing I’ve found that will calm her down is if Jayden sings to her. When I was in Washington this summer, I was driving back to my parent’s house from Royal’s parent’s house, which is a couple hour drive, and Jayden and Willow fell asleep. Then Willow woke up and started screaming because she doesn’t like to be in the car when it’s dark and she’s tired, and I still have a good hour left of the drive. After I tried everything (other than pulling over) to calm her down, I finally woke Jayden up and had him sing to her the rest of the way. As soon as Twinkle, Twinkle Little Start started up, she was quiet and just watched him sing. I’m never leaving on a long car ride with Willow without taking Jayden, that’s for sure!

I have been trying to video tape Jayden singing for the longest time, but wouldn’t you know, he doesn’t really like performing for me. Shocking…. However, I managed to get this last night. Royal found a website that will play just the music to a bunch of kids song, so I was able to record him on the computer without him knowing because it was “hidden” behind the webpage with the music. Genius!!!

So here, for your viewing entertainment, is Jayden singing “Oh, My Darling Clementine”