There's no place like home...:)

I love dressing up in themes, very rarely do Spencer and I dress up, but our kids are at an age now where they want us to dress up, so this year was really fun.

Spencer was a real trooper this year being scarecrow, he doesn't like face paint especially, but he's such a great dad to humor his kids, they loved it!

My cute munchkins...love these kids

The cutest cowardly lion EVER!!

Manila Mini-marathon

In September, Brooklyn's school Manila Elementary had their fundraiser and this year they did a mini-marathon 2.62 miles. I thought it was a great idea I love anything fitness related and especially getting kids excited about it. They had a t-shirt design contest for the shirts and I think they turned out pretty darn cute.

When the race started Brooklyn wanted to run, so I told Spencer I was running with her and he would stay with Noah and Gavin. Well only maybe a couple of hundred feet later, Gav shows up by my side. He wanted to run too. Assuming ( and we all know that isn't good to do, right?) Spencer saw him with me, the race had just barely started, the three of us took off. And by three I really mean two, because seriously my kids are fast!! It was so great to see them doing so good and passing up all these people, while I tried to keep up :) Gavin in fact ran an entire mile before Spencer found us in a total panic because he thought he lost Gavin. I felt so bad, he had been running back and forth along the route trying to find us. Scolding ensued and Gavin started to cry...Great. Spencer took the boys to the truck while Brooklyn and I finished it was a lot of fun, even with the drama.

DIYer stuff

I have many ambitions, ultimately I would like to be able to completely take care of my family on my own. I am studying much and learning new things, so that maybe someday I'll be able to do this. For now, I'm doing small projects such as this:

I've had this glider for seven years and it was time for a new cover, pretty bold, it was called "Foxy" something or other and I like it!

Half a year!

Half a year already! This little guy:

sits up really well

learned the "drop the toy, let mom pick it up, repeat!" game

says: "baabaabaabaa" very dramatically and loud!

giggles and smiles a lot

picks up toys well and puts it all in his mouth

not tolerating solids yet, but reflux is improving :)

sleeps well and loves his cradle still, but I think its time to move him into his room into the crib:(

started with the separation anxiety thing and cried for the grandparents for 2 hours straight, to which Gavin commented " I don't know why he doesn't like you guys, I sure think you're nice!"Ha!

He loves the evening walks with daddy outside in the yard, and rocking with mom before bedtime.