November Crafts

I absolutely love doing art with my boys. Here are some from this November :)

Veteran's Day craft with Mommy School babes. One of my sweet friends works with Veterans. We baked them cookies, sent a sweet personal message, and poem too :) This was perfect to stress "giving" to L since he really wanted to eat ALL the cookies. He was satisfied knowing we were giving them to someone we were thankful for. My sweet sweet boy!!

Fall Fingerprints

 Our Thanksgiving gifts to Grandparents...Evan's little footprint for the turkey and Lawrence's hands for the feathers..cute poem too!

 Lawrence loved this project. I was so excited, he's been a little over art lately, but he was reallly into this, probably because he knew he got to send them to some of his favorite people!!

of course I had to turn this into a color lesson too! :)

ah it's so blurry! He was so excited to paint his feet and belly laughed the whole time. It was really cute!!

A new tradition with our little growing family...each leaf has something we are thankful for on it...to share during our Thanksgiving dinner

Turkey Hats

This one is Lawrence's

"Where's Nowence Mom?""

Oh So Thankful

This was the most beautiful and relaxing Thanksgiving ever. We literally vegged all day and just relaxed and snuggled with our boys. We were originally going to have a Mexican Fiesta , but I caved with the inner desire to have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner . Well, we all know I'm no Rachel Ray, but I pulled off a pretty decent meal this year. I had the best dinner companions too!

I love our little family so much and am oh thankful for them every single day!

Our Little Turkeys

Making Pecan Rolls

Making breakfast for Daddy

Momma's Helper

dinner :)

Some of our decorations

Boys watching football

Mommy in the kitchen

Evan's feast... with a side of puffs

Daddy carving the turkey...roast :) 

waiting so patiently 

first bite of a pecan roll

Thankful Leaves!! Love this new tradition for our little family!  After reading one Lawrence would say: "Aw dats cute!"

Good Stuff!

Even though we couldn't be with all of our family this year, we hold each and every one of you so close in our hearts. Thankful everyday!  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Unforgettable Firsts

I feel like I'm running to take pictures every second around here. The boys are both learning and growing so much and I want it all captured!! :)  Here are a few fun first for Evan and Lawrence lately....

Bath Time Brothers for  the first time

Depantsing himself is new. Both boys are really into taking their clothes off....

LOVE my cup!

Big boy cup!....that face is ridiculous ...hahaha!!

SO BIG!! Evan's first time in the high chair at Target/Starbucks!

YUM! Banana Chunks

So, as I've posted before, Evan is an absolute scavenger who crawls as fast as he can around this house to put anything and everything in his mouth. Sometimes it's funny, but most of the time it's terrifying. Lawrence is even on the look out and knows to let Mommy or Daddy know if Evan has something he shouldn' t have. ( ....you cant tell me we don't have angels watching over us, they work through Lawrence every single day to keep Evan safe..no lie) ahh as I read this I'm getting horrible anxiety just thinking about it. I swear I watch my babies and am constantly on the look out for things he might get.....but he's like a little Hudini (sp?)  ....One time it was a piece of the carpet that he pulled loose.

 So, the reason I decided to even mention this here is to why Evan has banana chunks already. I wanted to give him a solid that I could mold and manipulate different shapes and sizes so I can give him practice with stuff in his mouth while  monitoring him. I don't know if it will help, but it makes me feel better and like I have some control over his ability to control things in his mouth. ;) ....As Annie and Erin like to say," it makes Katie sense!"

two new teeth popping through (that's four now..ah!)

I love you monkeys!....slow down, I just thought of more photos I need to add on here already!!! :)
Photos to add:
*boys sharing a room
*Evan walking with push toys

Evan-8 Months

Our little monkey is 8 months!! He's crawling super fast, climbing up on and scaling furniture. Our bet is that he walks by Christmas!   Evan loves to play, learn, and explore. He says "Dada" and Bye Bye" and is learning signs so well! S

o far he can sign "more" "all done" , "milk"and "eat" We love watching him grow and learn so much everyday! Happy 8 months love!!

He is so busy! 

He likes to take his paints off!

Love this face, it is the exact face Larry gives me all the time!!

Their first bath together!!! Lawrence did such a great job sharing his toys!!

New "BIG BOY" cups

classic!

ahh! I could eat you up!

The ABSOLUTE best part is watching him with his big brother. Reflecting back on their sweet moments together each night, makes every hard moment so so worth it and so tiny in comparison! We just LOVE having two boys, we love that they have each other, and we love love you Evan Michael. 

Toddler Tuesday- More Fall and Election Day

 I couldn't resist getting the little ones in on some voting for Election Day! It was super simple and super cute. I just showed them a foam pumpkin and decorative leaf and asked them which was more fun to play with. I quickly described how each is fun. "Leaves can twirl and you can rake them up jump in a big pile!" Pumpkins are round, you can roll them, and carve them too!"  Then, they each got to choose. When they made their decision they got two corresponding foam stickers to match their vote. One to wear and one to put up on our chart. We had four friends today and it was a tie. 

Of course, we couldn't have that, so when Evan woke up, Lawrence and I had him vote, too!

I put the leaf and pumpkin on the ground and asked him the same question. Whichever one he crawled to would be the winner!!

Pumpkin!!

Today's projects are repeats. L and I made a Fall Wreath together as soon as Aunt Erin sent us Fall!! But, we had to share with our friends!! They added more pops of colors this time!  The sun catchers are the same idea as the pumpkins we made. We used tissue paper instead of paint. :)

Fall Wreaths and Leaf Sun Catchers

I have found it easier to do the project with Lawrence after our friends leave. Sometimes he will want to work on it when they are here and sometimes not. I just let him decide. Today, he made a wreath with his friends and made his sun catcher with mommy afterwards.