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.  

Halloween 2012

 The boys originally had one costume each, but after having SO many different events to dress up for, I wanted to mix it up a bit.I was so proud of myself...the cost of 6 costumes total (between the two boys) was a whopping 6ish dollars! The only thing I paid for was Evan's "football" costume. About $3 for the brown dye and $3 for some white fabric paint, everything else we already had.  Here were their costumes:

• Chicago Bears Football Player- Football (Tota gear willed down to us and dyed onesie) 
• Bosley Bear (his lovie) -Giraffe  (Bear hat from Auntie Tara and L's costume from last year) 
• Skeleton- Baby Bear  (jammies and hat from Auntie Tara) 
• oops Lawrence was also Superman one day- Evan just wore a Halloween shirt (jammies given to us by Alexis)

I love Halloween :) 

Baby Giraffe and Bosley Bear at Gina's Halloween party

Our family on Halloween night. Lawrence insisted that he wanted to be Bosley bear all day. So, I got Evan all ready to be a giraffe (animal theme :)  .. last minute, true to his two yea old self, Lawrence changed his mind and wanted to be a football player. I felt too bad to make Evan change into a new costume...so VOILA! Oue baby giraffe and Football Player :)

We started out at our annual neighborhood party. Then, Larry tool Lawrence around. He picked up on what to do really fast!! I took Evan back home and passed candy out. It was a long day for us all and i enjoyed seeing all the kiddos dressed up! It was a great Halloween!

Baby Giraffe & Football Player

More costume pictures:

Aunt "Bye-dee"

"Oh Bridie...you came and you gave me some sleepy....on your vacation awayyyyy, from worky!! ".....AMAZINGNESS...Having two babes in showing some of its not so pretty colors in the whole no sleep zone, but Bride made it all better when she was here. This momma got to sleep in TWICE!! That's huge in my regaining sanity area of mommaness! Thanks Bridie for helping me be a better Mommy!!! We miss you!

We have been so blessed to have so many people come out to visit us over the past three years. This is Bridie's 2nd time to Vail! I've been trying to write about her visit, but the pictures keep loading funny. I'll keep working on it!!

But, here's what we did!
Desert Museum
El Charros for some yummy Mexican food
Hot Rods Restaurant
Agua Linden Farm
Halloween Festival @ St. Rita's
Fall crafts

October Crafts

Pumpkin Suncatcher

"Ou Lil' Bumkin Patch"

We have been so busy this month making so many different crafts that I wanted to have them all in one place. This way I can remeber what we made!! 

Making our "Bumkin patch"..yep, stamping little bums in orange paint...Evan loved it! Lawrence...not so much!

Fall Wreath

'Barefoot Baby Bat"

"Scossor Skills" Bat

"Trick- or Treat...Smell My Feet"

"B is for BOO!"

Black Cat

Mommy School art from Ms. Gina's..."Happy Cat" & "Popsicle Stick Pumpkins"

shakers & Bats

"Mummy"

We're going to make these next week for our "Mommy School" Halloween party! For the web, I'm going  to have orange paper in a pan and they will dip bouncy balls (marbles too small around these noodle bugs) in white paint and roll the balls back and forth across the paper...Ill share how they turn out! 

They turned out so cute ;) 

We made these spider hats too!

 The boys helped me carve. Poor Daddy's been working 60 plus hours, but we're excited he'll be home in time to "TRICK-OR-TREAT" Evan loves every minute. He was exploring every part of this pumpkin. Lawrence wasn't so into it. He almost seemed a little concerned for the pumpkin. Such a sweet soul!

The boys and I carved our pumpkin together. Lawrence said he wanted him to be sad. 

Toddler Tuesdays!

We made shakers and bats!

They helped make their own mini-pizzas

Another successful day of "Mommy School!" I just love it so much. So do the babes! Today we finally got to have school with our good friend Gianna! We just had the two of them so it was more of a relaxed morning, but still full of fun. We started the day by playing some letter matching games and the barn. We also played "Ring Around the Pumpkin" Art was bats and sensory/science was shakers! I am so so terrible at remembering to take pictures. But, I did get a couple "after-shots."

When you shake it, the veg oil makes really cool bubble blobs!

The "shakers" helped to reinforce yellow and red make orange. They are filled with water,food coloring, veg oil, and Halloween glitter. The littles chose what shapes for eyes, and nose and then told me if they wanted a scary pumpkin or a happy one. This one is scary! The BATS were to help introduce scissor skills. Then, G & L cut squares from paper strips and glued them on the bats. Then, as you can see.. they added googly eyes!

the original

 Evan loves to do art too!!! He has made two Halloween projects already!!

Here's some pics from last weeks "Mommy School" We made orange play-doh and Pumpkin Sun Catchers

Lawrence s is the one with some extra glitter love!

some snack with my buds

My boys' art in our front window :)