The Family Blog

Hello there! So, the problem with my week long re-capping of our travels is that now I have another weeks worth of blogging (and pictures!) to catch y'all up on.

We had a quiet week, not leaving the house much and a busy weekend. We should just go ahead and get started...

Dalton has added both carrots and pears to his repertoire:


And one morning Easton woke up and donned his red hat, of course, and then said that Dalton wanted his Tigger and Pooh hat. I did not know Dalton wanted this but he does seem happy to have it:

Good thing Easton can translate for me sometimes.

We don't use the buckles in the chair just yet and Dalton can find himself quite sideways at times:


Easton then decided Dalton wanted this visor (that we made at Kaleidoscope!). Easton put it on Dizz himself:


Catching up on the mounds of laundry from our vacation. Easton is an awesome helper with laundry especially:


And Dalton has finally gotten the hang of the mesh feeder. So, when he's awake for dinnertime he enjoys sucking on some frozen bananas in the feeder:


Just being cute:


Easton has been a much better eater again now that we're home. Whew:




And check out how Sweet Baby D fell asleep the other day:



No, the sleeping at night is not going any better.

But he does have a new game. He has really become a fan of throw something off the side of the highchair and then see where it goes while he waits for me or Easton to pick it back up:












Easton has had a time out or two this week as well:


Which required apologizing to Dalton--this time for not sharing:


Look how good Dalton's teeth are in now:


Easton was thrilled to get a puffy dinosaur postcard from Gramoo in the mail:


And the boys also got a package from The Alabamaws with some Halloween goodies. Easton's favorite...M&M's!!!


And a festive shirt that says, "Will scare for candy" for Easton:




Dalton's says, "Monster in Training".

Thank you, Maws!

Easton and I made some festive snacks too...Rice Krispie treats but made with Cocoa Pebbles. Mmmm. Sneaking some marshmallows:


Stirring the melting goo, yes I let him do this even though it got pretty warm:


Patting the treats into the pan:


Then we topped them with some Halloween M&M's:

He looked up at me and informed me, "I doing a good job, Mommy." I agreed that he was doing a great job.

The finished product:


He loves Rice Krispie treats that we get at Noodles and he loves to eat Cocoa Pebbles as a breakfast cereal with Daddy when we have it (which is rare). But, for some reason he did not like these treats. So, the whole pan is left for me. Because Jason "doesn't love them" either. As credit to me, there is still some left and it's been 4 days or so. I'm working on 'em. :)

We also pulled out our tote of Halloween decorations the other day. As I mentioned, some of that loot is what enticed Dalton's becoming mobile. Both boys love having new stuff around:






Heck, even the cat likes a particular decoration. He really does love the "straw". And how lucky are we that we already have a Halloween cat?


Our festive socks (courtesy of Target's Dollar Spot!):


Alrighty, so that was all during the week. Then the weekend we were busy, as I said. Saturday morning started out with Easton and I running to buy Dalton's Halloween costume while D napped and J worked on fixing Easton's windowsill some more.

Once D woke up we dressed them in their new Halloween shirts:




And then we went to the nearby dairy's Harvest Festival that we go to every year. Jumping out of the car:


We headed right for the bounce house Easton had spotted from the road on our way to get the costume earlier. $1 for 5 minutes. He had fun:




Dalton looked forward to the day he can join his big bro:


Easton rode on the barrel train again. It went sooooo slow. And he was the only kid on it, probably for a reason:


He got more interested in the dirt and stuff on the bottom of the barrel than he was in the "ride":


Waiting for brother to come back:




The hay maze where all the kids just walk on top of the hay bales as opposed to going through the maze:


And jump off:


Token shot of Daddy and Dizzle again:


My favorite festival treat is always roasted corn on the cob. And Easton likes it too:




I encouraged J to take a self-portrait like I like to do:


Then it was over to their pumpkin pile. Easton wanted to lift one so bad but just kept rolling them all over while he looked for a lighter one:


We've always posed Easton on the pile in the past but it didn't go so well with two this year:




Even D wouldn't look at the camera because he was too interested in the pumpkins:




"Hey, maybe it would be better if you took one of the three of us"


Nope.

Easton finally found some pumpkins he could lift:


Dalton too:


We let Easton pick out three to take home.

Then he went on a pony ride:




By that point he was too cold to have much fun anymore so we went home.

We had Jack's My Gym birthday party that afternoon. Daddy and Dalton stayed home with the LSU game. We haven't been to Gym in over a month and when we walked in Miss Stephanie did an excited, "Look who it is!" and Miss Lynn was like, "Yay! It's Easton!" He wouldn't look at them. He's been doing that lately. Even with me. Or at Paradise Park when he had on a moustache. Anyway...he eventually came around and Miss Steffie gave him a hug. I have two pictures of the back of E's head, E coming down the pole:


And listening on the red circle:


He was a little clingy while we were there and after he rode on the zip line he burst into tears and spent the rest of the party (about 10 more minutes) by my side. What a goob. We plan to start going back to Gym this week. Yay!

Saturday night I went out for dinner with my mommy friend Ember (Ellis's mom). She had a bunch of time to herself and asked if I wanted to join her for dinner. She even came and picked me up and everything so I was more than free to enjoy a margarita with my dinner! Yum. It was a nice time. I like getting some time to myself like that sometimes. Even though we mostly talk about our kids.

On Sunday we took the boys to have their pictures done in their Halloween costumes. Dalton had a blow-out poop in his but the costume kept it all in till we got home. Now I have to wash it, darn it. Hope it holds up okay. And, I don't think I'm going to announce what they're going to be. I think some of you already know what at least one kid'll be, but I like to keep some things a surprise. Even if they're kinda lame surprises. Don't worry...you won't have to wait long. Just till the end of the month!

After pictures we had super fun plans: THE CIRCUS!!! Gramoo came to babysit Dalton (since he wouldn't appreciate it just yet) and we took Lauren with us to the greatest show on earth:


I didn't/couldn't bring my camera to the show but it was all super. Easton did great and loved it. It held his attention very well. In fact, during the intermission I suggested that Jason take him to walk around a bit so he could get any fidgets out before the second half. They didn't get far. Easton wanted to come back, afraid he might miss something! He really seemed to like it and he would dance and clap to the music. During the horse/zebra performance (they were running around inside their rings) Easton said, "The zebras are going round and round and those horses and those horses" (three rings, right?). And then he said, "They're getting so dizzy!" He was slightly bored by these chicks:

It was a little slower at that point. But he asked Jason, "You want to do that, Daddy?" Hee hee!

He got his first bag of cotton candy. Which came with a hat. Good stuff.

On the way home I kept trying to get him to tell me the name of the main clown (Bello) for the camera in exchange for some cotton candy. Silly boy wouldn't do it! He says it so cute, though:




Poor Diddlebug had to miss out:




But he got some extra loving from Auntie Lauren when we got back:


In addition to watching Dalton, Gramoo made dinner, got some festive treats for Easton (check out this cracker, peanut butter, pretzel stick spider):


And decorated Easton's door with Halloweeny streamers:


And made dinner. Wow.

That brings us to today: Monday: doughnut day. We ate like a picnic again and Easton ate three. A new high!!! That's how many I had. And imagine Easton's surprise when Dalton got ahold of the picnic towel and pulled Easton's legs and plate towards him:


While Dizz napped Easton and I went outside to collect some leaves:




They were for our fancy fall collage art project:




Okay, that has us all caught up on pictures since we've been home from vacation. I think. :)

I'm sorry for the overload but most of you don't complain. Good thing I don't think any of you have dial-up, right?

Anyhoo...gonna go now. Baby calls. For milk. Bye!