Who Needs Candy? - Little Boo @ The Zoo

When you have every single Fisher Price toy at your disposal? We spent probably 40 minutes playing with all the toys. I use this as a Santa list generator. The boys both loved the Jake and the Neverland pirates toys as well as Batman. It was only the promise of trick-or-treating that lured them away from all the toys. 

Vroom, Vroom - Little Boo @ The Zoo

Our first stop at the zoo was the Fisher Price tent of toys - aka nirvana for a 3 year old. Ben went straight for the cars. We were the first ones there, so Ben had his choice of cars. His first choice was the red mustang. He looked pretty hot tooling around in the snazzy 'stang. 

Then he switched to the atv. He had a pretty good time riding that. Yeah, he could mow down like five kids at once with that in our neighborhood.

And Nick stuck to the tried and true - a little Lighting McQueen. It was perfect Nick size,

Jake and Cubby

This year's Halloween costumes are Jake and Cubby from Jake and the Neverland Pirates. Grandma Mary made the vests and boot covers and head wraps and trick-or-treating bags. We went to Little Boo at the Zoo again this year, so the boys were fully decked out this morning. Ben loves his costume. He had to wear it to dinner last week and asks everyday if he can wear his costume. 

Their treat bags have gold doubloons on them - Jake and the crew collect gold doubloons for completing Pirate Problems. Ben's vest pocket came with 5 gold doubloons for playing. It was his favorite thing, other than the sword...

Fun at the Park

Last week we went over to the park on a beautiful night for the boys to run off some energy. Adam and Ben ran the bases while Nick kind of trailed behind, snacking on some goldfish. 

 We made really long shadows

 So we took a shadow family picture (or 2 or 10)

 Everyone went down the slide together!

I'm really glad I was taking pictures of a leaf and had no idea what was going on here. 

Hair Cut Time!!

The Before.

Hot mess.

Nick has finally gotten a hair cut! Ben was 7 months old when he got his first hair cut and Nick was 19 months. He did cry a bit, but as long has he had his sucker, he was ok. He did very good and sat for Loretta like a good boy. And now he is so cute and hansom with his hair all nice. I still need to get a better picture of the after. Oh, and I do have to mention, Ben also got his hair cut! He has not gotten it professionally cut since before he was 2. He has screamed and freaked out so bad the last few times we tried, that we just started cutting it at home. But because Nick was going to get his hair cut, Ben thought it was ok to get his cut too. We were very proud of him! 

Playtime

Friday we went over to Cameryn and Avery's house for a playdate. Andrew and Matthew were also there - one last Friday hurrah before Kristi had to go back to work from maternity leave :( The night before I had been browsing on Pinterest while Ben was sitting next to me. He happened to see a pin of leave rubbing and told me he wanted to do that. So we decided we would do it at Cameryn's house with the other kids. So on our walk over we collected leaves for our art work. Well, by the time we went to do the leaf rubbing, Ben wasn't as interested anymore. He just wanted to color a picture with Cameryn's colored pencils, which was fine. The kids colored while we got lunch ready. Then they played some more. The boys had fun playing with the doll house.

Another Rainbow

I have a bunch of prisms hanging in the windows of the kitchen. The sun angle around 4pm is perfect right now for creating rainbows on the kitchen and living room floors. Here is one such rainbow last week. (there is no editing to this photo)

Cooking with Mommy

Nick helping me cook white chicken chili the other night. We ended up having the neighbors over for dinner while the guys were bowling. 

Pictures with Mommy

I've decided to make more of an effort to be in pictures. Nick and I had some fun taking pictures on the couch while Ben played outside.