Happy Halloween Wizard of Oz Style!

Just a Walk in the Park

Pre-Halloween Dressup :)

Aidan the not-so-cowardly lion:) The kids dressed up for Kendall's fraternities annual haunted house. Of course the kids didn't go through when it was real scary, we went during family time. We just wanted to support the cause for the Kids Miracle Network and the SAFE project. Everybody was in costume but instead of scaryness it was more of waving and talking to the kids. haha different but good for Layla and Aidan, they knew a handful of the people putting it on of course so that helped too.
Here is Glenda the good witch from Wizard of Oz. Her little wand lights up and the music "it's a small world" plays. I am thinking about taking them downtown this morning to the trick-or-treat there with all the businesses, only problem is EVERYBODY is busy and i don't want to have to take 2 toddlers which decide to walk opposite directions all the time down there alone. So we will see. Either way they have a big Football game to attend and get all bundled up for. (hopefully it warms up...its only 32 degrees right now...AW!)

More Snow!

Let it Snow!

Aidan enjoyed the snow last night before it started to stick, we took them out and they were memorized at it. Now if we can just get them boots they can go outside and play in the snow!
Here is miss Laylabear running to Nikki while it snowed, she wasn't too sure about it, didn't want to touch it at first!

What is all of this crunchy stuff?

This is the pile of leaves on our patio this afternoon, the wind just blows them over there. The kids played in them for 40 minutes or more. They were having so much fun! You can see Aidan here throwing leaves up in the air.
Layla showing off her leaves that she found. You can see she is very proud and saying something haha. Notice Eeyore is joining in on the fun in the background?
This is when we first went to the park today but found out that it was much to windy so we only stayed for about 5 minutes before heading back.


Ok, i thought i would share this video, it is of Aidan taking a running jump into the leaves. I would build the leaves up high and he would run and dive into them...i use to LOVE doing this as a kid!

Make It STOP!

Ok, this toy has been driving me NUTS since Gary bought it for the kids before they were even born! It plays this song OVER AND OVER, and cannot be shut off, the button is on the front so when it was packed away in a box before the kids were born, every time the box was touched it would rub on that button. Anyway, i thought it was gone, i hid it, packed it away for good! The silence was amazing until today, i was making breakfast and then i heard it, the song...playing...at first i didn't think to much of it until i heard it about a dozen times, i looked in at Layla in the living room, pushing the button OVER and OVER dancing around the room with it. AW! Who found it, Who got it out again??? She has been pushing it no joke for 15 minutes now, a few times Aidan will grab it and play with it too. Oh i am going to go insane today...This video you can see Layla pushes it as Aidan plays nearby. i wish i had a longer video thing on my camera so i could show you all how annoying this is!

Adorable Flower Girls

I took this picture from Keith (Kendall's brother) because i thought it was a great one! This is Kendall's 5 year old niece Ashlyn, she was a flower girl at the wedding and did a great job at it! Layla was trying so hard to fit in with the "big" girls, she would follow them around, and just stand there watching as if she wished she could interact with them, but just didn't know how so instead just watched nearby.
This is Kendall's other niece Emily(3 years old), also a flower girl. Emily seemed to really like Layla following her around, she just didn't understand why Layla wouldn't talk to her, outside of "baby babble" i guess! :) Both sweet girls, i had a lot of fun being able to see them again!

Raindy Weddings and Dancing Aidan

Aidan trying to run out and play in the rain. He was loving it even though it was chilly.
Layla running around after the rain in her pretty new dress and shoes that her daddy bought her.
Family picture, we all are looking! The kids were so worn out at this time, it was well past their bedtime, but they were champs. Aidan was running around dancing on the dancing floor from group to group he was quite the hit, it reminds me of that commercial of the baby dancing at a party in her diaper, he was just like that loving every minute.
The lovely bride and groom taking their dance with Aidan and Layla.

~This weekend was Gina and Geoff's wedding (Kendall's little sister). Despite the pouring rain, the wedding still went on. the kids got to meet a lot of their family on Kendall's side and it was a lot of fun in the end :) We all had a good time and the kids were angels despite not having naps! I wish i would've had more time to take pictures!

New Ride

Well, we finally got another vehicle to drive between the two of us. Not that the Monte wasn't holding up, we just needed another vehicle, one with 4 doors instead of 2, crawling into a backseat with a toddler isn't as fun as people may think! So here is our2003 Nissan Xterra! :)

A Day at the Park

Baby Talk

Each day the kids surprise me either with a new sound, word, or sign language that they have picked up on. It's getting real exciting. Layla twice today has shown me the "potty" signal i have taught her in sign language when she was wet and later when she had a poop. I ask her if she has a potty and she would do the signal again, oh man i was so happy she is catching on! :) Both kids are good at pointing at what they want, Layla has moved this a step forward with saying "tattat" for "what's that" and also if she wants to go outside she will pat her chest and then point out a certain window or at the front door. They both can say "hi" pretty good, Layla says it the most i would say. Of course they can wave either with just their hand or swinging their whole arm. Both can make a piggy noise and a rooster noise, this is REAL cute! They understand a lot more, when i say time to eat they run to their highchairs, and if i say "night time" they run to their room door. Let's see what else is there, When you call their name Layla will say "yesth" for "yes" and Dear Aidan will say "huh?"...he gets this from Kendall, for when i ask Kendall something he always goes "huh?". The big one came last night...As many of you have seen or heard of, Aidan is famous, him, some friends of ours, and I posed for a UW foundation thing, where our picture is now on envelopes for the Annual Giving, sent to over 40,000 people. ANYWAY i was showing Aidan, and he started to run off with my copy of the picture, i went to grab it and said "Aidan let me have that back please" and then he said it in his tiny little voice...clear as day"No." AW! It begins!

It just FEELS like an ear ache!

For the past week and a half Aidan has been tugging on his right ear like crazy. He hasn't been fussy so i put off taking him to the Dr. telling myself if he had an earache he would be fussier. Finally i decided to take him, my friend Megan helped me take him and Layla(figured if it turns out being an earache might as well get her checked too). Come to find out it is not his ear at all, just his brain sending the wrong signals. He is actually already getting one of his muller's! Poor thing in less than 2 months has gotten 6 teeth, and now a muller. His Pediatrician said if Aidan could talk he would actually say his ear did hurt, it's kind of like when you have a heart attack your arm hurts, and when you have gallbladder problems your shoulder can hurt...weird but that is how the signals in our brain apparently work. So that is the news this week, until today when Aidan became a tough boy, not just a baby boy haha. Let me explain, in the 14 months the kids both have managed not to bleed, (minus the time i clipped Layla's nail to short when she was 3 months old). ANYWAY, today he was dancing to "the muffin man" and lost his balance right into this rolling singing hard ball, i guess his mouth was bleeding pretty bad, (i was at class at this time so missed the whole thing). Nikki and Gary said they assume his bottom teeth either cut his top lip or gums. I am glad he is ok, when i got home he was happily back to dancing again, so i gave him some Motrin just in case it starts to hurt soon. That boy is just a dancing maniac lately, hehe, Layla too. :)

Well, It is here!

Well, for all of you that haven't bothered to take a second look at the quarters you get in change...here is the Wyoming quarter, the 4th style this year. Of course Wyoming doesn't seem to get away from our Steamboat symbol, i heard people talking about it and thought HOW boring, but now that i have looked it over a few times in person, i am starting to like the ol steamboat symbol.

Pack Rat....

OK, it appears that we have a pack rat in our house...this is about HALF of the stuff that Kendall found last night in a box in the hallway, stuff that we wondered where the heck it had gone...who is this little pack rat? Ms. Laylabear herself. haha, Apparently she had dropped more stuff in today too, what a silly little girl, she brings stuff straight there and drops it in.

Monkey See Monkey Do

Today i decided to build a blanket house, or i guess tunnel for the kids to see how they would react. And they LOVED it! It started in front of the couches in our living room, where they had to crawl under their little table, then it wrapped around behind the couch and into the hallway. It took them awhile to realize that they had to crawl at first, but once they did oh man, they were crawling/running around squealing and laughing. Here is Aidan with Layla behind him playing in the blanket house.
Laylabear up close and being her silly self. She wanted to get the camera.
Here is the blanket house after Aidan pulled it down. They enjoyed playing on top of it too, haha. Notice their shirts? They say "Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Get In Trouble too!"