Baby #4

For your enjoyment…pictures!

The bottom photo has the umbilical cord in front of the foot.

It's another brother! Well, at least we get to use our rather large collection of boy clothes again :)

Uh-Oh!

Tyler made a giant mess with a very full box of tissues.

He got this box from the living room, and brought it to the closet for a more secluded spot to get into trouble. He knew he’d done something wrong…he looked very guilty when Alex caught him. But he wouldn’t take his hand off the box.

Or his finger out of his nose…

Amazingly Alex folded all the tissues back together and got them back in the box!

(And yes, Tyler has a nasty bruise under his eye. He ran into the changing table a few days ago while running around with Erik.)

Fun with a blanket

Today Alex is off at a scout campout and there is a bunch of stuff I really should be getting done…but instead of doing any or all of that, I am looking at pictures :) 

A few days ago Adam and Tyler had fun hiding under a blanket together.

Where’s Tyler?

And Adam?

Love it!

Thanksgiving decorating

You know all those blogs where ladies share their fabulous crafting and decorating ideas…

As you may have noticed - this is not one of those blogs ;)

This is my version of Thanksgiving decorating:

1. Start with the plastic jack- o- lantern from Target.

2. Turn it around! Voila! You have a Thanksgiving pumpkin decoration :)

Things Tyler lined up in a row…

Oranges…

and cars.

More Halloween…

Here are the boys in their costumes. A super hero ghost, Super Adam, and super pumpkin!

Their masks are on their heads – should have gotten a picture with them on their faces though.

I told them to turn around so I could see the back of their costumes…look who wouldn’t listen :) Super Adam of course.

A friend gave us supplies for ghost cupcakes – so of course we had to make those as part of the Halloween festivities.

Adam’s ready with sprinkles and candies to decorate with.

The ghost cupcakes!

Tyler did more eating of the candy than decorating with the candy.

Erik’s ghost.

Yum :)

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Adam had a field trip to the library and the park.  The kids wore their costumes and had a Halloween themed story time at the library. Here is Super Adam trying to “rescue” a friend.

And finally, jack-o-lanterns in the dark…

Oooh, melty sparkly wax puddles. Cool!

Carving pumpkins and lots of dressing up!

I got this cute skeleton apron as a prize at a pre-school parent meeting. It looks just about the same size as Tyler’s real skeleton!

Adam and Tyler liked to color their pumpkins before we carved them. Adam drew the “happy face” for me to carve on his pumpkin.

Pumpkins make these boys so happy :)

Why couldn’t he smile like this for his school picture?

Silly Adam!

And another great smile!

Tyler wanted to try on my costume. For once, we all dressed up and even had a theme! That’s a first for us. I found this shirt while digging in my drawer…Homecoming 1995…the back says: it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the class of ‘98. Pretty awesome, I know :)  And I made the green cape at the last minute out of a pillowcase. Alex had a black mask and a cape (which he didn’t actually wear) to complete the family of super heros!

Time to carve pumpkins.

Tyler’s pumpkin. The design process for Tyler - I would ask him, “Do you want triangle eyes?”  He would nod his head. “Do you want an oval nose?” Nod of the head. “Do you want a smiling mouth?” Nod. “Do you want teeth?” Nod.

Adam’s pumpkin – with the face he drew himself!

Erik got home from school just as I was finishing with Adam and Tyler. So then we got started on his big pumpkin.

Erik did “some” … aka “a little” of the carving on his. He designed the face for his on another paper, and then had me draw it bigger on the pumpkin. It was pretty cool with the three eyes.

All the finished Jack-O-Lanterns!

More fun dressing up in “alternate” costumes.

I’m not sure what this look is? Monk/ skeleton, holding a paper turkey?