Rudolph the Red-nosed Christmas Goat

Once C gets an idea in his head, he gets very stubborn about it. Hence this year, Santa does not have reindeer, he has goats. He is very adamant about it. After several "discussions" about it, I've given up, and have enjoyed all the Christmas goats the season has to offer.

Severely outnumbered

That's right, it's a boy. Is anyone really surprised? I had my ultrasound yesterday and once they told us the baby's gender, Ryan said, "It looks like you're going to be severely outnumbered." That's fine by me, I love my boys.

We're really excited and can't wait until we get to meet him. Now we just have to come up with a name...

Halloween

V was determined to be Spiderman this year, for at least 3 months in advance. Luckily, one of our friends had a Spiderman costume we could borrow, so V was very happy. Here he is flexing his muscles:


We decided to stick with the super hero theme, so I made C a Superman costume. Here he is going up, up and away:

Our ward had a Halloween carnival and trunk-or-treat, where the kids had a blast.


They got their picture taken at the "pumpkin patch". Don't they look excited to be there?


We went trick-or-treating on Halloween night. C followed V's example and walked right up to all the doors. He thought it was the greatest thing, almost as good as trying to jump in all the puddles. He thought it was even greater when we got home and let them have all the candy they wanted until bed time.


Lucky for me, C is partial to suckers and smarties. More chocolate for me. (I have to impose the mommy tax, don't I?)

Pumpkin carving

We invited some friends over to carve pumpkins this year.


R was helping C with his, and I was helping V with his.


Which meant that V picked out an intricate design and then ran off with his friend and did this while I got to carve his pumpkin:


C decided he wanted to help me.


He wanted to carve it all by himself, which made things interesting.


We did end up with these:


C was fascinated with the "Pumpkin lights". Even though things didn't turn out as planned, we all had fun.

Now I just have to figure out how to stop the jack-o-lanterns from molding within 3 days. Darn humidity.

Happy Birthday C

Since C loves animals so much, we got him a membership at the zoo, so that we could hang out there more often.

V had the day off from school so we went to the zoo for some birthday fun. Unfortunately, I locked my keys in the car and then it started raining, so it was a short trip. The boys had fun though.



The zoo was decorated for Halloween which made it fun.


C got a simple cake this year: a doggy cake.


We had an indoor picnic for dinner and watched a movie.


Then we sang happy birthday and blew out candles. (He's blowing right now, just looking at this picture).


Opened some presents:




Played with his new toys:



And ate lots of cake and ice cream. We had a fun day.

Where did we get him?

Fun at Home Depot

The Home Depot does a kids workshop every month where they have a fun project to build. V has so much fun since he gets to use real hammers and nails. C spends most of his time banging random things with a hammer.


October was fire safety month, so the kids got to build a firehouse bank. They got fireman hats and got to look at a real fire engine.




Smokey the Bear was also there. They took an actual Polaroid of us. V thought it was cool to watch the picture slowly appear.


C was deathly afraid of Smokey. He kept me between him and the bear and eyed him wearily the whole time. The funny thing is that this picture is one of his favorites. He keeps showing it to me saying, "Bear, hat, soft".