It's Starting Early This Year

There has been a lot of discussion in this house about Christmas. Pretty much as soon as Halloween was over, Thing 1 began talking about Santa Claus and Christmas lights. About a week ago, both boys decided it was time to start wearing their Santa hats. Now, I'm all for Christmas; however, I would prefer to wait until Thanksgiving is over!

So, the other day I asked Thing 1 what he wanted for Christmas.

Thing 1: "an umbrella and a flashlight"

Me: "Do you want anything else?"

Thing 1: "What does Santa have?"

Apparently, Mr. Claus needs to start sending out a catalog!

"I got a rock."

Yesterday, after dinner, we headed out into the big, wide world in our best costumes to do some much needed trick-or-treating. Thing 1 had this trick-or-treating thing down. He wasted no time and ran from one house to the next. Thing 2, however, was pushed from house to house in his stroller and enjoyed being given candy for looking cute in a skeleton costume. After this endeavor, I do have one piece of advice for all who hand out halloween candy. *gets on soap box* Please offer candy to all children, no matter how small. I know my youngest child can not really eat candy, but he did see his older brother get candy at each house and feels he is entitled to anything older brother gets. If you must, just give the older child one piece of candy and the younger child one piece of candy. This will please the younger one greatly and we really do not need more that one or two pieces of candy per house anyway. For those of you who did not give candy to my youngest, once we left your house he got very angry and I am sure he cursed you in his own language. Thank you for listening. *Takes a bow and gets off soap box.*

Now to the real reason you came by this blog: Pictures!

We hope everyone had a safe and happy halloween!!!

Pumpkin Patch

The Mr. took Thing 1 to the Pumpkin Patch with his class a couple weeks ago. The Mr. and I split up the field trips. I go to the zoo in the spring and he goes to the Pumpkin Patch in the fall. I asked him to take pictures of this event as I have never been. They seemed to enjoy themselves and Thing 1 spent the majority of his time with his girlfriend.

Where to? Better check the map!

To the petting zoo! Let's feed some goats!

There were many little houses and other equipment to play on that was modeled after different fairy tales.

Now, down the slide!

Next, the hayride to the pumpkin patch!

Here's the pumpkin Thing 1 wanted to choose:

Luckily, The Mr. made him choose a different pumpkin. Here's the one we ended up with:

Thing 1 and his girl at the Pumpkin Patch!

New Jobs

At daycare, the children are given jobs for the day. Thing 1 often comes home discussing what job he had or one of his friends had. The typical jobs are line leader, door holder, teacher's helper, or light person. Yesterday, during our travels, Thing 1 was handing out jobs to all of us.

Thing 1: "I'll be the line leader, Thing 2 can be the lights person, Daddy can be the car washer, and Mommy, you can be the housecleaner."

I feel I got the raw end of the deal during this handout of responsibilities. Luckily, Thing 1 said that we switch jobs every so often. Hopefully I won't be the housecleaner for long and I can get a job like door holder or TV watcher!

A Morning in the Park

This morning we decided to take the boys to the park. They were both rather rambunctious running around the living room and destroying things. Because of this, we thought we should take them outside to burn off some energy.

I forget sometimes how brave my youngest is but then I remember once I allow him to play at the playground. He has no fear and will just try walking right off of the equipment or try to climb things that he just isn't tall enough to climb. Once he's a few inches taller, I will really be in trouble. If I can't find him, I'm sure he'll be in a tree somewhere!

Back to School Night

This week we attended Back To School night at Thing 1's daycare/preschool. He will be starting kindergarten next fall, so I thought we better get used to attending these things. I picked the boys up a little early so we could get home, eat dinner, and then go back to the daycare. The center had some of the staff available to watch the kids while the parents sat in little chairs listening to the teachers discuss the curriculum that our children will be following for the next year. Anyway, on our way out of the house, Thing 1 got very upset. He kept saying that he couldn't go to school because he hadn't slept yet. He also made a point of saying, "But I don't have my lunch!" No matter how many times we explained to him that he wasn't going back for a full day, only for about an hour, and that he already had lunch that day, he would not listen. Poor guy, was so confused!

Back To School night was interesting. We really like Thing 1's new teacher. She is very friendly and patient with the kids. It makes Thing 1 more comfortable in class and more willing to try new things. He's a child that is very concerned about doing things correctly and won't even try something if he is afraid that he will do it wrong. Not sure where he got such a perfectionist attitude? :)

Took the dog out and...

Came inside to find this...

No, we don't keep our children in a cage. I took MJ outside to pee and when I came back in I found both boys sitting in her cage, playing!