Blue Ray

In case any of you are with Kirstine and I'm not around, and she asks for a Blue Ray...

At the beginning of Tinkerbell there is a commercial for the next Tinkerbell, and at the end a big voice says "Coming Soon on Disney DVD and Blue Ray." And Kirstine always yells "Blue Ray" out to it.
Later I had a container of orange and blue m&ms and we were giving some to the kids. I guess when we were asking her if she wanted an orange or a blue m&m she just heard blue. Well Kirstine now calls all m&ms Blue Rays.

Other cute Kirstine tidbit:
She hates for people to sing around her. The second Scott or I start singing she throws her hand up and yells "top! top!"

zebra potty trained before kirstine???

Zebra had to go potty, so Will took him. and then he flushed the toilet. Yay zebra!!! I wonder if he did the pee pee dance for Will - the same one that Kirstine does???

my nose

Will says to me in the car today,
"Mom, my nose is clean of all boogers..."
me: "Awesome!"


W: "...Because I ate them all!!!"

gross. and thanks for being so excited about it, too. Then later i was cleaning his nose and got one, and he tried to make me eat it. Boys.

Publix

Will just came in to me holding a little piece of paper and said, "Where'd this come from? Where'd this thing come from? It says Publix on it." Sure enough, it's a publix coupon. So i ask him where it says Publix, and he shows me the word. I aske him how he knows that, and he just says he does. I definitely didn't know he recognized that word! When we first moved here we were looking for a publix and i remember telling him to look for a big green sign with a big P on it. So i guess he's memorized that sign now, and he knows the word. Awesome!

Hair cuts

I have always cut Will's hair, with the exception of his first haircut at 11 months. He has never had a problem with it, and is in fact very great about it. He sits super still and positions his head exactly where i tell him. Until 2 months ago, that is. Last time I cut his hair he just freaked out and started screaming. He's super scared that I'll cut him, despite the fact that he knows that I have never even come close to cutting him. It was time to cut again yesterday (so if it looked bad it would have time to grow out before the wedding), and he started out great. He even said he wanted it super short like daddy's. and then all of a sudden he started flinching again and crying. It was not fun. I eventually (with a lot of coaxing and Scott distracting) got it mostly done (it took about an hour). but he just wouldn't let me do the line around it (like the forehead, and ears, and neck). so we gave up for a little while and let him dig with the shovel. then scott came outside with the electric hair clipper things to finish will's neck, but first he let will do scott's hair. (we eventually finished will's hair. it's absolutely not the best job i've ever done, but it'll do.)
His face is the cutest in all these pictures. He's concentrating so hard!

Halloween

We had a great day. We went to a friend's house (Misty) in the morning for a Halloween dress-up play date thing. Then we came home in time for naps. Then Nana and Granddad arrived. We went to Lakeside Baptist Church for their fall festival which was awesome. The kids had a BLAST! There were lots of inflatables and little carnival-y games for the kids. The preschool room had 2 bouncys small enough for the little ones. Will played in one the whole time and Kirstine played in the other. They also had a balloon animal maker (we got a sword and a butterfly), a popcorn machine (it was soo good), hotdogs, chips, and sodas. I got one picture taken and then the batteries died. Can you believe it? So I made Scott get some batteries on the way home so we could get some pictures that night. He was in charge of that camera, and I did video. We then went trick-or-treating around our neighborhood. This is really the first time in my life I have been trick-or-treating in my own neighborhood. Even though there weren't that many houses participating, it was still a lot of fun getting to meet more neighbors, and seeing some that we hadn't seen since we took everyone cookies. Always growing up (and even for the last few years with the kids) we always went to other people's neighborhoods and got to see them say hi to their neighbors, now it was our turn! (I don't know how correct this is, but in my memory we spent most of our halloweens growing up in aunt pat's neighborhood. the last 2 years we have gone to the Lynn's neighborhood to go with Giovanni and Adria, and we missed that little tradition this year!:( ) Anyways, here are the few pictures we got:

(you can see the gator in the background of this next picture. unfortunately he lost an eye some time during the process of carving tinkerbell on the side)

Pumpkins

I was looking at a website of pumpkin patterns, and I saw a cool one of Batman. i asked will who it was, he said batman, and i asked what he wanted on his pumpkin this year. Thinking that since there was a really cool batman right in front of him, and all the surrounding patterns were dumb, i figured he'd say batman - WRONG! He said, "a roly poly and a snake". are we really surprised? NO! So there's obviously no patterns out there for roly poly's, but we looked around to find one of a snake, and we couldn't. so we improvised. we found some clipart in Word, and blew it up to printout for the snake pattern. and for the roly poly, i copied a picture from wikipedia, put it in photoshop, and separated all the pieces. it turned out pretty cool. it looked like a big armadillo with lots of legs (which is exactly what roly poly's look like!)
For some crazy reason, we didn't get any pictures of our pumpkins this year! Well, not all of them. Here's the Cinderella we did for Kirstine:

K Laughing

Kirstine was sitting on the potty last night. I asked her some question and the answer was "nope". she made the p so hard that spit came out and got all over me. I wiped it off and she thought it was hilarious and couldn't stop laughing. so i got the camera to make you all smile today.

Big Girl Bed!

I don't know why, but for some reason I decided yesteday to turn the crib into the toddler bed. Will was a little younger than this when we put him in his big boy bed. I gave it a gamble and it worked! She stayed in bed all night and when she woke up she just cried sat up. What a perfect little baby!!!

Will's bedtime story

This is the 2nd bedtime story I got tonight. (word for word - i left immediately go come write it down.

‘Once upon a time there was a little baby boy, and his name was - There was a little baby girl, and her name was – and she was Will’s mama. And she was soo little. And Will was soo big. And Papa was sooo big. And Gran was soo little. And Uncle Matt came and said, “Look at those people. Some of them are so big and some of them are so little.”’

And then something about them floating up into the fan. but then it started getting just silly and weird and no longer interesting.

Story #1 was all about a little baby boy (they always start this way) who asked his mom if he could ride his hummer and she said, no! because he left his hummer out in the rain and it was broken. so his papa came and put it in the back of his truck and took it home and fixed it and brought it back. and on and on. his stories are usually a mix like this one between fiction and reality. but the top story was obviously pure fiction, and those are the most fun.

Cats and Dogs

This is a video of Will's thoughts on cats and dogs:


The first word of this one is "Aunt Pat", and listen for the "these people" part - it's my favorite!

Texas Trip

These are pictures from our trip to Texas. These first ones are from the playground on Saturday morning:
Here's the boys wrestling:
This last picture is in front of the neighbors' house.