Octoberness

We had a lot of fun in October. Riverside has a safety night where they give out free hot dogs, chips, juice, and cotton candy. They also have firemen, swat guys, and a helicopter come in to talk about safety and show you all of their cool toys. 

TJ's phone was acting wierd so these first two are blurry but I still had to include them. They looks so cute!

Sitting in the Helicopter. He would have loved to go for a ride.

Ledger found a new place to sit while playing some trains. Cohen thinks this is how he should be punished...

This stinker, loves to irritate his brother. 

 Getting ready with dad.

 Getting so big and standing all by himself.

Cohen taking a nap with me, he's sleeping right on my head. He loves to "nuggle" with me!

We've been drinking a lot of green smoothies. We love them!

DEANNA ROSE FARM 

We headed to Deanna Rose farm for some more petting zoo fun. I met up with a friend that lives in Overland Park and we had a good time catching up. A week or so later our ward planned there park day to go there, so we went again. 

Such a poser.

 My boys love putting on my shoes.

Every April and October the have Parade of Homes in KC. We went with some friends and TJ let Dedge drive with him from one house to the next. Don't worry it just down the street!

This boy is so crazy. One day I heard him crying and I just kept telling him to come here. He just kept crying. When I went to check on him he was doing this. His arms were shaking, he didn't know how to get himself down. In this picture he's long mastered it, and lucky he's never tipped the chair on himself. 

 Nana and Aunt Gina were coming to visit us, as soon as the I told the boys they started watching out the door for them.

 Cohen loves to take pictures with my phone

My crazy dedgers, he pulls some of the funniest faces. I had to capture but a few.

TJ Turns 29!!!

No, really he did turn 29! Almost 30! For TJ's birthday we were going to have a big party with donuts and apple cider, but I didn't call early enough to order enough donuts and I decided to be selfish and just keep him all to myself for the evening. I told him we will do something big when he turns 30! Instead we just went to dinner then picked up some cupcakes from our favorite cupcakery on the Plaza. We had our neighbors over to help us sing and eat the yummy cupcakes.

TJ needed new shirts, ties and slacks for school so that is what he got for his birthday. He also got the movie, 'The Avengers.'

Cohen showing off daddy's candy from Grandma and Grandpa A. 

 Is your mouth watering? Mine is! I don't love cupcakes, but these things are to die for! Happy Birthday babe, next year your officially going to be old!!! 

Oh September!

I'm back and a new 9 week challenge has started, which still includes daily journal entries. Hopefully this challenge I can get the rest of the way caught up. September was lots of crazy, busy fun. We tried to fit in lots of outdoor activities before the weather cooled off too much. We also had to work really hard to sneak in anytime with daddy since 2nd year is usually the busiest.

These boys love for me to hold them both and sing them a song or two before they go to bed. They are getting a little big for it though so most times I have to sing to one at a time.

RIVERFEST

Every year Riverside has an event called Riverfest. They have blowup toys for kids, mechanical bulls, bands, and food trailers. It is kind of like a mini fair, and brings out Riverside's finest crowd! We are talking Blackfoot fair kind of folk, only on a smaller scale. Anyways we decided to go again for lack of anything better to do and it is free so we couldn't pass it up. 

Cohen and Daddy had a blast in the bouncy houses!

Poor Ledger is going to look at this blog and think all he ever did was sit in his stinkin' stroller. At least I documented that he was there, right? This was also his first time holding his own bottle! Finally! I wouldn't peg him as lazy, just a good delegator, like me!

This boy is quickly taking after his brother in the "crazy" department! My kiddos are fearless!

Climbing the stack of chairs at church...when can they go to nursery???

And just because I think he is so darn cute...

We love the park right by our house. It's the perfect walking distance, it doesn't have rocks, sand, or wood chips, and the toys are just the right size!

Cohen purchased Hungry, hungry hippos with some of his birthday money. He calls it "Happy Wimmos," which we have all adopted as its name now. He loves it and asks to play it almost everyday. Ledger loves it too, but mostly just trying to put the marbles in his mouth. 

I took a quick trip over to St. Louis with my neighbor to go to Time Out for Women. Gem went with us too, and we had a great time. It was nice to recharge my spiritual battery and get some much needed "ME" time. One of the speakers there, Mary Ellen, was a good friend of TJ's aunt and uncle Dayna and Glenn so I snapped a picture of her and Gem together. 

 Excuse the graphic image: This boy has learned how to take his diaper off himself! He hates to be wet or poopy so he takes it off! I'm hoping this will benefit me in the future with potty training???

TJ was gone late one Friday night so I packed up the boys and went for an evening run. The boys were whinny and I just needed them strapped in somewhere and quiet. After 5 minutes, both boys were completely out! Great! I let them sleep while I finished a long 3 miles, I'm so slow! On the way home I decided we needed a treat so I stopped at sonic. We grabbed a strawberry shake and I was really craving a coke (there goes any calories burned from the run!) The boys woke up in time to take there share, and that they did.  Ledger gave me the face below accompanied by a screeching noise anytime the straw was not in his mouth. 

There is a little mini train about 10 minutes from our house that lets the kids ride for 50 cents a ride. It is about 3 minutes long but Cohen loved it. We went a couple times, and will definitely be heading back in the spring when it reopens. 

 Cohen and his "Viviva"aka: Olivia

After the train ride we headed to Buffalo Wild Wings with our neighbors. These two were too cute together watching a movie on the iPhone.