Thanksgiving

We had a lovely Thanksgiving.  The kids each got to do Thanksgiving activities at school and loved doing them.  Lexi's class had a feast and they got to dress up.  She choose to be an Indian.  Thanksgiving day we ate at my Moms house. Nathan brought some fun drinks for us to try. I made the sweet potatoes.  It took me two tries and an extra trip to the store to get them right but they turned out.  I also ventured and made a pie that had a cheesecake layer, pumpkin layer, and pecan layer.  It also took two tries to get right but it was good.  We had a fun time trying to keep Trevor away from my Moms decorations and from climbing up her stairs.  Everyone was nice and played with him to help us.  The kids loved playing with their cousins.  Nathan asked Megan to ask me when I got a cell phone.  I told her it was when I was in college.  She responded by saying that things are different now and that that was in the olden days.  I was sure put in my place.  I now grew up in the olden days.  Then Mckenna asked me how old I was an I told her 31.  She said I was young.  I told the girls she was my new favorite.  After dinner we went to the movie.  Trevor lasted about 15 minutes and they I left with him and went black Friday shopping until the show was over.  It was a fun day and I'm grateful for my family.

Laughs and an update

Cole has his own language.  He is always coming up with silly names for everyone.  They change daily. Carter has picked up on this and is really good at making up names.  His most consistent one is caynk caynk.  He calls everything caynk caynk.  He calls Trevor that, the food that, all sorts of things that. At one point he was saying the prayer and said, "Thank you for this caynk caynk food."  He also started calling Trevor Go Go.  It then progressed into calling him Go Go Mickey.  I asked him the other day if he knew the babies real name and he said it was Go Go.  Then I asked again.  He got kind of serious and said, "I don't want to say it."  I asked him to and he said Trevor.  I was starting to get a little worried that he didn't know his real name.

One day after Carter quickly ate breakfast I said, "How'd you get so fast? " and he said, "Jesus made me that way."

The kids were outside playing and Carter randomly opened the door to the house and yelled, "I love you Mommy" and then went back outside.  

Trevor got two more teeth and now has two on top and two on bottom.  When he gives me kisses now he bites my face.  It hurts!

Carter loves preschool and comes out so excited.  He recently told he wanted to walk up to the door himself.  It is kind of sad to see him wanting to be all grown up but it's good too.

Lexi loves school and is getting better at her site words.  She is Trevors best friend and he loves to play with her.  The other day she was playing with him and they were laughing.  She said, "I guess it's fun to have a baby brother."  She still asks for a sister too though.

Cole built the kids a frozen castle fort.  They loved it and even Trevor loved it.  He would stay in there with the other kids for twenty minutes just playing.

Cole launched a kickstarter campaign.  He worked so hard on it.  It didn't go well so he's switching to selling the pre made goals.  I hope it goes well.  He's worked so hard and is so talented.

31st Birthday

I had the best birthday ever!  Cole's gift to me was perfect.  He took the day off of work and let me do whatever I wanted.  I slept in, ate Kneaders french toast for breakfast, exercised, did my hair, volunteered at Lexi's school, went to Carrabbas for lunch, had dinner at Pea Wei with Cole's siblings, and had Coldstone for dessert.  It was wonderful.  I got to do everything I love and have wanted to do.  Cole's siblings were so thoughtful and kind and gave me nice things.  Before my birthday my sweet Mom took my kids while I got a pedicure and then she took us to lunch.  It was so fun.  My aunts took me to Olive Garden a week before my birthday too and I loved it!  I got spoiled and loved every minute of it.

Halloween

We had a lot of Halloween events this year. Me and some ladies from church put together a party for all the primary children.  It was more work than I thought and didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped but it's over.  Trevor was a tiger, Carter was Captain Hook, and Lexi was Minnie Mouse. Cole was a prisoner and I was a witch. The kids each had Halloween parties at school and Lexi had a Halloween dance that we got to go watch.  She was adorable in it and has a lot of talent.  She never once stopped smiling.  The highlight was trick or treating at Grandpa's work.  The kids get so much candy there and love going around with their cousins.  Grandpa treated all of us to Cheesecake factory after and it was really good.  Halloween night we got pizza and trick or treated in our neighborhood.  I love my neighborhood and we had a great time.  At one house the kids were given cup cakes.  Cole took them from them and put them somewhere.  Later I looked down and Trevor was covered in frosting.  Cole had put the cup cake on his tray on the stroller and Trevor went to town on it.  It was a fun Halloween but a little overdone and by the end each of the kids was sick of being the person they were dressing up as so maybe we'll cut back a little next year.

Lexi Turns 6

Lexi celebrated her 6th birthday last month.  It was an exciting week for her.  A few days before her birthday she lost her first tooth.  She went to bite on a fruit leather and screamed.  Blood started coming out and it was dangling.  I told her she would have to get it out and she ripped it out right away.  I was impressed with her bravery.  I, however, freaked out when I saw how much it bleed.  I called Cole to see what I should do and he helped me.  The tooth fairy came and gave her four quarters.

Lexi got to go shopping her birthday week with Grandma Janet.  She chose Olive Garden for her meal and I got to go with her.  It was fun to go with just the girls.  On Lexi's real birthday she got to take cup cakes to school, eat at Culver's, and open her gifts from Carter and us.  She got an Elsa barbie, dress, books, Elsa lunchbox, and Elsa socks.  She loved it.  The day after her birthday she had her family party and loved having everyone over.  She got a lot of fun things.  The following day she had her friend party.  It was a Minnie Mouse party.  We had pizza, decorated bows for our minnie mouse ears, played games, did a pinata, and had filled cup cakes.  The little girls were so cute and it turned out really fun.  The weather was nice enough to have the party outside which was a first.