This and That for Brennan

I finally caved and brought back out the sand table because Brennan was digging up all the dirt in the steps in our backyard. Here he is in his 'new' sand table, despite the fact that the whole point of it being a table was that the kids wouldn't get as dirty. I don't recall Aidan ever getting in it.

Brennan had a blast at his preschool's festival

Riding the train is always a favorite

There was no getting him out of the bouncy obstacle course. We burned up a whole lot of tickets on that one!

This and That for Evan

The look on his face is just "What are you doing?!"

And then, "Oh, yeah! I remember that! Lemme smile big!"

His 2 left teeth. Don't know what happened to the bottom right one! The top right one just came through the other day.


Brennan likes putting this train engineer hat on people lately.

He kept it on for a while. Too cute!

Trick-or-Treat

Aidan as our resident clone trooper, this time as Commander Cody

His sidekick, Evan, as an Ewok

Marian as a vampire

Brennan as Buzz Lightyear

The group ready to head out. Brennan was simultaneously freaked out by the werewolf behind him and a clown waiting at a house across the street. So it took him a while to warm up to the idea of walking up to any houses, but he did eventually.

Marian's 11th Birthday

Marian's party this year was where she takes cooking classes. They made gnocchi and cupcakes--delicious!

In honor of her reading all 7 "Harry Potter" books (in less than 2 weeks), Marian had a Hogwarts birthday (and is dressing as Hermione for Halloween at school). Her only requests this year were a Harry Potter game for the Xbox and a pottery wheel.
Marian designed a "Pin the Glasses on Harry" game, with the boys here trying out the glasses (drawn on the paper).

10 months

At 10 months, Evan has mastered the commando crawl, so I really need to get these stairs gated. Of course, none of the ones from the old house are wide enough for these stairs. BabiesRUs must have teamed up with the homebuilders on that one...

He's still not thrilled with most foods, but will eat most fruits and cereal. The only finger foods he eats without gagging are cheerios and the Gerber puffs. Hopefully we can expand that list quickly.

He's a big babbler, and I think he says "mah-mah-mah" usually when he sees me. But I'm usually around him, so it's hard for me to say. His sleeping has greatly improved! Now he only gets up about once a week (please don't let this jinx it!!) and I can set him back in the crib after nursing (if he's still awake) and he'll eventually fall back asleep on his own. Yay!!

Just because

Like I said, Brennan trying to get in the picture

Brotherly love, although Evan isn't appreciating it

First tooth

Evan's first tooth finally showed up on Oct 9th, only one week before turning 10 months old!

Getting the picture was difficult between his continual crawling towards me (making the picture blurry) and Brennan trying to stick his head in the picture also.