Spooky Time Fun

Austin eating the spooky jell-o

Oh No! I'm tipping:)

Having a good laugh at Mommy!

Making candy bracelet's with Mommy

We've been all about Halloween at our house, or at least Austin has! Austin and Daddy put up our Halloween village over the weekend and this week Austin and Mommy got the window clings up and our other Halloween decorations. Austin has been running around wearing his dinosaur costume from last year and using his pumpkin flashlights:) We made spooky jell-o this week too, we made orange jell-o and put gummy worms inside. Austin thought it was great! Austin wanted to be a firefighter this year so I ordered him this cute fleece fireman jacket that came with a hat and Dalmatian dog and it was only $12. It got here yesterday and he has not taken it off since! He even wears it to nap and at bedtime! I have to turn his ceiling fan on and go in after he is asleep to take his hat off so he doesn't sweat too much. I wonder what he'll do when his firefighter boots arrive!

Austin has started speaking German! When we were in Germany last year we bought these truck board books and Austin took them out last week and wanted me to read them to him. I told him we could look at the pictures and talk about the trucks but he would have to wait until Daddy came home because Mommy can't read German. We started the book and he let out with this German phrase, which I have no idea how to spell, but it basically amounts to saying construction workers and then we turn another page and his says "pflug" which was the word for the drilling truck on the page! I couldn't believe it, kids really are little sponges, what a smarty pants!

Connor has been laughing up a storm lately. Today Connor and I were chasing Austin around the house while he pretended to be Curious George and Connor was letting out these huge belly laughs! Then I started singing that song that was on the Madagascar movie, you know that goes...."I like to move it move it, you like to move it move it, we like to move it!" and oh my gosh he thought that was funny! I've been putting Connor on his side and he's been able to roll onto his belly and pull his arms out from underneath him and when he's laying on his back he uses his legs to push himself all around his playmat. He can't seem to sit still:) And he loves playing peek-a-boo with a blanket thrown over his face and then he grabs it and pulls it off, laughing:)

No luck with our house so we have decided to go ahead and try the short sale. We gave all the paper work to our realtor and hopefully with our drastically reduced price we'll get some interest. Allen is ready to throw the wall back up downstairs to make the 3rd bedroom again, he really thinks this is what is deterring potential buyers and he may be right.

I have to mention how proud I am of my friend Rosie. She has started her own online business selling cloth diapers (everyone should try cloth, we did it with Austin and are about to start with Connor, it's so easy). You have to check out her website, it's www.greatlakesdiapercompany.com
She has really inspired me to think about starting my own small business, not an online company but something I can offer directly to our community in the Child Development field. I've been going through some ideas with Allen and getting some advice from former co-workers so we'll see what happens. But check out the site and if you know any new parents tell them to take a look, she has some great deals!

Riding the Sick Train

Big Brother Kisses:)

Austin riding the train he made using his toy bins

Look at that Chunky Monkey!

It seems like this has been the sick house lately! Connor got some viral thing and had a lot of issues with BM's for 12 days, then Austin got it, then Connor somehow got pink eye, although I don't really think that's what it was, maybe it was just a blocked tear duct because it went away within 1 day of using the drops from the doctor. And I've been having my joint issues again, can't seem to get any agreement from the doctor's on my "issue." But we're all doing much better and enjoying the last days of summer.

We broke the contract with our realtor and signed with a new one already. We are going to try and get approved for a short sale and see if we can get some people into this house. I know if people just come and look we will get some positive response and perhaps and offer!

Connor is growing so fast:) He has started rolling from his back onto his side and yesterday almost completely onto his belly until he got stuck with one arm still underneath. He rolled from his belly to his back a couple weeks ago and scared himself because he flipped over so fast! And he has started sleeping for a 7 hour stretch at night!!!! Yea! Now he usually only wakes up once a night, although Austin has now started waking up in the middle of the night and asking for Mommy, not to sure what that's about.

Austin is having fun counting EVERYTHING and asking Mommy and Daddy to count with him. He has some counting cookies that he loves working with, although we seem to have lost the number eight, Austin says a mouse took it! The other day I taped a black piece of paper on the bottom of a large tupperware container and poured salt on top so he could write with his fingers and then shake to erase and start all over again. He thought this was great until he decided to take a handful of salt and eat it! I felt so bad but couldn't help laughing a little as he had drool and salt coming out of his mouth and was yelling for Mommy to help him:)

We've decide to start potty training Austin after his Uncle Matt's wedding in a few weeks. Austin is really ready and has picked out some more underwear because I'm sure we'll need it since we're not going to use pull-up except for nighttime. Should be fun!