Kisses

Today we met our friends Keith & Lisa at my favorite park and made an attempt at some holiday photos. I tried getting pictures of their two girls and Lisa tried getting a few family shots of us. As you might guess, things didn't go as I would have liked. It was a miracle if all four of us were looking in the same direction at the same time.

I wanted to share a couple of my favorites from today. Before we left, we got a picture of Jack giving his best friend Chloe a little smooch. They are the best of friends and too cute together. We are working out the details of the marriage and will have a lot of pictures like these for the slideshow at the wedding :)

Ben likes to give kisses too. He grabs onto my cheeks and gives a very sloppy, very wet kiss. I'm a big sicko because I love every minute of it!

Da-Da

Ben has started babbling much more in the past couple of days. You would think his first word might be ma-ma after I carried him in my belly for 9 months, gave birth to him, have provided him with all of his nourishment, have gotten up with him in the middle of the night for 6 months, etc., etc,. Oh no...his first word is da-da. I see where I rank. Whatever ;)

The sounds we hear most are da-da, ya-ya, baaaah and a very long ewww. Sometimes I get to hear a maaaaah sound, usually when he's crying.

He's a very happy little boy, so we also hear a lot of excited squeals and deep belly laughs (especially when big brother is around).

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! We had so much fun going out trick-or-treating. Jack got to trick-or-treating twice. Once at preschool Thursday and then in our neighborhood on Friday. All the kids and teachers dressed up in costume and went door to door to all the different classrooms. It sounded like they had a blast.

Jack has never seen so much candy in his life. On Friday morning, the day after the preschool trick-or-treating, he layed himself down on the couch and wanted me to cover him up. So I grabbed his blanket and covered him up. He took the blanket off and then told me that he needed to be covered up with all of his candy. Crazy kid.

The pictures are in reverse order and I don't know how that happened, so please bear with me. Here is Ben trying to take Jack's candy and Jack moving it out of the way with one hand, while shoveling chocolate into his mouth with the other hand.
Just about to go out trick-or-treating.

Here the boys are busy looking at our neighbor across the street as he was getting the scary music and lights to play.

Jack as Spiderman and Ben the Bear.

Here are Daddy and the Doggie after they carved the pumpkin. Jack thinks that he is a Dog these days. He crawls around on the ground and answers our questions with 'woof-woof'. He has recently been referring to himself as Super-Doggie and tells us that he has powers. (If I would have known that the Doggie stage would be in full force, he would have been a dog for Halloween instead of Spiderman)