Trunk-Or-Treat

Our church does this thing called Trunk-Or-Treat instead of real halloween. It was a lot of fun for the kids. We decorate our cars and give out candy in the church parking lot. So of course, our car got to be Lightning McQueen!

Cody talked about being a lot of things for Halloween: a dinosaur, a cactus, a racecar driver, and Noah! He settled on Noah. So we dyed his hair red, put him in cute footed pajamas and put a bib around his neck and now he's his brother!




Noah and I got in the Christmas spirit a little early.

Our awesome car!
Notice how Cow had to wear pajamas too?

Pumpkin Picking

Cody's been seeing these pumpkin tents along the side of the road. We stopped to let him pick his own.

Noah found one almost as big as himself.

So Cody wanted to make a jack-o-lantern! He stuck his hand in the pumpkin maybe twice.
Thomas ended up doing the rest, while Cody had a snack and Noah hung out.

All done! Thanks Dad!

Cute Tush

Noah has figured out how to open cabinets. I was running a bath for him and he decided to see what was under the sink while he waited.
I couldn't resist taking a picture of his cute little tush.

Birthday Party

We had Noah's party yesterday. I got some picts of him opening his presents. I think Cody was more excited than Noah. He kept asking all day if it was time for Noah to open his presents yet!

Noah got a 'baby computer' that plays music. He LOVES anything that sings to him. He'll bop along to the tune. Here is a video of him dancing to the music.




He wasn't thrilled with the cake this time. He didn't make a mess because he wouldn't eat it!

Crystal Update

Well, the crystals didn't grow so well. I've been trying to figure out why that is. One site said that if you live in a humid climate, they may not grow well. Another site said they are hard to grow anyway. I found one recipe for a 'quick growing crystal' where you had to take a candy thermometer and heat the water to a certain temp for 30 min.

This is how most of our crystals turned out.

This is the one that where we tried the quick growing recipe. The crystals were more like clumped up sugar granules than crystals, but Cody enjoyed eating it anyway.

Happy 1st Birthday Noah!

Noah turned 1 today! I'm amazed that we've had him a whole year already. He's no longer a baby! He's really so sweet and a great kid. I can't tell you how thankful I am that God has given me such wonderful children. I love you Noah. :)

Well, we plan to have Noah's party on Saturday when Grandma Doran and Aunt Robin will be here. So today we just sang "Happy Birthday" to him and I made some banana bread muffins and iced them. They were very good!
The first taste:
Hmm, I think I'll take a handfull:
All done! (Not really, most of it landed on the floor or on his lap. I think he just got done and decided that a plate would make a fun toy!)
He didn't make as big of a mess on himself as I thought he would. Maybe the icing just wasn't messy enough. We'll try for a bigger mess on Saturday!

Growing Crystals

It started with a trip to the library. Cody checked out a book about a little girl who grows sugar crystals for a science fair project. When we finished the book Cody says "I wish I could grow crystals!" Well, how fun is it that we CAN do that? (And we can call it school!)

So here is how this evening started out. Cody is here with all of our supplies.
Pouring the water.
Pouring some sugar.

Dad put the strings and sticks together.
Cody does some more stirring.
At this point, we couldn't take any more pictures for a while because the water was really too hot for Cody to pour, and it took both me and Thomas to color the water and pour it into the cups without spilling. I had originally intended to just have 4 glasses of water, but I forgot that adding so much sugar would make the water go further, so we added a couple more and tried some different color combinations.

Here is Cody with the finished glasses. It's supposed to take a week for these things to grow, so we'll let you know how they turn out!