Fall and Halloween art

Baby girl at 20 weeks

We have our next check up for baby girl this coming week but I thought I would get this half way mark documented seeing as how I am still lucky enough to be edema free and finally not feeling nauseous every 2 hours!! I did a little research and my baby belly is about the same as with Deven at this 20 week mark...somehow not comforting!! :). We are doing great and Deven gives hugs and kisses to sister all the time, it's adorable. I plan to remind him of this later when he realizes that sister can't be put back into my belly once she's here! Stay tuned for more updates from our check up...we are hoping for an estimate of just how big she will be.

Halloween Art

Deven's First Trick-or-Treating Adventure

I don't really remember Halloween that well from when I was trick-or-treating age. Maybe it just wasn't that big of deal? Either way right now, it is a huge deal to Deven. The lead up to Halloween was a month long process...I even had to hide his costume from him when it came in the mail to ensure it would still be in tact for the big day. Deven was, of course, a fireman. We did it right with new fire boots, pants, jacket and helmet. Underneath he even had on his fireman pj's. It was epic. We were invited to spend the evening with our friends Renee and Chip Burgess. Their little guy Charlie is the same age as Deven and was equally as thrilled to go door-to-door for free candy. Renee is an aspiring Martha Stewart (pre-insider trading) and decorated so well. She even had labeled appetizers: grapes were eye balls and pretzel sticks were goblin bones. It's her dream to have a walk through haunted house some day. I am anticipating that we will spend many more Halloween's with the Burgess family!!

We captured the boys' first trick-or-treat. Awesome. Other fun moments was Deven's 'eye ball' belch into a nice ladies face as she was handing him some candy..."Excuse me, I burped." Then upon a nice old man opening the door for the boys Charlie felt right at home and walked right in...we were thinking he just wanted to be more social then trick-or-treating allowed. He is quite the gentleman. We had such a great time and ended the night with a pizza, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", and a little Monday night football. A perfect first Halloween night out for Deven and Charlie!!!

Ice skating

We have one happy kiddo tonight.  When he got in the rink he told everyone, I'm mean everyone that he was a hockey player.  We tried to explain he needs to learn to skate first.  He said it was "ok, skating is easy."  I think he figured out that it's a lot harder than he thought but still seemed to have a blast.  Here are some pics of Deven's life changing experience!

First time on skates

Nick wanted to brake in some new skates so we hit the local rink tonight.  This was Deven's first time on skates and the second time on ice.  I had to get a video!!  Pics to follow...