Pumpkin Carving

Continuing the family tradition that we started last year, we carved a pumpkin tonight to get ready for Halloween. By the time we bought the pumpkin, it was slim pickings at the store as you can tell by the back of the pumpkin - the front of the pumpkin looked great though and my 3 carvers were very cute too.

Once we started carving, we realized very quickly Ryan was going to need to be distracted since he kept telling Jay he "needed" to use the knife.

In his attempt to distract Ryan, Jay said "Let me cut the top off and then when we are finished, you can put it back on like a puzzle" and then for the rest of the night, Ryan kept saying " I need to do the puzzle now". Unlike last year, Ryan was happy to help scoop the seeds out of the pumpkin but Dylan seemed to have even more fun than Ryan did and kept trying to pull the pumpkin away from his brother.

When we were finally finished making the jack-o-lantern, we lit it and Ryan said he wanted to get all of his Halloween "friends" together. Of course, I was more than happy to take a picture of them.

I can't wait to enjoy the rest of the Halloween activities we have planned for this weekend with the boys- I see a lot of treats (and some tricks) in our future!!

Halloween Sneak Preview

Halloween is all the rage in our house right now. We have had a friendly "ghost" visit us each night and bring us spooky decorations and we have had endless discussions about our costumes, trick-or-treating, and candy. We have a party to go to on Friday night and on Halloween so each boy has 2 costumes: Ryan is going to be Mr. Incredible and Woody (from Toy Story) and Dylan is going to be a spider and a giraffe. Ryan told me he would like me to be a witch and told Jay that he wanted him to be a ghost - since walking around in a sheet probably won't be that much fun, I told Jay he should pick something else. When he came home with his costume, I thought it was great and looked great on him but we weren't so sure what the kids would think and decided to have a Halloween preview:

After we stopped the video, Jay kept the costume on for a while and by the time Jay took it off, Ryan said "Daddy, I like your costume". Hopefully, he will still like it and not be afraid: as for the other kids, if they get scared oh well - more candy for us!!!

Tailgating at the park

(from Sept. 13)

We really looked like the freak family today. We all get dressed in head-to-toe Jets gear and headed to the park so the kids could get in some play time (and hopefully get tired out) before the game started. Nothing exciting really happened, but the kids just looked so cute, I couldn't help but take a bunch of pictures. To our surprise, Dylan started sitting unsupported while we were there which definitely made for some great shots.

Rice Cereal

(from September 15)

On Sunday, Jay, the kids and I went over to Michael's apartment to watch the Jets game with him and Jasmine and my parents. We were waiting for Dylan's 6 month birthday to feed him his first real food (at our pediatricians recommendation) but since we were all going to be together, we decided to let him try some rice cereal a few days early. Dylan seemed very interested in trying the food and even tried grabbing the spoon out of my hand:

Unfortunately, the cereal was not a huge hit. I am pretty sure Dylan was even thinking "I waited 6 months for this??

And for those of you who like the videos, here is some documentation that our second attempt with the cereal was as unsuccessful as the first.

Next up: Bananas. Hopefully he will like those better

Crawling

I am so far behind on this blog and really need to catch up but there never seems to be time. Anyway, I owe Erika big time so here is one for you Er to brighten your day. This was last week

The Yankees sweep the Sox

Last night, for the first time in 24 years, the Yankees completed a 4 game sweep of the Red Sox. Of course, our household was thrilled and I think the sweep was due in no small part to the Yankees having the most adorable fans in baseball.

This weekend also marked Dylan's first time on the swings. Just like Ryan, Dylan loved the swings from the second he sat down. I really didn't push him too much (and had to confine Ryan to the neighboring swing so he didn't "help" me push), but Dylan did like it and smiled the whole time.

With summer almost over (it sure did fly by), hopefully we will get a few more weeks of warm weather, continued success for the Yankees and a lot more time to play on the swings!

Friday Funnies

Haven't done these in a while but Ryan is seriously funny lately, and in this case, looks DO count for something.

The bigger Ryan's vocabulary gets, the funnier he becomes - I really don't know where he gets this stuff.

Recent Conversations

1. Me: "Ryan, please don't do that, you are going to break it" (while he was bending a playdoh cover)
Ryan: "Mommy, I'm not breaking it, I'm collapsing it"

2. Ryan: "Daddy pushed me in my belly?"

Me: "Why did he do that? Were you bad?"

Ryan: "I love you so much mommy" (fyi, he was being bad)

3. (out of the blue conversation)
Ryan: "Gamma, you a bad boy"

Gamma: "Why Ryan?"

Ryan: "You broke my baseball plate all in pieces, all on the floor" (it was true and I guess Ryan is holding a grudge about it since it happened about a month ago)

4. Ryan: "I have to take a nap now?" (he calls all sleeping, even at night, a nap)

Me: "Yes Ryan, it is bed time - it is dark time now so we have to go to sleep"
(next morning at 5:30 a.m., tap tap tap on my head)

Ryan: "Mommy look, look (while twisting my head off). Its not dark time, its blue time. I wake up from my nap"

5. "Mommy, I love your necklace" as he played with it. It broke 2 seconds later (not his fault, it was a cheap necklace) and he said "I really so sorry mommy, you have a band aid? You have tape? I'll fix it". When he realized it couldn't be fixed, Ryan said "Mommy, I don't like your necklace. Take it off"

Funny statements

"I need some munkshons" said when we went to Dunkin Donuts, talking about munchkins

"I like this. It is so tasty"

"It was an ax-sink" (an accident)

"I have good havior" (I have good behavior, lol)
"Look mommy, I nuts!" while jumping from couch to couch