Boats, the Baby and a Birthday

Monday night the boys had their raingutter regatta. Max won one and lost 3. Alex won 3 and made it to the final 4, but then lost one. It was a fun night for everyone. And Aunt Kathy was so sweet and came to cheer on the boys. Thanks Aunt Kathy!

Also on Monday Timmy turned 2 months old. The last couple of weeks he had become a little smiler, which is great!


Thursday was Sophia's actual birthday. So we had two of her friends, Caleb and Lauren, as well as their siblings over to play. They colored together, ate cupcakes, and after Caleb left the girls got into Sophia's dress up clothes. That night we had conferences for the boys, that went very well, so Sophia got to go to Aunt Kathy's, which of course she was so happy about!! (The boys were very happy too.)
Today (Saturday) we went to the Erie Canal museum (in Syracuse), for cubscouts. Everyone had a good time, they have some good hands-on stuff, we didn't think to bring the camera though.

Uncle Bob is Sophia's godfather, so he and Aunt Wendy and Lisa came out for a long weekend to celebrate Sophia's birthday. It was great to have them out and we had a lot of fun together.

Aunt Wendy, Sophia, and Uncle Bob.

Lisa and Samantha made T-shirst for all the kids plus Aunt Kathy for the party, complete with everyone's names on their backs. (Sorry we missed Sami in this one).


Sophia was SO EXCITED as she opened up her presents!! She LOVED everything, it was a lot of fun to watch her open her gifts. (She even got the Hot Tamales she asked Aunt Kathy for and was extremely excited about them.)


Max, Sophia, Alex and Samantha with Sophia's cake. This year Sophia wanted an Angelina Balleria cake, so since I already had a mouse cake pan I used that. It didn't look exactly like Angelina, but Sophia didn't care one bit and was very excited about it.

Saturday was beautiful!! Everyone hung outside for a good share of the day. One of Sophia's gift was a new big girl bicycle, who knew it would be perfect bike riding weather in Novemeber! We were all glad it was.


Aunt Wendy pitching for Alex.


Lisa and Timmy

Opps!

Someday I will post without a million mistakes. The Trick-or-Treat post is not one of them. Think of this post as a game, how many mistakes can you find? There are plenty of them. Well enjoy the photos anyway. :)

Trick-or-Treat

We had a very fun Halloween. Even Henry went trick-or-treating and just like the big kids he loved it. It was a cold night, you could see your breath, one of our neighbors said it was only about 35 degrees. Anyway, we have lots of yummy candy to eat now.


Timmy on his 1st Halloween.


Aunt Kathy and Samantha came over and we all carved our pumpkins together. It was a lot of fun to do everyone's togehter.


Here's the whole gang ready to trick-or-treat. Clari, dressed as a cowgirl, and her mom were able to come have dinner and trick-or-treat with us, it's become our annual tradition to do Halloween together.

Timmy in his monkey costume.

Our little SnowWhite

Max as Lugi (from the video game) the moustache only stayed on for about 30 sec. And some how I didn't get individual shots of Henry and Alex, so I'll have to have them put their costumes on again and post shots of them.


Here's what our pumpkins looked like. Sophia's is the "silly" one, Alex's is the 3 skulls, Max's is the haunted house, and Henry's is the traditional one sitting by the uncarved plastic one. Timmy's is a little plastic one this year we got this year when we got booed (to be booed is to have your neighbors leave a little Halloween treat bag on your door step, then you return the favor to a different neighbor).