Evie is 8 months old; Eric is 2 and a half years old!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!


Eric's artwork for this week - yummy!


I love that Eric eats bananas and granola bars like corn on the cob, lol, it just cracks me up!


Glasses are fun to wear so why not goggles?


Papa Steve and Eric say, "Cheers!" and clink their glasses before they drink! Super Cute!


"E" is for Eric!


It's very important to keep your dinosaurs properly groomed.


Eric is doing really well sitting in his big boy chair. It was hard to give up his high chair so sister could have it. Check out his cool Diego shirt complete with a train!!!


I found something Eric will eat on a regular basis... chocolate! I tried putting it on chicken nuggets, but it didn't work, he just licked the chocolate off and wouldn't eat any of the nugget :(


I found this dinosaur shirt in the bottom of one of his drawers, I had forgotten all about it!!!


Eric loves this 'Cera' (short for Triceratops)


Cera is hungry!


Then she needs a nap, so Eric waves and says goodbye.


But then he decides waving just isn't enough, lol!


Brothers are good teachers.


And brothers are good helpers.


They are also lots of fun!!!


Someone else likes dinosaurs too!


The look on her face seems to say, "I gotta get a picture of this, no one will ever believe it!"


Guess who made her top teeth?!?


Thanks to Lisa for the cute little lamb!


This is an outfit I picked out for Evie before she was born. She looks SO cute in it! I just love it!


Evie is pre-crawling. She makes a lot of the motions, but doesn't actually crawl yet.

Here is a video of the pre-crawling:


And here is her super cute wave:

Evie is 7 months and 4 weeks old; Eric is 2 and a half years old!

My little tiny baby boy is going to be two and a half years old on the 19th!!!


Someone donated an animatronic, life-size baby triceratops dinosaur to Eric's school! It's about 3 feet tall and comes to "life" with realistic sounds and motion! It responds to voices and touch with roaring and laughing sounds, and expressive tail, head, eye, mouth and horn movements.
It also "sings" 4 different adventure-themed tunes. Eric LOVES it!!!


Eric LOVES dinosaurs!


Eric's new favorite show is called Dino Dan


Thank you Gramma Linda & Grampa Bill for the dinosaurs! ROAR!


Thank you Gramma Linda & Grampa Bill for the T-Rex, I gotta show him the coloring pages I made of him!


Which cup is better, Eric? Oh right, duh, the DINOSAUR!!! LOL!


My Princess!


She is so proud of herself when she does "big" girl things like stand up and play with toys (even if Dada is helping)


This one she can do all by herself!


Her outfit is Winny the Pooh and Piglet, so we had to break out Tigger and Eeyore. :)


This is a cute little cheerleader outfit she got. I liked it so much I made pom poms...


Along with her cheerleader outfit and pom poms, she's got a letter sweater, a school emblem (the big 'E'), and a megaphone (which she is crushing in her hand and also decided to taste, lol!)

And here is her cheerleader clap - VERY enthusiastic, lol!

Evie is 7 months and three weeks old; Eric is 2 years old!

Here's Little Miss, sleeping with her tushy in the air, lol!


Evie is tasting her first veggie puff!


These little 'sweet pea' outfits (as Scott calls them since the baby in Popeye always wore them and was named sweet pea) are cute and warm!


This really isn't a good pic, but Evie LOVES it when Dada takes her outside in the backyard to look around!


After her bath today, I took a pic of Evie's hair. :)


Here is a vid of Evie playing with the door stop. Be thankful there is no sound, lol!


Gran & Papa brought up a cookie icing and decorating kit!


It was super fun and Eric loved pouring the sprinkles on EVERYTHING, lol! ***Beware, the next picture is GRAPHIC in nature!***


Eric fell at school on the gravel black top and cut his chin open (there was actually a rock of gravel embedded in his chin which I picked out after I ran over to help him). One of the dads at school is an EMT and he took a good look at the wound and said it might take 1 stitch or we could let it heal on its own. Getting one stitch would involve Eric having to get a shot in the wound, waiting for it to take effect, then getting another needle stuck in the wound to have it stitched up. So, I opted to not have the stitch. I just thought it would be too much trauma on top of everything else. He slid funny as he fell and his whole body hurt, he also bit his tongue and his cheek and knocked a few teeth loose. I just didn't think holding him down so he could get poked with needles seemed like the best thing for him. I put a gob of neosporin on it and a bandaid as soon as he fell asleep (since he wouldn't let me touch it all day long) and the next morning as Eric was picking off the bandaid I could see how much better it looked. Now its almost fully healed. But I was so scared when it just wouldn't stop bleeding. There is dried blood all over his clothes and mine, so much blood that it soaked thru to my bra and stained that too. That boy is going to give me gray hair, lol. It was just earlier this year (in Jan) that he fell and hit his head so hard he couldn't stop throwing up, remember?


There aren't many pix of me with the kiddos, so here ya go! :)

Evie is 7 months and two weeks old; Eric is 2 years old!

We had a great halloween!


I made bear-claw pastry for breakfast and pumpkin pie for our after dinner dessert!


Eric had his Halloween Party at school and had lots of fun, everybody got a pumpkin balloon!


Evie was excited to carve her first pumpkin!


Dada helped her


Since Evie is too little to carve, Dada made her a mini pumpkin while he worked on her pumpkin.


Eric was excited too!


I helped him carve his.


Eric had forgotten how much fun it was!


Evie's pumpkin turned out fabulous - Scott was able to carve it and encorporate the words "Evie's 1st" into his design!!!


Eric was most excited about blowing out the candle inside his pumpkin, lol!


At first Eric wasn't too sure about going up and knocking on doors.


Then all he wanted to do was ring the door bells but he wasn't quite tall enough. (Daddy was super excited about the glow stick)


Then all he wanted to do was to pet people's dogs, lol!


Then all he wanted to do was go inside people's houses and visit with them, lol!


He went into one house to watch football on a huge big screen TV. At another house, he walked in and started playing with random toys, lol!


Eric was fascinated with the scary stuff. One scary thing made noise and scared him, but other than that he did really well.


Scott and I were impressed by all the candy Eric got even tho we only went to a few houses. The neighbors we visited were all people Scott and Eric and Bailey see each night on their walks. They were all happy to see Evie since she and I stay at home and make dinner while the boys walk.


Eric's first candy!


I made a special treat bag for Eric (since he was only interested in eating 1 piece of candy) with 100% fruit juice, goldfish crackers, and pretzels in it. It was a big hit! (Eric decorated the bag at school)


After we got home, Eric was excited about the trick-or-treaters coming to the door. Each time the doorbell rang, he was say, "Uh-oh!" and run to the front door, knock on the door, then open the door. He would watch me pass out the candy and then say goodbye to all the kids as well as to the witch we had hanging on the door, lol!


Then we cooked the pumpkin seeds - yummy!!!



And here is our lil black halloween cat!