It's been a very busy few weeks with Halloween that I missed the boys actually turning 2 1/2 on the 8th.
HALLOWEEN
My little minions didn't go trick or treating this year because it was raining too hard, but they had a costume, and we had great neighbors that let us trick or treat at their house the next day when the weather was better.
Amelia also spent quite a bit of time focusing on the holiday - she was not dampened by the rain and wore different costumes depending on the day. For our halloween party she was an "evil underwater princess":
For trick or treating downtown she initially created a DIY costume that Ursula the sea witch, but then halfway through trick or treating she decided her costume looked more like Madonna, so began to tell people that is what she was.
Still Ursula the sea witch:
Aaaaaaand now we're Madonna:
And then for Trick or Treating she was a C3PO
Amelia LOOOOOVES a DIY costume, makeup tutorial etc. Just to get a flavor, here's my current YouTube home page now:
ANTONIO
Antonio - you have become SO verbal in the past months. You are full on sentences now. You also have stopped calling animals by their sound name "moo", "baa" and are saying cow and sheep - the other day you saw a BIG. ORANGE. TRUCK. and you actually called them a truck and not a vroom and you were so happy and proud. You sing alllll day long. You don't always know the words, but that doesn't stop you from singing non stop.
HARRIS
Harris, you love to play with your brothers. You are always coming up with ideas and want your brothers to play with you - you walk into the room and say in a happy sing-song voice copying me "I have a new GAME!" "Who wants to play with Hawwis?" When your brother agrees to play with you you say "Oh Harris so happy now." It's adorable. You creatad a complex jumping game you wanted everyone to play with you the other day:
baby's first shiner:
LAWRENCE
Lawrence, you want to be wherever I am. If it's making dinner, going to the garage, changing my clothes, changing your brother's diaper. You see me make a move and yuo immediately say "Lawrence go too!" "I go too!" You like to "sit in mama yap" for book reading and you really don't want your brothers to be in your space on that occasion. You shocked me the other day at the park by singing an entire song - all the words - you are so verbal! You love to play the piano, turning the pages just like yaya.
Singing Twinkle Twinkle Traffic light:
The other day there was a beautiful sunset and we walked to the end of our street to see the sunset, look at the tadpoles in the lake at the end of the street, pick up acorns and blow wishes. It was a good day.
And then now the days get dark early so we have to find more indoor fun coloring with sister, and having a little piano time.
They started out each with their own coloring books - but then it was so sweet they seemed to miss interacting with one another, and Lawrence asked Harris to come and color with him too. Their little voices are too cute "Lawwence? You come color with Hawwwis?" Even though they all had their own books and crayons, they decided to color together and share their crayons. The sweetest.
This piano playing session was very serious:
What it's like at the park with the boys:
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