First sleepover!

Last week the boys had their friend Walter over for their first-ever sleepover. Everyone looks pretty tired here, except Walter, because we kept the boys up about an hour later than their usual bedtime to accommodate Walter's later bedtime. We were all pretty tired! But the sleepover was a great success (at least for me and Jeff--we were grateful everyone went to sleep right away and slept through til normal wakeup time!). I think we'll do it again soon, maybe with our friend Preston!

Leaves

I was going for the quintessential arty, seasonal Christmas card photo. Not sure I got any winners here. The sun was in Beckett's eyes and Reed had only so much patience for being laid in the leaves between his brothers....

On Veterans Day Theo and I met Auntie Tara and her daughters Zoey and Ellery at the Juwonio playground. They had a great time riding on the various structures and building mud pies, as well as raiding the trike barn and taking some rides around the circuit.

Warm playground day with Leah

Last Tuesday was Election Day, a paid holiday at my office and a beautiful, 60 degree day. The sun went down close to 5pm, which reminded us that winter is upon us, but we (and about 100 other kids and parents) enjoyed a fantastic visit to Onondaga Lake Park.

More fun with Halloween costumes

We are getting a lot of use out of this 6-9 mo Robin costume. I think it looks pretty good on Theo. But much to his disappointment, Beck has a hard time getting it up over his legs and hips.

More fall fun

 A couple weeks ago when Grandpa Stu and Grandma Joanie were here for the day we had some fun raking the leaves and jumping in them, and also piling Reed in the leaves on top of the big boys, as well as putting Jeff on the roof to assist with installation of the eavestrough.

Book fair

Last week was the boys' Scholastic book fair at school. I volunteered for the PTO Tuesday when Theo's class happened to come in. The boys think it is very cool to pick out new books for themselves. This is them upon arriving home, when they opened Theo's backpack to look at the books. You can see they literally just threw their backpacks on the ground, threw off their coats, and just sat down to pore over the books.