Parties Parties and MORE Parties!!!!

Wow...it is truly amazing how fast time flies. These pictures are from the Children's Museum Member's Preview Party for the haunted house (this year's theme: Haunted train!!). We had so much fun at the festivities that we never made through the haunted house. We will plan on doing that tomorrow--during the "friendly hours" of course--lights on and happy gouls!!

Alex loves to dress in his costume as a train engineer, and he happily walks are around making choo choo noises. Noah is clueless about the whole Halloween thing, but he gets lots of giggles dressed as a railroad crossing signal! We entered the costume contest at the museum and did not even place!!! I think the whole thing is rigged since this little girl dressed as an ice cream cone (P-lease!!!!) won in TWO categories. Politics. Good thing I am not competitive (HA!).

This evening we went to ZOOBOO with Coici--what a blast! [we are getting a lot of use out of our costumes] Alex did his first official trick-or-treating through the zoo, although his "trick-or-treat" sounds a lot like "chicknchick"--whatever works!!!!

Noah had his speech evaluation yesterday, and we discovered that he actually has about 7 "words." His best word is probably "more" [wonder why!?] He may need a little speech therapy since at his age he is supposed to have 15-20 words.

We are gearing for a fab weekend--visit from Oma and Opa, haunted train, AND....The Willis Family Pumpkin Sacrifice Party. Technically it is a pumpkin CARVING party, but let's be honest....I have NO talent in this arena. Hopefully Opa will still be here and can help the boys carve a respectable pumpkin. Regardless, we are really looking forward to hanging out with our wonderful neighbors and friends. Alex just loves "Eddie" (the Willis' little man from Guat)--it is going to be so much fun having such good friends right across the street. We are truly blessed in our little house on Kenwood! Que lindo!!! (Ok, so I probably slaughtered that word in spanish--feel free to correct me!)

Con Amor,

Caren

Stoney Creek Farm

What a totally fun day we had today!! Opa came to see us so we decided to spend the morning at Stoney Creek Farm. We picked up Coici and off we went to Noblesville (we seem to be spending quite a bit of time up there lately!). Stoney Creek Farm has a LOT going on this time of year for their Fall Festival: outdoor games, a pumpkin choo choo, pony rides, hay ride, pumpkin patch, gift shops and a nursery.

It was an absolutely beautiful day, so we started with a hayride to the pumpkin patch where the boys "chose" their pumpkins.

After a romp through the HUGE hay pile, we played on the playground and then rode the pumpkin choo choo!! I think Alex like the the hayride the best, and Noah was a huge fan of just being able to run around unrestrained. I am proud of Alex--he rode the pumpkin choochoo all by himself, although he still had a worried look on his face if he could not see us. He is definitely becoming more adventurous and daring. Then there is Noah--no fear....none....he threw himself down the hay stack, threw himself down the slide and probably would have single handedly wrestled the cow calf in the animal barn if I would have let him.

After a nice long nap for all, we went to our favorite spot--Holliday Park and played on the playground and even took a little hike on the trails. Alex is truly amazing....the kid can walk, run, and climb and not get tired. We ended our day with dinner at Guatelinda--which meant TWO Famosa's for Mommy since Opa was driving!!!

The boys are now tucked in and sleeping like logs....and it's time for Mommy to do the same!!

Buenos Noches!

Choo choo

Well, it has been a busy few weeks. The boys are doing wonderfully! They both got a haircut today, which turned out to be quite a workout for all involved. By the time we were done, Ms. Robyn was sweating and seriously looking like she could use an adult beverage!!! BUT, they look totally fabulous, so I guess it was worth it!

Last weekend we had a great adventure on a REAL choochoo (hence the title of this entry)! We went to the Indiana Transportation Museum in Noblesville and boarded a train to Atlanta (in Indiana; NOT in Georgia!!!) to a craft fair. While the craft fair was a bust (unless you were LOOKING for crap!), the train ride was awesome....especially for Alex. He LOVES "choochoos," so when he saw that we were going on a real train, he was just mesmerized.

As the warm weather starts to waiver, we have been making sure to get outside as much as possible. We had a lot of fun last week having a picnic dinner at HollidayPark--Noah was thrilled that he could play and eat at the same time!!