Halloween 2018

We had a fun and busy Halloween time and coordinated our costumes as the Justice League.

I feel like we celebrated Halloween several times.  We spent one evening at a friends' party and we truck-or-treated both at our ward and my mom's ward.  Matthias and Lizzy loved it and it was fun to show off the twins in their costumes.

Superman meeting Clark Kent

Superman using his super powers

Josh was out of town for a conference at the beginning of the Halloween week, flew back late Halloween night.

Matthias and Lizzy are getting older this year and are starting to want to spend more time with friends.  Matthias was able to spend the evening with Tanner (his best friend from school).  They went to a party at Summerset for pizza and then trick-or-treated through the neighborhoods.  He had a great time and got a ton of candy.

As Lizzy and I were making dinner in a pumpkin when she was whisked away down the street for a neighborhood party and she enjoyed pizza there too.  So I was the lone mom with the dinner in the pumpkin.

Wonder Woman helped decorate our pumpkin as Harry Potter.

Lone mom with the ready dinner in a pumpkin

Since Josh was out of town, we left the bowl of candy outside with a note from Lizzy saying that each person could take two candies.

"Please take tow. Happy Halloween."

Lizzy then enjoyed walking up and down our street trick-or-treating with her friend Aubrey from school. I then drove those two around to trick-or-treat at some ward members houses. They had a lot of fun together.

Seven Months Old

 

 These babies are growing fast.

Ian is know crawling all over the place.  He started out this last month just exploring the room that he was put it, but has now started to venture out of that room to find whatever he can.  He also becomes very interested in whatever Evan is holding and will quickly crawl over to try to take a "turn."  When he's put on his tummy he seems to start out in almost a plank position, but them will go all the way down in order to army crawl.  He has started to try to put his butt up in there air, but can't sustain it.

Hanging out at church

At his last appointment (about 6.5 months), he was measured as 28 inches long, 17 lbs 7 oz, and a 17.75 inch hat size.  The doctor always comments about how long and lean he is and that he's likely to be a university professor because of his big head.

After I wrote their 6 month post, Evan start rolling from his back to his tummy more.  He did it about 3-4 times in a row the morning after I last wrote.  He was inconsistent about doing it, but was confident when he would so it was almost like he just didn't want to be on his stomach and was choosing not to be there.  When on his tummy he got really quite good at rotating around to explore right around him.  If Ian was close, he would often try to touch him.  Evan has also just started babbling.  He's so cute with his little "da da da" and "da doo wah." 

At church hanging out in the foyer

At his last appointment (about 6.5 months), he was measured as 29 inches long, 19 lbs 8 oz, and a 17.5 inch hat size.  The doctor said this he's likely to be a basketball player and university professor.  He's also really please with both boys catch up growth as Evan is now in about the 95%ile for height.

Fall Break

Matthias and Lizzy got a week off of school at the beginning of October.  We decided that we should do a couple of fun things with them while they were off from school.

On Monday the kids and I rode our bikes down to the park.  It's fun to be able to pull Ian and Evan on the bike.  We brought balls with us in the hope that we could play some basketball while there.  Matthias and Lizzy decided that they just wanted to keep riding bikes around the park.  They did a couple of loops and then Matthias came running back to me telling me that Lizzy got into an accident.  Luckily, Matthias had left his bike in the path where Lizzy had gone off, otherwise I wouldn't have see her at all.  She was being really tough, but felt pretty stuck.  I got her bike out first and then she was able to climb out.  We then rode home and had a relaxing afternoon.

She was not very happy after her accident and wasn't willing to smile.

On Tuesday, Josh took the four kids out to a place near Truckee, CA for some trail riding.  He said that they were all really good and had a great time.

On Wednesday, I drove the four kids 2.5 hours out to Apple Hill.  We had a great time at Boa Vista Orchards trying samples, eating lunch and choosing pumpkins.  We had a great time out there and Matthias asked if we could go again tomorrow.

On Thursday and Friday I was exhausted from all of the adventures of the beginning of the week.  So we laid a little low cleaning, reading, playing games, going to the library, and playing minecraft.  Still fun times, but not as crazy exciting as the other days.  On Friday, Lizzy and I did use the peaches we'd purchased at Boa Vista Orchards for making a pie.  She made a a great pie crust pretty much on her own.

Immediately after the library. Books need to be read!