Christmas Wish List

One of my favorite memories of Adam is last November when the Toys R Us catalog came in the mail. He circled everything in that catalog to put on his Christmas wish list. It reminded me of being a kid at Christmas. My siblings and I would spend hours it seemed going through the JC Penny and Sears catalogs that always came around Christmas time. I don't think we ever got anything we circled, but it was always fun to wish.

This year we got two catalogs and the kids went to town yesterday circling what they want! We have made progress from last year. Adam has narrowed his list down to 13 things.

Adam's City

Adam is our little architect. He loves to build buildings and for weeks now he has been building his "city". He adds to it and changes things constantly. He is pretty clever with what he comes up with. We are impressed with his good imagination!

Empire State Building, Walmart, a Museum, The Great Wall, an Ice Cream Shop, and a couple city statues.

A Police Station, the Twin Towers, a castle, Burger King, a gas station, and an airport.

A movie theater, a traffic light, and the Eiffel Tower

A better view of the city statues and the Ice Cream Shop

Since I took these pictures he has done some renovating to his twin towers and added a football stadium. He loves his city! I don't know if he will ever take it down!

A Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween!!!

On Sunday night we carved pumpkins!

Adam knew exactly how he wanted his pumpkin to look.

Daddy helped Tessa draw her pumpkin face. She told us, "make it as mean as can be!".

Tessa wanted nothing to do with the pumpkin "brains". She said, "It's too confusing in there!"

Adam did a good job getting his "brains" out.

This was the sketch Adam made for his pumpkin face.

They turned out pretty good!

Halloween morning we made some spooky pancakes for breakfast.

I helped out in Adam's classroom for their Halloween party and then watched the Kindergarten Halloween Parade! Adam was a very cute Cowardly Lion!

We took the kids trick or treating in my parents neighborhood with their cousin Ares.

A huge thank you to Aunt Dee for making such amazing costumes!

They loved trick or treating! Tessa announced after every house, "I have so much candy!" and she had us rolling on the floor at one point as she threw her arm in the air and yelled, "Candy, here we come!!!!"

With all of their Halloween loot

More Halloween Fun!

On Friday evening, Eric got to take the kids Trunk or Treating at church. Before they went, Mamma and Bampa stopped by to see the kids in their costumes.

They had so much fun Trunk or Treating!

Getting some loot from Bishop Martin.

The Cowardly Lion and Dorothy headed home with LOTS of candy!

Zeke, Adam, Ellie, and Roxy

On Saturday night, we got to go see Hotel Frankenstein with the Nielson crew. Tessa spent the evening with Ma and Pa and Adam went to the play with us. He loved it and loved seeing Frankenstein! The cousins looked so cute in their costumes!

More Halloween Fun!

Quick Mommy and baby update:

I saw the doctor last week and he said everything is looking and sounding great. Yay! We discussed the ridiculous amount of contractions I am having and he said his best guess is that I am a busy mom who doesn't know how to sit down and put my feet up every once and a while. (How does he know me so well?) I am working on doctors orders, but find it quite difficult to be honest. I usually waddle into bed at night because my back hurts so bad! He said if resting doesn't stop my contractions, they will have me come in for testing to see if I am at risk for early labor. But, I doubt that will happen as long as I sit once or twice a day. I have also been feeling quite blah again! I will have a couple of good days and then a couple of bad days where I feel like I have morning sickness all over again. That kind of puts a cramp in my life as I don't have time to feel sick right now! With work, school, church, family, holiday preparations, and baby preparations, there is plenty to do! Overall, things are good and we are both healthy. We are all are anxiously counting down the weeks until we get to meet our little princess!

Speaking of plenty to do, we have been keeping up with our Halloween countdown calendar and have been having more Halloween fun this week!

On Sunday, Adam helped me make Oozing eyeball meatballs to go with our pasta!

We made our traditional "Ghost Feet"!

We baked and decorated Halloween cookies to treat our friends and teachers with!

We played pumpkin bowling! The kids played this happily for about an hour until the pumpkin cracked open!

We had another ghostly dinner!

Only 3 days left until the big day!!