The Pirate and his BOOTY!

This year for Halloween we went to a SW Moms club Halloween social with our friends.  All of the kids looked so stinking cute and it was a great success for our club!

Halloween this year was a little more fun for the little man and Lily just hung out in the bjorn looking pretty.  I decided since this is probably the last year I have an opinion as to what the kids will be for Halloween that I should dress them alike.  While we were at Disney I saw the cutest pirate ever so that made my mind up for the T man.  I sat there and tried to think of costumes for Lily that I could make since infant costumes suck!  Then I came up with her dressing up as his BOOTY, aka his Treasure :)

Here are pictures of our Halloween festivities:

the food table

Lily and Mommy

the kids decorating cookies

Evan and Abby

the blurr, Thomas the Pirate :)

Our Pirate fam

The Pirate pre makeup waiting at the door to go trick or treating

Eating his pirate dinner

Yo Ho Yo and a sippy cup of Milk!

Lily the treasure teething away

my view of our trick or treating

long time. no blog.

I've sucked at this blog thing lately!  Maybe it was family Christmas pictures, Halloween, food poisoning, cake pop mania, my best friend's destination wedding, a girl's night out and preparing for Lillian's Baptism that have me busy.  Just maybe.

Lillian's 5 months!

So this is like half a month late but here is Lily's 5 month picture!  She's becoming such a cute little munchkin!  She is rolling all over the place, lifting herself up, trying to sit up, babbling all the time, loves to be held by her Momma and is eating 2 solid food meals a day.

My engineer in the making

One of Thomas' recent games is to line up his trucks and cars. Here is a picture of him rolling the wheels back and forth and lining them up. It's all about order :)

Lily in the jumperoo

Here is Lily, 5 months bouncing around her in jumperoo until her brother interrupted our video session.  You can see him as he runs in the background behind her to go into my bedroom and jump on the bed.  Nice one T!!!

Cake pop mania!

I've been making a lot of cake pops lately! I made some for my best friend Karen's wedding shower that I hosted a few weeks back, for Thomas's 2nd birthday and now more this week! I just had to share pictures of these adorable delicious bites!

my 1st go at it!  not too bad but i've learned a lot since then

the dessert table spread at the shower

close up of chocolate and vanilla pops

on the stand that sucked by the way!  we had to hot glue it all together and then it finally worked

chocolate on chocolate drizzled with purple!

For Thomas' birthday - pumpkin and vanilla

wrapping them up

finished favors - a 2 for his 2nd birthday

peanut butter chocolate cake balls!

Lillian's 1st BANANAS

Today Lillian had her first big girl food - BANANAS!

Here's a video and some pics!

so tiny in the big high chair!

Thomas' 2nd Birthday!

Sunday, October 16th was Thomas 2nd Birthday!  Wow!  I can't believe my little man is 2.  It's crazy how fast the time has gone by since Lily has been born.  I found myself the week before his Birthday very emotional about the fact that he is now 2.  I was mostly emotional because now he is no longer a little baby anymore.  He's not my only.  All of the special one on one times we spent together when he was an itty bitty are now memories.  

I cherish the time that I have with my children and as I cried to Jason about him turning 2 I realized, yet again, how lucky I am to be able to stay home with them.  Yes, some days I wish I could run away, for a few hours without having to worry about getting back at a certain time to nurse a baby but for the most part I LOVE my job :)

Enough about me, let's get to the Birthday events!  We had a wonderful day that started with having the little man wake up to his new car:

Then we went to Gymboree and celebrated with family and friends, these are the pictures I took, more to come from my friend Abby:

Finally he opened up presents after a good long Birthday nap!  We were so lucky to get so many presents from all of our friends and family.  Thomas got 9 pairs of new pajamas, trucks, fire trucks, a tee ball set, a few outfits, bath toys, money, legos, books, gift cards and a ton of awesome birthday cards!

Daddy helping take the toys out of their packages

Thomas rides the Train!

We take Thomas and Lily down to downtown Disney at least once a week and Thomas loves to ride the train and merry go round.  Here's a video of him on the train taken this weekend.