Morning time

November remainder

Don't ask me what happened to the rest of November. I have no idea. Here is some photographic evidence of some of it, including fishing, trips to the aquarium, baseball in the yard and the discovery that Emerson is allergic to amoxicillin (and all other penicillin derivatives). We are lucky he was a good sport about the rash and about being called Speckles for a few days there. And now into December we go!

Building and Growing

Lowe's has a program called Build and Grow that puts hammers into small hands. Emerson has gone with Eric in the past but yesterday was the first day that the whole family participated. We had fun, Eric only got his finger hammered once (apparently it was my fault for distracting him while Emerson was hammering away) and both boys ended up with pull-back race cars that they spent the rest of the weekend racing. Yes, Lowe's, we will be back.

Superboys

(In case you are wondering - No, Ethan will not allow us to remove the bee pajamas.)

New pajamas!

I have rarely seen these two more exuberant. Hooray for new pajamas!

Happy Halloween!

Ethan decided he was feeling the dinosaur more than the dog when the big day finally came. I forgot to bring Emerson's yellow rain boots home from school for his costume so he looks like some sort of clam digging fire fighter. But all of our practice last week paid off and the boys had a great time making the rounds of the neighborhood this Halloween.

Pumpkins carving pumpkins

 The boys and I carved some little pumpkins for them this year for Halloween. Neither of them was too enthusiastic about gut removal but both enjoyed making creative decisions for the jack-o-lanterns' faces as well as getting involved in the cutting process when appropriate. They were delighted with the end result (viewed with candles in the dark bathroom) though Emerson declared that his turned out too scary.