Pure Magic

First snowfall of the season.  First time that Mister remembered seeing snow.  Pure Magic.

Halloween 2011

I love, love, LOVE having a toddler!  It is the most fun I have ever had!!  He is such a hoot and I think he is just so fun and curious and takes us all along for the ride.  This year was all about tradition.  Lots of tradition.  So, leading up to the Big Day, we have read Halloween stories, colored Halloween pictures, did pumpkins, made lots of soup and went to a pumpkin patch.

Today, after work, I picked up Mister and we hurried home to change into Aiden's costume.  A pirate.  So awesome.  We went to a Trunk or Treat at a local college.  Fun, but small.  Aiden finally got the hang of saying "Trick or Treat".  Then, up to Smeds for Trick or Treating in my old neighborhood.  This is Aiden's third Halloween and every year, we end up in my old neighborhood.  And each year, we meet up with my nieces and nephews somewhere along the route.

Aiden and his super cool - 2 weeks older cousin, Marshall. 

Hanging out with Jess.  She leaves in 14 days to Rome.  We will miss her tons!

My little pirate.  Oh, sorry.  He is a buccaneer.

Saying, "Arrrrrrgh"

Sitting with "Fee"

This is the house that I grew up in.  Really sentimental for me.  

Ah, the memories.

Then we came to Smedleys house for the traditional "Halloween Fondue" and watching of Clue.  It is tradition, and, frankly, a super-duper fun one. Kari has outdone herself with the cheese fondue this year.  Oh my.  Yumm-o.

Mister had not had a nap all day and, boy! did it show.  He kinda looks like Don Juan when he is not in his pirate costume.  Ah well.  I will leave it on his face just for the night.  

And... to all... good night.

arrrrrrt

When you ask Aiden what a pirate says, he crinkles his little eyes into a sinister sneer and growls, "ARRRRRRT" .  Close enough.  Mister is a pirate this year for Halloween and last year, when he was Curious George, we went to the Dinosaur Park in Ogden for a Halloween trick-or-treat amongst the dinosaurs.  So, this year, we packed up some of his favorite people, donned his best pirate outfit, and headed out.  Check it out...

Breanna was a trooper and dressed up

Ghost Pirate? You decide

The whole gang... Shiree, Breanna, Aiden, Kelle, Jessica and Taylor

Waiting to get in.  Whoa Breanna... Crusty face...

Doin' the sexy pose

Beautiful and Funny

My beautiful mother's birthday was Monday.  The hillside above her grave was beautiful.  Very, very beautiful. I understand why my mother loved having a birthday in October.  Her birthday is always in the most beautiful week of the entire year.  The hillside is always ablaze and the air is finally starting to cooperate with my sweater collection.

Monday night, my nephew and his wife welcomed a beautiful baby girl to the world.  Emma is beautiful, just beautiful.  I think that Grandma B had something to do with the 11pm delivery on her birthday.

And now... on to the funny.

Mister is hilarious.  There are so many things that he says or does that I forget to write down.  So, here is my list to myself:

• Saying:  "I believe this is the man you are looking for.... YOU BOUGHT ME!" from Tangled.  the quote is really off and it is hilarious.
• When he falls, someone else falls, or he watches some kind of accident "Oh, biff."
• When he needs help and grabs for you hand to get your attention, he always get the ring finger.  Never any other finger.  Always the ring finger.

Funny, funny kid.  I love him so so much.

Quarantine

So... Mister has Chicken Pox.  Yes, he had the vaccine.  But... okay, his case is super mild, but we are in self-imposed quarantine.  What to do? What to do?

Well, have fall fun, of course!!!  First, Mister painted his own pox spots (thanks, Aunt Jodi for the idea).  We got Calamine lotion and a paintbrush, got the boy nekkid, and he painted the spots he could reach.  Then, we made some sicky boy breakfast:  Purple waffles with caramel sauce and bananas.  He loves them.

Yummo

Then, the last couple days, we have just relaxes, watched a lot of Thomas, and had fall fun with pumpkins and $.79 pumpkin kits from Michael's Crafts.  

Now, I can't for the life of me figure why these pics will not turn as I have instructed them many times to do. So... just turn your head.  

Because Aiden is in quarantine, he can not go to the normal sitters where there are many other little bitty children, so his two cousins came down to watch him and spend the night.  It is awesome.  Check out the wonderful, slightly creepy monkey hat he got last year for Christmas.  

Awesome.  

Conference and Fall

Has it really been 2 weeks since I have blogged?  Usually I can't seem to keep my big yap shut about little man, but there you go!

We had General Conference last week and it was AWESOME!  Why did I ever think that Conference was boring as a kid?  Well, Aiden thought it was all sorts of boring, so we did a few Conference things:

We made witches hats.  SO fun.  I think Aiden ended up eating more than we made, but that is the point, right?  

We also made this fun little fall thing.... his handprints as the trees.  He had so much fun ripping paper on purpose!  He kept looking at me like, "This is okay?!"

And we made a super swell fort for Sunday sessions.  He loved it.  We both had lunch in there and he really loved the idea of having his own little place.

Friday, we went to watch Kelle compete in a karate tournament.  She did so great.  She is amazing.  Aiden loves it and since it was close this year, we were able to go and have fun.

Anyhoo... we have our days planned and packed tight.  So, we try to do as much on the weekends as possible.  This weekend was the first weekend for the Halloween fun at Thanksgiving Point and HOLY COW it was cold.  So, we went to the dinosaur museum first.  They had some really fun things, but Aiden is really not into face painting or scary haunted rooms.  

Loved the sand and erosion table.  Didn't love that Mom wouldn't let him throw the sand.

Our obligatory picture at the huge shark.  Notice he is waving hi.  

And... the obligatory "sand in the eyes" at the digging part.  

Aiden got to color a wizard hat.

Oh, man he was so proud of it.  He wore it home.  And to bed.  It was awesome.

After the dinosaurs, we hot-footed it over the farm.  Not a whole lot of people due to the frigid wind, but Aiden didn't seem to mind.  He got to pet the ponies.

He kept telling me that the horse was eating his breakfast.   He would say, "Not eating yogurt.  Not eating cereal.  Not eating waffles.  Eating grass.  Yuck."  Can you tell what he loves for breakfast?

We did end up riding these ponies, but no pics.  I was too busy holding Mister!!

He had so much fun playing in this children's jail.  Hope he doesn't get too comfy in there...

"Met Me ouutt, Mom!"  Then he would SQUEAL!!