Happy Halloween!

Halloween was so much fun this year.  Even though it was on Sunday we are lucky enough to live in a place where 98% of the population is LDS so everyone celebrated on Saturday.  It was fun to get ready for it.  We decided that Mikey had to be Mike Wazowski since that is what James calls him a lot.  James was going to be a construction worker with Dad.  Then it hit me that Mike Wazowski's best friend is James P. Sullivan.  So of course we knew James had to be Sully.  It was a ton of fun making their costumes.

Thursday had a party at school.  He walked into class, took off his backpack then his hat then asked me to take his "Sully off" I got him distracted with a bike and he left the costume on the whole time.

Sully at School

 On Saturday we carved pumpkins. The boys didn't really like Dad's, but it was pretty cool again this year.  They loved mine.  Mikey said it was "happy" and James liked looking at the "eyes, nose and hair"

Mom's pumpkin

Dad's pumpkin

For Dinner we stole this idea from my Sister -in-law.  We had stew cooked in a pumpkin.  Doug was a little worried it would taste too much like pumpkin, but it didn't and was a lot of fun.  

Dinner!

After dinner it was time to get dressed. We stuffed Mikey pretty full.  But probably a little too full, he had a hard time walking and kept tipping over.  But he was the happiest little monster.

Mike Wazowski

 James was excited to wear his Sully costume and even kept his hat on the entire time.  I had a hard time getting a picture of him standing still, and definitely couldn't get a picture of them together.

James P. Sullivan 

 It was hard getting Mikey in his car seat, but the church is really close so he didn't have to sit like this for long.  We un-stuffed him for the ride home.

Going Trick-or-Treating

 The trunk-or-treating wasn't as good of a turn out as I thought it would be, but the boys liked it.  As we were pulling up I told Doug it would be nice if we could park next to someone we knew (since it was the entire stake) but ended up just parking then realized we did park next to someone we knew.  But I felt a little silly parked with my bag of candy next to their decked out car and root-beer brewing in the back.

A short break

 After we ran out of candy to give away we headed over to a neighborhood to do some more trick-or-treating.

The houses

 Finally we stopped at the neighbors on the way home.  We kept thinking how great it would be to live in a neighborhood where we could go to houses that we actually knew the people.  And this was definitely our best stop.  They love our boys (she always tries to take Mikey during sacrament meeting but Mikey isn't always willing to go).  Our boys love all their animals.  They got tons of candy here.

The Neighbors 

Overall I would say it was a ton of fun and our guys definitely enjoyed it.

Little Monster

The other day James told me he wanted to get dressed.  He took me to his closet and pointed to his shirts, "Want racing?"  I had no clue which one racing was so I reached out to grab a shirt.  "No!  Not the one!"  Ok wrong shirt.  We soon figured out that "racing" was a long sleeved blue shirt.  I got it down and handed it to him he quickly ran out of the room and I hung up some of the shirts I had mistaken for "racing".  When I got to the front room this is what I found:

"Dressed Myself!"

He had put the shirt on all by himself then proceeded to do this:

Skipping through the house 

That night we changed him into his pajamas, he grabbed the blue shirt and ran to his room.  When I went to tuck him in later I found him wearing ONLY the blue shirt!  For the next few days we had to wear this shirt.  Today sadly the shirt was in the laundry and he had to wear a different long sleeved blue shirt.
When I got out of the shower I heard Mikey screaming for his life.  Upon investigation I discovered James had him by the back of his shirt and was trying to drag him backwards.  So I grabbed Mikey and took him back to the bathroom with me where I put him on the glider in the bathroom.  James followed us crying "My monster, My monster!"  I thought "how is Mikey the monster?"  When we got to the bathroom James continued to pester Mikey unrelentingly.  Finally I made the discovery.  This is what Mikey was wearing:

Little Monster

An identical shirt to James' "racing" shirt.  Naturally James thought that because he wasn't wearing it and Mikey was then it must be his and he needed it back.  We had to go dig James' out of the laundry to show him that it was Mikey's shirt and not his.

New Videos

Our boys are so cute.  Doug is ready to push the pause button on Mikey, I would like to wait a few months until he is in Nursery but I think we both agree that he is at a really fun age.  James has also been a lot of fun.  He loves playing with his brother and takes good care of him always making sure he has the same snack and get to play the same games as he is.  Mikey loves to copy his big brother and wants to do everything that he is doing.  So here are some cute videos of my two cute boys.

Yesterday Dad found a hurt bird outside and brought it in for the boys to see.  They loved it. 

The boys new favorite game is "Monster Trucks".  This is a game Dad showed them and they all love it so much.

The only problem is when Dad quits playing but James wants to keep playing.