Enough with my neuroses....*sigh*.
:-)
We got so many pumpkins this year without actually having to go out and buy them!! Alex got 2 pumpkins when he went to a pumpkin patch with his daycare. He got another one from a birthday party as a favor (which I thought was very practical). So, I just stopped by the local Whole Foods and picked up one more so that we would have enough for each one of our family members.
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| Here's Joseph, hard at work carving the pumpkins while the boys watched excitedly. |
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| Joseph had to represent our Boilermaker pride by carving a Purdue "P". |
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| Oscar made himself comfortable by the fire while Joseph did the hard work. |
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| William wanted to dive into the pumpkin goop but was very cautious. |
Pumpkin carving fun! :)
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| William, at 11 months old, felt it necessary to play with Joseph's lips at this time. Very cute :) |
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| I think he pulled a little too hard. LOL! |
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| Here we go! The Franses family pumpkins of 2013! Alex said he wanted a silly-faced pumpkin, so I carved the smaller one on the right. Then, he said he wanted a scary-faced pumpkin, so I carved the smaller one on the left. Alex was then too scared to look at the scary-faced pumpkin. What a funny guy! He was terrified. Well, I guess I did a good job, huh? |
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| Now that we're done carving pumpkins, it's time to "WRASSLE!!" (Yes, I realize I spelled it differently, but I wanted to highlight the special way that we pronounce the word "wrestle.") We like to "WRASSLE" in our home. :) |
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| I feel that an entire caramel apple is too much to eat in one sitting, so I decided to cut the apples in half and stick popsicle sticks in them. Plus, the popsicle sticks are more kid-friendly than the sharp-sticked skewers. |
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| I dipped the apples in caramel and placed them on parchment paper. Then, Alex got to decide if he wanted to put on sprinkles or chocolate- chips on each apple. He loves to help me in the kitchen. |
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| He takes his job very seriously. :) |
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| I went to clean up something quickly, turned around and found that Alex had taken many liberties of dipping into the chocolate- chip stash for himself. How do I know this?? |
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| Because little man had chocolate chips all over his face...specifically his eyes! :) The little stinker! |
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| Alex couldn't wait any longer and had to dig into an apple right away! |
The apples turned out great! However, the cut-side of the apple does get a little wet after more than one day. The taste is still really great, but you may need to wipe off the cut-side apple before eating.
Here's a little fall fun!
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| On Halloween day, we prepped all of the candy for the trick-or-treaters. We bought a bunch of candy from Costco and mixed them all up. Here's Alex giving an, "Oh my goodness!" look regarding all of the candy. |
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| We put out our pumpkins and decorated our front porch in preparation for the trick-or-treaters. Alex loves decorating the house for every holiday. I love that he loves that! I guess it's the teacher in me, but I love to decorate the house for every holiday! |
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| Here's both boys sitting on our front porch and getting ready to celebrate William's first Halloween! (This picture was 1 of about 45 that I had taken...both boys were quite wiggly and it's tough to get them to both look at the camera.) |
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| When we were at Target, Alex wanted to buy EVERY SINGLE decoration. As a compromise, I let him pick one and it could be anything he wanted. He surprised me and picked a pretty cool decoration. He chose a purple, light up spider web with orange spiders on it. It looked pretty cool at night. Way to go, Alex! Good pick! (Which is funny because he's terrified of spiders!) Go figure? |
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| HA! Here's Oscar in his costume for Halloween. He was a "horse" with a jockey on his back. We get him a new costume each year. He's not a huge fan of them, but he looked pretty hilarious running around with the jockey on his back in the house. |
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| Me and my little Cookie Monster William :) (Alex picked out the costume.) |
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| William (Cookie Monster), Lucy (Mermaid), and Alex (Super Grover - he also picked out his own costume. Definitely a unique choice!) |
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| I love William's chubby little face in this picture. :) |
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| Me and the boys! |
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| Arhan also dressed up as Cookie Monster this year :) Here's the kiddos trick-or-treating. |
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| My dear friends Kate (holding dinosaur- baby James), and Roshni! Love these ladies! |
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| All four of our kiddos (who could walk at the time): Alex (Super Grover) Lucy (Mermaid) Arhan (Cookie Monster) and Sanders (Spider Man) |
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| Happy Halloween from our munchkins! |
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| Joseph, with our little Sesame Street characters. |
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| Something was pretty funny! |
After Halloween, we decided that since Alex was already 3 1/2 years old, that he should probably have his first dental check-up.
I had done some research and found a pediatric dental office that was 2 miles away from the house and got great reviews.
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| Here's Alex in the waiting room. He was in the middle of watching the movie Cars. I could've stayed in the waiting room all day! It even had old-school arcade games! What kid wouldn't want to come to this place? |
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| Mommy and Alex selfie :) |
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| He was so excited, and I was so proud. :) |
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| They gave him some special glasses. He loved it! |
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| The dental hygienist was incredible with Alex. She was so sweet, gentle, and explained everything that she did and let Alex explore each tool. He had such a great time. |
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| Even the tooth cleaner was adorable!! It was shaped like a penguin and she let him touch it. |
Little man in action!
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| He survived! I was welling up with pride. Another milestone. *sniff sniff* |
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| Alex was very thorough in cleaning every, single, tooth of the dragon. :) |
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| He had a really great morning. :) |
The boys, wrasslin'
We went to the lunch at Boston's seaport, and then decided to walk around and look at the ships for a little bit. We passed by one and noticed that there was something flying off of the side of the ship and birds kept scrambling to get what was in the water. We walked a little bit further and saw a man cleaning some fish. Alex then said, "Look Daddy!! A pirate ship and there's a pirate!!" The man thought that Alex was very cute and asked Alex if he liked fish. Alex said, "Yeah!! I DO!" (He really does.) The man said, "Ok, hold on one second!" He finished fileting a fish, put it in a Ziploc bag, and threw it up to Joseph! The man gave us this beautiful (yet we were unable to identify it), fresh filet of fish!! (I joked and told Joseph that this should be our act and we could just do it every weekend. Ha! Ha! Ha!)
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| Joseph and Alex with our fresh "catch" :) |
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| We used the fish in hot pot that evening! Thank you, very generous fisherman! |
Our happy and mischievous boys
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| The boys, playing around in Home Depot. |
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| They're both very mischievous. |
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| Ugh...they know they're cute. They use this to their advantage way too often. :) |
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| "YARRRRR!!" Pirate Alex! He loves to dress up. |
Little man William, cruising around the house.
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| William, collecting all of the markers from the easel and then preparing to disperse them all over the basement. |
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| Daddy and William play time :) |
William, standing and preparing to take a few steps :)
Bath time fun with William Billiam!
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| Play time in the basement while big brother finishes taking his nap! |
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| He enjoys the alone time with mommy. |
Big William, being as cautious as possible.
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| Our happy little guy :) |
Playing around. Our cheeky little panda!
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| Mommy and boys snuggle time on our snuggle couch! :) |
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| Love these boys! :) |
Love and kisses,
Nikki
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