Let’s Play a Guessing Game!

Can you tell who is who?

I’ll publish this post again later in the week to see if you got it right!

Josh’s birth announcement

Well, I still haven’t mailed these to everyone… at this point I think I’ll wait and mail them with Christmas cards!

Big Lil Brother Shirts

I don’t think I ever posted pics of my boys in their “bro” shirts…

Joshua has already grown out of his, so I guess I need to make him a new one!

Halloween 2011 (part 2)

After Jack was sick on Saturday, Charlie ended up being sick for Halloween. Luckily, he’s 2 and didn’t really know what he was missing. Jack, Joshua and I headed to trick or treat with Kennison, Colton and Reesie.

So about that costume… for months Jack has insisted that he wanted to be Mike “Bizowski” from Monster’s Inc. I, on the other hand, thought he’d be happy as Charlie Brown, and didn’t give it a second thought.

Until, his school Halloween party, when he wanted to know WHERE his Mike Bizowski costume was. Oops! So that night I got to work!

I took a piece of green fleece remnant, used a sleeveless shirt as a pattern, and appliqued the eye and mouth on. Then I made boot covers and added glow in the dark paint.

I modeled it after this commercial costume I found online.

Jack took it upon himself to take a picture of me sewing it.

BFFs (when they’re not trying to kill one another).

Josh just wore a regular old outfit, and a little matching Mike Wazowski hat I made to match Jack’s costume.

These pictures crack me up.

It was a great Halloween!

Some Halloween Fun! (part 1)

I haven’t uploaded the pictures from Halloween night yet, but here are a couple of the other Halloween activities we participated in this year!

Bass Pro shop had a Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin Halloween event. Since I intended (more on that next time) for the boys to be Charlie Brown, Linus and Snoopy for Halloween, I really wanted to take them. Well, no one was in a great mood (the event was during nap time) and our Bass Pro was a little confused about the timing in their ad. I did snap these two pictures, though!

Kennison being goofy

The big four waiting to roast marshmallows by the outdoor campfire.

Then, on Jack’s birthday I took my boys and Kennison to the pumpkin patch. We all had a lot of fun!

Corn sensory play

How tall are they?

Oops. Lost his shoe! Luckily it was in the stroller.

The kids ran around on the awesome playground, and humored me by taking pictures.

Little man did this.

I didn’t attempt a hayride with all four littles (picture Charlie jumping out), but Charlie (well, and the big boys too) looooves trains, so we did take a train ride.

Waiting for the train

Unfortunately, after coming home and taking a nap Jack got sick. This is what he looked like the rest of his birthday.

Joshua, 2 months

Although this post is late, I did manage to take his picture the day he turned 2 months old!

At two months you:

• weigh 13.4 lbs. (75-90%)
• are 24in. tall (75-90%)
• eat every two and a half to three hours during the day, and usually give me a 4-5 hour stretch at night, followed by a couple of 2-3 hour stretches (Yay!)
• take several slightly longer “naps,” usually lasting an hour or more
• roll often from your tummy to your back
• are generally happy, except for just after you’ve eaten when your reflux kicks in
• smile most at your daddy
• have giggled a few times
• still love mobiles, and are just starting to reach out to them
• like to lay on the floor and watch your brothers or the ceiling fan
• still look like Jack to me

Just a little 2 month comparison…

Jack, Charlie, Josh

Jack and Charlie’s Peanuts Party!

Last weekend we celebrated Jack and Charlie’s birthdays, Peanuts style!

Here is the invitation we sent out. Front:

and Back:

Earlier in the week I made the boys some shirts with freezer paper stencils and black fabric paint.

Charlie Brown for Jack

and Linus for Charlie. I decided to go with a little piece of light blue jersey knit in the pocket rather than trying to get him to carry around a blankie.

I bought Josh a Snoopy snowsuit on Ebay (for .99 woot!). Unfortunately, it was almost 80 degrees the day of the party. Oh well- maybe it will be cold at Halloween! So instead I made a hood out of some white jersey, and attached knit ears and a pom pom nose. I sewed the hood into a white onesie. Then I attached felt “paws” to the bottom of white booties and made him some pants out of the fabric I use for my dress…

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which I made using a pattern/tutorial from Running with Scissors.

I even painted my nails to match the occasion. Mike did the zigzags on the right hand.

With lots of ideas from Pinterest, I put together a table of snack foods and goodies. I made and printed little signs from a chevron pattern and a speech bubble.

Sally’s Snack Mix and Snoopy’s Puppy Chow in a (new! clean!) dogbowl

Cupcakes a la Peanuts

“A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” Popcorn in Peanuts comic snack cones

“Peppermint Patties” (hee hee)

The Great Pumpkin Cookies

The Doctor is In Dip, Lucy’s I Promise Chips and Pigpin’s Piggies (Lil Smokies)

Christmas Time is Here Cider

Spike’s Cactus Water and Lucy’s Lemonade (and Advice)

The décor was pretty simple… first the Charlie Brown stripe food table. The drinks were on my kitchen hutch, with red tablecloths draped to look like Lucy’s Lemonade/ Psychiatry Stand. Forgot to get a picture of that, though!

Treat bags were red paper bags that I glued a Snoopy house top onto for kids to decorate as an activity.

The decoration station

Outside we had a Project Linus table where kids could decorate squares to create a blanket.

In the backyard was also a “football kick” (basically a bunch of toddlers running around with a football)

and lots of swinging.

And now for some shots of the action!