Monster turned one. My baby is a year old. Where did that year go? Seriously? It seems like we just brought him back from the hospital and now he is walking and climbing up things and generally being crazy.
His birthday party was a blast. There was a pinata and a doughnut game. We hung doughnuts from the ceiling fan and the kids had to eat them without using their hands. Oh my! That was amusing to watch.
Monster is sleeping though the night 90% of the time-woohoo! He is also still nursing like a champ. His new thing is to reach down my shirt and grunt when he wants a boob. It's interesting when he does that in public. Haha.
We are going on to our fifth week of homeschooling kindergarten edition and Bean is doing so well! It's amazing how quickly he picks things up. I love doing the homeschooling thing. I love being able to be the one to teach him all these things and to watch him absorb the information. I feel so lucky to be able to have the opportunity to do this.
Husband and I are counting down the days until VACATION! We cannot wait to get away. We are going to Long Beach with the kids, then ditching the kids with my parents, and flying to Vegas. While in Long Beach we are taking the kids to DisneyLand. Bean is excited to go and I think he will have a good time BUT he is terrified of people in costume (for example, Chuck E Cheese. He RUNS the opposite direction and hides when he sees Chuck E Cheese coming his way). Monster will probably just try scaling to the top of the Disney castle.
Yesterday, we went to the pumpkin patch with Nana. It was the perfect day to go. It had poured all morning but cleared in the afternoon. The morning rain seemed to scare most people off so it was not busy at all. We did the corn maize and Bean walked the whole thing. Monster wanted to walk but kept getting distracted by puddles and mud. We got one BIG pumpkin and the boys each picked out a "their size" pumpkin. I think we will carve them next weekend. We also picked up two sweet meat squashes. EEEEEEEE!! I LOVE sweet meats! I am going to make pies, cookies, pasta, bread, so many wonderful things.
One more wonderful thing has happened since I last wrote. Ms. Allie has had her baby. Hayden James was born October 8th around 1:30pm. He was 8 lbs and 2 oz and 20 inches long. He is so beautiful. Some babies are not so cute when they come out (both our boys looked like weird old men), Hayden looks like a gerber baby-so damn cute! He has some fluid in his lungs and is breathing to fast so he is in the NICU but will hopefully be leaving in the next few days. I cannot wait to be able to hold him and give him a zillion kisses.
