Cold. Very cold. 
It comes when Mickey Mouse needs something to help him solve a problem. Mickey calls out, "Oh Toodles!" Then he chooses one of the "Mouskatools" to help him out. 
Ayden got this sticker off of an orange we ate with lunch the other day. I finished up doing the dishes and found that Colby had a new accessory
Two years ago I made a post by this same title. We blessed Ayden Thanksgiving weekend two years ago, and this time it was Colby's turn. It was a beautiful blessing! We had wonderful family and friends here. Especially at this time of year-isn't that what it is all about? I am extremely grateful for all of the wonderful people in my life. I am so blessed with the opportunity to be a mom. It is the most challenging and rewarding thing I have ever been a part of. (I think when they are a little older I will see the rewards more than the challenges ;) ) And I am blessed with a wonderful, patient husband who puts up with my ever-changing emotions on this roller coaster we call life! Thank you!
A couple of weeks before Thanksgiving we had a Ware Thanksgiving dinner. It was wonderful! 
Actual turkey day was spent with my family this year. We had a wonderful dinner at my parents followed by some playing outside with the kids, naps and football. The gals headed up to Park City for a little Black Friday action. We even talked my mom into coming up with us this year-I am not sure that she ever will again-but we had a lot of fun. All of these years of night shifts-staying up all night shopping-no sweat!
We pretty much spent the weekend eating, playing and passing around a stomache bug :)
Here is a line-up of the smooth criminals! All of the Carlisle cousins (other than Colby who was tucked away in his carrier) They look guilty to me!
I have totally forgotten to post these cute pics of our new little booger! Thank you to a darling photographer Abbey Kyhl who squoze us in last minute only 3 days after Colby was born. Although Colby wasn't very happy about being naked and not being held-she still got some darling pictures of this little guy! I wanted a bunch of pictures of Ayden and Colby together. We got a few good ones even though Ayden was pretty freaked out by Colby's umbilical cord. He kept on pointing to it and saying "poop!" and once Colby peed on him-Ayden was done! Check out Abbey's work here.
A few pictures of Ayden enjoying the snow storm a couple of weeks ago. He was loving it-until he fell down without gloves-then he was ready to come in!
Ayden likes to pull this red decorative chair off of one of the shelves in Colby's room and sit on it while he helps bathe him. Crazy weirdo!
Ayden has started doing a little pouty face that cracks me up rather than making me feel guilty or sad for him. He will stick out his bottom lip and walk away very slowly with his head down. He wanted Kipp to come downstairs with him yesterday morning and Kipp said no-so out came the lip and he walked away. Too bad it doesn't get him the results he wants-but it gives us a good laugh!
Man-reading this makes me sound like the worst mom ever-apparently all I do is laugh at my kids when they are upset! Oh well!
I thought it was pretty funny! It looks like he bent over and tore his diaper open. We may need to start him on a diet!
Ayden and Colby were both green monsters this year. Ayden's all time favorite thing to say is " Rrrraaarrr!" So I thought the costume appropriate. It was a lot of fun watching him this Halloween. On Halloween morning Kipp and I were trying to get him to catch on to the Trick-or-Treating thing. So Kipp went into the bathroom and closed the door-we had Ayden knock on the door and say "Trick or treat!" But the only part of the phrase he got was "Treat!" Kipp would then answer the door and give him some candy. Nothing like practicing trick-or-treating!
Ayden and some of his buddies that he went Trick-or-Treating with.
At each house, Ayden stepped right up close to the door so he nearly fell into every one's house when they opened the door. I was shocked that Ayden didn't seem phased when our neighbor answered his door like this:
The best part was that after he gave Ayden a treat in his pumpkin, my neighbor went to give a treat to the next child-but Ayden reached up and took it right out of his hand! I caught it on film. It was darn funny-we then had a talk about only taking one treat.
We carved pumpkins on Thursday night. When I say we-it was Kipp and I. Ayden had been excited about pumpkins that is until he saw the Monsters vs. Aliens special that was on last week. In the show the pumpkin comes to life right when a father and son start to carve it. Ayden was at the counter with Kipp when he went to make the first cut to make the face; Ayden started crying and jumped off the stool. It was funny-so we put Ayden to bed and Kipp and I finished carving the pumpkins.
In the first video you see him run back towards me-that is because he was already breaking into his treats-and would come back from his dancing occasionally to grab one. All that dancing takes a lot out of you!
We also went to a Halloween party with some of my friends. Kipp and I were kind of lame about costumes this year. We dressed as swine flu. We just wore jammies and robes, carried a box of Kleenex and thermometer and wore a pig snout. I don't have pictures to document it-but they weren't great anyways!
Last night we took Ayden outside for a little taste of the winter season. He loved watching the snow from the window during the day-but he was much more excited about being out in it. We tried to teach him how to open his mouth and catch a snowflake, so when he got back inside kept looking up and opening his mouth and then would laugh. Fun to see how excited they get!
