Happy Trick 'er Treat

Monday night this week we had a neighborhood party and carved our pumpkins for this halloween season. I tried really hard to get PJ into the idea of digging out the pumpkin guts, but he was too interested in our neighbors toys. I decided we'd wait and try gutting it at our own home the next night. Well... my kid doesn't really like that yucky stuff( I mean heck, he wouldn't even dig into his b-day cake) So I cleaned it out and then let him pretend he was scooping stuff out with the scooper. He enjoyed that for a few minutes and that was all he would do.

These are our master Creations -1 b/c it didn't really turn out.

This year we decided we wanted to start a tradition of our own for Halloween. I had remembered from my childhood having apple dumplings around this time of year and got the recipe to make them. (I think our new tradition is going to be Apple Dumplings for Halloween) Patrick and I worked on those this afternoon and then had some friends over to enjoy! We had lots of fun and after we had eaten, I took PJ out for his first trick-or-treat go around!

This is him all ready to go out and impress in his basketball player outfit!

He's a stud...I KNOW!!!

When we first went out he wasn't completely sure what to do and what was going on with all these kids running around looking Strangely funny! So I took him to our neighbor first and showed him how it was done. After that...NO PROBLEMS! He was ready to go and KNOCK on the doors and then eager to pick out his very own treat to put in his bag! Which he really did do... we would go up to a door and I'd cheer him on to pick a certain candy, but then he'd pick the pretzel bag...LAME! Seriously...that happened. He chose pretzels over candy and a popcorn bag!
I was also getting worried that his bag would get a little too heavy for him to carry and that I would end up carrying it for him near the end, but NOPE! He wanted to carry his basketball bag around and he knew he wasn't giving me the bag full of candy! He's a smart little cookie I tell ya!

When we came home, he trick or treated at our house very last and showed Dad, who stayed home to hand out candy, how he learned how to trick-or-treat! Once he was in the house...he was READY to eat the candy, which he had about 5 bags of skittles, M&Ms and so on...
It was tons of fun seeing him learn the new concept of Halloween!

Hope everyone else had a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Unique Pumpkins

Mom & Dad Munson brought a craft up this past weekend for me! I was so excited to get working on them! I had so many different ideas of different things I could do with them and then decided on a few. Patrick and I went to the store and got a few extra needed materials for the project and got to work. They are all very unique in their own way but I LOVE them!

This is Patrick's Beauty! The traditional style!

This one is actually a bronze metallic kinda color, I wanted to throw glitter on it, but didn't want to pay for glitter. So This is what ended up at the finish!Once I started I was afraid that I wasn't going to like it, but I actually really like it!

This one I REALLY like! It turned out just as I envisioned it!

We had so much fun doing the project and just being together. We don't get as many times like these, so when we get them we really enjoy it! We were saying how excited we were now, because Patrick got a band saw for Christmas(EARLY) and we can do these kind of projects anyway and whenever we want! YAY!!!

Walking with the Pumpkins

Look at this TALENT!! People Amaze me with their abilities, not to mention their choices in picking my two favorite things...Pizza Hut and Captin Crunch! WOW!!

We went to the Pumpkin Walk for the first time since living here. Boy have we been missing out! It was so neat to see all the different scenes. They were all soo clever! We took a lot of pictures so I hope you can enjoy them! Some of our favorites were the Band-Aid, Yoda and the serta sheep labeled 1/16!
Our little buddy enjoyed it very much! He even got down and danced at the MJ pepsi commercial scene! It sure was cute!He loved the Clifford board so of course we took a picture of him with Clifford. Patrick wanted to be a princess and of course the cooky Genie!

To Do List

This is called the "To-Do-List" by Hillary Weeks. I've been thinking a lot lately about whether I'm really a good mom or not. You know, if I give him enough attention and play with him enough yet still give him his space and alone play time. Am I teaching him and disciplining him in a kind loving way, or am I being impatient and giving up. ETC...
So anyways, when I came across this I realized that I'm not any different from other moms out there! Plus I love this months Visiting Teaching message about raising and nurturing our children. I've always had this feeling that as long as you are trying and doing your best and letting them know that you love and care for them, then ALL IS WELL! If you haven't heard this click HERE to view it. The piano music is perfect for the lyrics! She's amazing!

To All of those who are Pregnant or have been...

I found this and fell in love with it, prolly because I feel the EXACT same way! Take a look Here to read.

Christmas in October

We had Christmas in October! We were planning on getting this adjustable basketball hoop for PJ for Christmas this year, but when some friends of ours knocked on our door with this big box of fun and joy...we couldn't just hide it and save it for Christmas! We had to get it out and set it up for PJ to play with.

This is Patrick setting it up, like we would have been doing Christmas Eve!

This is PJ waiting PATIENTLY for it to be set up to play with!

YAY!!! Time to PLAY! It's the perfectest thing for him and he will play with it for hours on end! We couldn't be more grateful to our friends who were thinking of us!

Store Hicks

Last weekend we were going to take the family out to Boo at the Zoo. We got there and decided that it was a little too pricey for us especially for Porters stage in life. He wouldn't have really been able to enjoy the experience and remember it. So instead we took him to the store and let him play with the toys in the aisles! Why buy them when you can play with them in the store? haha We were there for a full half hour just hanging out in the toy aisles.

This is one of his favorite toys in Nursery, well besides the...
ELMO

He loves ELMO! We played with the Elmo in the store for about 15 minutes. But of course he was too afraid to touch the Elmo, but would sit on the floor and watch elmo as if he was a movie!

Pretend Phone

I've been meaning to put this on the blog recently and have finally done so.
Anyway, this is one of Porter's favorite things to do is pretend talk on the phone! He will sit there and say "Ooh" and talk in his own language, and I think one day I even heard him laughing! It was too cute! It makes me wonder how I am on the phone, because I know that I'm the only one he gets these things from. ENJOY!

Grown up Toddler, Not a Baby Anymore

I've been trying to be a better parent and not let the TV babysit my kid. So one day I decided Porter, lets color! We colored and then I thought what could we do tomorrow? hmm.... that's a wonder, I'm not creative enough. Then while I was on my walk I decided OH we could make play dough! My mom has a peanut butter play dough recipe and I thought PERFECT! Then if he eats it it won't kill him! Well after much thought I decided that by making the play dough it won't harm him much and I'd rather he taste the nasty stuff and learn NOT to eat it than to think YUM and eat it, because many of you know that Porter will eat anything that tastes yummy that is in front of him!
So I made this the other day and thank goodness, because he would NOT take a nap, so I pulled the play dough out. Of course he took a few bites, but learned soon that it's not food. He LOVED it so much he sat there and played for 1 whole hour! It was wonderful! I think I like play dough as much as he does now!