Halloween

Getting ready for our community parade. Jelly is a cowboy and Odin is Bumblebee the Transformer.

Very windy day at the annual Halloween Festival. The theme was Old McDonald.

The hay ride.

Visit with Grandma

At Chucky Cheeses

At the Zoo with Grandma
I know this is a little late, but oh well. The boys got a whole week of Halloween first our apartment community had a parade, then the local park had a festival, then we went down to visit their grandma for the weekend. Unfortunately the night before Halloween the boys came down with the flue and we missed out on the trick'or'treating this year, but they had a fun week anyway.

Jellys Second Birthday

Jellys Birthday was on the 12th of September. We had the boys combo birthday party on his birthday. It was simple, but they enjoyed it. Thank you all who came. Here are pics of the day. Jaydee showed up at the end as he was working that day, but it was nice that he got to spend some time at the party. The pics are in reverse order.

Odins 3rd Birthday

Odin September 2010

Odin September 2009

Odin September 2008

Odin September 2007(1 day old)

Yesterday was Odin's third birthday. It's hard to believe that he has been my baby for three years now, it seems much shorter then that. He's getting to be such a big boy, he has already started doing workbooks and reading.

We didn't do anything big for him as his party will be next week on Jelly's birthday. We went to McDonald's (his favorite place) for lunch and his cousins (Shanie and Emily) came over in the afternoon to visit. We had ice cream, sang happy birthday, and Daddy gave Odin and Jelly his presents, their first Steelers jerseys.

I would also like to say Happy belated Birthday to Stephanie(September 3rd). I couldn't have wished for a better sister-in-law. My life has been blessed knowing you, love you girl.

jalapenos and firealarms

I invited my sisters over for a BBQ yesterday and we decided to make stuffed jalapenos. I have made them before, so it didn't occur to me to wear gloves. Big mistake. I guess there is a difference between making 5 stuffed jalapenos and 20, because by the time I was done my hands were on fire. I couldn't think about anything else but the pain. I tried to join with the BBQ but I just couldn't. So I tried all kinds of home remedies to take away the burning soap, rubbing alcohol, milk, orange juice, baking soda paste nothings really worked. Finally after the third time trying the baking soda paste and letting in dry on my hand before I washed it off it finally seemed to be working slowly the pain went away and i was able to tidy the house before I went to bed. Thank God, what a relief.

Today our apartment complex is checking the fire alarms. Of course they had perfect timing. As soon as they boys were asleep, Jelly and literal just closed his eyes and dosed off, they set all the alarms in the house off, and so now the boys are up for good, and I am wishing there was a way for ME to get a nap.

Hair Cut

I finaly cut my hair. I'm so happy!

Odin

Odin has gotten two new hobbies in this last month. Computer games and photography. He only plays educational games online for now(starfall.com, pbskids.org, and fisherprice). I don't mind him playing for longer periods of time as I know he is learning something.

Occasionally I will let him use my camera to take pictures, he is getting better at taking pictures but it will still be a long time before they are good enough to use, but I'll post some anyway just for fun.

He still hasn't learned to keep his finger out of the view.

Daddy

The world from Odins point of view.

Jelly making a mess while I try to clean.
Me cleaning the floor.

Oatmeal, Walks, and Poison Ivy.

The other morning the boys got up before me like usual, and since Jaydee wasn't home to make me get up I tried to get some more sleep. The door was open and I could hear them playing, they seemed happy so I slept for another 1/2 hour. Around 8:00 a.m. Jaydee got home from work. I heard him come in the door, then he says to me very calmly, "Uh, i guess the boys are throwing oatmeal all over the room!" I jumped out of bed to look and sure enough they had emptied a whole thing of oatmeal all over their bedroom. At least Jaydee isn't the type to say told you so, he didn't say anything, just took the boys to the bathroom for a little one-on-one time.



The weather wasn't too hot yesterday so I decided to try and walk to the dog park with the boys and Rhino. We almost made it there but it was too far for the boys and so we had to stop short of our goal. We had our picnic lunch in a shaded, grassy spot. I contemplated calling Jaydee to pick us up and bring us home, but we managed to walk all the way back to our apartment. Odin and Rhino would run to the shaded spots along the path and wait together for Jelly to catch up. All three of the boys were happy to be home out of the sun.

Later on some guests mentioned that Rhino had some odd bumps all over him and asked what they were. I was busy so I quickly glanced at them and said it looked like a heat rash, as He had gotten one before. After the kids were in bed I took a closer look and realised it was much worse then I realised. The spots were raised like welts, red, and very itchy. I figured it was Poison ivy as he had rubbed into the bushes a few times on our walk. I felt bad for Rhino, But he looks better today and I'm sure it will heal quickly.