October Photos ~ Grayson & Liam

October Photos ~ Grayson and Liam

Liam's class posts pictures of the kids on a special app for all of the parents to follow.  It's always fun to see what they are up to in the classroom.  Liam's best friend James is in his class and they love to play together.  Mommy and Daddy went to California for a long weekend.  Grayson and Liam had a blast with mommy's BFF Allison, her younger sister Natalie and their kids Gabe, Cora, Elin and Noa.  Once back in town Grayson had a play date with his good friend Ian.  We made cookies and the boys had fun decorating them with icing.  We also decorated pumpkins by painting them gray and adding plastic inserts for Star Wars and Batman.    

Halloween

This Halloween was unlike one I've ever seen - we had 3.5 inches of snow!  It was crazy.  We weren't even sure if we were going to go trick-or-treating, but the boys gave us no choice.  They picked out their own costumes (Grayson wanted to be creeper from Minecraft and Liam picked out a dinosaur costume that makes it look like he is riding the dinosaur).  The morning the boys were wearing their costumes to school they both decided they did not want to wear the costumes they picked out.  It was very frustrating because they told me this as we were walking out of the house.  Grayson ended up skipping the parade at his school because we were heading out of town for EIU's homecoming and he wanted to leave before the parade.  Liam ended up using Grayson's Captain America costume from last year for his school's indoor parade.  For actual Halloween the boys used their costumes from last year (Liam was Thor - which was too small and Grayson wore Captain American).  We took the kids out trick-or-treating, but they didn't last very long.  Liam only made it to about 10 houses and headed home to hand out candy - he had fun doing this.  Luckily JuJu came over and took Grayson for another 20 minutes because he was not ready to quit.  Overall the boys had a lot of fun and brought home plenty of candy.  This Halloween will definitely be one we remember.  

Mimi and Papa in Chicago

Mimi and Papa came to Chicago for a week to visit us.  We made our annual trip to Goebbert's Pumpkin Patch and had lots of fun.  The boys loved seeing the animals, jumping on the big pillow, riding the camel and donkeys and picking out snacks.  One night the adults went out to dinner and had a drink at a new bar in the neighborhood.  We went to dinner at Uncle Julio's for Mexican food to celebrate Mimi's birthday (and Ethan's 22nd birthday) and had fun hitting the chocolate piñata for dessert.  It was so nice to spend the week with Mimi and Papa.  We were sad to see them leave, but we know we will see them again soon.  The boys were not on their best behavior this week, but that's not uncommon with two high energy boys who are two years apart in age.  Some kids are calm, go with the flow and like to please others, but then there are kids that like to test boundaries, show annoying strength, have high energy and do not quit...those kids will turn into the CEOs...they show their strength and drive their parents crazy, but this will turn into a good thing as much as it seems as a bad thing now.  Hopefully they will be on their best behavior

next time.  hahahaha   

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