Wakeboarding

Luke loves to say he is "wakeboarding" when he trips and falls or slides on the wood floor and falls. He will stand back up and say, "I was wakeboarding mommy!" I'm not really sure if he's old enough to be trying to cover up that he was actually falling and so he says he was wakeboarding instead, or if he has decided that when you wakeboard you fall so if he is falling/sliding he must be wakeboarding!

One time Luke did this and we were talking about wakeboarding and all the sudden Halle started spinning. It took us a second to realize what she was doing but whenever we said "wakeboarding" she would start spinning again.

Little Indians

Last week we made Indian hats one night. Cory was the cheif. The kids were the little Indians. Luke loved his and wouldn't take it off. He wore it everywhere we went for the next two days. He's really into jumping for the camera lately. :) Halle, on the other hand, wasn't too excited with keeping hers on. At least we got a couple pictures before she ripped it in half.

Goodbye Halle's cast!

Halle is officially done with her cast!

Halloween

Halloween was a lot of fun this year! Luke was a skeleton and Halle was a ladybug. Luke got really into the whole thing this year and it made it really fun. He was obsessed with skeletons and being a skeleton and had to be wearing his skeleton jammies or skeleton costume at all times for about week before Halloween and past it a couple days.

We had a surprise visit from Cory's family...they came up for the weekend when we didn't know they were coming and it was really fun to have them around for all the fun. Luke had fun trick-or-treating. It was really cold outside so he only made it to probably five or six houses and then he said he was done. But he loved it and he loved answering the door to all the trick-or-treaters. He had an entourage of about 10 people going trick or treating with him - Daddy, Grandma Dixie, Grandpa Dave, Grandma Lori, Grandpa Sheldon, Aunt Jamie, Uncle Kyle, Uncle Jason, Aunt Jamie (Booie), while I stayed home and passed out candy.

The first picture is carving pumpkins the night before Halloween and the others are on Halloween night.

Grandma Lori says...

Halloween has been fun with the kids. Luke absolutely loves his skeleton pajamas (which Grandma Dixie found) and his skeleton costume which I was able to find. Luke wanted to be a skeleton and no one could locate a costume his size. But then on the same day both me and Dixie found something that would work. He likes to wear the pajamas under the costume. Lindsay is going to have to sneak that costume away or he will keep wanting to wear it to the store. The pajamas will have to do now. Thank goodness Dixie bought them.

The first day we tried on Luke’s costume we went on a walk around the neighborhood because he wanted to show off. I took Halle with us and oh dear, it was hard keeping her safe! When we got to Lindsay’s house again Halle and I were a little ways back and Luke turns around and says, “Come on Team!” I bet he got that one from his Dad. Luke has a habit of repeating everything lately. Gotta watch what you say because he will repeat it.

Halle's broken arm

Last Saturday Halle and Luke were playing on the slide in our basement (it's one of those Little Tykes slides) and she fell and went down hard on her right wrist. She was crying a lot more than usual so I thought something might be really wrong but she got better as the night went on so we thought it was okay. But we noticed she seemed to be using her right arm/hand less and was kind of just letting it hang loose to her side. Then, the next morning she tripped and fell on it and she was hysterical so we took her into the ER and got xrays and were shocked when they said she had broken her arm in two places! Both bones in the arm were fractured above the wrist. We felt so bad.

The cast doesn't slow her down and she still tries to keep up with Luke as much as ever. She has also found some "creative" ways of making use of her cast and I've caught her using it as a weapon against Luke at times!

Luke has been a good boy and we've tried to explain to him that she has a big owie. He tells everyone that Halle has a big owie and broke her arm.

"Alligators scared me out of bed!"

The last time we were at Cory's parent's house to stay, Luke was having a hard time sleeping. One night he came out of the room upset and said to me, "The alligator scared me out of bed!" I had a hard time figuring out what he meant by this, why an alligator? He kept saying this every night were were there so I finally asked him to take me into the room and show me what he was talking about thinking it would be a shadow or something. In the room he pointed to a throw blanket Cory's mom had hanging on a quilt rod in the room - it is a blanket with a knitted picture of Noah's ark and in front of the ark are many animals, including an alligator. I was SO surprised that he would pick up on this. Like I said, it is a knitted blanket so it's not like that animals are very vivid and I was just surprised he would single out the alligator or even notice it. He knows what an alligator is from the picture books we have and must have realized alligators are kind of scary because of the "Monkey's swinging in a tree" song where the alligators "snap that monkey right out of that tree!"

Well, the alligator scare hasn't stopped. Luke will run into our room at night and say, "The alligators scared me out of bed, mommy!" And then he will end up in our bed, and end up horizontal with his head on my stomach and his feet in Cory's face! :) Let's hope we can get these alligators to stop scaring our Lukie guy out of bed!