Happy Halloween

We decided to go to Trunk or Treat this year at the Church of Christ here in town. I wanted to the boys to get some mileage out of this year's costumes...I am not sure what I was thinking. We had fun and they got more candy than they or their momma needs to eat! We met Brandy, Tyrel, and Graydon there. It was fun! Here are a few shots of our little men...

Cole, the friendly and very tired ghost!

Caden the fireman and Carter the elephant! Thanks to Tate for the fireman costume and Grammie for making such a cool elephant! Also thanks to Grandma Verla for the cool pumpkin flashlights, they came in handy that night!

Carter and Graydon: Best Buddies

This will have to do for now. We will be going to our church and KidFest tonight. I will post more pics of tonight after KidFest is over!

Halloween Flashback

I have seen a few others post Halloween Flashback pics, so I thought I would join in!

My Little Race Car Driver 2005 (14 months old)

In 2006 we began our obsession with Thomas, so Caden (2 yrs old) was a Train Engineer.
Here he is with Daddy practicing, "ALL ABOARD!"

Now last year, 2007, we got to dress two little boys! Caden was obsessed with Diego, so we of course did what he wanted. Carter just had to be what we had, which was a lion. But we decided he was sort of Baby Jaguar to go with Diego. Caden was 3 yrs and Carter was 10 months.

Stay tuned for this year's costumes...they are pretty cool!

UPDATE!

Cole's checkup went great! He was 14lbs. 9 oz. and 24 inches long! He was healthy and will go back in 2 months. For those of you thinking he is huge, his brothers were both 14lbs. 12 oz. and 24 1/2inches long at 2 months. So not that big right :)

Pray Today for MckMama

While you are guessing Cole's weight today (SEE BELOW) also take a minute to pray for this family. MckMama is a cute little lady I have been following and here is the short version of her story. When I found her blog she was only around 20 weeks pregnant or so and her baby was having some sort of heart problems, his little heart was beating over 300 beats per minute. Anyway, the doctors told MckMama and her husband that Baby Stellan was not going to make it to delivery or ever live outside the womb. Well God and all of us prayer warriors thought differently. She made it to delivery today and he is to be born in a matter of minutes. Also his heart condition is cleared up for the most part. You can find their entire story to the right on my blog or by clicking the link above. She is great blogger, funny and has cute anonymous nicknames for her family! She is also another testament of faith in God! He is bigger than all our circumstances and it has been awesome watching Him work in the lives of this family! Just check it out!

***UPDATE***

Baby Stellan is here! Check out this post and read what God has done! He is definitely still in the miracle business!

Cole's 2 Month Check Up

I want you all to try and guess his weight again...but this time I will make it more fun and buy the winner a coke and a treat!

Brotherly Love

I snapped these pictures one day last week. We are always wanting pics of the three boys, so I got a few when they were actually cooperating! Carter just loves holding Cole, he thinks that Cole is his baby, and gets a little irritated if you try to take him back! Caden is a great big brother and always takes time to make sure Cole is okay!

Caden and Graydon

Tyrel and Cory were out of town Thursday night and Friday night, so Brandy and Graydon decided to hang out with us here! Graydon and Carter fight like brothers since they are only 6 weeks apart, but Caden really likes to love on Graydon and take care of him. Why he doesnt' do that with his own brother, who knows. I snapped these pics of them watching a cartoon, I thought it was too sweet.

Caden's Imagination

Caden is getting pretty creative with the things he does around here. Last week was no exception! But this time instead of just subjecting poor Carter to his antics, Graydon was here and got to join in as well.

Now I am not sure quite how fast the ride went, but as you heard they were in a seat belt! SO you know they safe! I also know that they might have been a little dizzy afterwards, but not too bad!

You should also know they used that purple bungee cord not only for a seat belt that day, but a dog leash, a lasso, and a jump rope.

Wii is taking over

Cory got a Wii for his birthday and the game Rock Band, which all the boys love to play. Also, we found an old CD from the mid 90's that has several rock songs with lots of electric guitar solos. Caden is addicted to them. He can work his CD player now and knows what number certain songs are and can even put them on repeat. So here is a quick video of him playing his music! Also Carter gets in on the action of playing, but he is mostly singing...he takes after his momma!

More Fall Break Pics

Here are just a few more pics of what we were up to while out of town this past weekend...

The boys went to visit a friend of my dad's who was selling some of his dad's things in a garage sale. They each came home with a really old hammer and had to put it to use instantly.

I am not quite sure what my dad was thinking here, but the boys loved it! It has got to be some redneck version of something...any ideas?
This is for all of you who don't think Caden looks like me, are you nuts?!?!

Taking the next three pics proved interesting. We tried to let Caden hold Cole, which worked okay until Carter decided he really wanted to hold Cole! Carter had a death grip on the boy and would not let go. He kept saying "my ba ba", "my woahl" It was too funny!

Gigi and Pops and their boys
The three boys, as best we could do.
Momma and her three boys!

Head Trauma and Close Ups

Once again, Carter fell while we were at my Mom and Dad's house. They have tile all in the halls and kitchen/dining room, so of course that is where he fell.

No matter how he falls, he never seems to catch himself with anything but his forehead. Another bruise popped up and I took a pic to document it!

Since I had taken a picture of Carter, Caden asked, well let's be honest, demanded I take one of him...

And since I had taken pictures of the other two, I couldn't leave out Cole, or Chub-O
Not the best of pics, but soon I will get a good one of the three of them!

Projects

While at my Mom and Dad's, Pops had a project for the boys. As I mentioned in my previous post, Pops took the boys on all kinds of errands Thursday morning. One of those errands was to pick up a load of gravel for a project in the backyard. Pops had the two boys slaving away shoveling that gravel from the trailer to the wheelbarrow...now why can't I motivate them to work for me like that when it is time to pick up toys?!?!

Pops had them lined out...they were working hard!

Carter clearly knows how to properly use a shovel...why I don't know! They had to fill up the wheelbarrow...
then they decided to fill up their dump truck, not sure how much of the gravel made it from their shovels to the dump truck!

They had a great time working, as they always do with their Pops!

Fall Break

We are visiting my Mom and Dad, a.k.a. Gigi and Pops, and of course there are tons of pictures. We have yet to be here 24 hours, but I have some pics to share!

Grammy Flo loving on Baby Cole!Gigi's new bath tub is so big, you can't see Carter

Pops had to wrestle Cole away from Gigi, but he got to love on him for a bit!
The boys took a nap on the way down here so they were pretty geared up. They chugged and chugged before bed! If you look close, they were coupled up, as Caden says, using an elastic dinosaur...where they come up with this stuff who knows.
Gigi got the boys new cots so they can sleep in her room. They loved them!

These are just a few shots from our first day. This morning when we all got up, Pops had a plan for the older two boys. They worked all morning. They left around 8:30am and were busy until lunch. I took a bunch of pics of what they were doing, but they are on my camera and I can't upload them here. So you will have to wait...I know it will just kill you all :) Enjoy these until we get back home!

Today is...

Today is the National Day of Remembrance for pregnancy and infant loss, this includes all babies who have died due to miscarriage, stillbirth, SIDS, or any other infant death.

This might not mean much to some of you, but as God has burdened my heart to pray for people who have suffered such a loss and as a friend to several who have miscarried, this day is a day for me to stop and pray for my friends and the millions of other women and families who have suffered loss.

Please join my in praying for those affected by this kind of loss. Also you could visit some of the families' blogs linked on the side of mine, and let them know you prayed for them.

Psalm 139: 13-17: You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous - how well we know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!

Family of 5

Finally a picture of the 5 of us...it isn't the best but it will have to do for now! It was of course windy up here in NW Oklahoma and trying to get both boys to smile at the same time, look at the camera and make sure Cole was sitting up enough was absolutely crazy! So here are three of the best ones!

Write Your Own Caption...

I took this picture of the younger two boys the other night before bed...

Write your own caption for this shot!

Catalogs Anyone

Some of you may already know that Caden loves to browse through catalogs. It started long ago with the first arrival of a Thomas the Train catalog.He must have looked at that thing for hours. That picture was taken in October 2006, so he was just a little over two years old. He would circle what he wanted and talk with us about each item.

Well the passion for catalogs has increased well past Thomas. We now enjoy almost any toy catalog that comes in the mail these days. As of this month, I have 4 in the drawer of my desk that are circled up for Christmas. Caden has something on just about each page circled for his Christmas list.

The funny part now is that he has enlisted Carter's help. They look at them together at the table while they are waiting for me to finish dinner. Caden discusses with Carter certain items that would be okay for him (Carter) to have. They even have picked out things for Cole...how sweet!

Last night the boys looked at catalogs for about 20 minutes before bed...

here is our version of Monkey See...Monkey Do!

Thank You Grammie for our Frog Pants!

The boys love their new pants...thanks Grammie! They are just a bit big in the crotch area and we can pull them up really high as Carter is demonstrating. We tried to pull them down for him, but he kept hiking them up, so I guess they are okay for him!

Cole was wondering though why he didn't get any!

Rainy Days and Mondays

Well it was raining earlier this week and it was a Monday, so here you go! It was sprinkling still when Caden came home from school and he so desperately wanted to play out front with his umbrella. Carter thought we needed a little more water so he got the water gun out! They were oblivious when it started raining harder and furious when I made them come in. But they were cute in the pictures!

Smile for the Camera

Here is Cole's attempt at a smile with a yawn included!

Chubby baby...he is getting his second and third chins!