October 31st

It doesn't feel much like Halloween. We go trick or treating the night before Halloween (beggar's night), so we did all of the fun stuff last night. Eli was a dragon and Noah was a tiger. Someday you might get to see pictures. We started with a Halloween party at Grandma Cathy's, and then we went trick or treating with Erica, Jake, and Chase. Eli LOVED going trick or treating! Noah just wanted to go in the houses. Tonight, Eli got a flu shot and ate Long John Silvers with Joel afterwards, followed by an hour or so of PS2. Noah went to bed at 6:50, and I went to a weight watchers meeting. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Junkie???

It's official. Eli has discovered the Play Station 2, and he would be happy playing it ALL DAY! Do we invest in some kid friendly games or hope he forgets about it???

Austin's baptism

Yeah pictures!!! Even if I did have to steal them from Craig and Jen. Siriously, Austin may be the cutest baby ever, and he's so good. I don't think he cried once all weekend.

Our children

are the best car riders ever! Even our ornery little Noah sat in his car seat for 13 hours this weekend without fussing! We had a great time with my family. We pulled into Craig and Jen's around midnight on Friday. We didn't see Eli all of Saturday as he and Katelynn sat in the fort in Katelynn's closet and read books. It was Austin's baptism yesterday (I'll steal a picture from Jen's blog when she posts some). All of the cousins played great the rest of the afternoon. The kids liked Auntie Jen's idea of running in the rain the best!!! I think she was kidding when she suggested it, but everyone had a blast running around the house and finding hail. On the way back tonight, we were treated with a home-cooked meal at our friends John and Kelly's. Thanks Kel! We walked in the door at 9:00 and unpacked a few things. Luckily, Joel has tomorrow off. He will be busy ALL day! His honey-do list is getting pretty long.

Move over McDonalds

So, Mr. Eli doesn't eat much (He says he doesn't like lunch, and he doesn't like supper). I can usually get him to eat breakfast, and he likes any type of snack food. When it comes to meals, he'll eat the two bites we force him to take, and that's it. On his "will eat" list are: chicken nuggets, fries, some fruits, and peanut butter and jelly. If he's in the right mood, he might take a few bites of some other kid friendly foods here and there. Ironically, he LOVES Long John Silvers (gross!!). He eats chicken, fish, clams, shrimp, hush puppies, and hardly touches the french fries. GO FIGURE!

Dear Joel,

Are you still on board with getting a new camera? He was all ready to go buy one, and I was the one who decided not to do it. However, now that I finally got my charger back, I've realized that the charger is not the problem. It's the camera that doesn't work. One would think that the Olympus people could've figured out that the charger was fine during the two weeks they had it.