fall randoms

Spending lots of time outside in the sun! And tummy time is always better with a friend by your side!

 

growing

Happy eight weeks little guy!!

 

*yawn*

movember

As you may have noticed in previous pictures, Wayne has been growing a nice Grizzly Adams type beard. Apparently he was growing it for a good reason. 

  Movember. 

What is Movember you ask? 

During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of mustaches on thousands of men’s faces, in the US and around the world. With their Mo's, these men raise vital awareness and funds for men's health issues, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives.(source: http://us.movember.com/about/) 

So early morning on November 1st, the beard began to disappear... 

Into this awesome stash. 

Let's be honest. I am not a big fan of mustaches. They kind of creep me out, and there have been many times when Wayne and I are having a discussion and I brake out into a laugh or a big smile because I really can't take him seriously with that hairy thing on his lip. 

But, it's for an amazing cause and he convinced over 20 buddies from his office to join in and create a team. So that totally makes up for the creepiness factor. Here is the link to his team if you would like to donate: http://us.movember.com/mospace/4176865 

 

 You stay classy San Diego! 

 

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i'm a room mom

This year I am a room mom. People think I am crazy, with having a newborn baby and two other small children, but it kind of just accidentally happened.

Last year, no one offered to be room mom for Fisher's class and his amazing teacher and aids put all the parties and activities together themselves. They did an amazing job, but I felt so bad that they didn't have much help. I did come to all of his parties and offered as much of my service they would take, but this year I wrote down that I would love to help out again if needed, like be an assistant or something. Well, somehow that information got passed along and the next thing I know I am getting emails for room mom meetings and other things. Fisher's teacher offered to take over things again with having a newborn and all but this time I felt like I could do it.

I am not going to lie though, after the first room mom meeting and the list of the many things you must do, I felt pretty overwhelmed. Thank you pinterest and my amazing husband, I was able to come up with a few fun games, crafts and snacks for a very awesome party for my son and his classmates.

I made these awesome monster dice out of styrofoam cubes and googly eyes. I got the idea from here and the kids just loved playing the game. They were cute to watch! 

I also made this sensory scavanger hunt game for them. I died the rice orange and added black beans. Then I got different kinds of halloween trinkets and candy for them to dig and find. Huge success! 

  For the craft I found this cute idea from Better Homes and Garden to make Bat sock puppets. I took kids socks and glued the wings and ears on for them and then the kids got to put the eyes, mouth and fangs on themselves. 

They also got to make funny mouths out of apple slices, peanut butter and marshmallows and then eat them afterwards. 

We also decorated cupcakes and sang songs. It was so much fun and I really enjoyed putting it all together. I even had a couple moms volunteer to help me with the winter party. So... Yay!! 

  I can't express how much I love this kid! He is such a fun little boy and it was so awesome to see him with his friends and get excited over games! A fun time for us all for sure!!

 

halloween adventure

This year was such a blast for Halloween. I loved how the three big kids got so into it and were so excited about their costumes and trick-or-treating. It was a lot of fun and I can't wait for next year!

After all of the school parties and activities we headed over to Wayne's work to do some practice trick-or-treating. Sabrina was hilarious! She would say "trick-or-treat BOO!" to everyone and then proceed to tell them she was "super girl"! She was pretty proud of her costume and I loved all of my superheroes.
Chase wanted to be Ironman and Fisher really wanted to be Captain America, but when we were getting costumes we couldn't find it in his size so he decided he rather be Spiderman than have to wait to get a costume.

  Oliver was baby Spiderman and just as cute as could be! Both the boys loved that he had a Spiderman Costume and told everyone they could too. 

We all had so much fun going around our new neighborhood trick-or-treating. They really get into it hear and the houses were decorated so cool! There was even a fun haunted maze in someone's backyard. Chase wasn't a huge fan of it, but was a trooper the whole time. 

I think Fisher loved the trick-or-treaters more than trick-or-treating himself. He waited by the door, constantly staring out the tiny window waiting for visitors. He would even make them ring the doorbell before he opened the door. 

And once we ran out of candy(I was quite surprised) he was willing to give him his own in hopes that new trick-or-treaters would arrive. It was so sweet! We definitely had a wonderful Halloween. I love this time of year and it is so exciting to see our children loving it more too! Looking forward to the rest of fall before winter arrives!