Here’s a quick peek at our Halloween costumes this year.
Bella was an Angry Bird vet.
She bandaged up the birds that were hurt fighting the pigs. LOL.
Andrew the Tiger.
John-Paul the Packers fan.
Brothers
Matthew the Lion.
Category Archives: andrew’s world
Halloween Roundup 2011
{pretty, happy, funny, real} – vol 15
~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~
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I was going through some old photos and found this one of Andrew kissing JP when he was a baby. I think it is so sweet! š
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Andrew continues as a good big brother. Here he is playing with Matthew and making him laugh.
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The other day I left Matthew on the floor in the family room to let him scoot and army crawl around. Since he just turned six months, he is slow but he has been practicing and has gotten much better over the past week. I found it funny when he crawled “for real” into the kitchen.
Although, Andrew worries about him crawling onto a hard surface so he drags him back to the middle of the room. Poor guy.
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The snack thief strikes again. Last week it was a bag of baked cheetos.
This time it was a bag of candy corn. I think I need to do a better job at hiding the treats.
{pretty, happy, funny, real} – vol 14
~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~
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Where does the time go?? From her first birthday to her tenth birthday! Happy birthday my precious, Bella! You’ll always be my baby. š
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I don’t know what makes Brian happier – that his Packer football is back or that he has a new Packer fan to cheer with him.
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Matthew could only take so much football cheering and then he conked out.
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It’s been a busy, busy week! Here are some things we’ve been working on. Besides getting ready for Bella’s Angry Bird birthday party (which I’ll post about next week) we also had two school fundraisers. Here is Brian working at the Mission Fiesta for Bella’s school. Andrew was having fun throwing the ring.
Here are two gift baskets I put together for the Fall Festival/Auction for Andrew’s school. I did a baby shower basket and a family movie night basket. I like the way they came out. It was fun to get creative.
Lastly, I’ve been baking for the Fall Festival bake sale. I made Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies. They are sooo yummy I hope they make it to the sale!
Okay, back to decorating. Have a great weekend!
{pretty, happy, funny, real} – vol 13
~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~
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I purchased this cross from FlorLarios and I love the way it looks in my kitchen. So pretty. And a nice reminder to turn my mind to the Our Lord and Our Lady as I’m busy in mommyhood.
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I loooove this shot. It’s a rare occurrence when I can snap a photo and have more than one person smiling and happy at the same time. Which makes me happy. Yay!
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Andrew may be my oldest boy but he has the smallest frame of the fellas…as seen with his body sitting in this rather small wagon. (JP can get his rear in but his legs, not so much.)
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Brian loves the novels by Michael O’Brien and he was excited to purchase his latest book A Father’s Tale. When I saw the cover I though, “Oh, how nice….”
But then I saw how thick it was and gasped. It’s over 1,000 pages! Dang, Brian can forget about reading in bed and holding that book up. If he accidentally drops it, it’ll give him a concussion.
Where’s the Screwdriver?
This morning the boys and I were in the car ready to run some errands but I didn’t get very far. The van was dead in the driveway. Andrew was upset that we couldn’t leave but he quickly became excited when I told him it seems like the battery was dead.
His latest love is changing the batteries of toys…and actually, anything electronic that uses batteries. He has his screwdriver kit ready and waiting. When I told him a man will come fix the battery his eyes lit up with the thought of what kind of huge screwdriver would open the van’s hood!
UPDATE: As it turned out, it was Andrew who drained the battery, so to speak. Yesterday I let him play with the steering wheel while I took the groceries out of the car. Usually he just plays with the wheel and turns on the blinkers but this time he turned on the “headlight lock” which disables the auto shut off on the lights and it kept them running all day and night.
At least now I know what to check for the next time he decides to “drive.” Oh, and I think he was a little disappointed that no screwdriver was needed to open the hood. š