Four Keiki

The 4 Nobs

Trunk-or-Treat at the church the Saturday before

Party People!  We had our 2nd annual soup, trick-or-treating & dance party Halloween night

1st Halloween!  His spider basket is 1/2 his size :)

Tyce and his "wehbuzz"

Elder Nobmann & Cheerleader Bella

Cruz's & his best buddy from school, Michael.  Surprise!  They were both Ninjas

The day before the boys left for Seattle I got a call from the office saying that I needed to pick Cruz up because he had an earache.  I was bummed because #1 I had just finished up an appointment at Kaiser and thought I was going to have to turn around and go right back to get antibiotics for an ear infection & #2 Worried because Cruz was supposed to fly to Seattle & I can't think of anything worse than having an ear infection when flying.
Well, good news.  It turns out that Cruz stuck a lego money piece, about the size of a pencil eraser in diameter, in his ear at school (that he had brought from home).  His reasoning was so he wouldn't "distract the other kids from paying attention to the teacher" as he told me.  I got it out in about 2 seconds with some mini tweezers.  Whew!
The next day Cruz was surprised to have Daddy come home early.  He didn't know what was happening, but was pretty excited to have Daddy all to himself.  They took off & the rest is history except for these pictures I have to show for it.




I assume Cruz had a grand time and a very little amount of sleep.  He cried when he got home & when I asked him what was wrong, he said he didn't want to come home. :)

It was raining today.  Not drizzling (the pictures make it look almost dry--don't be deceived!) but REALLY raining!  A few days earlier I had told Beau I was a little bummed that it was going to start raining a bunch.  I didn't want to have to start driving the kids to school.  I love our little morning jog/bike ride.  It gets all of our blood pumping and its nice to get some fresh air.  He looked at me and said, "A little rain never hurt!  Who said you can't ride in the rain??"  Spoken from a true Seattle born rain man to a sunny Arizonian raised lady.  So I decided when it started raining, that it wasn't going to stop us!

to illustrate my point :)

my time & life in general.  To do what is most important & not get overwhelmed (at least not on a daily basis).  It's hard.  Really hard, but I want to do it--with a smile.  So I'm trying.  I've always liked this quote by Mae West: "I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it".  Definitely not easy...but when was anything easy in life very gratifying?  I think I can.  I think I can.  I think I can.

Every night before I go to bed, I feed Kai.  He is sooo tired when he's done that he always snuggles right up on my shoulder to go to sleep.  Before I put him in bed I always glance at him in the mirror & soak up the moment.  I never want to forget how sweet he looks so I've made Beau (& myself!) take pictures...I guess on multiple occasions!

We all try to steal a moment with this sweet baby when we can.  He's just a little bit loved.  A lotta bit.

Randomly Oshyn decides to wake up & make everyone pancakes. Today was one of those days.

Tyce has a December birthday, so he's right on the edge of the school cut-off.  This means he got to start preschool right after the October break instead of in July when the other little people started.  Patiently he waited for the time to come.  He could hardly wait.  We picked out Trashy Town to give to Grace & headed over to the school he has been looking at longingly for years, hoping it was finally his turn to call it, "Tyce's school".

Gotta love some brotherly help (& a stool)