How do we compare to the real thing???

It was so fun to go see Luke at his preschool Halloween party. Warren was home for 2 hours, between flights and road trips, and just happened to be home at just the right time. I was really glad he could go with us and surprise Luke. Jake loved being a the school. He cries everytime we drop Luke off.
The party started with a costume parade, followed by a craft, games, a great singing performance by the kids and then a story and doughnut treat to finish it off. I LOVED seeing Luke interact with his teachers and friends. He is so enthusiastic. It was so funny to see! He was great during the singing part- he actually sang!! His favorite part was when they yelled, "BOO!" really loud at the end of their song to scare the parents. :) He's growing up so fast. He is so much fun right now.

Luke and all his best buds. He had to be a fireman at the last minute because he knew that was what Trey was going to be. He and Trey are like 2 peas in a pod.
Freeze Dancing

All the 4th grade classes got together at our school to do a big performance. Cass has been looking forward to this for weeks. She was so cute doing her little singing and dancing.

Jakey is not a costume fan. I had to bust out the candy just to get him to TRY ON the rabbit suit. He now thinks the second he puts on his suit he gets a fresh supply of pez candy to chow on. More halloween costume pics to come...

The boys wanted a box fort- unfortunately the majority of the boxes have already been broken down the garage. With a few of the remaining empty ones, we came up with this fort. They had a blast and were so excited to show the big kids when they got home from school.

Every room is partially unpacked, except for the game/playroom. HOORAY! Something is completely done! This room has already seen a lot of action. And not just because of all the basketball, air hockey, toy playing that has been going on. A couple nights after we were in the house, and after a really greasy lunch of Sonic (My mom and dad came with me and the boys to eat lunch with Cade and Cass at school), Jake was having a really hard time at bedtime. He kept coming out, wanting to be with me. I thought it was being in the new house or just your average toddler sleep issues. Well come 1am when I heard screaming and crying coming from upstairs, I knew something was up. Sure enough, Jake was covered in vomit, and so was the floor, from the foot of his mattress (thankfully not on his mattress or his brothers sleeping in the bed!) all the way through the game room to the top of the stairs. I don't know how one little body can be so full of strawberry fruit slush, but it was bright red the entire way. I know it's unreasonable to ask a 2 year old to run to the bathroom when they're sick, but do they have to walk around while they are throwing up? Now, this was bad, but what was worse was I couldn't find the carpet cleaner anywhere. Half of the cleaning supplies had been over at the old house. I couldn't think very clearly at that time in the night and had no idea where to start. So what to do? Spray it with shout, cover it with blankets and tackle it in the morning.
What a blessing the next day when I realized I still had the steam carpet cleaner I'd borrowed from a friend to clean the old house. So, while I'm steaming the carpets upstairs, I hear Luke shouting from below, "Mom!! Mom!!! Jake and Yoda are eating brown sugar!!" With the kitchen in disarray I had no idea how he could have found that so fast, but I ran downstairs to find him covered head to toe, as well as the floor and the previously white dog- not in brown sugar- but a Costco sized vat of cinnamon. What a mess! Atleast it made the house smell good.
Just minutes later, after finishing the carpets and cleaning up Jake, the dog and the floor from the cinnamon, I'm in my room for no more than 3 minutes. (I had to order some racks for my oven. For some reason the homeowners previous decided to take them? Foreclosures are full of surprises I've come to find.) When the door bell rings. So I run to it to find the door wide open with Jake and Yoda standing there with my new next door neighbor (who surely is going to report me to CPS one of these days). He said he had found Jake and Yoda roaming about outside and wanted to bring them back to me. I about died!! I had the dead bolt locked. So Jake had already figured out how to escape, with his best partner in crime, the family dog. Okay, so this is bad, now picture it with Jake completely naked with nothing on but a diaper, still not bathed from the throwing up experience the night before. I just hope the cinnamon covered up the vomit smell. SO EMBARRASSING! I'm truly grateful for my neighbor, but I'm sure he thinks I'm insane and have no control over my children. Luckily, my mom and dad were at Home Depot (yet again) while all this was happening. So I called them immediately to have my dad pick up a hotel type door lock for the top of front door. Thank goodness Pops was in town and installed it immediately. We are just full of excitement around here!