Friday, October 31, 2014

October 2014


Preston has really started to develop his vocabulary and recognizes things we didn't know he knew. He loves to see and hear the firetrucks, points out all the cars, big trucks, tractors, airplanes and has even begun singing 3 songs...Twinkle Twinkle "Tinkle Tinkle", Oh McDonald and his ABC's. 
He has begun telling us about kids in his class and saying their names. He still loves the iPad and is able to log in himself sometimes and Mickey is still his favorite. He has even begun laughing during the Mickey show and realizing when some of the characters are displaying emotions such as sadness. 
This month we attempted big boy underwear and still have a ways to go on the potty training but he is getting there. He has learned this month how to potty standing up which is too cute but still prefers right now to not really potty. With Halloween this month, we bought a big bag of his favorite suckers...dumb dumbs and this boy loved to suck on one for a little while then toss that aside and get a new one. I was finding half eaten dumb dumbs all over the house.

iPad Play
 Watching Mickey
 "My Mess"
 Slowly waking up from his nap
 School bus on daddy's head
 Morning hair
Big boy underwear attempt
EPS 2 Class (Early Pre-School) - Sammie was one of his good friends

Halloween/Birthday/Napoleon Dynamite Party


For Bub's birthday this year, we decided it would be fun to not only throw a Halloween party in conjunction with his birthday but to make it a Napoleon Dynamite themed party as well...why not!! So we asked everyone to come dressed as their favorite character from the movie and I was very impressed with how creative everyone got with their costumes!! 
I tried to go the extra mile and decorate the house with scenes from the movie. So I recreated Deb's photo-shoot studio, decorated the living room like the prom and had everyone eat off styrofoam trays like they did at school in the movie. I also had fun making some gross halloween type food like dirty Q-tips with earwax, bloody bandaids, vampire cookies and spinach dip throw up from a pumpkin. 
Brent went the extra mile and set up the movie to be watched outside on a big white sheet from a projector for the kids to enjoy while sitting around the fire-pit.
Jerod invited his "girlfriend" Robin and a few of his friends and I think they all had a pretty good time. 
At the end of the night, we all voted on who had the best costumes and awarded those with prizes. 
GOSH!!

Deb

Kip 1

Kip 2

Napoleon 1

 Napoleon 2

Napoleon 3 (The cutest Napoleon Ever!!)

Rex

Uncle Rico

Lafawnduh the Bride

Tina the Llama 

The Cow that gets ran over

Spinach Dip Pumpkin Throw Up

Rex enjoying his birthday party
 Kip too

Bloody Bandaids

Q-tips with dirty earwax

Vampire Cookies

My little handful

Sweetest Gram Gram Ever

Kip & Napoleon

Eat your food Tina...GOSH

The kids watching the movie outside on the Big screen