Happy Halloween

The boys got to have two Halloween days this year--one on Thursday at their daycare and then last night at our house. The center puts on a 'parade' where the kids walk around the building and trick or treat at all the classrooms. Then they walked them over to the base infirmary to trick or treat more there. Turns out that the majority of the preschool age kids were either superheroes or princesses. When I walked into the classroom I found at least five spidermen (black and red ones), two ironmen, a supergirl, superman, and a couple batmen. It was like they had their own little Justice League. Only one Super Trevor though.


Super Trevor--the shirt is on backwards, but Trev said he liked it that way...


Trevor and Jorja comparing loot. I think not too long after this point Trevor decided he really had enough candy and kept trying to hand off his bag to me.

I was expecting that Ryan's room would just have the kids crawling around in their costumes while the big kids walked by, but turns out they dressed them up and strapped them into little buggies to walk around too.




Trick or treating is exhausting

We had a Halloween party at our house this year and were happy to have lots of big and little people in costumes. Trevor was pretty excited about answering the door for trick or treaters but was less excited about going out and doing it himself. He and John walked down a couple houses to see the 'scary house' but it ended up being scary enough that they only watched from the sidewalk. I think he still didn't see much point in going door to door when there are candy and cupcakes at our house already.























Super Trevor and his assistant
























Ryan Lion and Lady attacked by a Lion



Ryan Lion and Brady the skunk
























Happy Heroes



Lion Taming



Extra cute costume for crawling



























Don't mess with Super Trev and his Assistant

Playing around and Trev's first Field Trip

The stereotype is true... boys like to wrestle.






I think Ryan won...


Wrestling without daddy usually means Trevor dragging and rolling Ryan around while Ryan tries to climb on top of Trevor or grab his face. Ryan can play dirty sometimes.

Trevor had his first real on a bus field trip last week. His class went to a little pumpkin patch place at a local church. I met them there in the parking lot so Trevor could have the full riding a school bus experience. He was pretty excited.




Class picture--you can tell they're a well oiled machine since they managed to get all the kids on the hay bails at the same time.


Song time


Decorating Cookies


Sticker craft with Jorja


Playing with Aiden

Trev's Growth and Pumpkin Patch

Trevor had his three year appointment last week. It was put off for a while because we ended up going to Alaska during the first appointment time. Then when I got back the receptionist lady told me that it was just a well check, no shots or anything. So I didn't worry about it too much. Then I got a call later on explaining that there was a vaccination that needed updated. So there you go. Those appointments always feel sort of like tests with all the questions they ask. But he passed... especially with the extra several months to practice. He was a trooper with his shot and only screamed briefly before composing himself for his sticker. Here's where he's at on the growth chart:

Weight: 30 pounds (in between 10th and 25th percentile)
Height:38 inches (in between 25th and 50th percentile)

We went to the pumpkin patch near Bakersfield yesterday. Ryan had some sort of brief fever Friday afternoon evening and we thought we'd end up missing it, but he woke up generally happy and minus any worrisome symptoms. But he still wasn't quite his chipper self all day and you can blame his overabundance of glares on his parents who dragged him out of the house.


Ryan did not like the corn tub.


Trevor did.






Ant land




Ryan not so sure about the asparagus plants


Ryan looking to the future

LA Trip

We had a very exciting weekend in Los Angeles with my parents. We went to Venice Beach the first day and Trevor now very much enjoys the beach. Ryan thought it was okay for a few minutes before he started scooting around. Then he quickly filled his diaper with sand. I don't think he enjoyed the fine layer that stuck to the rest of his exposed skin either. So we worked it out where mom and I strolled Ryan around while the rest of the boys played in the sand. I guess there was lots of knocking castles down, chasing birds and searching for shells on their end. Ryan briefly took in the odd people sights before drifting to sleep on our end.




Trevor photography at lunch


Street performer that surprised Trevor a couple times


That evening we went to the mall and the grandparents took Trevor to the Disney store. Trevor picked out some pirate gear--so Trevor's new favorite game is 'pirates'. Lots of Aargs and fighting with swords, taking bad pirates to jail, saving boys and girls, demanding treasure, and of course complimenting pirate hats.



Day two was Disneyland. Trev was pretty excited and went right into his 'what's that' and 'why' questions. We went to Fantasyland first and found out that when you think about it, every one of those storybook rides has a dark scary part. Trevor quickly became weary of the whole ride thing. It seemed he mostly didn't like lots of lights flashing and the cars being jolted around. So we went on the carousal because what you see is what you get. He said it was fun, and that he 'held on real tight' (it looked sort of like holding on for dear life). The teacups were a hit, and Dumbo of course.























Waiting for the park to open



Of course ducks and water are at least, if not more interesting that big castles



Working hard at not falling of the horse
























My favorite picture--on the teacups



One of the brief moments that Ryan would let the ears stay on--he mostly wanted to yank them off and chew on them


Next was tomorrow land, where we had much more success. Trev and grandpa Steve went on the autotopia ride--dad pushed the pedal while Trevor steered. I guess it was a very jarring ride. Trev got a kick out of the rockets too. John was happy to play with the big marble water fountain thing.



We managed to go to the part with the least shade during the hottest time of the day--toonville. Trev was pretty interested in seeing where Mickey lived. Pluto was making an appearance when we got there and to my surprise Trev went up to give him a hug and take a picture. We ate some hot dogs (not related to Pluto) and took the tour of Mickey's house. Then back to the hotel for naps.




After the boys woke up we announced that we get to go back and see more things at Disneyland. Trev answered something like "no, I want to stay at the hotel". But his parents paid for a full day ticket, so he was going back for more magic, like it or not. The idea seemed better to him when he found out he got to ride in a stroller too. We did the adventure and frontier lands before watching the fireworks extravaganza.



Ryan managed to sleep through most of the booming music and pyrotechnics. When we got back on the hotel shuttle he decided that he was awake again and ready to party. The whole ride he was bug eyed and ecstatic. I think it might have been his favorite part of the whole trip.



We hung around the next morning to spend more time in the pool before the drive back. The idea was that the boys would then sleep in the car. It mostly worked for Ryan. Trev ended up staying awake most of the time, but then fell asleep maybe a half hour before getting home. John unbuckled him to let him out and then we went on to unload our stuff. When we finished, this is how I found him.

Still Growing

Ryan had his nine month appointment--so time has been flying.

Here's his latest stats:

Weight: 20.75 lb (just under 50th %tile)
Length: 30.5inches (95th %tile)
Head Circumference: 19.25inches (off the chart %tile)

So Ryan seems to be creating his own curve for head size. The doctor doesn't really have a problem with it as long as it is curving. He said that Ryan just has a big brain.
























I took some pictures of him yesterday in preparation for posting since I wasn't sure whether he would be getting shots today. He continues to be my little ham--I'd take one picture and he'd stare, then start grinning (sometimes a little too much to the point of maniacal) for a few pictures afterwards.

As far as tricks, he's on the move now. He's mostly scooting around on his tummy, and sometimes will make a couple crawl moves. He's really into crawling up obstacles--he'll climb all over us while we're sitting down, but put him on flat ground and he usually plops to his tummy. He really likes to stand a lot and seems frustrated that he can't quite get the coordination down to do it himself.

Here's some pictures from bath time last night. They've been able to go in together for a while now, which makes things easier in maintaining the very low hygiene standards set for the boys. They usually like to play together for a little bit until Trevor decides he wants to move around more and insists that Ryan is all done and wants to get out.





Ryan figuring out the delicate balance of fun splashing and water getting on his face


Boo!

And we have a couple pictures from a recent movie night. We rented Peter Pan in preparation for our upcoming Disneyland trip. We're still expecting Trevor's head to explode once we're inside the park.

























John trying to add dramatic interest to the picture
























Trying harder...