My Little Pirate!

Noah was a pirate this year for halloween. Levi's mom (Granna) made him the cutest little pirate costume, it was perfect. He got to wear it three times- once at Boo at the Zoo, once at his school's costume parade and party, and once on halloween. It is definitely stained, sticky and snagged, but we will keep it forever! He had a great halloween spent with friends and family. My family and Levi's family came to do the Monster Mile and it was great to see everyone!

Noah's first time to get candy (zoo)

Noah and his spider cousin!

mmmmmm

Refusing to take a picture at school.

Uncle Lane getting a laugh

Noah with Frankie (Brooks said "no" for the pic)

Noah and Brooks

Madison (a little strawberry), Noah and Brooke (a pea in the pod)

ready to get some candy!

Monster Anderson in his car!

Can I drive?

Waiting for trick or treaters

Pumpkin Patch

Here are some pictures from when we went to the pumpkin patch a couple of weeks ago. It was very crowded, but we had a good time. We did not go last year, so this was a new experience for us.

making the girls laugh!

Dancing in the pumkin patch!

sweet Riley

Pirate Boots

I was trying on Noah's pirate boots the other day to see if they would work with his costume and if they fit. He has never had boots on and did not want to take them off. We were about to get in the bath and that is why the rest of his clothes are not on. He wanted to go outside and play in his boots, so I let him. I was just hoping the neighbors didn't look over the fence and wonder what in the world I had him dressed in!

Zoo

Last week I had Monday off and we went out the zoo with Katie, Brooks and Briggs. It was a drizzly day out, but we missed most of the rain and enjoyed a couple of hours that morning in cooler weather. Noah and Brooks had a blast, and Briggs was great. I think the monkeys and the lion were the biggest hit. The lion is usually always asleep when we are out there, but he was actually up and awake and "roaring." The boys were amazed, and you can see in the pic that Brooks thought it was quite loud! The lion is Noah's favorite animal right now, so this made his day.

Who is that precious little girl????

When the fridge is open, Noah will either try and get something out to eat or just take a seat. He gets this from someone in our family. Can anyone guess who???

I'm sure this is fairly common. I can just vividly remember this person doing it, and it always makes me laugh when Noah does it.

We have been pretty busy, so I thought I would post a few pics of some of the things we have been up to:



Noah had jersey day at school, and loved wearing his Guatemala soccer jersey!





We rejoiced in the fact that Brooks and Noah can now entertain each other at restaurants and we actually had a decent, non rushed dinner :)






We celebrated Niki's 30th birthday at Simply Fondu a week before Riley was born.

We took Noah to Coppell's homecoming parade, which he loved. He really enjoyed the band

and the cheerleaders...

too busy to take a picture with mommy

Riley Brooke was born on 9/25. She is beautiful!

Niki, Dennis, Hudson and Riley

Pics of Noah and Hudson while we were at the hospital

Claire Gambrell turned 1!

Reid and Noah blowing bubbles

Nicole made this cute cake and cupcakes

Noah is still loving his little school. He is learning a lot, and wants to show us all the time. I tried to teach him some sign when he was younger just because I know some from work and because much of the research shows this will enhance language acquisition, but he really didn't show interest in it. Of course they teach it to him at school and he picks it up very quickly. I always wondered why speech therapists took their kids to other speech therapists if they needed speech, now I know why. Kids definitely do things for other people that they won't do for you! ;)