Simple Pleasures: Glow Balloons

Quotable

Oliver told us this at dinner tonight after Lucius was crying about not getting extra bread:

"Sometimes when I cry my tears fall into my milk and make it spicy"

Who am I to say no?

We have three pairs of baby leg warmers from when the boys were baby's. Oliver wants to wear the leg warmers on cold mornings. Who am I to say no? Although quite well associated as a female accessory, they
do serve a purpose. I think boys want warm legs too, so I let him wear them under his pants.
Oliver told me he wanted to be a girl so he could grow his hair out. I am learning to let go and let him make his own decisions. Today we went to my friend Jill's house to get my hair cut and Oliver decided to get his cut too (completely his choice- I actually reminded him that he wanted to grow it out). There were other kids there and the little girls were all getting a colored hair extension (just a clip on). Who am I to tell him he can't have one? So Jill gave him an orange hair clip and he was in heaven. Here's my tough guy sporting his new haircut and orange hair:

I'm raising two boys, and I attempt to let them make their own choices. Yes I want them to be boys, but some things aren't really that important in the grand scheme of things.

Halloween... part 4

We stretched out Halloween a bit. We went up to visit Oma's work a couple of weeks ago and brought her a few treats. And then a couple days after Halloween the boys and I went reverse trick or treating at Mormor's work. We brought in a bag of candy and Oliver handed out a piece to anyone he could find. He was quite clear with people that they only got ONE piece. It was pretty cute.

And that concludes all of our Halloween Adventures. 

Halloween... part 3

Okay- so we left Uncle Jon's work and jetted off to Auntie Mick's house. Cause two Halloween's just wasn't enough. We made it back in time for a super yummy ham dinner (thank you so much Mick!). Then it was time for a little treat sorting... The boys got quite the haul and it needed to be thinned out a bit.

With the boy's treat bags emptied out- it was time to head out door to door with Casen. Lucius was more excited about holding onto Uncle Hung's hand while we walked. He was also nervous about going up to the first house, but once he saw that they were giving his brother candy- he was right up there with the rest. Oliver was being Oliver asked a hundred questions of the people who were passing out candy: "do you have kit kat's?" "how many children do you have?" "what's your dogs name?" blah, blah, blah. I finally had to tell him he was only allowed to say "Trick or treat, thank you and Happy Halloween. If you feel like throwing in a please that's okay too."

We made it around one block, which in Auntie Mick's Neighborhood is like three city blocks. One little old lady was even handing out can's of soda. The boys came back with even more sugary goodness that we looked through. Wow, what a fun night- and that's not all of our adventure... I've got more to share... stay tuned. To be continued {again!}

Halloween... part 2

About four in the afternoon we arrived at Uncle Jon's work to go Trick or Treating. It's actually quite wonderful to be indoors, with little to no scare factor. All we had to do was look for a piece of paper with a smiling pumpkin on it to know where to find candy. Employee's at Uncle Jon's office put the signs up letting kids know they had bowls and bowls of candy to hand out. Oliver was on the hunt and probably enjoyed finding the pumpkin signs more than getting all the sweets. (Thankfully Auntie Em made Popcorn the night before and let the Little's eat as much as they wanted on the car ride over. She's so smart!)

Toward the end Lucius was really taking in quite the candy load at each stop. I would tell him "just one piece" and whoever was handing out the candy would say "no that's okay he can have more". So he'd reach in with his monster grab and get like 5 or 6 pieces.

I got a few shots of our woodland creatures scavenging for food, and even attempted getting the wild animals to sit still for a group photo. Auntie Em and I even had a handmade felt leaves on so that our "costume" were a couple of trees in the forest. It was subtle and no one really noticed, oh well. What a great afternoon and the day was not over yet... to be continued...

Halloween... part 1

This year the costumes actually had a theme. I really wanted to make Oliver a Fox costume and I saw a cool tutorial on how to make fun bird wings. I told Auntie Em about the wings and she decided to make Brianna an Owl costume. With two costumes thought out, we decided to go with a woodland creature costume theme. Lucius turned into a skunk and Carl became a little raccoon. Auntie Mick made Squirrel costume for Casen. FUN!

Monday the boys spent the morning at Auntie Em's house to play with their cousins. After naps we headed out to take our woodland creatures for a wild adventure. First we stopped at Marmee's work to show off.

After about 45 minutes walking around we packed everyone back into Eme's car and headed over to Uncle Jon's work to trick or treat. To be continued...