Trick or Treat

I know....they actually celebrate Halloween in a public school. I about fell over (They had stopped in the late 90s). Here the kids are trick or treating. I'm sure they all went home and proceeded to worship the devil.

Nathan was a chick magnet in the kindergarten.

A whole family of Legos. These were the best, cheapest costumes EVER! I made them. And we got many, many comments on them everywhere we went. Thanks to my grandma because she showed me the idea in one of her magazines.

This is What Kindergarten Looks Like

Making a craft. Snowman s'more.

A boating scene with his entire class.

William at his seat, not sure what to make of all this.

Getting ready to go in. He looks nervous but he wasn't. He was SO excited. Nathan isn't one to be left out.

Ok, so Crestview is awesome. The building is new and his teacher is grea. She is setting the bar high for all the years to come. The first day of school is like a big party where moms and dads can come and spend the entire morning. Which is great for moms and dads who are really nervous about their kid going to school.

Apparently William is the student of the month from his class. I will get the details on Friday when I go in to work with his group. This transition has been wonderful for all of us. He was so ready for kindergarten. He is reading already and blowing us away with his abilities.

The Birthday Part II The Party & Oh My Gosh My Baby is 6!

The post party cake gut. Someday I will think harder about photo order.

He should have a huge smile on his face!

Yes, I did that because I am super creative and clever. Keith did provide some inspiration.

Yes, the cake was a Lego. Duh.

Keith and William designed and built the deco birthday cake. We also had Lego presents and Lego balloons courtesy of daddy.

The Birthday Part I

A birthday package from Nana and Poompa. Nathan enjoys making candy designs.

William is excited because he is getting something he had admired at the store. Mega Blocks Streetz. A spin on Lego with Micro Machines.

We didn't give them much time before we left for a football game but he got them out and started building his city.

More Goings On

Fall soccer is in full swing. We are still coaching. We have a mix of girls and boys. This team has been the easiest so far to coach. We signed up Nathan. He is doing better than I had expected. He had the crowd roaring last game with his antics as the goalie.

William still runs way out and around to avoid the action. He is aggressive in practice but not games.

The team gets rowdy. BACK PEDAL BACK PEDAL.

My grandma turned 80. We had a party for her. Kendall got carried away with her frosting. William said, "she almost looks like The Joker" He's almost pretty funny.

We surprised her with Pandora. We all seem to be jumping on the bandwagon. Thanks a lot Tera. And William looks just a little bit grown up.

Wild Adventures

We did make our annual trip to Kalahari this year. The boys got brave this year and actually went down all the slides that they were tall enough for.

Two days is really enough though. By day 3 they were pooped out and not that much fun. If it weren't for Grandma Barb arriving and waking them up, I don't know what we would have done!

This is "Keith" William's contrived veggie person he entered in the fair. He used some books we had as inspiration, but he didn't copy, this is his own idea.

Here is Nathan getting ready to go to his first day of preschool. He loves it. It is so nice that they are both going to school now. He goes 3 days/week. He has only pooped his pants once. I hope he learned his lesson.

William started kindergarten the day after Nathan started. I don't have any pics yet because I took them all with my phone. It is going great and he loves it. I teach the high reading group once per week (yes he's in it). I love it. I miss teaching those little guys. He goes 5 whole days. He brings home books each day to read. We are really happy with the program so far!

The Finished Product

The Reason We Went to the Brookfield Zoo...the live dinos

The signs in the exhibit were really funny.

William was in this same terrified position back in 06 when we took him to see the dinos in Cleveland.

We were at the zoo for 6 hours. Most of which were spent walking in the rain. Thats my idea of fun.

Grrrrr.

Rock animals are so much fun to play on. This zoo had a rinky dink feel to it but a lot of the animals that can also be seen at the Columbus zoo were really active. The male and female lions were running and playing.

Our Lego Heroes

Nathan & Bob Bob.

An even more fearsome Darth Lego.

William and his hero.

Nathan gets a little handsy with Batman. We didn't know Batman was that kind of guy.

Legoland Discovery Center...Heaven on Earth

William and some Indiana Jones dude. Those are his fav type of Legos. You can make anything out of Legos.

If you dressed like a pirate you got in free. We will do anything to save 30 bucks.

Part of Lego Chicago. It was neat. The lights would dim to show how it looks at night.

Entering the building. Nathan is hiding behind a leg. This was more for William and that other guy. Nathan isn't into Legos that much yet, however; he did have a good time.

Navy Pier: We <3 Walking

Some weird thing in the Children's Museum

Big smiles on the Lighthouse ride. William appears to be hanging on for dear life but he loved it.

Nathan is very concerned with his fitness when he is not stuffing his face with cookies, candy, snacks and juice/koolaid. He was able to fashion a barbell out of tinker toys at the museum so that he could get in his workout.

William digs for dino bones at the museum.

Ahh. Photo ops.

We are still on Day 1

We managed to get in free at the Childrens Museum. It was luck. Nathan loves to pretend. He was fixing hot dogs and fries and then he would say "order up." Neither of us knew where he got that from.

The Hersey Chocolate store. They got free factory worker hats.

The world famous stuffed pizza joint. Nathan actually had his head in his plate at one point.

Picky poo even liked it.

Nathan being Nathan.