Sheer Laziness, and fun at the Eau Claire Children's Museum

Halloween

Guess who's back in our MFing House?

At the waterpark and Mo Pumpkin'

Pumpkin Carving

Good Bye Great Grandma Lucy

Great Grandma Lucy passed away Saturday afternoon. Her funeral service was lovely. Donovan and Hayden were very sweet in saying good bye to her. They got to spend a lot more time with her these last few weeks and even were saying great grandma's house whenever they went to the hospital to see her. Great Grandma Lucy was always very caring and was always very nice to the grandkids and great grandkids. Her warm smile will be missed, but we have good photos to remember her well.

Frozen Pumpkin Patch

Even though it was f'cold on Saturday and snowing when we left the house, we went to a local favorite pumpkin patch over in Lodi! It was nice and pleasant. We didn't do any of the pay-for-frills like the hay ride, corn maze (a four-hour "starvation march" if you go with 2 year olds) or other overpriced crap. We just had a good time screwing around at the farm. The boys played in dried corn pits, played with play tractors, saw baby animals and big animals, played in giant sand boxes, hung out in the hay and in tractor tires, went down a big tube slide, screamed for no good reason, peed in outhouses, ate pumpkin donuts, had pheasant and bison pot pie, and all and all had a good time. Check back to the photos last year when Donovan and Hayden went to Apple Holler to see how much they have changed in a year.

Too cold to walk!

Would you like some corn? No, seriously, would you like some corn?

Time for a nice friendly game of king on the mountain!

Maverick

Hayden was treating his underwear like a diaper and filling the underwear with pee. Surprisingly, the underwear did better at containing the pee than Huggies. Now, lil' Commando Hayden goes without underwear to help with the potty training and he has been successful. Hopefully this is a short stint, but both of them are still doing very well with the potty training. Tomorrow, they go to visit a preschool . . . their next big move!

This is the type of raucous behavior that went on this weekend

Party at our House this Weekend!!!!!

Melissa is going out of town to go hang with her xx-chromosome friends for the weekend. Donovan, Hayden and I are going to be all alone at home, except for a visit by Mr. Wieber, so we are going to throw a party. This should be interesting.

Bud Lights, Steaks, Goldfish Crackers, and Juice Boxes = good times for all!

The Fire Pit, the Fire Pit, the Fire Pit is on Fire

Daddy is building us a fire!


Uh oh, I hope no one needs to use the potty next to the fire!

Hanging out with Great Grandpa Clarence and Marge!

How 27-month olds eat!

In the Camper and Peeing in the Slumberland Parking Lot

Donovan did his impersonation of a UW college student by peeing in parking lot of Slumberland.

Some other random camper pictures

Great Mishaps in Potty Training

Donovan is pretty much trained. He still wears a diaper at night, as does Senor Hayden. Hayden is still giving it a go with potty training, but usually makes his announcement that he needs to use the potty while in the process of doing his business. Lead time Mr. Hayden, Lead time. The process is still fun to go through as you see these two little guys finding joy in their small victories, and there are many small victories. We are very proud of them for getting so far along while being so young. We are also proud of the extra fifty - seventy bucks a month we will have once they are out of diapers!

Back at the Tosa Pool!

Wisconsin State Fair!

Hanging out with Grandma, Grandpa and Cousins Sonja and Carson

Domino!

This doesn't look like this family picture is going to turn out well

At least Hayden sat and munched and Carson, well, sat . . . .

Finally!