PTC

On November 5th, we had our first parent-teacher conference with Afton's teacher. Our appointment was in the morning, so Jason was able to go with me. Afton's teacher is so great. She gave us a little report card on Afton's progress. They grade them in different areas each semester. The grades are 1 to 3, with 3 being the highest. And she got a three in all of the areas and her citizenship is great too. She got S's and S+'s. Her teacher said that one area that Afton excels in is her fine motor skills. She also does really great with their songs and rhymes. That girl loves to sing! She also told us that their is a little boy in Afton's class that has a crush on her. I guess this boy's dad had his conference with Mrs. Nightengale the day before and was telling her that Kaleb likes Afton so much. And I've actually seen them together when I go help in class and I think he does have a little crush. It's so funny! They love to chase each other around at recess. I'm definitely going to have my hands full with that girl. But we are so proud of her and happy that she is doing so well in school. I do have to share a funny story that Mrs. Nightengale shared with us. In class one day they were discussing different places that you can count. And she was telling the children you can count in the classroom, or at home or at a friends house. Some of the kids mentioned a few other places to count. And then Afton slowly raised her hand and Mrs. Nightengale called on her. And Afton said, "Um, you can count on the toilet." Jason and I just died laughing. It was hilarious! Mrs. Nightengale was cracking up too. She said it was so funny and she was trying so hard not to laugh when Afton said that. Geez, I wonder where she would ever think of something like that to say. Maybe I need to have a talk with Jason.

Painted Pumpkins

I finally let the kids paint their pumpkins that they've been dying to paint. I told them we'd paint pumpkins forever ago and we finally got around to doing it last week. It was after Halloween, but Afton and Dax had a blast and they didn't care that it was after Halloween. They were just dying to paint their pumpkins. Maybe I'll get on the ball next year and we'll do it before Halloween.

Nap time

Dax doesn't really take naps anymore, but occasionally he'll fall asleep in random places when he's really tired. A couple weeks ago, he was eating his lunch and kept saying that he wanted to go to bed because he was really tired. I told him that he needed to finish his lunch and then he could take a nap. Well, I guess he was too tired to eat his lunch because he fell alseep on the bar stools. That kid can sleep anywhere!

Logan

Logan had his 15 month check-up on October 28th. I can't believe he's already 15 months and he's doing great. He weighed 24 lbs 2 oz. and he's 31 inches tall. Oh and I can't forget the head measurement. It was 49 cm and I think it was in the 90th percentile. My kids all have big heads. He's in the 50th percentile for both weight and height. And I think he's closer to 25 pounds now. That kid can eat! And he's got the tummy to prove it. It's huge!

New things for Logan:

-he's stopped playing with his ear when he sucks his thumb. Now he twirls his hair and runs his fingers through his hair. Occasionally he'll still tug on his ear, but now he mostly plays with his hair. It's so cute!

-I had mentioned that he was getting like 4 teeth a little while ago. Well, most of them have come in. He's got all four molars and two more in the bottom front. So he got like 6 teeth all at once. I couldn't believe it. I guess he really needed all of those teeth for how much food he eats.

-Logan says grandpa now. After Rex and Sharon and Kari came for a visit, he started saying grandpa. He says, "dampa." His favorite words now are "dadda" and "dampa." Rex was so proud.

-He loves to throw things and hit people. I remember this stage with Dax and it's no fun. I feel bad for Afton and Dax because they are the ones that usually suffer from his blows. He's always trying to whack them in the head. When he gets tired of doing that, he'll start to throw things at the tv. He actually has a really good arm. He throws pretty good and I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

-he still loves to give people fives, but now they're more intensified hi-fives. He pulls his arm all the way back behind him and then swings it down hard on your hand.

Pumpkins

We kind of got our pumpkins carved a little late this year. We usually try to do it the Monday before Halloween for FHE, but didn't get it done. So we started on them the night before Halloween and Jason finished them up the day after Halloween. We went online to find some fun free patterns and let the kids choose what they wanted. Afton chose a spider and Dax chose Frankenstein. Afton's pumpkin maybe lasted one day. I walked by it today and it's already moldy and sinking in on itself. I think we may do the paint thing next year. My kids have been dying to paint pumpkins.

Happy Halloween!!

I can't believe that Halloween has come and gone. I feel like I've been getting ready for Halloween forever and now it's all over. Time just flies by so fast. We had a great Halloween this year. I really wanted to dress up as a family together and after some serious convincing I got Jason to join in the fun. I was so excited to get to dress up, but it sure is a lot of work, getting the kids dressed up and then myself and my husband. I'm so thankful that my mom was with us this Halloween. If she wasn't here, there's no way that this would've all come together. Thanks Mom! You're the best. She helped me with the costumes and made a sweet costume for me. I'm sure you've guessed it by now because of the picture, we were all Star Wars characters. I was Princess Leia, Jason was Han Solo, Dax was Darth Vader (or his words Dark Mater), Afton was Padme and Logan was R2D2. It was really lots of fun and I'm glad that everyone went along with it. Well, Logan didn't enjoy his costume very much. It was fleece so he was really hot and the night before he flicked himself in the face with the elastic on his hat so he wouldn't wear the hat on Halloween. I think he wore his costume for maybe a half an hour. I was really bummed because his costume was so cute. So today I put it back on him and got some cute pictures. I'm such a mean mom.

We're so awesome. R2D2 was having some technical difficulties on the ground.





How handsome are they?

The really cute Darth Vader

The beautiful Princess Padme

The very sad R2D2.

I decided to put a few silver pipe cleaners in her hair on Halloween.



For Halloween, our ward had a Carnival and Trunk-or-treat at our church. I'm still on the activities committee so I had to help with all of that. It's hard to get all set up for the party and then rush home to get myself and my kids ready for Halloween. But we made it and it was lots of fun and there were tons of people there. We moved it into our church because of rain and it was so crowded and hot. But the night was fun and we had a lot of people there who weren't members. There was a costume parade again this year and Afton one for the second time. She won for cutest princess. Last year her Miss Piggy costume won cutest costume. The kids had lots of fun. They loved the carnival games and filling up their buckets with tons of candy. We got back to our house around 8:30 so we went trick-or-treating around our neighborhood. We stopped at a house where there was a boy sitting at a window with a big scary mask on (he didn't look real) and when the kids went to the door they walked right by him. Then he said something to the kids in a scary voice and Dax about had a heart attack. It was hilarious. I knew that there was someone wearing the mask, so I was just waiting for it to happen. Dax turned around and looked at him and then bolted back to me. He wouldn't go back to get any candy. He was so scared. Finally the boy took his mask off, but Dax still didn't want to go. We told him to put his mask on so he could scare the boy. So he did and then went and got some candy. I laughed so hard I was crying.

We had a petting zoo set up outside. There were some rabbits, goats, puppies and ponies.


This was Logan's favorite part of the night. He loves dogs and was trying to bark at it.


Don't we make a cute couple?

My mom's cool costume. She was Medusa!

Dax and Avery. Seriously, they are inseparable.

I guess he decided he didn't love princess Leia anymore.

This other little boy was Luke Skywalker so they decided to have a lightsaber fight.

This is Dax and his buddy, Garrett, from preschool.

This is what my hair looked like by the end of the night.


Going trick-or-treating around the neighborhood.


This is Kaitlyn and her mom Annette (aka Maleficent). Kaitlyn sometimes babysits the kids and they stopped by our house to see them and went with us trick-or-treating.

Afton was Snow White for Kindergarten. This last week was red ribbon week for her school. They were suppose to dress up as their favorite storybook character on Friday. She chose Snow White.

Whew! That was a long post with lots of pictures. Hope you enjoy it!

1st Jazz game of the year

On Wednesday (10.29), it was the first official Jazz game of the year. And you know what that means around our house.....two boys glued to the television. Yes, I said two boys. Dax has become an avid fan alongside his daddy. It was actually really cute. He wore his Jazz jersey all day and he was so excited to watch the game with Jason. And he was so into the game. I couldn't even get him or Jason to look at the camera for a picture. Jason started the game kind of late, so Dax wasn't able to watch all of it and when we were putting him to bed he said to Jason, "I have to go to bed daddy. Tell me who wins in the morning." It was really cute!


Logan even got to watch some of the game. Well actually he had lots of fun turning off the tv and making the other boys mad.

We've decided that Logan is very lovey. He loves to give kisses to everyone. When its time for bed he walks around to everyone and gives us all kisses.


I forgot to add this to my post the other day when the kids were at the park. Dax said the funniest thing. He is always saying the funniest things. I wish that I had a tape recorder with me 24/7. Anyway, we were walking back home and the kids were picking dandelions and they kept walking on other people's grass. I told them they couldn't walk on their lawn because it wasn't polite and they might get mad. So we were walking by the church and Dax asked if we could walk around the church and I said yes. As we're walking around the church, Afton asks me if they can walk on the church's grass and I said sure. Then Dax pipes in, "Yeah, it's ok because Jesus doesn't care." It was so funny! I love when kids say the funniest things. I just love those little moments.

Costumes for ballet

For Afton's ballet class this week, she got to dress-up in her costume. All of the students get to dress in their Halloween costumes. Afton was so excited to wear her costume and I was thrilled too because it's always nice when they can wear their costumes more than once. Her costume this year was Padme from Star Wars and I thought that she might want to dress as a princess for ballet, but she wanted nothing to do with the princess. It was all Padme and she looked so cute! I don't know if anyone knew who she was, but she looked adorable. Actually I heard her teacher ask her if she was someone from Star Wars and Afton told her Padme. I don't know if she knew who Padme was but she got the whole Star Wars thing so that was good.

Our cute little Padme.

I was trying to get her hair to look somewhat similar to Padme's in the movie and I thought it actually turned out pretty good. I just pulled it back into a ponytail and then separated it into pieces and wrapped each piece into a corkscrew braid and then started pulling it up and pinning it down.